Everyone remembers that Dallas “The Kid” Seavey won the Iditarod back on the 13th. He is the youngest winner of the Iditarod in history adding another milestone after last year’s Arctic John Baker being the first native Alaskan to win the event. Here is the finishing order as of March 17th complete with the competitors’ Official Balladeer’s Blog Nickname:
1. Dallas the Kid Seavey *** 2. Alaska Ally Zirkle *** 3. Rainy Pass Ramey Smith *** 4. Continue reading
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If you missed it in the NAIA’s late game last night the unseeded SUNO Knights upset the 3rd- seeded Robert Morris (IL) Eagles 94-92! Trailing by 11 points with just 9 minutes left the Knights, playing in their first tournament since 2004, stayed focused and Kevin Dukes drove home a fadeaway jumper with just 3.9 seconds left in the game to give SUNO (Southern University at New Orleans) the win. Congratulations to the Knights for the upset of the tournament so far!
Meanwhile round two tips off this morning at 10am ET with the Evangel Crusaders (logo above left) taking on the Rogers State University Hillcats. All this plus the semifinals in the NJCAA3 tournament.
Taking a look at the scores (bd means Continue reading
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Kuyebiko was the Shinto scarecrow god. Originally he functioned as the protector of the rice fields, a task assigned him by his father Inari the rice god. He was considered to be incarnate in all scarecrows and eventually came to be considered as a divinitory deity who knew everything that transpired under the heavens.
The leap from being the god of scarecrows to divinitory deity came about because of Continue reading
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The NJCAA3 basketball tournament tips off today at Noon ET! The opening game features the Milwaukee Tech Stormers (logo at left) taking on the Cedar Valley College Suns. Also seeing action today will be the Brookdale College Jersey Blues, the Sandhills Flyers and many others. Stay tuned to Balladeer’s Blog for score updates.
Plus this morning at 10 ET the NAIA’s Division One basketball tournament resumes with game one pitting the Xavier (LA) Gold Rush against the LSU- Shreveport Pilots (as in riverboat pilots). Yesterday already saw 2 NAIA teams score over 100 points in their games. For updated Continue reading
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Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog will remember the heroic Irshad Manji, a Muslim woman who is openly lesbian and has been working with other Muslims to initiate reform in Islam. Irshad’s book, The Trouble With Islam Today, was discussed in a previous post here in which I also lauded her courage in dealing with the threats of physical violence which she and her fellow reformers face on a regular basis.
Manji also heads the Moral Courage Project at Continue reading
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The 9th- seeded Rogers State University Hillcats (logo at left) tipped off the NAIA Division 1 basketball tournament at 10am ET today. The Point Loma Nazarene University Sea Lions, the Life University Running Eagles and the top- seeded Shorter Hawks have also seen action so far.
To look at the scores of Continue reading
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This often-forgotten telefilm from 1987 was a pilot movie for a series that never panned out, but Spirit purists who complained about the 2008 movie version may actually prefer this unassuming little flick to the big- budget 21st Century version.
The Frank Miller movie from 2008 changed the Spirit’s iconic costume to black instead of blue and “Millerized” him, making him a kind of Dark Knight clone instead of the lighter, quirkier hero that Will Eisner fans remembered him as being. For Spirit novices, the superhero was detective Denny Colt of fictional Central City. In his origin story he ran afoul of the mad scientist Dr Cobra, and in the resulting struggle got drenched and drowned in one of the good doctor’s experimental chemicals.
In the “embalming-free” world of superhero fiction, Colt was buried in Wildwood Cemetery, but, as it turned out, Dr Cobra’s chemicals had Continue reading
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For the first time since 1999 the top 2 seeds in the NAIA2 tournament will face each other for the championship. Tonight the number 1 Northwood University Seahawks battle the number 2 Oregon Tech Hustlin’ Owls, climaxing the 2012 tournament for this division of college basketball. Watch it at 7pm ET on the cable channel called CBS Sports Network.
One tournament concludes tonight, but there are two more getting ready to tip off. Tomorrow morning at 10am ET the NAIA division 1 tournament will get underway with the 9th- seeded Rogers State Hillcats taking on Continue reading
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With December 21st loonies insisting that’s when the world will end Balladeer’s Blog has been looking at previous end of the world scares, one of which just passed.
But you'll notice not one person was killed over this picture.
I was informed by a sincere commentor on my Criswell post that the feast of Purim, celebrated March 7th, 8th and 9th this year, was supposed to be the date that Jesus returned to claim his people and usher in the end times. The person, from Continue reading
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The Hutchinson Blue Dragons (logo at right) were eliminated from the Region VI college basketball tournament yesterday. Meanwhile, as noted in my weekend posts, the NCCAA and both divisions of USCAA champions have been crowned.
NAIA2’s Final Four teams face each other tonight. The Northwood (FL) Seahawks and the Continue reading
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