NFL DRAFT '08

so im into sports and what can i say dissapointed in some pics but my dallas cowboys got a good pick!Felix jones a RB.
the only pick i was sort of upset was the raider pick.

Darren McFadden (right) took his first NFL handoff Saturday, courtesy of commissioner Roger Goodell.

they should of just let him go to a team that could actually win. but who knows with Mcfadden on thee team anything is possible!

&& The 2008 draft lasted 14 hours, 26 minutes. Michigan offensive tackle Jake Long (above), selected by Miami, was the No. 1 overall pick.

[[cant wait till football season starts up! *wo0ohooo! im soo excited!]]

SLACKiN in my blogs

good evening C.Moreno & my fellow peers.
i know i have been laggin it once more. but been so busy. so im here to take thee time out of my busy schedule to keep an update on my blog.

today was a veryy verryyy H0TT weekend!! h0tt humid and windy! thats thee good ol cali weather for y0u.
this weekend i enjoy thee beach like i do everyweekend. i even went out into the water to boogie board in thee deep end after a deadly gray white shark attack. R.i.P to and my prayers are with his family. But after boogie boardin for 30 min, the lifeguard had to come out to thee ocean and told me to go to thee shallow area. he thought i was crazy! o0 well i love taking risks! lol
here below are pictures of san diego mission beach and news article about the deadly shark attack



April 25, 2008: Lifeguards unsuccessfully attempt to resuscitate Dr. David Martin after he was attacked by a shark.

By Angelica Martinez

UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM

April 27, 2008

SOLANA BEACH – The family of the retired veterinarian killed in a shark attack spoke publicly for the first time at a news conference Sunday.

Jeff Martin said his father, David, “died doing what he liked, surrounded by friends, in a place he loved. Even through our grief, this gives us an inner peace.”

Martin was surrounded by about a dozen relatives, who stood silently and held sunflowers, which they later placed on a fence facing the beach.

“As a Christian family, we believe that our dad is in heaven and that we will see him again some day,” Martin said. “We appreciate your continued prayers and support.”

David Martin, 66, a longtime Solana Beach resident, was killed shortly after 7 a.m. Friday in Fletcher Cove while taking a training swim with eight members of the Triathlon Club of San Diego.

The county Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy Saturday and determined that Martin died from blood loss due to shark bites on his legs.

The wounds indicate it was a 12- to 16-foot great white shark, said Ralph Collier, a shark expert with the Los Angeles-based Shark Research Committee, who was present during the autopsy.

Authorities issued an unprecedented warning for the public to avoid entering the ocean along eight miles of coastline from the northern part of Torrey Pines State Beach to South Carlsbad State Beach following the attack. The advisory was to remain in effect until 7 a.m. Monday despite the weekend heat wave.

Solana Beach Lifeguard Captain Craig Miller said the attack “has affected the beach population immensely.” Typically, on a hot day, lifeguards would see thousands of people swimming, Miller said.

Sunday, there were a few dozen, most of whom heeded the warning and stayed out of the water. Because it was an advisory, lifeguards said they could not stop anyone from entering the water.

On Saturday, dozens of surfers ignored the warning and went in. Among them was Jeff Martin.

“I'm taking my boys out tomorrow, if it's open,” he said, adding that is what his father would have wanted him to do.

Martin said his father was offered a job as a veterinarian in Solana Beach in 1970. Instead of showing him the animal hospital where he would work, his business partner took him to the bluff overlooking Table Top Reef.

“Our dad fell in love and he moved our family here within a week,” Martin said. His father's death, he said, has been especially hard because of where it happened – at the beach where his family often went.

About two dozen people visited Fletcher Cove Sunday afternoon. Some laid flowers in the grass near the playground.

Tina Maycock, 39, of La Verne in Los Angeles County, and her 5-year-old son, Jack, were among those who dropped off flowers.

Maycock said she has visited Solana Beach for 20 years.

“It's so shocking,” she said. “You'd never, ever, in a million years, expect that to happen here.”

Nearly all white shark attacks on humans are “cases of mistaken identity,” said Richard Rosenblatt, a professor emeritus of marine biology at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla. White sharks prefer the blubbery flesh of marine mammals. Martin was wearing a full, black wet suit.

Martin had deep, jagged lacerations from his upper thighs to the lower shins, with a bite radius of about 22 inches.

The last fatal shark attack in California, according to data from the state Department of Fish and Game, took place Aug. 15, 2004, off Mendocino County. The victim was a man diving for shellfish with a friend.

Overall, shark attacks are extremely rare. There were 71 reported worldwide last year, up from 63 in 2006.