May 9, 2012 · 9:10 pm

DAY ONE OF THE NCCAA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES, DAY THREE OF THE USCAA WORLD SERIES

 Today the NCCAA2 College World Series begins, joining the USCAA, whose series enters its third day. The Lancaster Bible College Chargers (logo at left) are the 8 seed in the NCCAA event and will face the top-seeded Toccoa Falls College Eagles, who are also the defending champs, in Game One today.

Keep checking back here at Balladeer’s Blog for updated scores as they become available.

NCCAA2 – (1) TFC Eagles over the (8) LBC Chargers  10-0 (slaughter rule)  ***  (5) Dallas Christian College Crusaders UPSET the (4) Continue reading →

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May 9, 2012 · 8:46 pm

BAD MOVIE PAGE ENCORE – ASSIGNMENT: TERROR (1970)

 I’ve been getting emails requesting that I review this movie, but I already did in 2010. For the folks requesting it, here it is again. And remember, if you want instant gratification for your bad movie fix you can check my Bad Movie page to see if I’ve already reviewed the movie you’re requesting: https://glitternight.com/bad-movies/

ASSIGNMENT: TERROR (1970) – If they gave a Nobel Prize for bad movie premises this baby would easily wind up wearing one of those big medallions around its neck! Spain’s King of Horror (and John Belushi look-alike) , Paul “Jacinto Molina” Naschy is in this film playing his recurring character, tormented lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky. The premise of this movie is that aliens plan to conquer the world by frightening humanity into submission by scaring us with monsters. Call me crazy, but I think Continue reading →

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May 8, 2012 · 10:03 pm

DAY TWO OF THE USCAA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

 Welcome to day 2 of the USCAA World Series. Today the 2nd seeded Newport News Apprentice School Builders (logo at left) won a classic pitcher’s duel with the PSU- Beaver Nittany Lions by a score of 1-0. Tomorrow the action gets even more intense as the NCCAA2 College World Series gets underway.

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May 8, 2012 · 9:07 pm

ELIZABETH WARREN: “ONE THIRTY-SECONDTH BREED, THAT’S ALL SHE EVER HEARD”

 American academia is noted for the decades-old scam of claiming kinship with a Native American tribe to present yourself as a “minority” and improve your chances of getting hired (and later promoted, of course) by an uppercrust  whitebread institution anxious to add another minority notch to their quota belt. The fact that they can do it without hiring an ACTUAL minority member is probably one of the fringe benefits to the pompous, spoiled fools of Ivory Towerland in the United States.

Elizabeth Warren is the latest American who seems more overlord than underdog to come under scrutiny for claiming descent from Native Americans. She says she’s one thirty-secondth Cherokee and Continue reading →

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May 7, 2012 · 10:38 pm

DAY ONE OF THE USCAA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

 Today marks day 1 of the College World Series for the USCAA, which stands  for the United States Collegiate Athletic Association. The USCAA format features a 10 team field playing in a double elimination tournament to determine the championship.

The Southern Virginia University Knights (logo at top left), a team from a terrific Mormon institution, were last year’s runners- up to the Briarcliffe Bulldogs. Today they took care of business against the Clark State Eagles. The games are still being played, so check back to Balladeer’s Blog for score updates throughout the Continue reading →

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May 7, 2012 · 10:17 pm

SHINTO FIRE GOD: KAGATSUCHI

KAGATSUCHI – The Shinto god of fire, also called Omasubi (“starter of fire”). He was the last-born child of the Continue reading →

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May 7, 2012 · 12:04 am

COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM: ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FIRESTORM

Location: Phoenix, AZ 

Division: NAIA

Site: http://www.acufirestorm.com/ 

Comment: With a butt-kickingly cool name and logo like this combined with the school’s Phoenix, AZ location look Continue reading →

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May 6, 2012 · 6:29 pm

END OF THE WORLD MYTH: ZOROASTRIAN VERSION

 Since so many gullible people actually believe the world will end this December 21st Balladeer’s Blog has been looking at other end of the world scenarios on a regular basis.

In the Zoroastrian version of the end times the Big Event will happen 3,000 years after Zoroaster/ Zarathustra introduced the world to the belief system that bears his name. For those who date Zoroaster’s birth to around 1,000 BCE that means the end could come any year now, but for those who date his birth closer to 600 BCE the world still has hundreds of years to go.

The approaching climax to the ancient battle between the chief deity Ahura Mazda/ Ohrmazd and his evil archenemy, the demonic Ahriman/ Angra Mainyu, will be kicked off when the sun and moon are no longer seen in the sky and a Continue reading →

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May 5, 2012 · 4:25 pm

CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY: MORE COLLEGE BASEBALL CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT CHAMPS TO BE CROWNED TODAY

 Balladeer’s Blog will be looking at the winners of college baseball’s conference tournaments today in the NAIA, D2 and D3. Meanwhile the Brookdale College Jersey Blues (logo at left) and the Hutchinson Blue Dragons are among the teams hitting the diamond as the NJCAA’s district and regional tournaments get underway.

All this plus scores from Round 2 of the Continue reading →

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May 5, 2012 · 12:24 am

FORGOTTEN TELEVISION: THE BUCCANEERS (1956-1957)

 If you enjoyed Robert Shaw’s freebooting turn as the pirate Red Ned Lynch in the 1976 movie Swashbuckler you’ll love him as Captain Dan Tempest in this  series  from the 1950’s. Shaw was equal parts Errol Flynn and Jack Sparrow on the program, which featured him as the captain of the Sultana. 

Tempest and his crew were former pirates pardoned and sent to sea as pirate hunters and as privateers against the Spanish, but they still found time to foil the sinister machinations of corrupt British authorities in the Bahamas, Jamaica and elsewhere. Fans of derring- d0 who are Continue reading →

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