Rugby and Volleyball: Champions!

Photo at last week's semifinal game

Today BYU's Rugby team beat California-Berkeley to win the Varsity Cup National Championship!

It was a great game that ended with a BYU kick through the uprights to give BYU the 27-24 win!

Tonight, BYU is playing in the NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship game against UC Irvine at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.  Watch it on ESPNU.  Erik mixed the live sound for last week's semifinal games in Provo that BYU won to get there!  As always, great sound for great volleyball!

Perhaps a little cliche, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to highlight Queen's "We Are the Champions."  As tribute to the BYU Rugby team and with high hopes for BYU's Men's Volleyball team, here it is!

Corgis and Rowan Atkinson in the Olympics!

Just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I don't like sports...and when it comes to the Olympics...I'm a fanatic!

So, I'm in the middle of watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony on NBC.

I loved the Queen and her corgis. My little corgi, Deno, looks just like hers...if not a little thinner.

Deno watching the Olympics with us!

My absolute favorite "music moment" of the opening ceremonies was Rowan Atkinson "playing" the pedal point of the Chariots of Fire theme with the London Symphony Orchestra. I wish I could find it online (it's not on NBC's website). I did DVR it though, so I've already re-watched it a couple times! Seriously, though, I've never laughed so hard in my life. And the dream sequence is hilarious because who hasn't dreamed of qualifying for Olympic participation?'

Normally, I would have been put off by the parody of Chariots of Fire. I love the message of the movie and it is my older brother's absolute favorite theme song. It has a lot of meaning in our family. But Rowan Atkinson was so absolutely, knock-down funny and the parody was done with (I think) respect for the message...so I loved it!

Seriously, you have to see it for a memorable Olympic 2012 experience!