Rockin' the Suburbs

There have been very few album releases lately, so I'm going with a the classic Ben Folds track "Rockin' the Suburbs." The term has come big time into the Sportscenter vocabulary, and is one of my favorite of Ben Folds' tracks. He should be way more popular than he is, because he is crazy talented and makes great music.

I totally forgot to post my playoff picks for the year, and where they looked compared to my preseason favorites (brutal). Anyway, whether you believe this or not is up to you, but I did pick Dallas, Baltimore, Indy and Carolina all to win last week. This week I have Dallas to upset Green Bay, New England to walk all over Baltimore, Seattle to beat Carolina comfortably and Denver to sneak one out against Luck and the Colts.

OK, OK, I know you want to be reminded of how terrible my preseason picks were. Let's just say this, I only correctly predicted one team in the NFC that made the playoffs, and that was Arizona, who was worthless by the time playoff time actually came. In the AFC I had four, but also predicted Tennessee would make the playoffs and they finished 2-14. However, my Super Bowl winner is still alive in Denver, so there's that.

I have several pictures from between Dec. 29-31. Enjoy.

Little Falls junior Jordan Schuett rocks the new gray uniforms, and looks for somebody to pass to Monday, Dec. 29 against Apollo.

Teammates celebrate with Hunter Swanson (No. 4) Dec. 29 against Mound-Westonka.

Upsala's Kyle Soltis loses possession of the ball on a fastbreak as a Hutchinson defender closes in.

Flyers junior Mikayla Burns is blocked by an Apollo defender. 

Sarah Gold tries to shake off Apollo's Emily Eiynck in the Flyers' first win of the season, Dec. 29.

Gold smiles as Little Falls leads by double digits.

Gold to the hoop.

Kristin Stewart drives by Apollo defender Calli Lynch.

Pierz sophomore Brianna Meyer flies down the court against Crosby-Ironton, Dec. 30.

Talyre Boser shovels a pass to a teammate on a fast break.

Boser prepares to shoot.

Boser flings a pass up court.

Kacy Broschofsky (No. 25) fights for a ball with Abby Gindorff (No. 40) and others.

Becca Athman strides to the basket with Lauren Peterson on her tail.

Jeremy Halverson has the ball knocked away after he was fouled by Nathan Schimpp.

Pierz junior Aaron Weber goes to the hoop for two Dec. 31 against Melrose in the championship of the Cathedral Christmas Classic. The Pioneers beat two former No. 1 ranked teams to get to the title game, but lost 82-44 to Melrose.

Jonny Kasper throws a pass to Weber.