New Season. New Coach

To me it seems that after a season with only 15 wins, the upcoming one can only get better, Right? I honestly think that's what's in store for The Miami Heat. There are three leading roles to why I see a bright future for the team.

#1. Healthy players
Dwayne Wade and the rest of the players on the injured list back in play.

#2. Second Pick at Draft
With only one disadvantage, Chicago with #1 pick, The Heat have the great opportunity and will take advantage to place an impact player onto the team's roster.

#3. Erik Spoelstra
He's a fresh face to being a Head Coach but has years of experience with the franchise. Erik Spoelstra, the youngest Head Coach in the NBA, gives me a good feeling. I think he will do a fantastic job. Lucky me, has met Coach Spoelstra and now has a personalized autograph.

Miami Heat

I'm excited to say I'm slowly but surely getting my feet wet. I'm starting out with my hometown's team, The Miami Heat's Broadcasting Team.

Mother's Day

My dear brother got her a six pack of beer.
I got her a 42 inch flat screen.(Which I thought would be great, until she realized in reality it's for me, since playoffs are coming up.)

However, we're managing it well. At the moment, Ma is smiling, my cousins are over, ESPN is on and my brother is telling the funniest story of how his bed matress was stolen off his front porch in a matter of 10 seconds, on the day he was moving.

With both your kids messing up, big time, I have to say...Sorry Ma, we'll both do better next year...Happy Mother's Day.

Orange Bowl

Okay, So what's the deal with getting rid of the Orange Bowl? Isn't the stadium one of those monuments that isn't supposed to get touched and last forever? That's what it's always seemed like but for the past month, the stadium has been undergoing serious renovation and will surely be missed.
For years it has served as home field of the Miami Hurricanes and at one point was even home for my Alma Mater and the Stingarees.
Great games, including Super Bowls and concerts have been held here. Experiences like late nights of trespassing into the stadium with friends were cool. Who can forget the conversations with strangers about floods, lack of electricity and gasoline in South Florida while waiting in a line that stretched around the stadium, for ice and bottled water, after Hurricane Wilma.
Intangibles like interning for The Orange Bowl Committee and performing on the field for my first Homecoming Game, will forever be cherished.
Hopefully it will all continue in 2011 when the stadium re-opens as the Home of the Miami Marlins....that's right. Not Florida Marlins but Miami Marlins, as contracted with the City of Miami.
I must admit I like the sound of Miami having its very own 37,000 seat retractable roof baseball stadium.

Anite and I during demolition of The Miami Orange Bowl. This picture was taken after half of the stadium was destroyed and shows the only partial part still standing.

Picasa Web Albums - yvonne

Picasa Web Albums - yvonne

The Saddest Thing In Life Is...

...Wasted Talent.

After some serious,"no more fooling around" time, I've made up my mind on what I'm sticking to career wise. It seems I tend to beat around the bush when it comes to taking school seriously. I've changed my major more times than anyone I know and have never really cared much for it. Nights ago, while at home all alone and bored, I watched my favorite movie, Robert De Niro's, A Bronx Tale. My favorite quote of all time is one that made me realize, I gotta do this.

"THE SADDEST THING IN LIFE IS WASTED TALENT"

I've always liked this part of the movie and these words have truly moved and inspired me to become a Sports Broadcaster.

I did the whole T.V. thing in high school and excelled at it. My only obstacle during all the years was not the lack of talent but lack of motivation. All time motivator Joe Underwood, and non-stop Shadow, warned me about slacking plenty of times. Now, I'm thirsting for any and every intern opportunity or freelance project available.

I remember the first assignment for T.V., my first year at Miami Senior High school. Underwood took the class down to the East Patio, showed us a camera, stood the victim in front of the cam and asked him to read the script. I remember panic when he asked me my name and then proceeded me to stand in front of the camera and behind the prestigious fountain in the patio. I read the script, which must have been one of those T.V 1 scripts. The one's that have "cheesy" and "lame" written all over it and never seem to be off topics like proper uniform attire, tardies and absences . After wrap, we all headed back to the classroom and while going up the staircase Undi and I had our first conversation. He told me the camera loved me but we both knew I was extremely shy.

It's funny, one day, during the many years spent in his classes, Undi told me one day I'd bump back to this. I can remember responding "The camera doesn't like me and I don't like it either." Silly enough, he was right.
Senior year, Cardona told me she knew I would end up in the media services, either Journalism or Broadcasting. Now, even more silly, I hope she was right.

Wow, It's March!

It's been a while since I've sat down to write....and i'm out of words. Bye. I'll be back =]