East Coast Bias Actually Pans Out for Once, Slingbox Update

I was going to write a long diatribe about the ridiculous pre-season college basketball polls that omitted UCLA in the top 25, but after our loss Cal State Fullerton, I see their point.

I think we will do far better than our football team did this season. Just sayin'.

We always start out slow. Two seasons ago, Kevin Love peaked in March. In February, there was still talk he was not going to enter the draft because he was still working on his fundamentals. He was, but he got it together quickly and ended up going fifth in the draft, third Pac-10 player in the first five selected, second Bruin. What's up.

With that said, my life is again centering on watching as many UCLA basketball games as I can. With DVR, this isn't very difficult to do at some point. I used to dream of setting up Slingbox on my Blackberry and watching the games on my phone. That was before I got cable with the sports package and realized every game could be recorded. No, my body, now over 30 years old now has a problem staying up for the games.

Obviously I cannot resist looking up the score of a game the morning after, to make sure my guys pulled out a win. The games usually start recording at 10:30 at night and end well after midnight. On a school night, that's rough. However, if I have plans after work, I can often go several days without watching the game. So my focus is now on how to watch the games as quickly as possible after I wake up.

Comcast has recently unveiled TV Everywhere which in theory could allow you to watch anything in your DVR via the interwebs. IN THEORY. In reality, it's probably not going to have that functionality, at least not from what info is on the web. I wish I could download the game to my iPod and watch it on the way to work, but that's not even close to possible.

Slingbox still looks like the best option to watch games on the go but...

1. It is not yet available on my Blackberry model.
2. Can the Verizon network support video? I can't even get to my Google Reader in less than ten minutes on my mobile browser on most mornings.

The search continues...