NCCAA AND USCAA NATIONAL TOURNAMENTS CONTINUE

UNITED STATES COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION DIVISION TWO

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The 1 seeds – the PENN STATE AT YORK LIONS – battled the Cinderella 6th seeded MIAMI UNIVERSITY AT HAMILTON HARRIERS. This game was a defensive epic, with the Lions on top at Halftime by a mere 25-19. After the break, PSU-York kept the Harriers at arm’s length to win the title 56-48. James Barlow led the Lions with a Double Double of 15 points and 21 rebounds.

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION DIVISION TWO

FIRST QUARTERFINAL – The 6th seeded CROWN COLLEGE POLARS took the court against the 3 seeds – the MANHATTAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE THUNDER. The Thunder seemed to be in control at the Half with their 36-28 lead, but from there Crown College roared back. The Polars proceeded to upset MCC by a final score of 71-64. Leading Crown College was Anthony Knight, who tossed in 26 points. Continue reading

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MARCH THIRTEENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with another current events roundup in a world where Democrats and war criminal Vlad Putin have both expressed their “unwavering support for Tehran” and its regime of Mad Mullahs. (Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s invitation to Putin for a small incursion into Ukraine caused a war that has been going on since 2022.)

DEMOCRAT SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN COURAGEOUSLY SPEAKS OUT ON HOW THE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES PROVIDES DISTORTED IRAN COVERAGE.

MARLOW ON DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET CNN’S BLATANTLY FALSE STORIES DEFENDING IRAN-ALLIGNED TERRORISTS. More HERE.

EVEN THIS FORMER CLINTON OFFICIAL ADMITS THAT THE “IRAN THREAT WAS GROWING. OTHER PRESIDENTS DIDN’T DO ENOUGH.” 

DR. DONELL HARVIN, FORMER D.C. INTELLIGENCE CHIEF, STATES TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT HOW AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND SIX-HUNDRED UNACCOUNTED FOR IRANIANS CROSSED THE BORDER UNDER JOE BIDEN’S REFUSAL TO ENFORCE IT.

POLL: EIGHTY-SIX PERCENT OF REPUBLICANS SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S IRAN ACTIONS DESPITE DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS CLAIMING TRUMP LOST THEIR SUPPORT.

MELANIA DOCUMENTARY DEBUTS ON AMAZON PRIME AS THE NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN AMERICA.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HOSTS CELEBRATION OF WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH.

TRUMP Rx PROVIDES THE PHARMACEUTICAL REFORM NEEDED BY THE WORKING CLASS BUT ANTI-TRUMP PSYCHOPATHS AVOID USING IT. Trump Derangement Syndrome is pathetic.

OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY SHOOTER MOHAMED JALLOH WAS PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF SUPPORT FOR ISLAMIC TERRORISM.

UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES THE U.S. TRADE DEFICIT HAS DROPPED BY FIFTY-SEVEN POINT SIX PERCENT. Continue reading

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DOG BREAK!

To end this hectic week how about some dog photos to give all of us a few smiles?

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ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: THE PROFESSOR’S EXPERIMENTS (1910)

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THE PROFESSOR’S EXPERIMENTS (1910) – By Paul Bo’ld (sic) – real name: Edward George Paul Bousfield. (Not to be confused with John Paul George Ann Ringo.) A possible influence on H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West, Reanimator in style but not in content. This collection of six short stories centered around mad scientist Jerome Mudgewood and his assistant Dr Gertrude Delaney.

Mudgewood’s envelope-pushing experiments unleash forces beyond his control, resulting in death and tragedy. The stories in order:

The Retardatory Force – Professor Mudgewood tries to harness a pair of sub-atomic and extra-atomic forces, believing that eternal life can be achieved by doing so. He, Dr Delaney and their housekeeper instead find themselves confined in an energy field that slows matter down and eventually dissolves it into nothingness. Jerome and Gertrude survive but the housekeeper isn’t as lucky.   

The Magnetic Essence – The Professor isolates a particle in iron, a particle which he believes causes iron to be attracted to magnets. Dubbing this particle “the magneto component” he plans to implant it into any object he wishes to magnetize. It turns out the force is also responsible for maintaining an atom’s integrity and so extracting “the magneto component” figuratively splits the atom, unleashing incredibly deadly explosions.      Continue reading

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THE ADVENTURES OF LIEUTENANT PETROSINO (1912) SILENT FILM ABOUT THE REAL-LIFE DETECTIVE

THE ADVENTURES OF LIEUTENANT PETROSINO (1912) – This 47-minute silent movie was a rushed look at the career of New York City Police Detective Joseph Petrosino, who specialized in fighting organized crime. I meant to cover Petrosino years ago, but other topics kept taking priority.

Petrosino has become all but forgotten here in 2026, but he was once so popular that hundreds of thousands attended his funeral, which was declared a holiday in New York. He was murdered by organized crime in 1909, and his posthumous fame made him the hero of Dime Novels like old west figures Buffalo Bill Cody and others.

I’ll do more detailed examinations of Joseph Petrosino in the near future, but for now I will review this 1912 flick while peppering in a few notes about the man’s real-life saga which was far too broadly presented on the big screen.   

THE REEL PETROSINO – Still in uniform, Joseph has made a name for himself as a tough cop capable of dealing with Italian gangs like the Black Hand, the Mafia and the Camorra. When Mafia bank robbers humiliate a pair of policemen who try taking them in, the storied Petrosino is sent for.

     He quickly finds the gang, subdues them and drags two of them in to be booked as the others flee. The arrested criminals rat out their colleagues. That night at the dinner table, Joe brags to his wife Adelina about his exploits. 

THE REAL PETROSINO – Born in 1860, Joseph Petrosino joined the New York City Police Department as a uniformed cop in 1883. He made excellent use of his fluency in Italian to solve crimes in Italian-American neighborhoods that were easy prey for organized gangs from the Old Country. Continue reading

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NEWS ROUNDUP FOR MARCH ELEVENTH

It’s a mid-week current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.

IRAN EXPERT LISA DAFTARI ADDS HER VOICE TO THOSE POINTING OUT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DID NOT START A NEW WAR, HE IS ENDING THE WAR IRAN STARTED. Aaron Flint agreed HERE

URBAN WARFARE SCHOLAR STATES THAT IRAN CONFLICT IS NOT A “FOREVER WAR” LIKE IRAQ BECAME UNDER THE REPULSIVE GEORGE W. BUSH.

MUSIC VIDEO: DEATH TO KHAMENEI.

EVEN MORE FIGURES ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TAX CUTS PRODUCING LARGER TAX REFUNDS FOR WORKING CLASS VOTERS. Just like during his first term, but anti-Trump loons ignored the facts then and now to lie that the tax cuts only help “the rich.”

NBC POLL: ICE HAS HIGHER APPROVAL RATING THAN DEMOCRAT PARTY, AS DOES PRESIDENT TRUMP OVER AOC, KAMALA HARRIS AND OTHER DEMOCRATS. More HERE. And HERE.

DR. MEHMET OZ EXPOSES EVEN MORE OBAMACARE FRAUD.

DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLET THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLED OUT FOR “IGNORING MILLIONS OF IRANIANS THRILLED WITH THE DEATH OF KHAMENEI” SO THEY CAN PUSH THEIR ANTI-TRUMP BIAS.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT JOSE MARTELL-ARIAGA ARRESTED FOR FIFTY-SIX CHILD SEX CRIMES GETS BOOKED IN DEMOCRAT-RUN CHARLOTTE AREA AS A “WHITE MALE” SO DEMOCRATS CAN CONTINUE TRYING TO SKEW CRIME STATISTICS TO MATCH THEIR POLITICAL PARTY’S DISTORTIONS

DEMOCRAT PARTY

PRIVILEGED WHITE DEMOCRAT WOMEN FORM GROUP TO TARGET ICE AGENTS.

DEMOCRAT-RUN CHICAGO TEACHER’S UNION PRIORITIZES THEIR POLITICAL DEMONSTRATIONS OVER ACTUALLY TEACHING THEIR STUDENTS TO READ. Democrat politicization of the “educational system” (LMAO) continues. Continue reading

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USCAA CHAMPS CROWNED PLUS NCCAA BASKETBALL POSTSEASON RESULTS

USCAA DIVISION ONE

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The 4th seeded NORTH AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STALLIONS fought it out with the 3 seeds – the BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE (Syracuse) BOBCATS – for the USCAA Division One title. At Halftime the Stallions clung to a 36-34 edge but after the break they made their move. NAU took the crown with an 89-74 triumph led by Jamarric Hammond’s Double Double of 21 points and 11 rebounds.

USCAA DIVISION TWO

FIRST SEMIFINAL – The Cinderella 6 seeds – the MIAMI UNIVERSITY AT HAMILTON HARRIERS – kept on dancing in this clash with the 2nd seeded UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI AT CLERMONT COUGARS. UC-Clermont watched their 43-32 advantage at the Half melt away as the Harriers came back to win the game 76-66. Kaleb Wanamaker led MU-Hamilton with a Double Double of THIRTY points and 12 rebounds. Continue reading

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SIR GRAVES GHASTLY (1967-1982) BAD MOVIE HOST

SIR GRAVES GHASTLY – Lawson J. Deming portrayed this vampire character whose eponymous movie show ran from January 1967 to November 1982 in Detroit – a longer run than most other classic Movie Hosts. His Saturday afternoon at 1:00pm program was even syndicated in Cleveland and Washington, DC for a year or two during the 1970s.

(NOTE: Some sources claim that Lawson Deming hosted the syndicated shows as Count Alu Card.)

The backstory that Deming created for his tongue-in-cheek vampire was that he was over 400 years old and was originally Gravarious Ghastliano from Italy. After moving to England he met William Shakespeare and acted in his plays. One of Demings’ most frequent lines held that Queen Elizabeth had Sir Graves Ghastly hanged “but like a bad vaccination, it didn’t take.”

At the start of each episode Sir Graves would emerge from a coffin and make with his signature laugh – “”Nyeeea-aaaa-haa-haaaaa.” At show’s end he would climb back into the coffin and pull down the lid.

In between came old horror and sci-fi movies from classic Universal hits to So-Bad-They’re-Good bombs like Robot Monster, Revenge of the Creature, The Crawling Hand and others. Deming also portrayed a variety of supporting characters on Sir Graves Ghastly. Continue reading

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FORGOTTEN TELEVISION: THE FLYING DOCTOR (1959-1960)

THE FLYING DOCTOR (1959-1960) – This installment of Balladeer’s Blog’s Forgotten Television is a series that was based on the 1950s BBC radio show about Australia’s airborne doctors who tended to widely separated communities in the Outback. Previously, I covered the long-running Australian television series The Flying Doctors based on the same outfits.

Richard Denning starred in this 1959-1960 UK-Australian co-production as Dr. Greg Graham. Jill Adams portrayed Nurse Mary Meredith, Alan White played pilot Charley Wood, and Peter Madden was Dr. Jim Harrison, a temporarily blinded physician.

There were 39 half-hour episodes.

STANDOUT EPISODES:

A PAIR OF EYES – American Dr. Greg Graham (Denning) takes a leave of absence from a medical research institute in San Francisco to temporarily serve in Australia’s Flying Doctor Corps. 

DEATH BY WILLIE-WILLIE – Nothing to do with Death by Snu-Snu. A windstorm called a Willie-Willie prevents planes from flying, meaning pilot Charley Wood must be talked through a medical procedure for a patient.

BLOOD DONOR – Dr. Graham must improvise his way through a blood transfusion for a little girl who fell down a mine shaft. Meanwhile, the only donor for her rare blood type is an escaped convict. Continue reading

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MARCH NINTH NEWS ROUNDUP

 Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is back with another current events roundup from an America where Ukrainiacs are still trying to pretend that the regime in Iran isn’t at least as bad as crazed war criminal Vlad Putin’s regime.

FORMER IRANIAN POLITICAL PRISONER KIAN TAJBAKHSH POINTS OUT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS WORKING TO END THE WAR THAT IRAN HAS BEEN WAGING AGAINST AMERICA SINCE 1979. More HERE.      TAJBAKHSH ALSO DISCUSSES HOW THE MONEY THAT OBAMA SUBSERVIENTLY PAID TO IRAN FINANCED TERRORISM

DEMOCRAT HENRY CUELLAR COURAGEOUSLY AGREES THAT IRAN HAS BEEN AT WAR WITH AMERICA SINCE 1979 AND IT WAS TIME TO STRIKE BACK.

IRANIAN OPERATIVE ASIF MERCHANT FOUND GUILTY OF PLOTTING TO KILL AMERICAN OFFICIALS INCLUDING PRESIDENT TRUMP.

ALFREDO ORTIZ AMONG THOSE PROMOTING TRUMP’S WORKING CLASS FAMILIES TAX CUTS. The greatest president for the working class and the poor during my lifetime. 

ICE ARRESTS MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR MURDER, CHILD RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULTS ON WOMEN.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN IDAHO ARRESTED FOR TRAFFICKING CHILDREN FOR SLAVE LABOR AND POSSIBLY MORE. People who are like Renee Good and Alex Pretti support that over ICE. 

IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY STATE” MARYLAND, FOUR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MEMBERS OF MS13 INDICTED FOR MURDERING FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD. As always, victims get no “sanctuary” under Democrats – only the perpetrators do.

NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO SUSPEND RESETTLEMENT.           SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT SMACKS DOWN ANOTHER LOWER COURT JUDGE WHO RULED AGAINST ICE. Continue reading

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