(Written by kencraw)

I’ve got a great story for everyone:

My wife tells me Wednesday night “Hey, I’m going to take the boys to their grandparents next weekend and you can come if you want but I’m going to be studying for my Master’s test” (She’s finishing up a master’s degree in Spanish.)

And I say, “Hey! I purposely canceled a bunch of trips to road Cal games because you wanted me home as much as possible during the last trimester of your pregnancy, and now you’re going to stick me at home alone!?!”

And she says, “Oh, I forgot that this was the Oregon game weekend… well why don’t you plan to go on short notice?”

And I said, “Oh yeah!?!… um… um… I love you too!”

So then I said to myself, “You really need to stop talking to yourself.”

But then I ignored me and said “Hey, why don’t you call your boss at Rivals and see if they’ve got anyone covering the game… I mean, they probably do, but it’s worth a shot.”

So I did and yesterday I got back the reply, “You’re in! Our regular guy has a family conflict that weekend.”

And I say (to myself… see it’s a real problem) “SWEEEEEEEEEEET! Not only do I get to go, I get to go for free and do the press box and see the players and coaches again.”

And then I say to myself (ugh… this is getting really bad): “Hey, my brother is going to the game with his roommate. Why don’t you see if you can bum a ride from him and crash in his hotel room? Then the trip will be REALLY free.”

So I e-mail him and he says, “Sounds good, just buy us dinner Friday night or something”

And I say (this time to Brian), “I like Pizza! You’re on.”

All of this is just a fun way to say that I’ll be covering the Oregon game from the press box and will be able to do post-game interviews of the players and coaches. Last year I would always ask before press conferences and other interview opportunities if there any questions my blog readers would like to see answered. Consider this post the place to do that.