Marquette GoldenEaglesFan see's Wade in DC

Yesterday, I was on the Washington Wizards website when an ad came up saying that all Wednesday games is student night! I looked at the schedule and saw the WizKidz were going to play the Miami Heat which meant Dwayne Wade, former star Marquette star that lead the Golden Eagles to the Final Four was going to be in town! When I saw that tickets were only $10 with a student ID, I used my old MU ID b/c there's no date on it!

Of course, our seats were in the nose bleeds, but we had plans to sneak into the lower bowl. After the first quarter and the Heat man handling the Wizards we took the escalators from the 400 level to the lower bowl. We snuck into the lower bowl with the usher wasn't paying attention and watched a terrific basketball game.

I gotta give the Wizards credit because they came back from a 20-point deficit to make it a game in the 2nd half. The score was changing every possession (one moment Heat where up then after looking down to have a sip of beer Wizards were up).

Then with 2 minutes to go in the game, I moved seats again to sit along the rail were the Miami players exit the court, to head to the locker-room. Wade and the Heat took control in the last 2 minutes blocking shots and making free-trows which gave them the 4 point victory.

At the end of the game I was in perfect position to get my Marquette #3 Dwayne Wade jersey signed. Wade came running off the court high-five everyone and saw my jersey and paused, then gave me a high five and ran into the locker-room. Not to sound greedy but I really wanted my jersey signed! I already got a high-five from Wade when he came to Milwaukee for Marquette Madness! Oh well, maybe next time he'll sign it!

The Heat won the game 93-89 with Wade scoring 40 points! It's always great to see former Marquette players succeed.

We are... MARQUETTE

Reflection on Twitter

My professor Gee Ekachai or better known as @FvrythingPR on Twitter introduced Twitter to our class at the start of the semester and required all her students to create an account (for those interested in following me I am @GoldenEaglesFan).

When Gee showed us and explained the concept of "tweeting" on Twitter, I thought it was pointless and stupid. I saw it as a lame version of Facebook with the status bar. However, after tweeting, following people and exploring Twitter for 3 months; I can see the benefits and its addiction.

For this assignment we were supposed to tweet at least twice a day during the month of March. We were also supposed to respond to other peoples' tweets. Gee also provided specific questions such as:

1. Number of tweets you did since March 1.
   
2. Content of your tweets in general. Were they about your thoughts, your wearabouts, your sharing of links, ect.?
   
3. Number of retweets.  Whose tweets did you retweet? What kind of topics did you retweet? Why did you retweet? 
   
4. Number of replies. In general, who did you reply to? What prompted you to reply? Were you asked a question or you wanted to add opinion?
   
5. How many people are you following? How many people are you following?
   
6. Your positive experience. Your most negative experience.
   
7. Did you benefit from being on twitter? If yes, how?
   

Answers/Reflection:

1. To be honest, I can't believe Gee actually made me count all my tweets during the month of March but I had around 150 tweets.
2. The content of my tweets were mainly around Marquette Basketball. Being March Madness do you expect anything different from me though? However, I also tweeted while we had guest speakers such as:
   
   • CD Vann, founder of SOHObiztube: @thatwoman_soho (twitter)
   • Steve Glynn, President of Spreenkler: @spreenkler (twitter)
   • Augie Ray, Experiential & Social Media Marketing Professional: @augieray (twitter)
   • Tannette Elie, Journalist for Milwaukee JS: @telie (twitter)
   • Al Krueger, founder of Comet Branding: @AlKrueger (twitter)
3.  I also tweeted about stories or videos I found and gave the link to view them. If others found something I liked I "retweeted" (RT) their post. However during the month of March I only RT seven times. Some of the things I RTed were from:
   

• Robyn Keuler, MU student: @Robyrd5 (twitter) - Topic: Marquette Bball (#mubb)
  
• Mary Schless, MU student: @gldneaglegrl (twitter) - Topics: #mubb and class
• Marquette University: @MarquetteU (twitter) - Topic: #mubb
• Marquette Athletics: @muathletics (twitter) - Topic: #mubb
• CrackedSidewalks: @CrackedSidewalks (twitter) - Topic: #mubb

Obviously, you tell that I AM A FANATIC about MARQUETTE BASKETBALL and love to read articles and tweets from journalists and fans. I also love watching videos from MU press conferences and thanks to Twitter I know where to go! CrackedSidewalks has everything I need!

4. As for replies; I replied around 60 times during the month of March. I mainly replied to tweets from classmates and professors that interested me. Again, my main interest in replies was sports. When some one commented on a game I saw and had a reaction, I responded. I also replied to people tweeting about their social life. Some people that I replied to included:

• Cara, MU student: @cmac42 (twitter) - Topics: social/life in general
• Sara Johnson, MU student: @SenoraBeeps (twitter) - Topics: social/jokes
• Gee Ekachai, MU professor: @FvrythingPR (twitter) - Topics: #mubb/social/jokes
  
• Linda Menck, MU professor: @digistorygal (twitter) - Topic: social/jokes
  
• Robyn Keuler, MU student: @Robyrd5 (twitter) - Topics: #mubb
  
• Mary Schless, MU student: @gldneaglegrl (twitter) - Topics: #mubb and class
• Rachel Ward, MU student: @RachelNWard (twitter) - Topics: #mubb

5. After 3 months on Twitter, I am now following 61 people with 86 followers.

6. My best experience with Twitter is being able to read comments form people watching the same game that I'm watching and simultaneously respond. However, I have had a negative aspect with Twitter and it is stupid people. Anyone can express themselves on Twitter and write whatever they want. I've had some people reply to my comments about #mubb who are have no clue what they are talking about and pretend like they know what's up.

7. That being said. My experience on Twitter has been very beneficial. Again, at first I thought it was stupid and pointless but after being a loyal participant, I think it's great. I am able to follow people with similar interests as me. I'm also able to follow my friends and respond to their thoughts and comments no matter where I am thanks to twitterberry!

Thanks GEE for introducing Twitter to me!

Senior Night

Senior Highlights: Thanks Jerel, Dominic, Wesley and Dwight for making my 4 years at Marquette so memorable!




Buzz "That's my guy" and Dwight talking




Wes, Jerel and DJ the Best Trio in College Basketball

A Sad Day for Marquette Bball

I was on Twitter today when one of my followers CrackedSidewlks posted a link from a Louisville blogger. At first when I started reading the entry, I thought this blogger was going to be inconsiderate about Dominic James "DJ" and his career ending injury; but after reading the entire post, I appreciate his thoughts from one sports fan to another.

Zakem2002, the Louisville blogger, describes DJ's best traits. He explains that his traits were:

1. DJ established himself as the floor leader of one of our more bitter rivals in Marquette
2. DJ did it as a freshman, solidifying his place alongside Laettner, Prickett, and Diener as a guy who would seemingly take a decade to graduate from college
3. DJ was a pretty good ball player on both ends of the floor; lightning quick, good handles, good defense, decent shot
4. DJ always seemed to have better than "pretty good" games against Louisville

Zakem2002 continues by saying "Yes, I despise Dominic James for all the reasons outlined above, but venturing deeper into my soul, I come to find why I like him even more. The reasons to like James are far more obvious than the reasons not to."

Zakem2002 concludes with "I hope that on Sunday Dominic James is on the floor when his team is warming up an hour or so before the game. If he is, I might take the time to walk down and tell him all the reasons that Cards fans hated seeing him check into games, but why they hate seeing him on the sidelines even more."

I feel like Zakem2002's loyalty to UofL and his passion for sports is equivalent to my loyalty to Marquette and my passion for sports. I would appreciate to meet Zakem2002 and if DJ attends the game Sunday, I would personally introduce him (Zakem2002) because DJ is one of my friends.

Thanks to Marquette Head Coach, Brent "Buzz" Williams, I will be traveling to Louisville for the first time to attend the "Whiteout." Buzz was generous and provided me with 4 tickets to the game for being such a devoted Marquette fan. I have traveled to 5 MU away games this season (NCstate, Rutgers, Notre Dame, DePaul, Georgetown) am 5/5 on MU victories. Hopefully my attendance Sunday will bring MU another victory.

We are... MARQUETTE!