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Monthly Archives: March 2011
TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM -ALFRED UNIVERSITY
ALFRED UNIVERSITY SAXONS
Location: Alfred, NY
Conference Affiliation: Empire 8 Conference
Major sports: football, basketball, softball, soccer, volleyball, Alpine skiing
Site: http://saxons.alfred.edu/
Comment: Anyone who remembers England’s King Alfred the Great and the way he kicked Viking butt will agree this is Continue reading
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THIS DATE IN ENGLISH CIVIL WAR HISTORY
March 7th, 1643 – Queen Henrietta Marie, the self-styled “She- Majesty, La Generalissima”, and her caravan of supplies and mercenaries for King Continue reading
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RAILSPLITTERS ARE A 2 SEED AS THE NCAA’S DIVISION 2 BRACKETS ARE ANNOUNCED
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The 2011 NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Championship Committee announced the brackets for the Southeast Regional tonight, and the Lincoln Memorial University men’s basketball team will make their NCAA Tournament debut as a two-seed. They will face Continue reading
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BAD MOVIE PAGE UPDATED: HUMPHREY BOGART AS AN UNDEAD MAD SCIENTIST? IT’S “THE RETURN OF DR X” (1939)
For some variety I’ll do my usual Monday feature, the Cool-Named Team Of The Day, tomorrow instead and go with my fresh new addition to my bad movie page. It’s the role Humphrey Bogart wanted everyone to forget, as he invades Bela Lugosi/George Zucco territory to portray an undead mad scientist in the enjoyably campy film The Return Of Dr X. And for more Bad Movie entries click here: https://glitternight.com/bad-movies/
THE RETURN OF DR X (1939) – Category: Enjoyably campy bad movie elevated by kitsch-value in the casting. Yes, it’s the famous “Humphrey Bogart as a zombie mad scientist” movie. The tale goes that Jack Warner inflicted this role on gangster-flick star Bogart as punishment for Continue reading
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BLUE DRAGONS TAKE DOWN PIRATES IN OVERTIME; FACE RED RAVENS IN SEMIFINALS
After playing one of the best halves of basketball this season, the Hutchinson Community College men’s basketball team persevered through one of its worst halves and advanced to the semifinals of the Region VI men’s basketball tournament with an 88-84 overtime Continue reading
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MADNESS IN THE MOUNTAINS CONCLUDES: USCAA TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS CROWNED LAST NIGHT
Well, Madness In The Mountains, the USCAA National Basketball Tournament from Uniontown, PA, is over. The three champions are:
Men’s Division 1 – SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY KNIGHTS
Men’s Division 2 – ANDERSON UNIVERSITY CARDINALS
Women’s Basketball (one combined division) – AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY GYRENES
Congratulations to all three teams!
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VIETNAMESE MYTH 2 PAGE UPDATED: A WAR BETWEEN GODS CONTINUES
Part 3 of the epic myth A War Between Gods plus I added entries on myths set during the reigns of Hung Vuong III and Hung Vuong IV. For the full epic and entries on other Vietnamese gods Click here: https://glitternight.com/vietnamese-myth-2/
CANTO III – The day eventually arrived when Hung Vuong XVIII offered up Mi Nuong’s hand in marriage. Aristocrats came from as far away as ancient India to compete for the hand of the legendarily beautiful princess. The patriarch of the Thuc family, who plotted to overthrow Hung Vuong XVIII, was among the Continue reading
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SPECIAL GUEST COMMENTATOR TWIGGY EXAMINES THE SURPLUS OF TEAMS CALLED WILDCATS
Meet Twiggy Denham, aka The Freak, from that quintessential cat lover’s blog Life With 4 Cats at WordPress (written by Twiggy’s mom Sara). Twiggy was pleased with the Guest Commentator spots done by fellow kitty-cats Tibbs, Oolong and Pekoe as well as by that debonair doggy from across the pond, George the Whippet. Since I’m deluged with all the basketball tournaments going on right now in the college divisions I cover Twiggy was kind enough to volunteer to help me out by bringing his freakish sensibilities to bear on the way college sports teams drastically overuse the nickname Wildcats.
Twiggy: What’s new, pussycat? Ha! I kill me! … Hey, am I Continue reading
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XAVIER (LA) GOLD RUSH DEFEAT SUNO TO REACH GCAC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME TODAY AT 2PM
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Chris Iles and Devin Andrew scored 14 points apiece Friday, and Xavier University of Louisiana made 10-of-10 free throws in the final 76 seconds to secure a 75-66 men’s basketball victory over SUNO in the semifinals of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament.
The Gold Rush (27-4), ranked 17th in NAIA Division I and seeded second in the tournament, will play 13th- Continue reading
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