A time to reflect...

About a year ago I was standing outside Yankee Stadium with my brother Sunail, my sister Armeen, my "brotha" (like the cool kids say) Allyshah, and a whole gang of friends trying to figure out how we couuld get inside Yankee stadium on a Sunday while the team was on the road. Like any sports fan, I looked into getting a tour of Yankee Stadium but they were sold out, so no go! Luckily my sister can sweet talk her way into most places so we ended up getting a limited tour behind home plate and I was happy with it....Fast forward a year....

On Father's Day 2008 after doing my morning show, Gametime with Raheel Ramzanali, I was working as a media member representing 1560 The Game inside the Yankees clubhouse in Minute Maid Park. I had a chance to talk to Joba Chamberlain (on Friday night), Derek Jeter, Mike Musina, A-Rod and Johnny Damon...I remember standing outside of Yankee stadium thinking, how cool would it be to be in the Yankees clubhouse and talk to some of the greats of our time? A year later that's exactly what I was doing...just not at Yankee Stadium but the best ballpark, Minute Maid Park.

Back to Back Champions...

For all of the hardcore PTRR fans, you will remember that 1560 The Game won the Houston Rockets media 3-on-3 basketball tournament last year. Well, in keeping with tradition, we returned to the tournament and captured the title again for the first ever back to back reign! After putting up a campaign to win the MVP last year, I was awarded MVP this year at the tournament...here are some notes from the day:

• Lance Zierlein has game and showed it in the finals...Lance hit some big shots and played some sick defense. The highlight of the finals was when I started yelling at Lance to D up on his man who had not scored the whole game. We got into a friendly argument and then ended up winning the game 11-6
• David Nuno is the best media defender...he was shutting down the opposing team's best player and even scored a big AND 1 in the finals! Thanks for locking up fools David so I could roam around freely.
  
• John Harris set the tone of the tournament when he got into a confrontation in our first game with the guys down the dial. A few words were exchanged but no feelings were hurt because it was all left on the court. Harris was a beast on the loose balls and rebounds.
  
• Sean Pendergast came out to coach/manage/root/trash talk/ pump-up/muscle for the team and man was he awesome. He kept on chanting Kobe's name during our games and I believe that gave me my boost in the finals.
  
• I showered in the Houston Comets locker room and no matter what you say about that, I felt like a pro-player.
  
• I've never felt this sore in my life after four games of 3-on-3. I guess I'm hitting the point in my life where my young age can't carry me anymore...time to find some HGH!
  
• Pictures coming soon!