Epic Photo: This pretty much sums up the feelings of all Seahawks fans

Game over man. Game over.

Reasons why you're still single... Best Buy Guy

Why is it that whenever I'm just looking at computers you're johnny on the stop to tell me the latest deals but when I actually want to purchase a computer you're hanging out with the 45-year old cougar in customer returns? Nevermind you're making a customer wait for 15-20 minutes for no good reason.

Then you try to sell me roughly 150 dollars worth of crap "optimization"  that doesn't mean diddly poo, and I cave because I don't want to seem like a computer newb even though I have no clue what the hell you're talking about.

Then you dissapear for another 30 minutes, show up, toss me a slightly crunched laptop box and send me on my way.

Thanks Best Buy! I hope your stores get fire-bombed.

Video Bites: I'm Lame

Ok ok. I know this is the 2nd time in two weeks that I've been too busy to get the video bites up. And I apologize.

I had to work late tonight and just don't have time to get the video up. Wednesday we will have a new Video Bites though. I promise.

Reasons why you're still single... You root for the Philadelphia Eagles

Watch as these poor 49ers fans get pelted with snowballs for like five minutes straight. You stay classy, Eagles fans.



And with that being said, what's the point attending NFL games anymore? Crappy weather, way too expensive and you have drunk fans that ruin the experience for everyone while making themselves the center of attention. Honestly, I'd rather sit at home in front of a high-def that deal with drunk Vernie in the stands who still lives with his mother.

Epic Video: Jim Mora Senior famous rants

Since Seahawks fans are about to kill Jim Mora Jr., I would like to show you some old clips of his dad and hopefully that will make you feel a little bit better.



And who could forget this fantastic little number...



PLAYOFFS?!?!?! PLAYOFFS?!?!

Epic Photo: In response to yesterday's Seahawks game

Amen.

Epic Photo: Saints fans are Catholic... so how about a little fun?

This is from Deadspin.

Even though they lost to Dallas, how can you not like the Saints?

Everest: Beyond the Limit

In April I wrote a post about Washingtonians that were going to attempt to summit Mount Everest and that the Discovery Channel would be documenting their climb.

International Mountain Guides, based out of Ashford, Washington will be the focus of the 5 episode series called Everest: Beyond the Limit. This will be the third season of the show for Discovery.

The series will run from December 27 to December 30. Here's the complete schedule on the Discovery Channel. But it all starts on the 27th with these showtimes:

• Dec. 27, 8:00 PM - Episode 1: First Summit

• Dec. 27, 9:00 PM -Episode 2: Impossible Dream

• Dec. 27, 10:00 PM - Episode 3: Deadly Countdown

International Mountain Guides’s 2009 expedition put 30 climbers on the summit of Mount Everest. Oh, and also the film crew from the Discovery Channel.

Since 1991, International Mountain Guides has led 209 climbers up Mount Everest.

(This is from Just Northwest)

Dave Christensen

Since both Brandon and I graduated from Eastern Washington University, we love to feature Eastern Alumni when they succeed.

Today we are featuring Dave Christensen. His photo is to the right. And by the way, I love that hat.

Christensen is the head football coach at the University of Wyoming, and a former Eagle.

This season the Cowboys not only made it to a bowl game, but they beat Fresno State 35-28 in double overtime in the New Mexico Bowl.

But it wasn't an easy win for them. The Cowboys trailed by 11 at the start of the 4th. Only to comeback and win.

In just his first season as the head coach, Christensen led Wyoming to their first bowl game since 2004 and their first winning record (7-6) since 2004.

With an awesome freshman quarterback in Austyn Carta-Samuels, a team that now is learning how to win big games and a lot of momentum for recruiting, I can only see good things in the future for the University of Wyoming.

Christensen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Western Washington in 1985. After that he earned a Master of Science degree in college instruction and sports science from Eastern Washington in 1988.

As for his football history, he played for the Washington Huskies from 1980-82. After that he worked for two seasons as a graduate assistant for the offensive line coach under Don James at the University of Washington for 1988 and 89.

He then went to Idaho State University where he coached the offensive line, tight ends and running backs for two seasons 90 and 91.

After ISU he headed to Toledo where he was the offensive line coach from 1992-96. He then was promoted to offensive coordinator from 1997-2000.

He then went to Missiouri where he was the offensive coordinator from 2001-08.

Following the 2008 season he was announced as the head coach for the University of Wyoming.

Hats off to the Wyoming Cowboys and Dave Christensen.

The worst college basketball defeat ever

I love my Eags, but good god they were terrible last night. They probably would have gotten beat by Ferris High School with the effort they put fourth.

So Mark Dunn (pictured right) scores the first two points of the game against BYU. And then the Cougars proceed to score 33 straight points as the Eagles failed to score for NINE minutes.

(Bleech.)

And the game only got worse as the final was an absolute slaughter, 91-34 in what has got to be the worst or one of the worst losses in EWU men's basketball history. And this is just 48 hours after playing a very promising game against a good Nevada team. What the hell? I know Provo isn't full of nightlife so they couldn't have been out the previous night or something.

Oh well, looks like back to the ol' drawing board.

Outdoor Photo of the Week: Seattle winter

Views of the Puget Sound on a cold, crisp, clear winter morning in Seattle, Washington. Photo by Lindsey Barnett/Issaquah, WA.

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Check back each Sunday for a new Outdoor Photo of the Week.

TERRIBLE day for Gonzaga

I hate Duke, don't like Gonzaga, so naturally I watched Saturday's game at Madison Square Garden and good god did the Zags get a beatdown.

To be fair Duke is Duke, an elite college program that shot well while Gonzaga couldn't hit a bucket to save their life. The result was a 76-41 loss for Spokane's finest and more questions for the young Zag team. It was the team's lowest point total in 25 years, marked by terrible shooting from their biggest stars. Yikes.

Now that being said. This is a young team. You know what young teams do? They're up and down. They'll have bad games and good games. This happen to be a bad team against one of the best teams in the nation. Not a good time for that to happen because the Blue Devils certianly took advantage of that and shelled them but I don't think you can take a whole lot from the game. That's the thing about college basketball, lots of time left in the season and it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

Maybe that's why CBB is losing popularity... just saying :D

With that said, time for Eastern Washington basketball tonight at 6 p.m. on 1050 AM The Key. Listen in and go Eags!

Epic Photo: Hockey at Fenway Park

Many former Boston Bruins players were on hand to test the ice at Fenway Park in preparation for the upcoming Winter Classic on Jan. 1st to be played between the Bruins and Flyers.

Somebody please tell me that the Green Monster will somehow come into the field of play during this game.

I've noticed something about Mike Holmgren

Former Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren seems to bear a striking resemblance to somebody famous during the Holiday season. Check this out, so here is the one-time Super Bowl Champion...

And now look at this...



Hmmmm... is that Ho-Ho-Holmgren?

Okay that was a terrible joke. I'm getting a lump of coal for Christmas.

Video Bites: Adam Morrison

The December 18th edition of the JustSON Video Bites. That's right, bite sized videos!

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So long Silva!

Wow the Mariners have done the impossible. They've unloaded Carlos Silva's ridiculous contract AND waistline.

The Seattle Mariners have found a way to get rid of one of their last lingering problems. According to major-league sources, the club is on the verge of trading Carlos Silva, who still has two years remaining on the four-year, $48 million contract given him by former general manager Bill Bavasi before the 2008 season, to the Cubs in exchange for outfielder Milton Bradley.

The deal, which could be announced later today, brings the Mariners an outfielder who has been involved in controversy throughout his career, but also has been an extremely productive player as recently as 2008. That year, with the Texas Ranger, Bradley hit .321, third-best in the American League, and led the league with a .436 on-base percentage. He hit 22 homers, drove in 77 runs, and made the American League All-Star team.

Cliff Lee and now you get rid of Carlos Silva? I hear the Mariners bandwagon starting to warm up.

Epic Photo: The worst venus flytrap ever

Good job dude, hopefully the government sends you food stamps.

Epic Video: Merry Swiftmas

Ok, so since this song has come out Brandon hasn't stopped singing it. Seriously. I mean the song is pretty darn funny. And it's even catchy. But now it's even Brandon's ringtone!



BTW: That is Evan Taubenfeld, the former guitarist for Avril Lavigne.

I've noticed something about John Lackey

I've noticed something about the Boston Red Sox's latest signing, pitcher John Lackey. Here's the former Angels' ace...

And now I present...

I'm just sayin'... very similar.

Astronauts will have to bring jet skis

In the great world of astronomy or whatever looking for planets is called, earthlings have found a planet that is full of water. Guess we wont have to worry about water running out if we figure out this whole "space flight" thingy.

Astronomers say they have detected a planet just six and a half times as massive as Earth at a distance so close its atmosphere could be studied, and with a density so low it's almost certain to have abundant water.

The alien world known as GJ 1214b orbits a red dwarf star one-fifth the size of our own sun, 40 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, the astronomers reported in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

"Astronomically speaking, this is on our block," David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, lead author of the study, told reporters this week. "This is a next-door neighbor. For perspective, our own TV signals have already passed beyond the distance of this star."

So if there is life planet, chances are they've seen CSI Miami. Which means they hate us.