When I lived in Savtannah, Austin, Charleston, and even KnoxvilleThe Weather Channell (TWC) was almost a must have. I remember always checking online and having it on the TV to see the radar if I thought a storm was moving in. In places like Savannah and Charleston I would always pop on TWC to see the tide schedule to know whether I would be running in the loose sand more inland or the super packed stuff along the waterline.

Living in Las Vegas TWC has lost it's usefulness. The only question now is "how damn hot will it be today?" I would assume TWC doesn't do very well in places like Vegas, Phoenix, or LA because, well, the weather is always the same.

Living in the deep South, I can remember times when I would have TWC on for a good hour or so so I could watch the storm run through on the radar.

I know it sounds lame but down South a severe storm is some serious business. A storm could come off shore, inland, spawn a tornado, drop hail, locus you name it.

Sometimes I would lay on my bed in Savannah and just look out the windows (My bed was in the corner and I had 4 I could look out of at two different angles) and watch the storm roll through.

Charleston was just as enjoyable watching storms roll through downtown. Seeing the clouds build up during the afternoon and know that if I left the beach now I would still be able to get home and take a shower before the storm hit.

Vegas, weather here just doesn't do it for me. I hope that when it comes time to leave Vegas I will move to a place that has interesting weather again. I'm sure TWC could always use another avid viewer.

The last two albums in the Global Underground series (GU for short)have been two of the best I've ever heard.

Nick Warren Paris GU30 and Dubfire Taipei GU31.

Disc 1 for Warren is probably the greatest chill record I've ever heard. It's got enough beat to it to tap your foot but it is by far the most relaxing record I've heard since his Reykjavik GU24 record.

The second record on Paris for Warren is more upbeat but still maintains its relaxed side. It's not over the top hard core house music. It is trance music at it's finest and something that I just really like.

Dubfire (the other half of dance guru's Deep Dish) has out done his partner Sharam and his Dubai GU29 effort. While Dubai disc 1 has it's moments disc 2 never really delivered that feel or sound I was looking for from the record. By contrast Dubfire hits on all cylinders with Taipei.

Disc 1 of Taipei is similar to the point of almost being an extension of Warren's Paris disc 2. It contains that same deep, emotional sound that enters your eyes and ears and then ventures deeper into your body.

Disc 2 is something you'd expect to hear at a Deep Dish show. Heavy grooves that you can dance to.

Either way both Warren's Paris and Dubfire's Taipei would have been playing through the speakers of the hotel I stayed at in Cabo San Lucas last December.

I almost lost hope with the GU series after some lackluster albums. I thought, maybe I'm over this music? Then I heard these two albums. They are both great  and two that will continue to get play time on my ipod for a very long time.

That is the sound that announcers make when midfielder Harry Kewell shoots. He is an Aussie who plays for Liverpool and has had quit a few injuries. In fact he nearly sat out all of this year for Liverpool.

But anytime this left footed SoccerRoo has the ball it's fun to watch and more importantly fun to hear the announcers scream when he attempts a shot.

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Clint Dempsey of Fulham FC scored his first Premiership goal last week for Fulham against Liverpool. The goal kept Fulham from being relegated to a lower division. He cost Fulham about $4 million US. His goal arguably saved ( or made) Fulham $80 million when you add it all up by keeping them in the Premiership.

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I miss going to Charleston Battery games. Granted I can watch them all online (hey how bout that!) but it's just not the same. Apparently Ben Hollingsworth is out due to injury. He is a local kid from Mt. P who played at the College of Charleston. He was possibly one of the Battery's best players over the last two years and by far the most noticeable.

According to my old friend in Charleston he has a foot injury.

I doubt you saw it but this past Thursday was a rather exciting game for the MLS.

Real Salt Lake and Colorado squared off in the Rocky Mountain Cup.The game ended in a 1-1 draw with both goals coming on own goals. But that wasn't the best part. The best part were the chances both teams had and the back and forth play, in particular the play of Freddy Adu.

Adu was traded from DC United last summer and has never quit lived up to the hype that he had when he came into the league a few years ago. Now 17 his new coach and all time leading MLS goal scorer Jason Kreis has Adu set up to play a lot better.

Kreis has Adu on the wing and running more at his opponents as opposed to playing with his back to the goal. This past Thursday Adu's first chance on goal came about 40 seconds into the game. He continued his strong play in the first half by staying wide and running at defenders creating all kinds of havoc for the Colorado backline. His speed and great footwork were on display for the nationally televised game and they didn't disappoint. in fact one of his shots on goal was deflected off off Colorado Rapids captain Pablo Mastroeni and into the back of the net for Real Salt Lake's only goal.

By the second half Colorado did a better job of playing Adu out on the wing.

Both teams did a great job of counter attacking which led to an exciting game and multiple opportunities for both clubs to score. It seemed that time after time both teams were running at goal and creating opportunities. This was a rivalry game so tempers did flare up but nothing that was a black eye for the game.

This was not a standard, boring, MLS midfield battle which I have seen far to many of. The talent and crispness are not two words you would normally associated with an MLS match. However, this Rocky Mountain Cup proved to a be a good game and from some of the highlights I've seen from other MLS action this weekend, it appears that the game are beginning to show more promise than at this point last season.

I like most people watched the De La Hoya vs. Mayweather fight last Saturday night. I am not going to comment on what I thought of the fight or the production because, well I am obviously a little biased.

I will comment on Larry Merchant, the HBO Boxing Color Commentator.

Does he have a sincere illness that I'm not aware of? I can barley understand a word the guy says. He sounds eerily like Harry Caray (rest his soul) in his final years with the Chicago Cubs.

I know Merchant is blunt and has ruffled feathers in the past. Cool. I wouldn't know it now because I can't understand him. He seems like a pissed off old man who will hold on to his memories of the days when boxing was bigger and better and doesn't care about the future of the sport. To that point play-by-play announcer Jim Lampley may be a not so much younger version of Merchant.

Personally I don't boxing will ever go away. It can't. It's like saying that baseball is going to go away.

I will say though that if HBO or the rest of the boxing world for that matter wants boxing to become big again than they should do everything they can to develop and promote young fighters and pray to the heavens that they have great fights.

...they also might want to start phasing in new people into the announcers chair because if I hear Lampley and Merchant talk one more time about how De La Hoya won a Gold Medal in the Olympics back in 1992 I'm going to find the both of them and Gabriel Gonzaga right leg kick' em to their heads.

So apparently during an immigration rally the other day the LAPD riot folks and the protesters got into it and the news media got caught in the middle.

The video above is from FOX NEWS. A local FOX news crew in LA got beat down by the cops.

I've seen camera crews get attacked. While working at the NBC affiliate in Savannah, GA. A camera operator and my reporter roommate got attacked by the brother of a drug running suspect (I don't remember the full details). What I do remember is watching and hearing the video of the camera operator being attacked. He was ok but it was a little disturbing.

In this case the police appeared to have overreacted and shouldn't have done what they did. On the other hand I have had it with media folks acting like this some sort of enormous tragedy.

Folks, you're in a riot type situation, check your 6.

It's almost like a TV crew going to Iraq and then being surprised that a car bomb goes off next to them. You're in a war zone, this kind of shit is going to happen.

Thankfully no one was seriously hurt yesterday during this protest turned riot but TV crews have got to have there head screwed on straight and get out of harms way BEFORE NOT DURING. And if they do get caught up in a situation like this try not to treat like it's the most unbelievable thing that ever happened. You're the NEWS, for once you actually captured NEWS while it happened and not after.