Weekend Update

I spent the weekend in Northern California where the Mission Viejo High School Marching Band was defending their Western Band Association State Championship. Mission Viejo put on a great show and achieved the highest score of their season in the Finals performance, but unfortunately fell a little bit short of James Logan High School which won the event. Mission came in a close second. Congratulations to the MVHS Band on another great season!

The other championship team at MVHS, the football team, won their first round playoff game 63-10. This coming Friday night they'll play Hart, the team who beat them badly in last year's CIF Championship game. Look for Mission to be ready to hand out some revenge at this game.

In racing news, 47 year old Bobby Hamilton won the Craftsmen Truck Championship on Friday night, and Martin Truax Jr. clinched his first Busch Series title last week in Darlington.

Kurt Busch came back from losing a wheel early in Sunday's race to finish 5th and claim his first NASCAR Nextel Cup Championship by only 8 points over Jimmie Johnson. Congrats to the 97 crew!

Now what am going to do until the Daytona 500 on February 20th, 2005??