The Front Row with MARK NELKE October 17, 2010
There's that Social Networking Site That They Made A Movie About where members, amazingly, can type in whatever the heck is on their mind, and their friends, even more alarmingly, reply to said thoughts.
" ... sitting at my computer ... now raking leaves (why does the wind start blowing again RIGHT AFTER you've raked up all the leaves in your yard?) ... eating a bowl of cereal ... feeling happy ... feeling sad ... have absolutely no feeling at all ... "
Anyway, with that in mind, the last day or so in the local sporting world might have gone something like this ...
" ... headed out to Lakeland to watch a football game ... Yankees are in trouble if CC loses opener in ALCS ... game under way ... notice that the referee on my side of the field is someone who I used to cover when he was a boys basketball coach when I first started working in Sandpoint back in 1982 ... visiting some friends in the stands at halftime ... watching the frost form on the field in the second half ... my feet are upset with me - need thicker socks for next week ... game over, Sandpoint 41-21 ... headed back to the office ... what? the Yankees actually came back and WON the game? ... heard several thousand people showed up at Gonzaga to watch the men's basketball team SCRIMMAGE ... "
" ... e-mail from reader - why no Boise State game on TV around here? ... Checked on it - game is on SWX out of Spokane, which you can get if you have digital cable, or unhook your cable and point rabbit ears toward Boise, or something like that. But if you have satellite TV, tough noogies ...
" ... enjoying a crisp, sunny, autumn afternoon. hope the weather stays like this next weekend for state soccer - I remember three years ago when it was cold and wet and miserable for the 5A tourneys up here ... "
" ... just got home from another busy Saturday. darn yard looks like I never touched it."
Mark Nelke is sports editor of The Press. He can be reached at 664-8176, Ext. 2019, or via e-mail at mnelke@cdapress.com.