Mountain West Conference Championships (1 of 2)

I'm a terrible blogger, I know, for not posting in a more timely manner! I have been way too busy with my studio classes to post images from this past weekend's Mountain West Conference Championships. This post is the first of two. This is dedicated to the men's championship game from Saturday March 15th, 2008. The end of the game was the most important part, with UNLV beating BYU for the second straight year in the championship and having their fans rush the court. It was pretty crazy, I almost lost my hat, had my credential torn from around my neck, and proceeded to drop my extremely heavy camera on some students head (they knocked it out of my hands). 

Tournament MVP Wink Adams celebrates with students after they rushed the court. I head there was fights, but I was in the middle of they mayhem and did not see any of it until afterward in the press room I saw Chris Detrick's images of bloodied fans and yelling wives. 

Wink Adams runs around the Thomas and Mack Center shaking hands with fans that did not make it onto the court after UNLV's basketball team cut down the nets.

Wink Adams was clutch at the end of the game, scoring 14 straight points, inlucing three straight treys enroute to a game high 23 points. 

BYU's stars Trent Plaisted and Lee Cummard look stunned as they lost in the MWC Championship game two years in a row to a lower seeded UNLV Runnin' Rebels squad. 

The weekend was a ton of fun, and you can read more about the Aztec's and how they faired in my second post about the Mountain West Conference Championships. Four days and dozens of Mountain Dews later (thank god the MWC is a Pepsi supporter!) we made it back home to San Diego. I cannot wait to come back next year!

Mountain West Conference Championships (2 of 2)

I just found time to write about this past weekend in Las Vegas covering the Mountain West Conference Championships. The Aztecs faired pretty well considering they were all low seeds (men were 4 seeds, women 6 seeds). The women surprised everyone by beating No 3 seed Wyoming on Wednesday night. Even more so was the upset of No. 2 seed TCU on Friday's semifinal match up that sent the Aztecs to the Championship game. 

This image below is after the Aztecs came back to upset TCU. It was a crazy ending that saw a trick play by Quenese Davis who threw the inbounds pass off a TCU defender and hit the layup with just two seconds left on the shot clock. The play ended up Number 6 on Sportcenter's Top Plays. 

The mens team played Air Force on Thursday night and won in what was a terrible basketball game to watch. Somehow they won the game, yet only had four field goals in the entire second half. This is an image of Lorrenzo Wade getting defended tight by Air Force. Wade is the leader of the Aztecs and took over the game, hitting clutch free throws at the end.

Next for the Aztecs was regular season champ, BYU. The two had split their regular season series, 1-1 with each team winning at home.

BYU's Trent Plaisted dominated the paint, scoring easy baskets over SDSU's center Ryan Amoroso (below) The Aztecs lost 63-54.

Head coach Steve Fisher walks off the court in dismay over the poor offensive performance of his team late in the second half of the Aztecs loss.
Over all the weekend was pretty fun. I wish I was 21 so I was not couped up in our hotel room while my friends Devin Kunysz (Editorial Advisor) and Eric Shannon (Sports Editor) had all the fun. Oh well I am probably better for it, and wealthier from not making stupid bets on parlays at the sports book! For more info on our trip, see Devin's daily diary of it.

Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters played at Cox Arena last night. It was the first time I had shot a concert at Cox, and let me say it is SO much nicer to shoot there than at Soma! The light was so much brighter that I did not have to shoot at ISO 3200 at 1/50th of a second. The concert was a lot of fun once I actually got in (it was a pain getting my photo pass so I waited a good half hour outside the arena). Dave Grohl is a crazy energetic guy, running up and down the stage and down the walkway in the middle of the Cox Arena floor. I wish I got to see the entire show and not just the standard first three songs, but regardless it was better we had to leave since I had a paper to write! I wont bore you with technical information or descriptions of the images, I will let them speak for themselves. I wish I could have gotten a better crowd shot since Cox Arena was PACKED, but the security guards messed up the few photos of Grohl and the crowd that could have been good. 

If you would like to see more, just leave me a comment, I have a ton of the Foo Fighters and Serj Tankian (of System of a Down fame) that I can post as well. 

Thanks for looking,

Glenn