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A Northeast Portland man is suing basketball superstar Michael Jordan and Nike founder Phil Knight for a combined $832 million. Allen Heckard filed the suit himself, June 29th in Washington County Court. Heckard says he’s been mistaken as Michael Jordan nearly every day over the past 15 years and he’s tired of it.

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• Remember when I mentioned that I took wifeGeeding to Del Frisco’s for our anniversary?  Turns out they sent us a hand written thank you card for spending our 3rd anniversary with them.  I thought that was pretty impressive, not to mention I never gave them our address.
• We live on top of a hill and can see the Vista Ridge mall from our house.  The mall had a fireworks show, and we could see it from our front yard.  I’m starting to really enjoy July 4 around here because it’s really the only time everyone in the neighborhood comes out together all at one time, not to mention it was great family time.
• I had the opportunity to try some Coca-Cola from Mexico.  It tastes a tad different because it has real surgar instead of high fructose corn syrup.  Kinda like the whole Dr Pepper and Dublin Dr Pepper thing.  I prefer the domestic Coke.  I also hear the plant that makes the Coca-Cola with real sugar will soon be making it with HFCS.  In case you are wondering, Coca-Cola is my favorite soft drink.
• The name of this motel in Haltom City crakced me up, so I had to take a picture.
  
• When cleaning out the garage, I came across an old dirty American flag.  The proper way to dispose of a flag is to burn it.  I also know that if one is not comfortable doing so, he or she can turn the flag over to the Boy Scouts or a military recruiting station.  Since I didn’t know where any of these facilities are, I burned the flag myself and felt extremely awkward doing so.
• I was told that a great place to eat breakfast burritos is Rudy’s BBQ.  The closest one to us is about a 15 minute drive to Denton, TX.  I remember seeing a lot of Rudy’s on my way to San Antonio, but I think this is the only one in North Texas.  I didn’t get there early enough for breakfast, but when I got there for lunch and told the lady behind the counter that this was my first visit, she brought out samples of each meat for me to try – quite impressive!  Extremely tender meat.  You have two kinds of BBQ sauce to use, Sissy Sauce or Regular.  I prefer the Sissy Sauce.  They also have cream corn.  It’s OK, definately not as good as the cream corn at Babe’s.  Also, anytime you see a sign like this you know you are in the right place:
  
• It annoys me when I hear people confuse BBQ’s and Cookouts.  If you are cooking burgers and dogs, that is a cookout, not a BBQ.  BBQ’s involve BBQ sauce, it’s that simple.  Jeff Probst does this all the time on Survivor.
• I got a small article published in our church magazine.
• I didn’t play enough tennis during my time off.
• I got a crazy phone call last Sunday.  One of my closest buddies said a deal just kinda fell into his lap regarding an all expense trip to Las Vegas, and he was asking if I could go.  Only problem, the plane was to take off in about an hour and a half and wifeGeeding was in a musical and I couldn’t contact here.  As much as I wanted to go and thankful that he thought of me, I was happy to have a lot of down time.

I’m ready for some football!

I know football season is still down the road, but I wanted to take a chance and get started on a league before everyone else signs up in another league.  All my readers are more than welcome to sign up and play.  I’m actually curious to see if anyone out there will sign up.

I like to use the Sporting News’ Ulitmate Fantasy Football.

Why?

Because it involves a bit more strategy than the normal fantasy football leauge.  Basically you have $50 million to spend on players, each of which are valued at different prices, and their value can fluctuate as the season progresses.  You are also allowed 4 trades per week, and if you don’t use them, they carry over.  There is no live draft, and all players are available for everyone to use, it’s just a matter how you manage your portfilio of players.

The downer?  It costs $17.99 to play.  But if you break it down, that’s less than a $1 a week to play, so what do you have to lose? 

Any special kickers?  Yup, if we get ten people to play, then the winner of the league wins $50 – all of which is paid out by the Sporting News.

When you sign up, make sure to join this league:  BagOfNothing
with this password:  Micah68

Everything is case sensitive, so please be careful.  Any problems, please email me and I’ll try my best to help out.

More info can be foune here:  Game Rules

It’s the best fantasy football out there.

I’m looking forward to the competition!