July 30, 2008
To Be a Billiken
Somehow, the web keeps giving.
I've come across what's surely the vaguest and strangest description of college athletic opportunity ever put forward. It's also possible that I'm the only person who'll find this completely hilarious.
July 15, 2008
R.I.P. Slobo
For a certain generation of St. Louis sports fans, invoking the simple name "Slobo" means a lot. While it might be cliche, he died doing what he loved. Best to his family and friends.
May 17, 2008
SBAC Wrestling: Nation-Wide
Two friends - one local, one expat - have sent along word of the SBAC being featured on America Public Radio's "Weekend America," thanks to KWMU's Adam Allington. You can find audio, text and video here.
April 25, 2008
Ye Olde Backyard Cardinal Video
A video of someone pantomiming Cardinal batting stances, eh? And it somehow works you say? Mmm-hmm. Amusing in a totally odd, three-minutes committed and see-ya-later kinda way. Hee-yaw.
March 16, 2008
"Come On, Benny!"
New Blues farmhand Ben Bishop just signed on with the team's Peoria affiliate. The STL-bred kid stands a crisp 6'7, pretty doggone tall for a hockey goalie. Though this highlight catches him in mostly (non-)hockey action it's worth viewing for the announcer's call, about 1:10 into the clip. Which is, basically, the greatest call ever. Enjoy.
February 18, 2008
Majerus
For the odd basketball fan that checks into this site - hey! it can happen! - here's a piece from the L.A. Times on Saint Louis University's endlessly odd and interesting head basketball coach.
September 24, 2007
Fairmount
Timing's so interesting.
On Friday night, I went to Fairmount Park, to take in the whole "track experience" and to lose a couple dollars. Some years, I'll skip the season entirely. Others, I'll find myself in Collinsville once, or twice. This was my second trip of the season - and the first time I bet two winners in two races. (Which was plenty; we split with our winnings and good luck right after Our Motel paced the field in the fifth.)
The Post-Dispatch today has an interesting piece on the Park scaling back its operations in 2008 and how that will impact the workers, many of them seasonally employed:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/8E45C5AA198425B786257360001023CA?OpenDocument
September 04, 2007
Wolverines are Feeling It
A few days back, I posted a somewhat tongue-in-cheek note, prefacing an e-mail from State Rep Jeannette Mott-Oxford. She was noting that the Roosevelt Roughriders were playing host to the Vashon Wolverines in high school football last Saturday. I briefly noted that PHL games may lack the sizzle of cinematic football matches, but since the game was close, I was going.
Well, I went to the first half and watched an evenly-played game, with Vashon scoring the one touchdown of the half, late in the second quarter. Several hundred people were on-hand, with most on the home side; that said, the Vashon section was lively and their cheerleaders were certainly vocal. It was a fascinating afternoon of people-watching. I enjoyed myself, spent a total of $4 and definitely planned on going back.
This morning, I was alerted to a note in our comments section, on that August 30 post, left by one of the Vashon Wolverines. Since these notes are often lost in the cyber-seas, I wanted to call it out here and invite #50 Bryan Sutherland to write in more often. When we built this blog, we didn't anticipate it becoming a hotbed of PHL football talk, but... we are totally open to that!
Take it away #50:
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We wolverines held it down and we triumphed over the #1 team in the PHL. They had us ranked #4 in the PHL which has to be wrong, we and Career Academy were the only two teams to even get out of Districts in the PHL, but yet they have us at the bottom of the best. Your predictions and assumptions are incorrect and should be changed now that we've defeated those pesky Roughriders . They played well but they couldn't overcome the best of the best. We now have to play the Gateway Jaguars and shouldn't have any trouble with them. We will be hosted by them Thursday September 6, 2007 at 6:30 pm this will be a very good game but we still will have a victory.
Sincerely,
#50 Bryan Sutherland
August 30, 2007
High School Football Fever
Okay, so games in the PHL don't exactly rival those of "Friday Night Lights," but I'm not sure I'd like to live in that alternate universe, either. My State Rep, Jeannette Mott-Oxford, sent out a note this week, reminding locals that the Roosevelt Rough Riders will be in action a few days hence, versus the rival Vashon Wolverines. When these teams meet, throw out the records, people.
With the Roosevelt stadium about a 30-second walk away, this old-school PHL matchup is actually sounding rather... doable.
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Roosevelt High School's first 2007 football game is this Saturday, and it would mean a lot to student athletes and their families if area residents came out for the game. Red T-Shirts would be good spectator apparel. Here's the info:
Game starts at 1:30pm on Saturday, September 1st against Vashon High School.
Tickets at the gate are $4.00 and $2.00 at Roosevelt beginning Friday morning.
A tail-gate party will be held beginning at 11:30am on Saturday morning.
For more info, call the school at 314-776-6040.