Party in Arizona!

I got in to Phoenix Friday afternoon and met up with my friend Ryan who had gotten us a room at the Super 8 in Tempe, home of Arizona State University. The motel isn't too shabby and is a block from the ASU Campus and a liquor store. After stocking up on supplies we met up with some friends before heading out. We went to Mill Ave. in Tempe which is the main strip of bars near campus. School wasn't even in session but it was packed everywhere.

There is a 2 hour period between 3 and 5 AM that we have no recollection of. Around 5:30 AM we did run across a trio who's car had broken down and after having them pledge their allegiance to the Ducks we invited them up for some drinks and kept the party going until about 8 AM. I do remember stumbling down to continental breakfast and falling down in front of the motel staff.

Mail is here!

On Saturday I received a nice little package in the mail from Arizona. I had almost forgotten that I ordered a ticket for the BCS National Championship game in Glendale, AZ. I had to purchase a bundle for all three Arizona bowl games in order to get the one I wanted. The package was just over $600 but was a better deal than finding tickets online.

Insight.com Bowl and Fiesta Bowl tickets:

The BCS National Championship Game:

So shiny...

I think a quick trip to the Nike employee store is in order:

And of course I still don't know how to take a proper picture on my phone.

Other stuff in November

Mac Court in its final season after 84 years.

Showing its age, literally, held together by duct tape.

Oregon Ducks VS. Arizona to clinch the Pac 10 Championship



In other news, I kicked ass at Risk.

Stuff I did in November

The first Blazer home game right after Maurice Lucas died.

Oregon Ducks VS. Washington Huskies.

My first game at Reser Stadium.

Drinking.

They serve beer! I win!

Beavers lose! I win!

Ducks run (all over) south central LA

Ok, so I didn't specifically go to LA to see Manny Pacquiao and the Blazers. The main purpose of the trip was to see Oregon beat up USC in the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Tickets were easy to come by since its huge and no one in LA cares about the Trojans right now.



James and myself met up his cousin and our navigator Angel who is from southern California went to UCLA so naturally he hates the Trojans. The Coliseum looked real shitty up as we started to get up close to it. It was shitty, but it was also pretty cool. It has hosted the Olympics, the LA Raiders, and the likes of OJ Simpson and Reggie Bush. Walking into it and seeing how huge the bowl is was pretty spectacular. The seating sucks, especially the away section. Long story short, Ducks run away with the win and I got drunk and yelled at people with my bullhorn.

Blazers vs Blake Griffin in LA

We didn't come to LA just to see Manny. Our friend Mark hooked us up with the Nike suite to the Clippers season opener vs the Blazers which happened to be Blake Griffin's first NBA game.



Staples is an amazing arena. Its like what they probably hoped the Rose Quarter would turn out to be. Clippers fans suck though and we had to share the suite with a few who quickly backtracked on being fans once they were losing. But they did buy us beer after James won a bet with them. The Clippers still suck but Griffin is going to be a highlight reel every night.

Stalking Manny Pacquiao in Hollywood

My friend James mentioned it would be cool to go to LA and stalk Manny Pacquiao. That was all the convincing I needed so we headed down there. Ok, so we really didn't stalk Manny but we did hang out around his gym to try and snag some autographs.

We got to the Wildcard Boxing Club where he trains and it was a mad house. It happened to be media day for his next fight and there were crews there from HBO, 60 Minutes, and whatever the big TV station in the Philippines is.

We were just about the only people there to get his autograph due to James's shrewd negotiating skills. We didn't actually meet Manny but we met his brother and his hair dresser. We also ate at his favorite Thai restaurant, which is now my favorite Thai restaurant.