Vote for Mason!

[Ginger]

Mason has been nominated for 2 ESPY awards this year - Best Moment and Best Coach. I'd venture that nobody needs an explanation, but for anybody living under a rock for the past few months:

Best Coach:

Larranaga (I probably spelled that wrong) lead the Mason Patriots to the Final Four in a bracket nobody expected them to win their first match in. I don't recall the statistic, but from their tournament ranking Mason is only the 2nd team in NCAA history to acheive this.

Best Moment:

Mason going winning the Elite Eight game, securing a spot in the Final Four. If you believe in emotionally charged sporting events, this was an edge-of-the-seat game. I made it home from the MotoGP season opener just in time to watch the last 2 minutes of the regular game, and go into overtime. To say that Fairfax was a happy town in the aftermath would be an understatement.

This was all really cool to watch from a somewhat inside perspective. One of my roommates drove to Indy to watch the Final Four game in person, Mason had several rooms set up for game viewing which were so packed you couldn't even sit down - coming from a school that's not known for anything, especially sports, it seemed pretty special.

I hope a few folks will take a minute to vote for us:

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[bassmangrammy]

Voted.

[Feersty]

Voted.

+1. Didn't vote for all 39 areas though, got bored.

[bassmangrammy]

Yeah... some of those question I didn't know anyone on the list, plus in Women's Tennis of the Year, Sharipova wasn't on there... I'm pissed.

[Ginger]

Yeah.. I didn't vote for all the sections, just stuck around long enough to vote for Mason and a few others.

Lance Armstrong is also up for athlete of the year. Naturally, I had to throw my vote in for him, too.

Thanks for voting, guys!