Holiday 2023

 I sit here in the last few days of 2023 content with where my life is. My calculations have me working seven days a week for the next year and then I'll make the plunge into a new career path and give myself one more year with my current pattern. 

The leader in the clubhouse seems to be a Community Inclusion Degree or Elementary Education. I don't believe I will pass my practicum so I need to be creative of how my life looks moving forward. I plan on being in Europe from late January to mid April 2025 and after that, I'm going to settle down Calgary by late April. 

This will give me the chance to be unemployed and start my life from scratch while keeping the important things in my life. 

So many jobs that I would be good at that I don't get hired for because I don't have a car or have a disability. Then, I had to find a second job isn't enough to scrape by during the months I don't get disability. 

I just need a few things to fall my way. I have weathered a huge storm of fear over the last two years and now I can confidently feel that I'm on my way to becoming a badass. 

Christmas was good this year, I was able to get OOTP 24. A baseball game that plays out a Major League baseball season through probabilities and dice. I started a 2023 Mets season and the goal is to be better than the real life Mets. I have already made one trade which was David Peterson to the Reds for Johnathon India. 

My offense still seems like its missing something so we will see how things go. Injuries are pilling up as well with Kodai Senga out for the year already. I'm 5-4 right now which was the same record after nine games last year so can't say I'm doing any better or worse yet. 

College Basketball starts Today

 Very good time of the year. College Basketball gets under the way this afternoon as the dream of 300 something teams of winning the National Title is alive. 

The college basketball landscape will be drastically affected with the monumental conference changes for football. There seems to be more questions to answer in the other sports than football. We need to enjoy this year because after it's over we will never get the old thing back. 

Click here for Joe Lunardi's bracketology. Without any games being played, this is all speculation. As the season goes on, it will become more of what would happen if the season ended today. 

With the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer, it was really refreshing to see San Diego State reach the final last year. I was kinda socked to see San Diego State and Utah State not get invites to the Pac 12 to prevent Oregon and Washington from scampering to the Big 10 but it didn't materialize. 

Let the fun begin! Here is the schedule for today. 

 

Georgia	@  Oregon	1:30 PM	truTV	Tickets as low as $769	T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV
Linfield College	@  Oregon State	2:30 PM	PAC12	Tickets as low as $3	Gill Coliseum, Corvallis, OR
John Jay College	@  Pennsylvania	3:00 PM		Tickets as low as $6	The Palestra, Philadelphia, PA
Rivier	@  UMass Lowell	3:00 PM			Costello Athletic Center, Lowell, MA
Samford	@  3 Purdue	3:30 PM	BTN	Tickets as low as $15	Mackey Arena, West Lafayette, IN
Northern Arizona	@  6 UConn	3:30 PM	Fox App	Tickets as low as $15	Gampel Pavilion, Storrs, CT
Tennessee Tech	@  9 Tennessee	3:30 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, TN
NJIT	@  13 Miami	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Watsco Center, Coral Gables, FL
Radford	@  19 North Carolina	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $10	Dean E. Smith Center, Chapel Hill, NC
Voorhees	@  South Carolina State	4:00 PM			Smith-Hammond-Middleton Memorial Center, Orangeburg, SC
Erskine	@  Gardner-Webb	4:00 PM			Paul Porter Arena, Boiling Springs, NC
Piedmont	@  Coastal Carolina	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $19	The HTC Center, Conway, SC
Champion Christian	@  UT Martin	4:00 PM			Kathleen and Tom Elam Center, Martin, TN
King (TN)	@  East Tennessee State	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $8	Freedom Hall Civic Center, Johnson City, TN
Mount Olive	@  UNC Wilmington	4:00 PM			Trask Coliseum, Wilmington, NC
Delaware State	@  Penn State	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Bryce Jordan Center, University Park, PA
Trinity Baptist	@  Stetson	4:00 PM			Edmunds Center, DeLand, FL
Johnson University Florida	@  Jacksonville	4:00 PM			Swisher Gymnasium, Jacksonville, FL
North Greenville	@  Furman	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $20	Timmons Arena, Greenview, SC
Clark Atlanta	@  Mercer	4:00 PM			Hawkins Arena, Macon, GA
Malone	@  Kent State	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $50	M.A.C. Center, Kent, OH
St. Andrews	@  High Point	4:00 PM			Nido and Mariana Qubein Arena, High Point, NC
Toccoa Falls	@  Charleston Southern	4:00 PM			Buccaneer Fieldhouse, Charleston, SC
Washington and Lee	@  Davidson	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $41	John M. Belk Arena, Davidson, NC
Delta State	@  SE Louisiana	4:00 PM			University Center (LA), Hammond, LA
Brevard	@  Wofford	4:00 PM			Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium, Spartanburg, SC
Covenant	@  Chattanooga	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $20	McKenzie Arena, Chattanooga, TN
Delaware	@  Bucknell	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $20	Sojka Pavilion, Lewisburg, PA
Saint Mary-Of-The-Woods College	@  Indiana State	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $21	Hulman Center, Terre Haute, IN
Penn State Wilkes-Barre	@  Norfolk State	4:00 PM			Joseph G. Echols Hall, Norfolk, VA
Holy Cross	@  Siena	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $11	MVP Arena, Albany, NY
Immaculata	@  Rider	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $9	Alumni Gymnasium (Rider), Lawrenceville, NJ
Cleveland State	@  Duquesne	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $9	UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse, Pittsburgh, PA
South Carolina Upstate	@  South Carolina	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Colonial Life Arena, Columbia, SC
Hampton	@  Howard	4:00 PM			Burr Gymnasium, Washington, DC
Chicago State	@  Bowling Green	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $29	Stroh Center, Bowling Green, OH
Vassar	@  Yale	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $38	John J. Lee Amphitheater, New Haven, CT
Princeton	@  Rutgers	4:00 PM	Peacock	Tickets as low as $26	CURE Insurance Arena, Trenton, NJ
Central Connecticut	@  Rhode Island	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $8	Ryan Center, Kingston, RI
Carroll (MT)	@  Utah Valley	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $10	UCCU Center, Orem, UT
MACHR	@  Liberty	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $13	Liberty Arena, Lynchburg, VA
Coastal Georgia	@  North Florida	4:00 PM			UNF Arena, Jacksonville, FL
Winthrop	@  Clemson	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $3	Littlejohn Coliseum, Clemson, SC
Monmouth	@  George Mason	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $6	EagleBank Arena, Fairfax, VA
Ferrum	@  East Carolina	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $6	Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum, Greenville, NC
The Citadel	@  NC State	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $5	PNC Arena, Raleigh, NC
UMBC	@  Louisville	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $4	KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, KY
Niagara	@  Notre Dame	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $5	Purcell Pavilion, South Bend, IN
Virginia Wesleyan	@  Old Dominion	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $16	Chartway Arena, Norfolk, VA
Queens University	@  Marshall	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $6	Cam Henderson Center, Huntington, WV
North Dakota State	@  Western Michigan	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $12	University Arena (MI), Kalamazoo, MI
Massachusetts-Boston	@  Harvard	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $6	Lavietes Pavilion, Cambridge, MA
Columbia	@  Providence	4:00 PM	Fox App	Tickets as low as $7	Amica Mutual Pavilion, Providence, RI
Sarah Lawrence	@  Sacred Heart	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $13	William H. Pitt Center, Fairfield, CT
Detroit Mercy	@  Toledo	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $5	Savage Arena, Toledo, OH
Brown	@  Colgate	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $19	Cotterell Court, Hamilton, NY
Iona	@  Charleston	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $25	TD Arena, Charleston, SC
Oakland	@  Ohio State	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Value City Arena, Columbus, OH
Maine	@  Charlotte	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $10	Dale F. Halton Arena, Charlotte, NC
North Carolina A&T	@  Pittsburgh	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $3	Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Lafayette	@  Saint Joseph's	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $12	Michael J. Hagan '85 Arena, Philadelphia, PA
SIU Edwardsville	@  Dayton	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	UD Arena, Dayton, OH
McNeese	@  VCU	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $10	Stuart C. Siegel Center, Richmond, VA
Missouri State	@  West Virginia	4:00 PM	BIG12|ESPN+	Tickets as low as $2	WVU Coliseum, Morgantown, WV
Tarleton State	@  Virginia	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $7	John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA
Longwood	@  St. Bonaventure	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $38	Reilly Center, Saint Bonaventure, NY
VMI	@  Richmond	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $6	Robins Center, Richmond, VA
New Hampshire	@  Syracuse	4:00 PM		Tickets as low as $4	JMA Wireless Dome, Syracuse, NY
American University	@  22 Villanova	4:30 PM	Fox App	Tickets as low as $23	Finneran Pavilion, Villanova, PA
Southwestern Adventist	@  UT Rio Grande Valley	4:30 PM			UTRGV Fieldhouse, Edinburg, TX
Dallas Christian	@  Northwestern State	4:30 PM			Prather Coliseum, Natchitoches, LA
Manhattan	@  Bryant	4:30 PM		Tickets as low as $11	Chace Athletic Center, Smithfield, RI
Cornell	@  Lehigh	4:30 PM			Stabler Arena, Bethlehem, PA
Georgia Southern	@  Georgia Tech	4:30 PM		Tickets as low as $6	McCamish Pavilion, Atlanta, GA
Regent	@  William & Mary	4:30 PM		Tickets as low as $30	Kaplan Arena, Williamsburg, VA
Maryland-Eastern Shore	@  Temple	4:30 PM		Tickets as low as $7	Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, PA
Fairleigh Dickinson	@  Buffalo	4:30 PM		Tickets as low as $16	Alumni Arena, Buffalo, NY
Towson	@  Colorado	4:30 PM	PAC12	Tickets as low as $2	CU Events Center, Boulder, CO
Saint Peter's	@  Seton Hall	4:30 PM	Fox App	Tickets as low as $4	Prudential Center, Newark, NJ
Wagner	@  Fordham	4:30 PM		Tickets as low as $25	Rose Hill Gymnasium, Bronx, NY
Merrimack	@  Vermont	4:30 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Patrick Gymnasium, Burlington, VT
Millsaps	@  New Orleans	4:30 PM		Tickets as low as $9	Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA
Coast Guard	@  Quinnipiac	4:30 PM		Tickets as low as $10	M&T Bank Arena, Hamden, CT
Lipscomb	@  Wichita State	4:30 PM		Tickets as low as $7	Charles Koch Arena, Wichita, KS
Georgia State	@  Belmont	4:30 PM		Tickets as low as $9	Curb Event Center Arena, Nashville, TN
North Carolina Central	@  1 Kansas	5:00 PM	BIG12|ESPN+	Tickets as low as $5	Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, KS
UL Monroe	@  7 Houston	5:00 PM	BIG12|ESPN+	Tickets as low as $2	Fertitta Center, Houston, TX
Alcorn State	@  14 Arkansas	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $7	Bud Walton Arena, Fayetteville, AR
Texas A&M-Commerce	@  15 Texas A&M	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Reed Arena, College Station, TX
New Mexico State	@  16 Kentucky	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $5	Rupp Arena, Lexington, KY
Incarnate Word	@  18 Texas	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $5	Moody Center, Austin, TX
Morehead State	@  24 Alabama	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Coleman Coliseum, Tuscaloosa, AL
Eastern Illinois	@  25 Illinois	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	State Farm Center, Champaign, IL
North Texas-Dallas	@  Grambling	5:00 PM			Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center, Grambling, LA
Mobile	@  South Alabama	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $5	Mitchell Center, Mobile, AL
Wisconsin-Stout	@  Milwaukee	5:00 PM			Klotsche Center, Milwaukee, WI
Southern Indiana	@  Saint Louis	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Chaifetz Arena, St. Louis, MO
Texas State	@  Little Rock	5:00 PM			Jack Stephens Center, Little Rock, AR
William Carey	@  Southern Miss	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $10	Reed Green Coliseum, Hattiesburg, MS
Kentucky State	@  Southern Illinois	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $17	Banterra Center, Carbondale, IL
Navy	@  Campbell	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $10	John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center, Buies Creek, NC
Oral Roberts	@  UT Arlington	5:00 PM			College Park Center, Arlington, TX
Alabama State	@  Ole Miss	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss, Oxford, MS
Arkansas-Pine Bluff	@  Missouri	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Mizzou Arena, Columbia, MO
Trinity Christian (IL)	@  Valparaiso	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $11	Athletics-Recreation Center, Valparaiso, IN
Midway	@  Murray State	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $26	CFSB Center, Murray, KY
Boston University	@  Northeastern	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $41	Matthews Arena, Boston, MA
Warner Pacific	@  Idaho State	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $21	Holt Arena, Pocatello, ID
Western Illinois	@  UTSA	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $24	UTSA Convocation Center, San Antonio, TX
Miami (OH)	@  Evansville	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $29	Ford Center, Evansville, IN
Bradley	@  UAB	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $10	Bartow Arena, Birmingham, AL
Arkansas State	@  Wisconsin	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Kohl Center, Madison, WI
Mississippi Valley State	@  LSU	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Pete Maravich Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Marist	@  Army	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $25	Christl Arena, West Point, NY
Central Michigan	@  Oklahoma	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, OK
Coppin State	@  Virginia Tech	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $7	Cassell Coliseum, Blacksburg, VA
Jackson State	@  Memphis	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $5	FedExForum, Memphis, TN
Avila	@  Kansas City	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $32	Swinney Recreation Center, Kansas City, MO
Jarvis Christian	@  Lamar	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $8	Montagne Center, Beaumont, TX
Eastern Michigan	@  Butler	5:00 PM	Fox App	Tickets as low as $9	Hinkle Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN
Elon	@  Wake Forest	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC
Stonehill	@  George Washington	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $26	Charles E. Smith Center, Washington, DC
Lourdes University	@  Illinois State	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $20	CEFCU Arena, Normal, IL
Robert Morris	@  Xavier	5:00 PM	Fox App	Tickets as low as $6	Cintas Center, Cincinnati, OH
Fairfield	@  Boston College	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Silvio O. Conte Forum, Chestnut Hill, MA
Loyola Maryland	@  Florida	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center, Gainesville, FL
Florida International	@  UCF	5:00 PM	BIG12|ESPN+	Tickets as low as $2	Addition Financial Arena, Orlando, FL
Green Bay	@  Iowa State	5:00 PM	BIG12|ESPN+	Tickets as low as $3	James H. Hilton Coliseum, Ames, IA
Lindenwood	@  Nebraska	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, NE
Bethune-Cookman	@  Minnesota	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $3	Williams Arena, Minneapolis, MN
Binghamton	@  Northwestern	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Welsh-Ryan Arena, Evanston, IL
Central Arkansas	@  Tulsa	5:00 PM		Tickets as low as $9	Donald W. Reynolds Center, Tulsa, OK
Life University	@  Austin Peay	5:15 PM			F&M Bank Arena, Clarksville, TN
James Madison	@  4 Michigan State	5:30 PM	BTN	Tickets as low as $7	Breslin Center, East Lansing, MI
Northern Illinois	@  5 Marquette	5:30 PM	Fox App	Tickets as low as $2	Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, WI
Kentucky Wesleyan	@  Western Kentucky	5:30 PM		Tickets as low as $5	E. A. Diddle Arena, Bowling Green, KY
Fisk	@  Tennessee State	5:30 PM			Gentry Center, Nashville, TN
Southwestern Assemblies of God	@  SMU	5:30 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Moody Coliseum, Dallas, TX
Northern Kentucky	@  Middle Tennessee	5:30 PM		Tickets as low as $11	Murphy Center, Murfreesboro, TN
Youngstown State	@  Louisiana	5:30 PM		Tickets as low as $29	Cajundome, Lafayette, LA
Doane	@  Omaha	5:30 PM		Tickets as low as $26	Baxter Arena, Omaha, NE
Blue Mountain	@  North Alabama	5:45 PM		Tickets as low as $33	Flowers Hall, Florence, AL
Dartmouth	@  2 Duke	6:00 PM		Tickets as low as $61	Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham, NC
William Jessup	@  UC Davis	6:00 PM			University Credit Union Center, Davis, CA
McMurry	@  UTEP	6:00 PM		Tickets as low as $4	Don Haskins Center, El Paso, TX
Abilene Christian	@  Oklahoma State	6:00 PM	BIG12|ESPN+	Tickets as low as $3	Gallagher-Iba Arena, Stillwater, OK
Mount Marty College	@  South Dakota	6:00 PM			Sanford Coyote Sports Center, Vermillion, SD
Houston Christian	@  BYU	6:00 PM	BIG12|ESPN+	Tickets as low as $3	Marriott Center, Provo, UT
Southeast Missouri State	@  Grand Canyon	6:00 PM		Tickets as low as $3	GCU Arena, Phoenix, AZ
Nicholls	@  Tulane	6:00 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse, New Orleans, LA
St. Thomas-Minnesota	@  California	6:00 PM		Tickets as low as $16	Haas Pavilion, Berkeley, CA
Northwest Indian	@  Montana State	6:00 PM		Tickets as low as $34	Worthington Arena, Bozeman, MT
Southern	@  TCU	6:00 PM	BIG12|ESPN+	Tickets as low as $2	Ed and Rae Schollmaier Arena, Fort Worth, TX
UIC	@  Cincinnati	6:00 PM	BIG12|ESPN+	Tickets as low as $2	Fifth Third Arena, Cincinnati, OH
Akron	@  South Dakota State	6:15 PM		Tickets as low as $19	Frost Arena, Brookings, SD
Morgan State	@  12 Arizona	6:30 PM	PAC12	Tickets as low as $3	McKale Center, Tucson, AZ
South Dakota Mines	@  Utah State	6:30 PM		Tickets as low as $10	Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, Logan, UT
Portland State	@  Air Force	6:30 PM		Tickets as low as $11	Clune Arena, Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado College	@  Northern Colorado	6:30 PM		Tickets as low as $13	Bank of Colorado Arena, Greeley, CO
Eastern Washington	@  Utah	6:30 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Jon M. Huntsman Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Texas Southern	@  New Mexico	6:30 PM		Tickets as low as $29	The Pit, Albuquerque, NM
Kansas State	@  21 USC	7:00 PM	TNT		T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV
Stanislaus State	@  23 Saint Mary's	7:00 PM		Tickets as low as $4	University Credit Union Pavilion, Moraga, CA
La Verne	@  Cal Poly	7:00 PM			Robert A. Mott Athletics Center, San Luis Obispo, CA
Southern Utah	@  Cal State Bakersfield	7:00 PM			Icardo Center, Bakersfield, CA
Bethesda University	@  San Francisco	7:00 PM		Tickets as low as $5	War Memorial at the Sobrato Center, San Francisco, CA
Louisiana Tech	@  Colorado State	7:00 PM		Tickets as low as $7	Moby Arena, Fort Collins, CO
San Francisco State	@  California Baptist	7:00 PM			Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler Events Center, Riverside, CA
Concordia-Irvine	@  Pepperdine	7:00 PM		Tickets as low as $41	Firestone Fieldhouse, Malibu, CA
Sam Houston	@  Pacific	7:00 PM		Tickets as low as $6	Alex G. Spanos Center, Stockton, CA
Cal State Fullerton	@  17 San Diego State	7:30 PM	FS1	Tickets as low as $26	Viejas Arena, San Diego, CA
Fresno Pacific	@  Fresno State	7:30 PM			Save Mart Center, Fresno, CA
Denver	@  UC San Diego	7:30 PM		Tickets as low as $4	LionTree Arena, San Diego, CA
Long Beach State	@  Portland	7:30 PM		Tickets as low as $4	Chiles Center, Portland, OR
Sonoma St	@  San Diego	8:00 PM		Tickets as low as $9	Jenny Craig Pavilion, San Diego, CA
Cal State Northridge	@  Stanford	8:00 PM		Tickets as low as $6	Maples Pavilion, Stanford, CA
Idaho	@  Washington State	8:00 PM		Tickets as low as $8	Friel Court at Beasley Coliseum, Pullman, WA
Bellarmine	@  Washington	8:30 PM		Tickets as low as $2	Alaska Airlines Arena, Seattle, WA
St. Francis (PA)	@  UCLA	8:3opm