I wish someone would have filmed me when I arrived at my first interview and discovered that everyone was wearing West Virginia shirts, including the Chief Executive Officer. I had been instructed to always dress appropriately for an interview as it would demonstrate a high regard for the workplace and a sense of professionalism. But I was also secretly pleased that if I got hired for the job, I would not be forced to always put on my best clothes.

While I was waiting for the bus afterwards, a pretty woman wearing an LSU shirt stepped into the corporate headquarters. I could tell by the file she was browsing through that she was interviewing for the same position as me. This made me nervous because her attire matched that of the employees and she would likely make a better impression. But it was unnecessary to worry: I ended up getting the job.

Since then, I have become a husband and developed a solid career. Now, I am the HR director of the very same firm and oversee the recruiting of new trainees. You will probably think it funny, but I wear Auburn Tigers apparel to every single interview I conduct. My experience has taught me that it is important to select a candidate who can wear professional clothing and be at ease with someone in more unceremonious attire. In the business world, you never know what kind of people you will confer with or what they’ll be wearing. And the most admirable names in business are rarely the people who have the nicest attire.

Missouri beat Iowa 5-4 on its home field at Bob Pearl Stadium. There was Missouri Tigers merchandise everywhere.

Stacy Delaney was credited with her 20th of the season. Delaney finished the NCAA Regional with two of the Tigers three wins and a save.

Missouri scored three runs on one hit and one Hawkeye error in the bottom of the first inning. Taylor hit a full count single up the middle to reach base and slid into second for a stolen base. Downs dropped the ball allowing Michaele Vock and Ubrun to score from third and second, respectively.

The Hawkeye offense cut into Missouri’s lead, scoring one run on Emily Nichols’ standup double to center field. Iowa’s Quinn Morelock reached base earlier in the inning on a one out single up the middle and scored from first on Nichols’ hit.

The Tigers rallied in the bottom of the seventh, with Meredith Nash reaching base on a walk. Taylor singled back to Weil to reach first and Silver offered up a sacrifice fly to right field that allowed White to score. Weil intentionally walked Reenth and Ubrun. Allen was brought to the plate in a bases loaded situation, powering a single to the wall in center field that allowed Taylor to score the game-winning run.

With a series win at Virginia last weekend, Georgia Tech secured the No. 5 seed in the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship, which will be held this weekend at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, Fla. The Yellow Jackets face No. 4-seed NC State in the first game of the tournament Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Joining Georgia Tech and NC State on the top half of the round-robin bracket are top-seeded Miami and eighth-seeded Clemson. The other bracket consists of No. 2 seed Florida State, third-seeded North Carolina, No. 6 Virginia and seventh-seeded Wake Forest.

The ACC Tournament format calls for each team to play the other three teams in their bracket, with the winners of the two four-team round-robin brackets to meet in a single championship game Sunday at 1 p.m.

The Yellow Jackets were finalists on their side of the bracket in 2006 after capturing the ACC Baseball Championship in 2005. Over the last six years, Georgia Tech is 17-10 in the conference tournament.

Georgia Tech has won seven ACC Tournament Championships since joining the league prior to the 1980 season.

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have posted a 64-44 record in ACC Championship play, winning seven league titles since joining the conference for the 1980 season.

Georgia Tech won the ACC Championship in its first year in Jacksonville and has posted a 7-4 record over the last three years at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville. Tech is 10-8 all-time in ACC Championship games played in the state of Florida.

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets merchandise will be everywhere as they try to come close to playing in Omaha, NE for the World Championship.

Penn State captured the NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship with a 3-1 win over Pepperdine Saturday. After dropping Game 1, the Nittany Lions bounced back to take the next three and secure the National Title.

In dramatic fashion, Penn State’s men’s volleyball team brought the NCAA championship back to the East Coast with a 3-1 (27-30, 33-31, 30-25, 30-23) victory over Pepperdine in the NCAA title match on Saturday night. There were several fans there with their Penn State Nittany Lions merchandise on cheering for their team.

In game one, A Murray and Holt blocked opened up the game for the Nittany Lions and a Holt kill and ace put Penn State up 3-2. Out of the break, the teams traded points before a Wave kill and block gave them the game, 30-27.

In game two, Penn State took the 4-1 lead in the second game aided by two Anderson kills and a Murray put-away. Pepperdine followed up an attack error with a kill to make it 31-31 and a Sweitzer kill put Penn State ahead 32-31 before an Anderson kill ended the game, 33-31.

In game three, The Nittany Lions took the 5-3 lead in the third game on two Anderson kills. The Waves responded with two kills and a block to go ahead 9-7. An Anderson kill and a Penn State triple block from Anderson, Lipsitz and Murray pushed the Lions up 28-25 before a Wave attack error and another Penn State triple block from Anderson, Lipsitz and Murray ended the game, 30-25.

In game four, Penn State jumped out to the quick 6-0 lead to start the fourth game behind a Wave service error, a Murray and Lipsitz block, a Pepperdine attack error and Nittany Lion kills from Lipsitz and Anderson as the Waves used both of their timeouts in the run. A Murray kill of a scramble play made it 29-23 and a long swat on the Pepperdine attack on the next play started the party for the Nittany Lions 30-23.

Jillian Byers, Shaylyn Blaney and Jane Stoeckert combined for 11 of Notre Dame’s 15 goals earlier today to lead the Irish to a crucial 15-11 win over No. 15 Cornell at Alumni Field. The win helped improve Notre Dame’s chances for a bid to the NCAA Tournament. Notre Dame Irish merchandise will be seen all over as their fans cheer their team on.

Byers led the way with a six-point game with Blaney adding four points and Stoeckert three goals on the afternoon, including a goals 32 seconds a part with just over 10 minutes left to put the Irish ahead to stay. Alicia Billings, Gina Scioscia, Kaitlin Keena and Kailene Abt added single goals in the win.

Courtney Farrell paced Cornell with three goals while Noelle Dowd and Katherine Simmons added two goals apiece. Tissy O’Connor, Libby Johnson, Charlotte Schmidlapp and Halsey Diakow had solo goals for the Big Red.

The victory improves the 10th-ranked Irish to 12-6 on the year while Cornell falls to 10-6 on the season. The 12-win season marks the fourth time in the program’s 12-year history that Notre Dame has recorded 12 or more wins in a season.

Coming off their heartbreaking 15-14 triple-overtime loss to Georgetown in the BIG EAST semifinals on April 25, the Irish started out slow on Saturday afternoon, falling behind 3-0 in the first five minutes of the game.

For the second day in a row, the No. 7 California baseball team fell to No. 6-ranked Arizona State by the score of 11-7 at Packard Stadium in Tempe, Ariz. On Saturday, the Golden Bears had tied the game, 7-7, on Dylan Tonneson’s three-run homer in the sixth inning, only to see Cal give up four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Cal dropped to 27-12-2 overall and 7-7 in the Pac-10.

The Sun Devils improved to 34-7 and 9-5 in league play.

The losing pitcher for the Bears was junior left-hander Craig Benningson, who replaced freshman starter Kevin Miller in the sixth inning. The winning pitcher for ASU was closer Tommy Rafferty, who improved his record to 8-0 by throwing the final 3 innings with two hits, no runs, one walk and four strikeouts.

Cal had taken a 3-2 lead in the top of the third inning on an RBI single by sophomore center fielder Brett Jackson, an RBI single by Tonneson and a sacrifice fly by junior shortstop Michael Brady. The Sun Devils scored twice in the bottom of the third to take a 4-3 advantage. The Bears came back to tie the game, 4-4, on sophomore designated hitter Rich Gorman’s  RBI single to right field in the fifth, only to see ASU score three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning for a 7-4 lead.

Cal mustered another comeback in the top of the sixth inning when Tonneson hit his three-run shot off of the Sun Devil’s Seth Blair, but ASU controlled the game for good by scoring four runs in the bottom of the seventh when Mike Leake hit a three-run triple off of Blake Smith and then scored on Smith’s wild pitch.

Tonneson was the top hitter for the Bears, going 2-for-4 with four RBI. He also was the only player to hit a 3-run homer . Junior first baseman David Cooper went 3-for-6; and Gorman, Brady and sophomore third baseman Jeff Kobernus had two hits apiece for Cal. The Bears out-hit ASU, 14-9.

Cal will next play the third game of the three-game series at ASU, Sunday, Apr. 27 at 1 p.m. at Packard Stadium. There is expected to be a big crowd on hand for ASU to get the sweep. Their fans will have on their Arizona State Sun Devils merchandise on.

Michigan’s baseball program overpowered Eastern Michigan, 20-5, Wednesday. The Wolverines are now 24-8 and 11-1 in the Big Ten.

They had two big innings. They scored eight runs in the second and four in the third and this led to Michigan’s biggest margin of victory all season. 

Third baseman Adam Abraham went 3-for-5, knocking in four runs and scoring two of his own. Designated hitter Zach Putnam contributed three RBI and scored one run off of two doubles. 

Eastern Michigan, Michigan’s opponent, led this game in the first inning. However, that lead did not for even a whole inning. The Wolverines erased the first inning deficit, tallying the equalizer in the home team’s first at-bat. Derek VanBuskirk hit a lead-off single and stole second base for his fifth stolen base of the season. He advanced to third on a base hit by Nate Recknagel, placing him in position to score on Putnam’s sacrifice fly for the 1-1 tie.

The University of Michigan loves their Wolverines, so it makes sense that they buy their Michigan Wolverines merchandise and make lots of noise to make sure playing at the Big Blue really is a home field advantage.

One of the greatest gifts an Auburn tiger fan can get another Tiger fan is Auburn money clip. An LSU graduate can make lots of money working in Alabama. One of the best ways to carry money is a money clip in a person’s front pocket. It is very easy to get to your money when you carry the money in your front pocket.

The Alabama Crimson Tide will be playing at the Tennessee Volunteers this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Tennessee has a slightly better record than Alabama. Also, Tennessee is one of the best home teams in the SEC, so that should be very helpful to them.

Today, Austin Hyatt (right handed) will be pitching for the Crimson Tide and Nick Hernandez (left handed) will be pitching for the Volunteers.

Alabama is playing its second straight Southeastern Conference road series this weekend when they travel to Tennessee.

The Crimson Tide simply do not play good on the road and that is not helpful when they are playing at a good home team.

The Tide’s faithful hopes that will change as they bring their Alabama Crimson Tide merchandise to the games, in a hope that they can turn their season around so they can make the playoffs.

The Volunteers are 5-1 in SEC home games and 16-3 overall at home this season.

Alabama will be returning to play Tennessee for the first time since they won the 2006 SEC game that went down to the wire on the last day of the regular season. Also, they had to have Georgia beat Kentucky (which they did in 2 of the last 3 games) to get the crown.

Well both teams know that they have similar records. Alabama know they do not have a good road record. Tennessee know they have a good home record. Something has to give. Who will win this 3 game series in Knoxville? I guess we have to wait and find out.

crock-belt.jpgGeorgia Bulldog Fans can find a great looking leather belt to wear at this online store. Bulldog Fans like to dress up for the game and if I am not mistaken this is the same company that Coach Riche gets his belts from. The belts come from Enmon Accessories out of Texas. This Great looking Georgia Bulldog Belt has 4 conchos evenly spaced around the belt. I think this particular belt runs $59.95 but they have them in all price ranges.

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