Mexican horror films of the 1950′s and 1960′s deserve to be as well known as the Hollywood horror films from the 30′s and 40′s. Just as Universal Studios churned out a series of memorable movies featuring the likes of Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman and the Mummy, studios from south of the border went on to give the [...]
Archive for October, 2011
NOTEWORTHY COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM OCTOBER 29TH
Posted in college football, tagged College football scores October 29th, D2 football, D3 football, football, NAIA football, NCFA football, NJCAA football, SCFA football, Sport on October 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
SOUTHERN NAZARENE RULES THE WORLD – The NAIA’s 20th ranked SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY CRIMSON STORM embraced the tradition of beating up on teams from supposedly higher divisions yesterday by taking it on the road and pummeling NCAA Division 2′s PANHANDLE STATE AGGIES 28-7. The Crimson Storm (love that name) improves to 7-2 for the year. Every week this [...]
COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARDS FOR OCTOBER 29TH
Posted in college football, tagged College football scoreboards for October 29th, D2 football, D3 football, NAIA football, NJCAA football, SCFA football, St Louis Cardinals on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The NAIA’s 18th ranked Bethany Swedes (helmet at left) will host the 14th ranked Ottawa (KS) Braves today in a game with massive KCAC implications. The Swedes come into this matchup at 7-1, the Braves at 6-2. Elsewhere in NAIA action, the number 22 Northwestern (IA) Red Raiders greet the 23rd ranked Dakota Wesleyan Tigers as they square off for the right [...]
THE TOP FOUR SILVER JOHN STORIES FOR HALLOWEEN
Posted in Pulp Heroes, tagged cardinals, Halloween, Manly Wade Wellman, pulp heroes, Silver John, St Louis Cardinals, world series on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog will recognize Manly Wade Wellman’s Silver John from my Pulp Heroes page. Silver John, so- named because of the silver strings on his guitar and the silver coins he carried in his pockets, roamed the Appalachian Mountains decades ago combating dark supernatural menaces. On my Pulp Heroes page I’ve done a synopsis [...]
COOL FOOTBALL HELMET: GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE RUSTLERS
Posted in Cool Helmets, tagged cardinals, cool football helmets, football, Golden West College, Golden West College Rustlers, Orange Empire Conference, Sport, St Louis Cardinals on October 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Location: Huntington Beach, CA Site: http://www.gwcathletics.com/ Comment: Rustlers is definitely a next- level cool nickname and those helmets are terrific. In fact, the team’s entire uniform is great, with green jerseys and gold pants like Oregon used to sport before they decided to change uniforms every week. GWC is still ranked and by the way, Michelle
A VERY BLAXPLOITATION HALLOWEEN
Posted in Bad and weird movies, Blaxploitation, tagged Bad Movies, badfilm, Blackenstein, blaxploitation, blaxploitation horror, cardinals, Disco Exorcist, Dr Black and Mr Hyde, St Louis Cardinals, The Zombies of Sugar Hill on October 26, 2011 | 24 Comments »
When it comes to the tasteless but enjoyably bad blaxploitation horror films of the 1970′s it seems like the lion’s share of the attention always goes to Blacula and its sequel, Scream, Blacula, Scream with a little attention left over for Ganja and Hess, since it features the African American hero from the original Night [...]
COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLLS: WEEK OF OCTOBER 24TH
Posted in college football, tagged college football, College football polls October 24th, D2 Top 25, D3 Top 25, NAIA, NAIA Top 25, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, NJCAA football poll, SCFA football poll on October 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Rocky Mountain College Battlin’ Bears have jumped back into the NAIA Top 25 for the 5th time this year. The up and down team moves back into the rankings at number 24 this week. The St Xavier Cougars remain in the top spot for the 7th straight week. In fact all of the Top [...]
THE ELEVEN MOST NEGLECTED BAD MOVIE CLASSICS FOR HALLOWEEN
Posted in Bad and weird movies, tagged Assignment: Terror, bad movies for Halloween, badfilm, cardinals, Deafula, Death Bed (1977), Ed Wood, John Carradine, Paul Naschy, St Louis Cardinals, worst horror films on October 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Laughing at bad movies is one of the greatest pleasures in life. Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog are very familiar with my Bad Movie page where I focus on various film flops that I feel deserve larger audiences because of how dementedly enjoyable they are. Since it’s the Halloween Season this list will present eleven of the most [...]
NOTEWORTHY COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS FROM OCTOBER 22ND
Posted in college football, tagged College football scores October 22nd, college sports, D2 football, D3 football, football, NAIA football, NJCAA football, SCFA football, Sport on October 23, 2011 | 10 Comments »
SOUTHERN OREGON RULES THE WORLD – Another Saturday, another NAIA college football team takes down a higher division opponent! This week the SOUTHERN OREGON RAIDERS joined the other NAIA teams in bringing down an NCAA Division 2 team in a gripping 31-28 win over the SIMON FRASER CLAN (as in Scottish clan). Simon Fraser is one of the Canadian institutions that [...]
COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARDS FOR OCTOBER 22ND
Posted in college football, tagged college football, College football scores October 22nd, college sports, D2 football, D3 football, NAIA football, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, NJCAA football, SCFA football, Sport on October 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The NAIA’s 5th ranked MidAmerica Nazarene Pioneers (helmet at left) will host the number 7 Benedictine Ravens today in a crucial matchup in the Heart of America Athletic Conference. The Pioneers are the defending HAAC champs but Benedictine currently tops the conference standings. MNU will be led by quarterback Sean “How Bad” Ransburg as they take on the Ravens’ [...]
