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Newsletter #9 November 18, 2003 ultimatesportsadventure.com
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T R I P R E S E T
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current location: Foxwoods, CT
total miles: 31,361
events completed: 124
media appearances: 63
states visited: 36
charity $s raised: $59,000
top 25 courses played: 23
N E W S F L A S H
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Mark your calendars for the premiere of Celebrity Poker Showdown,
December 2 @ 9pm on Bravo! Watch Phil Gordon and co-host Kevin Pollak
call the action as 25 Hollywood stars will all battle for the title
and their favorite charity. This new six-part, one-hour original
series will include appearances by your favorite celebs. For more
info: http://www.bravotv.com/Celebrity_Poker_Showdown/
W I N S U P E R B O W L T I X !
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W H A T ' S N E W O N T H E W E B
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U P C O M I N G E V E N T S
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DATE LOCATION EVENT
11.18 Los Angeles Industry screening of "My Date With Drew"
11.20 - 11.24 Atlantic City Showdown @ The Sands (poker tourney)
12.02 Los Angeles Premiere of Celebrity Poker Showdown
>>>> RSVP IF YOU WANT TO
COME TO THE PARTY!
12.07 Los Angeles Animal Avengers Charity Casino Night
>>>> RSVP IF YOU WANT TO
COME TO THE EVENT!
12.14 - 12.18 Las Vegas Five Diamond World Poker Classic
E X C E R P T S F R O M T H E R O A D
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Fri Sep 26, 2003
Day 2 of "Old School Weekend" featured a charity benefit golf
tournament. There were three teams of four, scramble format. By the
9th hole my team was in last place at even par. Starting on the 11th
though we went en fuego, birdying 5 holes in a row to take the lead.
We finished in the dark and won the tourney and $100 for CRPF, thanks
to gutty performances by Pete, Randall and Joe. Phil's team consisted
of Colt, Fowler, and Rick's dad, Doug, while the other losing team was
Rick, Travis, John and Ben. We all went to dinner at a "pan-asian
buffet," and initiated the UVA students into the notion of roshambo
for dinner. The idea is to get one person stuck paying for the whole
meal. We all ate a big meal (complements of Rick) in preparation for
the second competition of the evening: Beer Pong. One of the frat
houses was the host, and when we arrived, there were already a number
of tables set up with teams going at it. A sign of our advanced age,
neither Phil nor I had ever seen beer pong played this way with cups
on either end of a table set up like bowling pins. When I was in
college, we played (very occasionally) with ping-pong paddles and it
played a lot like ping-pong with a drinking component. These days
beer pong is a whole new level of drinking game. You play in teams of
two and try to toss the ball into the other team's cup, after which
they must drink the beer and remove the cup, thereby making it harder
for you to sink your next shot. First team to sink all cups wins.
Everywhere we went that night featured beer pong. We had no idea how
huge this game was on campuses everywhere until we started asking.
Unreal. Phil and I were a team and managed to win a match or two, but
Phil realized quickly that to achieve real beer pong glory he'd have
to recruit outside talent. He picked up Josh and proceeded to clean
house, including $165 in side action betting on the outcome of his
matches. After all the parties and bars closed, we headed to the
White Spot for a traditional "Gus Burger," which is a cheeseburger
with a fried egg, and makes for great after-drinking chow.
Sat Oct 11, 2003
Starbucks day for me early on, and then I met Duke, Dorian, Marcello
and Ian in Central park. Duke's 25th birthday was this weekend and
his brother (Dorian) and friends were in town to celebrate. Dorian
and Duke are hillarious individually, but get them together and they
are unstoppable. We went to the Hudson Hotel for happy hour drinks
and swapped stories, including this one: earlier in the week Dorian
was driving on a dark, winding road upstate. Marcello was in the
passenger seat, and Duke was asleep in the back. Dorian and Marcello
quietly coordinated to slam on the breaks and scream at the top of
their lungs like they were going to crash. Duke woke up screaming
with a look of sheer, unadulterated terror on his face, sure that they
were going over a cliff. Keep that in mind for later. We parted
company at the Hudson, me to meet my friend Dana and some of his
friends for dinner, and they to go back to Duke's place in Brooklyn to
eat and rest up for a late night. After dinner we all met out
downtown at the Essex. The vibe was excellent, everyone was having a
good time. A game of "Tit Cricket" broke out, phone numbers were
flying, and Duke was getting hammered. Once the place closed, we all
jumped in cabs and went to a late night French bistro (L'Express?),
the kind of place you can only find in NY. Duke was so exhausted at
this point that he could hardly keep his eyes open. When his steak
came he took two bites and passed out sitting up, head down, fork in
hand. Bad move. Of course, we began a game of "Human Jenga." I
placed a piece of bread on his head, Marcello placed a napkin on his
shoulder, Dorian balanced a butter knife on the other shoulder,
somebody else topped off the bread with some noodles, etc, etc. Then
we ordered a birthday cake for him. The waiter put a candle in it,
and started us off with a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday." The
entire restaurant joined in, and just as we got to the denouement,
Duke woke up and all the crap on him went flying. He had two bites of
cake and passed out again.
Thu Oct 9, 2003
Wanting to stay in the city, and having not planned very well to take
advantage of multiple options of staying at friends' apartments, I
decided to check into the cheapest hotel I could find and have the
kind of down and out New York experience that everyone should have
once in their lives. One night was enough, for this place was worse
than most places I stayed in my world travels, including many
third-world countries: peeling wallpaper, sagging bed, window into the
so-called courtyard, and a shared bathroom whose lights didn't work
after midnight but mysteriously did during normal hours. After
checking in, I quickly left and spent the day in the city, meeting up
with Alyse, Joe and a colleague of his for ALCS Game 2, Yankees
vs. Red Sox. Consider for a moment that this is the biggest rivalry
in all of baseball. Consider that the Sox have not won the whole
thing since 1918 (a fact that the Yankees fans would use taunt the Sox
with mercilessly). And consider that the Yankees fans are the most
brutal in baseball. This series is huge, and if you don't get the
picture that emotions were running high, you have no imagination. The
shops were selling shirts with simply "1918" on them and such pearls
of wisdom as "Fuck You, You Fucking Fuck." Each time a Red Sox fan
would move from his seat to go to the bathroom or get some food,
everyone around him would chant in unison, "Ass...Hole, Ass...Hole,
Ass...Hole." As if there were not enough reasons to hate the Yankees
already.
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R A F E & P H I L A S K
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[ reply to this message ]
Q: Are there any events that you recommend we go to between now and
the Super Bowl (our final event)? Have we missed any events that
you think we absolutely should have attended?
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