"The Double Life"

Often times going away to college is a life changing experience. Many kids cannot handle the double life that needs to be balanced between their hometown and the college town. When I was home my mother did my laundry, made dinner, and did several other chores that I was not at all interested in.

It is not just the chores that keep many kids our age from going away. The emotional aspect of trying to balance friendships and relationships is very difficult. Before I went away I did not go more than a week without seeing my mother. I saw my friends every day. Now I rarely talk to my friends back home and every few days I call my mother. At the same time when I go home in the summer time it is difficult not seeing anyone who I see everyday up at school. You develop a strong bond with the friends up at school because you see them every day. 

Beyond emotional ties are several other reasons students have trouble living with this double life so to speak. With the lifestyle and freedoms attached to the college life, students are prone to slacking off and falling behind. Classes often have laid back attendance policies, the dorm life apt to lounging around often times and homework is not monitored heavily. As fun as it is here, several times I think what would happen to me if I did not have the work ethic that I have.

Buffalo on the Rise

Hard work and dedication in most scenarios lead to nothing but success and improvement at the very least. Buffalo Bill's coach Dick Jauron preaches nothing but hard work and dedication to a common goal. It just so happens that this goal is a playoff birth which any true football fan will tell you is not out of reach this year for the underdog Bills.

The Patriots dominating mentality is evidently fading. The Dolphins are less than par and the Jets are as unpredictable as the weather in Western New York. The Bills are quietly sniffing around the dog bowl and the smell of a division crown is at the tips of there fingers. The Bills did everything in there will to beat the Patriots and came up just short in the final two minutes. It was extremely unfortunate for the Buccaneers who played the Bills this Sunday. Plenty of anger was lashed out at Tampa Bay as the Bills came to tear heads off. By the end of the first quarter fans were snickering for the southern team to catch a bus home early because of the 17-0 score that shined on the jumbo-tron.

When the game finally did end in a lop-sided 30-20 victory for the home team, nothing could have cheered seventy plus thousand fans more than to hear that the Patriots received a heart-breaking loss to the Jets at the Meadow Lands. Incredibly, the Jets gave them all they wanted and forced the boys from Boston to go home without even scoring a touchdown. This is a feat that has not happened in over five years! The division is up for grabs and so many hands are looking to dip into the cookie jar known as the 2009 playoffs. No one asks for anything more than a chance and if the Bills take advantage of the opportunity sitting in front of their eyes they'll get nothing less than a chance to play with the big boys in the playoffs, a task that has not been accomplished since 1999 when Doug "The Jet" Flutie ran the Bills into the playoffs against the Titans.

PAC'..The Real Truth

Unfortunately, the world is easily manipulated and will believe anything that is seen on a television or google. Tupac Shakur, the most prominent and established rap gangster from the west coast could have possibly tricked the world into thinking he is dead.

Even though there are pictures and "evidence" to support 'Pac was murdered, there is also substantiating facts to hint he could be alive. Now people may say that my theories are complete insanity and the shear fact of the matter is those people speak with no knowledge of the theory and have no back round information to support what they say. Yes Mike Jackson is dead. Yes Elvis Presley is dead. Those are rumors backed up with no factual information besides obsessive fans who blog about there superstar heroes being alive. 

Now time to open some eyes. Tupac gets ousted out front of Circus Circus after the Tyson fight. Anyone who has seen the Vegas strip after the Tyson fight would know how crowded it was. As crowded as it was, not one person sees the shooting; not even one of his seven body guards in his entourage. Three people rob the Rio in the year 'Pac gets shot up and air enforcement was  used to track down the culprits. The biggest gangster name in history gets shot up and not one call is received for air support. Shakur's cab driver, who helped him stage his death, was grazed by one bullet whereas Tupac got hit in the head and heart several times. Let it be noted that Shakur and the entourage would not cooperate with the police after the shooting. 

To top this madness off I will leave you with one simple statement that is directed towards all of the people who are witty enough to say we should dig his body up or look at pictures of his autopsy. First, he was cremated a day after his murder (doubtful in my mind that the process would take only twenty-four hours). Second, for all of those who tell me to look at his dead body on google; I took Media just like everybody else in high school and can photoshop as good as the next person who created those blasphemous pictures.

Terrel Owens

Another team. Another year. Another chance. The National Football League's drama queen speed freak has found a new home in Orchard Park New York. Unexpectedly so, "T.O" has brought some excitement to the small western New York town.

Hundreds upon hundreds of eager fans packed into Saint John Fisher college where the sports icon was watched viciously. He had been quoted several times by reporters in saying "Get ya' popcorn ready" which he so famously tells fans who come to watch him. His nonchalant, moxy attitude brings a much needed "spunk" to Western New York area. A franchise that hasn't seen a playoff birth since the Flutie Flake era is desperate to win any way possible, even if it means bringing the queen bee in to help the cause

Buffalo's Ralph Wilson is not taking the situation lightly. The owner made it public that Terrell will be out as fast as he came in if he begins to stir up the locker room. His contract is a one year, six million dollar deal with several bonuses to be added pending on the Bills performance. Could this be the year? Is it possible that the Bills could be the next 2008 Cardinals? Only time and optimism will tell my fellow peers.