Craig Vineyard is a member of the Albuquerque Men's Basketball City League team 'Funky Boss' for the '07-08 season.

In the ABQ city league, games are full court for forty minutes played five on five at local community centers and middle school courts. League rules stricly prohibit dunking so unfortunately there will be no above the rim highlight reels from Vineyard.

Date: Opponent: Outcome: Approx. Stats:
7 Nov 07 Enterprise Ballerz W 12 Pts, 6 Rbds, 3 Asts
14 Nov 07 Blue Ballerz Forfeit NA
29 Nov 07 Sipi L 8 Pts, 5 Rbds, 3 Asts
04 Dec 07 USA L 16 Pts, 5 Rbds, 3 Asts 0 Blks
11 Dec 07 Gunz Postponed NA
20 Dec 07 Gimesum L 20 Pts, 4 Rbds, 4 Asts, 0 Blks
08 Jan 08 Drop a Duce W 14 Pts, 5 Rbds, 4 Asts, 1 Blk 1 Stl
15 Jan 08 Brew Crew W 22 Pts, 4 Rbds, 4 Asts
22 Jan 08 Wolfpack L 11 Pts, 5 Rbds, 3 Asts
29 Jan 08 K O Cartel Postponed NA
05 Feb 08 Goonies W 11 Pts, 7 Rbds, 2 Asts, 2 Blks
7 Feb 08 Gunz Makeup Game W 8 Pts, 5 Rbds, 2 Asts, 2 Blks
12 Feb 08 Enterprise Ballerz L 10 Pts, 5 Rbds, 2 Asts, 5 Blks
19 Feb 08 K O Cartel Makup Game TBD -- Pts, -- Rbds, -- Asts, -- Blks

Note: the following game summaries are probably both innacurate and highly un-educational with no other purpose than to possibly build Vineyard's ego.

07 Nov 07:
In the debut game of the mighty 'Funky Boss', the newly formed team cruised to a definitive opening victory to start the season.

14 Nov 07:
Ouch, two of our players must have missed the chartered team flight, and got lost on their way to the arena, and so because they were five minutes late Funky Boss was forced to forfeit. In the ensuing exhibition, the missing players showed up five minutes later, and Funky Boss got the small consolation of winning the meaningless exhibition.

29 Nov 07:
Hmm, I don't remember the specifics, but we lost another...ouch!

04 Dec 07:
Playing short handed once again, Vineyard started at point guard and played nearly the entire game. After a rough first half, Funky Boss bounced back to make it a competive game in the second half, but came out on the short end.

11 Dec 07:
Not expecting a mighty Albuquerque snow storm of maybe half an inch, the ill prepared community center the game was scheduled for was forced to cancel the game due to a leaky roof.

20 Dec 07:
In the final game before the 'No-Star' break, Funky Boss was desperately looking for a win to end the loosing streak, but was beaten by a better team.

8 Jan 08:
Back on track! We got the desperately needed win bringing us back closer to .500. Despite playing on a court at best described as 'crappy', Funky Boss locked down on defense, and played well as a team offensively in the second half to hold onto a two point victory. After the win, Vineyard was heard saying amongst other things, "Tile floors hurt."

15 Jan 08:
We doubled on win streak and inched closer to back to .500. Urged by his teammates to score, Vineyard had yet another excellent scoring night putting up a season high 22 points. However, he should be running sprints until he learns to shoot free throws. If it weren't for shooting 40% from the free throw line, Vineyard might have had 25 points.

22 Jan 08:
The win streak is over. We just flat out played bad. Oh and starting a game down 0 to 15 is NOT a good idea. Plus when the refs are so bad they call a 3 second violation on a fast break and threaten to throw you out after you call them sir, the odds of winning are not on your side.

4 Feb 08:
Back on track. After a mystery no game last week we got another W. We played well against and overmatched team.

7 Feb 08:
In the makeup makeup (no thats not a typo even the first makeup game got cancelled) we played a great game and got another solid win putting us even on the season.

12 Feb 08:
Playing what may only loosly be termed a basketball game the nincompoops posing as refs decided the outcome of the game. Allegedly Vineyard was only fouled twice by the other team, although they claimed he himself had four fouls. The game was officiated as if the different ends of the court were entirely different games with different rules. Apparently it was unreasonable for Vineyard to assume that when shooting if only one hand is grabbed or slapped that is not a foul because he has two hands to shoot with, although on defense a mere finger on the other team is a foul on him. In fact, one might assume that the refs thought Vineyard was playing a football game because he was blatently tackled (on tile) and then dived on...which resulted in a jump ball and no fould despite the fact that there was so much contact Vineyard had to take himself out of the game considering he could barely bend his knee. As a result of more 'officiating' Vineyard was forced to return shortly when one of his teammates was standing still, had a member of the other team run into him resulting in his fifth and final foul. And finally to top it off, with 10 seconds left and the ball, Funky Boss tried to inbound the ball to Vineyard, however he was unable to catch the ball when he was pushed in the back, allowing the other team to steal (in ever sense of the word) the ball and the victory.