LAS VEGAS – The Oregon State football team arrived at the Venetian on Friday night on time and safe. All is going well so far.
The above pic is of the team picking up luggage at the bottom of the hotel. And what a hotel it is. This thing is huge. People will get lost in here.
“Everything went good today,” coach Mike Riley said of the trip. “We had a good workout in shorts this morning (at OSU).”
Trying to find a place to have a beer and blog was difficult. Don’t try to pull out a laptop at the sports book. It’s a crime, and I didn’t know.
I worked from the First Food and Bar. It’s a dark corner of the building. I’ll need a guide to get out of here.
There were 112 players on the trip. Freshman CB Sean Martin was left behind, Riley said. “It’s not a big story,” he said. “It had nothing to do with disciplinary reasons and he’ll be with us in January.”
Read between the lines on that since Riley won’t say what’s up. The fall term just ended.
There were 3,500 tickets sold to OSU fans for the game. There were another 1,200 family and friends comp tickets for friends and family for the coaches and players. The word from OSU is that’s 50 percent better than last year’s Sun Bowl
Players are off until 2 a.m. The first practice here is 11:30 a.m. Saturday morning at UNLV.
Now I’m off to find Lady Gaga. She’s playing here at some point, and I have to give a review for my wife. Check her out after the first 15 seconds. She’s the new Britney Spears for those who don’t know. And for the older guys out there, the new Madonna.
Check out the Saturday story in the GT here. It’s on BYU LB Shawn Doman and OSU’s battling BYU and Utah for Morman players.
4 comments
mrskirkpatrick says:
Dec 19, 2009
Forget football. Lady Gaga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even your boys know she's fun music.
pfbeaver says:
Dec 19, 2009
Cliff if you get to see the Circ show Love at the Mirage do it. We went when we were down there for the UNLV game. I'm a Beatles fan, so I guess that helps. All in all I'd have to say that it's the best show in vegas, and I've seen just about all of them.
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