66-3. That’s really all I have to say about the Cougars’ embarrassing loss to Cal on Saturday. It was the worst loss ever in WSU history. Hey, at least I was there to witness it.
I have proof. Here’s my postgame/highlights video from the romp.
SEATTLE — Well, um, WSU football has started. Too soon, apparently. The Cougars need more practice. A lot more practice.
But their 39-13 fall to Oklahoma State was still a good reminder of how this fall will be for me. Running around Qwest Field and eating small, old Red Deliciouses will soon give way to running around Martin Stadium and eating soggy Subway sandwiches. And my ability yesterday to work without a jacket will soon give way to numb fingers and chapped lips.
And, hopefully, my five hours of post-game video editing will soon give way to, let’s say, three hours. That would be nice. I need go get a new system down now that I have my new HDV camera.
Nevertheless, here’s my video from WSU’s first football game of the season, of the Paul Wulff era. Enjoy.
This is not a post about the Spokane Indians, the minor league baseball team I’m covering this summer. They’ve got enough coverage, and the will probably go to the Northwest League championship series.
This is just a silly post with a silly video of the fireworks after the Indians game Wednesday. It was Fiesta Night, sponsored by Azteca (restaurants). Throughout the game, the music guy kept playing “Latin” music. I put that in quotes because I can’t bring myself to call “Livin’ La Vida Loca” and the “Macarena” Latin music.
The Shock, Spokane’s arenafootball2 team, lost the big game Monday — a one-loss team upset by a six-loss team in the Arena Cup. I’ve now been to three of their games, more than enough to make up my mind: I’m not an Arena Football fan.
Nevertheless, it was still a sad evening at Spokane Arena after the sudden-death OT ended and the Vipers had won 56-55. Not as much fun to produce a “boo we lost” video than a “yay we won” video, but I probably finished it up quicker. (I closed my work laptop at 2 a.m.) Here’s the postgame vid I threw together.
Tuesday was the first day of fall football practice in Pullman. Naturally, I was there to cover it with my new HDV video camera. It was an all-day venture, but I’m pretty pleased with the result.
Last week I got my hands on my new gear, a Sony A1U camera with the XLR adapter. I also got a wireless lav mic, but I haven’t used it yet.
But I have used my new camera — three times already, in fact. Here I’ll post two of my videos from last week. The first is from July 29’s Spokane Shock practice, when they were preparing for their first playoff game of the season. The second is from Saturday’s game, which they handily won.
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A week or two ago, I meant to write an entry about how I felt a little left out of the rush to cover the Valley View Fire, a brush fire in Spokane Valley that destroyed 13 homes. Being in the sports department has a way of keeping you out of the news loop.
But Thursday was a different story. On our way out of the door to take Lisa to work, her grandpa called to say there was an entire building on fire downtown. Just in case, I grabbed my ready-to-go backpack and drove downtown.
The smoke was everywhere. A giant plume rushing skyward. Once I dropped off Lisa at the newsroom, she called and said that, as I expected, no one was over there doing video. I rushed over to the scene (admittedly, I took a detour home to put on real shoes, get a real shirt and grab a hat — I’d just rolled out of bed) and busted out my camera.
Several smoke-filled (plus chemicals!) hours of shooting later, here’s what I came up with:
It was nice to be back on news, if only for a day. I got the adrenaline rush. My hair, two days later, still has a hint of smoke smell to it. And even though I worked 14.5 hours that day (8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. — still had to cover an Indians game), I would have done it a thousand times over.
There’s an adage in visual journalism that if something features either kids or puppies, you’ll get a lot of people ooh-ing and ahh-ing your work. This time, for me, it was kids.
The Spokane Indians — the Single-A pro baseball team (affiliated with the Texas Rangers) I’m covering this summer — held a youth clinic July 16 before their evening game. Knowing I couldn’t pass up such a kids-or-puppies video opportunity, I joined everyone on the field.
Here’s the result.
I posted a few days ago about the sprint boat races Lisa and I went to Saturday. Well, I was planning to edit the video Tuesday and have it online this morning, but that didn’t work out. The editing was not going well Tuesday.
So today I finished it up. Enjoy.
