I couldnt make this stuff up...

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=2705087

Oh boy...

Is it bad that in a personal, serious email trying to help a friend with a situation he was in (with a girl), I compared it to a basketball player...

Jays move to 4-0 in Conference, and 6-2 Overall after a terrific road win @ Blue Springs South last night.

Now a week off before we play again in the William Jewell tournament!!

Have a restful, and enjoyable Christmas!!!

Interesting...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/more/12/18/failed.gender.test.ap/index.html

Feel free to comment as you need...

KC Star article...

Here is the article I spoke about...

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/16243501.htm

Dropped one last night, 71-70 in OT.

Article is Friday...

The article in the KC Star I mentioned the other day is going to be put out tomorrow, Friday December 15th, instead of today.

We won 53-51 on a last second shot Tuesday night. Improved our Conference record to 3-0 and moved to 4-1 overall.

Big test for us tonight against a good BVNW team. I had/have the scout for it and think we match up pretty well, and we certainly know EVERYTHING that they're going to try to do. Should be a good game, come on out!!

Hy-Vee Shootout @ Avila University; 6:00pm Tip
Television: Metro Sports

Blue Springs Tonight...

Tonight, we play Blue Springs, in our 3rd Conference game of the season. Our record stands at 3-1, after we won @ #1 Ozark, and lost @ #3 Springfield Kickapoo. Saturday was frustrating for us, b/c we're a much better team and had a chance to end a 24 home winning streak and really have people take noticeof our club.

It is important for us to defend our home court tonight, we like our chance and feel good about the game plan that is in.

For those of you that have Metro Sports in the KC Area, or would like to listen to our game on the internet, go to Liberty.k12.mo.us, and on School information scroll down to athletics to catch the Blue Jays in action against Blue Valley Northwest on Thursday at the KC Hy-Vee shoot out!

Go Jays!

(There will be an article in the KC Star tomorrow (kansascity.com) about our bball program. We have had a reporter in the past couple of days. Candace Buckner will be the one writing, so check our your sports page tomorrow!)

Weekend...

I trust that everyone had an enjoyable weekend, and us in the midwest, enjoyed all the Snow fall. We had 2 days of school cancelled because of the weather, which was a nice break, at an appropriate time.

I wanted to thank all of you that have sent an email/text or made a phone call offering your support. Trust to know how much I appreciate it and know that I am truly thankful for all of the wonderful friends that I have.

I hope that you all have an enjoyable week, and stay warm!!!

Talk soon!!!!

News...

I hope this post finds everyone doing well and that you all had an enjoyable Thanksgiving with family and friends and were able to give Thanks for all the wonderful things/people that allow you to enjoy your life.
It comes with a heavy heart that I pass along to you the following. Barrett Wepler, our Senior basketball player who collapsed on the floor November 16th ended up passing away at 3pm yesterday, November 29th. We met with our team immediately after school and passed along the news to them.
Obviously, it was tough for the kids to take, but we're working through it as best we can.
Here is a link to an article that was in the KC Star today.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/16126737.htm
Let me know if you have any suggestions/ideas as to how to help our players handle it.
Above everything though, keep his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers!
Thanks!!

Gametime...

WATCH our game live Tonight v. William Chrisman!!

Be A Part of Liberty History; Go Towww.liberty.k12.mo.us In the bottom left hand corner of the the Liberty website, under the KLPS logo, click on “live video stream”.

Then YOU can watch!! Game time is 7:00pm!!!

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!!!

Go Jays!!!

Answer for ?...

As most of you know, we have had a hectic time, and extremely serious situation that transpired within our bball program. We continue to deal with it and are optimistic that things are going to turn out well...

To answer my own Blog question...>

If money wasnt an issue, w/o a doubt, I would buy the Kansas City Royals and take over as team owner.

$$$$...

If money wasnt any issue...

What is the ONE thing you would buy?

I'll post my answer tomorrow...

You could be next...

During my 6th hour class, I had a kid who was on his cell phone. I asked him to get off, and when I did he put it down. I then went over and went to take his phone from him, which he pulled away. Upon pulling it away I gave him two choices: 1) Give me your phone, 2) Work with the custodial staff...

Since the Student would not agree to turn his phone over, I proceeded to have him wipe dirty lunch tables with the custodial staff for twenty minutes, 19.5 of it was him throwing a fit.

Do what you're supposed to, or else you're could be next...Think I got my message across...

Tidbits from me...

Thank all of you for the birthday wishes and in some cases gifts. I always appreciate and am blown away by the gratitude of all my friends and family. Thank you for making my birthday a VERY enjoyable day.

Basketball is going okay. We still have a lot of work that needs to get done. We need to develop a tougher mentality. I could go on and on about that. The way we've been practicing the past couple of days though, we couldn't beat Thomas' team riding their short bus to our game. (See Thomastein.blogspot.com).

As mentioned in a previous post: I was trying to attach an audio file to my blog of a voicemail that I got. I am not sure if that can be done though. If you know how to, or if it can be done, let me know.

Otherwise, I am counting down the minutes until Thanksgiving break from school, but more importantly until Melynda gets here from Oregon.

Normal days activities at "The High School". Hope you enjoy your day wherever that may be, and look forward to hearing from you all and talking soon!...

Birthday...

Well, as most of you know today is my birthday. I never get too excited about it, I do enjoy it, but try to play it pretty even.

It is only 8:05am though and this has already happened...

• My wonderful girlfriend called at exactly midnight
• TK called last night
• Jody and crew sent me a batman card
• One of the school secretaries made a blueberry pie for me
• The custodians left a card for me on my table
• My entire family has called and left messages
• Smalls, my buddy I worked with from KSU, called
• The Women's bball SID from when I worked at KSU, wrote me.

Now, that will surely bring a smile to anyones face.

I truly appreciate everyones well wishes, and know that it means quite a bit.

Enjoy your weekend, and thanks again!

Been a while again...

Basketball has kept me super busy the past week and a half and so I havent had much to post. I am working on uploading an audio clip that I got on voice mail the other day. It is something that would make anyones day better...

I am hoping to progress with it....stay tuned...

Cuts...

We're going to have to tell kids who have the dream to play basketball that they can't. The kids that give the effort that is necessary, have the right attitude, that they aren't good enough. We're going to have to tell the kid who just went out and bought new shoes for the season, no thanks. We're going to have to tell the kid who has posters in his room of his favorite player, sorry, you can't make it. We're going to have to tell a kid no, and that kid is going to have to tell his parents, "I got cut" Thats the part of it that stinks for me.

We have a kid this year that probably fits into that category. He came to the latter part of our pre-season conditioning and was dead last in every sprint. Now there is a difference though, b/c he RAN every sprint. We have varsity guys we have to get after to run EVERY one. Is he coachable? Extremely. Does he have the right attitude, Yes. That is why it's so hard for us.

We're going to tell him that we don't have a roster spot for him, but that he is welcome and wanted to stay on in a capacity within the program. We/I want kids like him in the program.

Hopefully he decides to stay, and hopefully are other cuts go as well as we can expect.

My friend Dennis...

Yesterday was the first day of basketball practice/try-outs here at the High School. It went like a first day normally does, some good, some bad, some pretty good, some pretty bad. We are working hard, and I will certainly talk about our guys more as the week goes on...but I have to share this story...

Dennis is a custodian here at the High School, a man in his mid to upper 40's is my best guess. Dennis works from 8:30-4:30 everyday, doing the custodial type of work. He also spends about every weekend, occasionally skipping a few, to go back to Chilicothe, Missouri to tend to his fathers house, since his father is ill.

I always bring the KC star to work. I will finish it by the time I have to move, and Dennis always would glance at it as I had it on my table. Eventually, I decided when I moved areas, I would just leave the paper in Dennis' area where he keeps his cup/jacket/keys. Still to this day, Dennis will thank me for leaving the paper for him to read, it always is a good part of my day.

Here is one that will stick with me though: Yesterday Dennis was sweeping the floor after lunch and there was a bottle cap that he picked up about 20 feet from the nearest trash can, Dennis threw it, and hit the trash can dead in the middle. I joked with him that we have try-outs today, and he shoots it better than any of our guys. Dennis then went up to his boss, and jokingly mentioned he was going to have to be off by 3 today, b/c "Chris invited me to tryouts". We all shared a laugh. Then during practice, about 4:30, I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn around, and there is Dennis' smiling, saying, "Hey, I am here". I died laughing. Dennis had just gotten off, and was getting ready to leave, but first came through the gym to give me a hard time.

I think it's a story that is better in person, better if you witness it, but I hope by writing it some of you get a picture of it.

Have a wonderful day...!

Post game celebration...

I was LOVING this last Saturday. After Cal won in OT, the all-everything back got in the cart and started driving it around the field...how epic is that?!?!?!

So, what if I...

So my kids in 6th hour have finally calmed down and realized I hate all the screwing around/loud yelling (although they are just talking across the table) that use to be.

So now that they have figured it out, I am left here with no one to yell at, no kid to write up, and no reason to get up and go tell a kid "either you dont pay attention, dont care, or dont get it, and the bad part is, I think it's all three"(true comment).

I just ate lunch, and the only thing I can think about doing is taking a nap...I am not at the head nod stage yet, but that could be coming fast...

Truth...

You don't have to worry about what you say as long as it's the truth...