At the beginning of any season, a team sits down and draws up its goals for the year.  Since the beginning of this season we have talked about the potential we have, and how successful we can be.  This past week, we took our game to a new level, proving to ourselves and our fans that we have a reason to be optimistic about the postseason.

On Saturday we traveled to New Hampshire to take on Merrimack, and came out with our sixteenth win of the season.  But even more exciting was last night's win over Bentley.  Stonehill/ Bentley games never fail to be thrilling, but they usually don't go into four overtimes!  After the fourth overtime we came out ahead, with an 87-82 victory over the Falcons.  The win improved our overall record to 17-3, and secured our first place seeding in the Northeast 10.

With seven regular season games to play, it's important for us to take it one game at a time and finish strong.

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On another topic, Super Bowl XLIII is this Sunday in Tampa Bay.  Many people will tune into the biggest game in football to see whether the Steelers or the Cardinals are the best team.  As Stonehill is located in New England, many students are pretending the Super Bowl isn't happening this year because the Patriots aren't playing. 

For me... it's all about the commercials anyway.  Will Britney Spears return to the Pepsi ads?  Or this year will she be riding a Clydesdale?  Which beer company will come up with the most outrageous skit?  And what are these one-second ads we've been hearing so much about?  Since Super Bowl ads can cost up to $3 million for a 30-second slot, that means one second runs about $100,000, right?  Money well spent, provided they include some monkeys in it.

That's my advice for all advertisers.  Regardless of whether the product is beer or licorice or shampoo − go ahead and stick some monkeys in there and viewers will be dying for more.  Something about our simian ancestors that just makes me want to go out and shop.

Talk to you soon!

Meg