Champaign corker and SoBos closing in on ultimate prize are two Beloit Daily News articles from todays paper. The first one tells about the Sobos 45-22 victory over Kewanee Wethersfield. The second one is by Sports Editor Jim Franz. Here are my favorite bits from the first article:

“It’s awesome to be able to beat them at home since they knocked us off last year and went to state,” Goldsworthy said. “This year we beat them, so hopefully we go and win state.”

“Last year was a disappointment, but this year we made up for it,” DeJuan Listenbee said. “To be the champs, you got to beat the champs and that’s what we just did. And to get there, it’s a dream.”

And boy what a dream it is. I think this dream has been every Sobo Football players. The game was awesome to watch. It was great going down on to the field after the game was over surrounded by all the Sobo fans. Friday I will be nervous as hell. I can’t go to the game, due to the fact I’m dead broke. But I will be thinking about them the whole day until I find if they won.

I got an email from Sony Online Entertainment Inc. and couldn’t be happier. Here is what it said:

We are pleased to inform you that your signed TERMS OF USE, LICENSE AND NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT for participation in the beta testing of Star Wars Galaxies ™: An Empire Divided ™ has been received and verified.

Of course this is all I need. I’m already playing Dark Age of Camelot and Earth & Beyond. I guess a little Star Wars Galaxies won’t hurt.

SoBos’ workforce is the Beloit Daily News article detailing how the Sobos stay in shape. Here is a little bit from the news item:

For the past two seasons, the SoBos have seen the results of a strong workout regimen. And much of the praise can be directed to defensive coordinator and conditioner Todd Martens, who came on board during South Beloit’s 2001 season.

Yep you have to give Martens some praise for what he has done. Let’s hope that he is keeping them going for this game friday.

This post is regarding the Breaking Policy post from last week. It’s kind of funny how rules are made to be broken. It shouldn’t be any surprise to anybody who knows me that I disregard rules. I’m a little disappointed in some of the managers though. The restaurant manager caught me smoking and it appears she hasn’t narked me out. I even told her that when she speaks of me, she speak well.

If I was a manager I would have narked. I mean that’s what managers are supposed to do. You have to maintain that pretense of some kind of command. I have no respect for someone who doesn’t have the balls to do this. Sure it’s cool she didn’t nark on me. And I’m not looking to get written up.

It would be different if me and this restaurant manager had some kind of buddy friendship going on. But I don’t really now this chick well enough to consider her a buddy. She sure as hell doesn’t know shit about me. Maybe next time she will nark on me. That is after they read this.

Sobos’ success groomed on playground a Rockford Register Star article explaining how Coach Potthoff first learned about this present Sobo team way back in 1996. It’s a good read for any Sobo fan.

This article does bring up a something I complained about before:

This season, South Beloit beat North Boone for the first time in 13 years to win the conference title in the last game of the regular season.

Now unless I just don’t know how to add, we beat them 12 years ago. During the 1990 football season when I was a senior we beat North Boone. It was a come from behind win. I still have the WZOK School Of The Week dog tags to prove it. This just offends my pride. While I wasn’t a super football player, I did play and we beat them. I just wish they get this right one of these days.

Four years. Man time flies when your having fun. So four years ago I was fired from this same hotel I work at now because I was not happy. That probably sounds strange, huh? This is a day I have forever vowed to never work again. I had to swap New Years Eve with the Dude so I could have it off.

I use this for my look back at the past year. Past installments include Year In Review 1999, Year In Review 2000, and Year In Review 2001. Per the usual for me this year has been more of the same.

Of course it was a strange year for the hotel. The events of the hotel being sold was something new. The whole auction and wondering if the place would still be there was interesting. New owners are always fun. All in all it’s been business as usual. Which isn’t a good thing.

As I said in the first (which still applies) one I owe lots of people thanks. Thanks for just being there. These thanks go to all of my family and friends. And I of course consider my friends family. So it’s a shout out to all of my peeps, be it friend or family.

The South Beloit Sobos are the Class 1A State Champions! The Sobos beat El Paso 50-22. The IHSA has a page with all kinds of stats right here. Congratulations to Shipley and crew.

**Update** The IHSA also has another page here that has play by play summaries, box scores, and quotes.