perfection Stories - Rocky Top Talk
Ah, memories...
Remember when Utah football was good? Remember the excitement of every game week because each victory put the Utes closer and closer to their goal, playing in a BCS bowl? I don't know about you, but when your team hits the skids, it makes those good time memories feel even more distant than they...
How does 2010 stack up to 2008 and 2004?
The Utes have been 6-0 three times in the last ten years - 2004, 2008 and 2010. Though the final record for this season is still out, both the 04 and 08 teams managed to go undefeated and win a BCS bowl game. I'm not quite ready to proclaim the same for this year's Utes, but history does give us an...
Tim Tebow, Peyton Manning and The Slightest Imperfection
We have new ways of measuring things here in the 21st Century. For instance, search engines can tell us how often someone or something is mentioned on the internet, which can make even the most insignificant proper nouns feel special - a Google search for "Jim Bob Cooter" returns more than 4,000...
A Tale Of The Atlanta Falcons And A Quest For Perfection
Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary. ~Mignon McLaughlin This whole L.J. Smith mess had me thinking about expectations yesterday. The truth is, most of us spend our lives trying to perfect one thing or another. When we do, we're usually greeted with a new set of...
Huskers Have A Perfect Weekend
Wow, what a weekend for Nebraska sports. With the number of sports being played, you'd think something negative would happen, but just look look at the list of accomplishments for Husker teams this weekend: - The men's basketball team won on the road at Baylor to finish 8-8 in the conference....
Perfection
Yesterday was a fascinating day for me. I was watching a game with a quarterback who was Tom Terrific and Mr. Perfect before the big game started. But as the game went on, suddenly his legend was slowly but surely getting tarnished with each passing moment. With every overthrow or missed...
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