HAMILTON COLLEGE CONTINENTALS
Location: Clinton, NY
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: New England Small College Athletic Conference
Major sports: football, baseball, ice hockey, base/soft- ball, soccer, volleyball
Site: http://www.hamilton.edu/athletics
Comment: You know how the Dodgers were originally called the Trolleydodgers and the Wichita State Shockers were originally called the Wheatshockers? Well it turns out Continue reading
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I’m continuing my look at Manly Wade Wellman’s pulp hero Silver John, the roaming singer and guitarist who fights supernatural forces in the Appalachian Mountains of long ago, sort of like a countrified Orpheus meets Kolchak. He’s called Silver John because of the silver strings on his guitar and the silver coins he carries in his pockets. For more details click here: https://glitternight.com/pulp-heroes/
FIND THE PLACE YOURSELF – This Silver John vignette features a creepy cabin that always puts me in mind of the cabin from the original Evil Dead. Otherworldly horrors inhabit the cabin and its surroundings, including flowers with Continue reading
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FOR THE 2012 D3 COLLEGE WORLD SERIES TEAMS CLICK HERE: https://glitternight.com/2012/05/21/2012-d3-college-world-series-teams-finalized-plus-day-3-of-the-njcaa3-world-series/
The Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks, the reigning champs of D3 football, are part of the eight-team field that will compete in this year’s D3 College World Series. For those unfamiliar with the collegiate approach to baseball championships various numbers of
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A team named Eagles won the National Christian College Athletic Association Division 2 World Series, and now Division 1’s champion is also a team called the Eagles – in this case the Oklahoma Wesleyan University Eagles. OWU, apparently outraged by my recent post regarding the Continue reading
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This beautiful redhead is Stella, aka the Maneater from Manayunk (a section of Philadelphia), as portrayed by the talented Karen Scioli. There are plenty of color photos of Stella out there but I think this b&w pic best captures her spirit. Karen Scioli wrote most of her material herself, in the style of Rich Koz, and was a stand-up comic before becoming a movie hostess.
People who like my bad movie reviews tend to like practicioners of the American folk-art of movie hosting and Karen Scioli was one of the best. And with all due respect to Elvira, as a lifelong breast man I believe Stella was the REAL “hostess with the mostest”. Continue reading
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“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.” … Had to be said. Now let’s move on. Since I’m getting geared up for NAIA College World Series coverage and with the Frontierado holiday coming up, plus the NCAA Divisions 2 and 3 having their baseball playoffs right now Jake the parrot, who is one of the star attractions of his mom’s blog volunteered to do some guest commentary. And be sure to buy Jake’s best-selling autobiography titled That Ain’t Dandruff: My Former Life As A Pirate’s Shoulder-Parrot. Anyway, in the bold tradition of Bogie, Tibbs, Oolong and Pekoe, Gaius, George the Whippet, Twiggy and Littlegirl, comes Jake.
JAKE: The first person to make with a “Jake want a cracker?” joke will be on my list. … I’m just sayin’. I’m also known as JJ, as in Gittes, to throw in another Chinatown reference like the guy who normally writes for this blog did. I really admire the way
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The Briarcliffe Bulldogs “controlled their own destiny”, to use one of the most repulsively overused cliches in sports. They knew what they had to do and they went out and did it. Facing elimination themselves they forced a second game by defeating the Southern Virginia University Knights 11-9. In the deciding game, a thriller for the ages, the Continue reading
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For more bits from Rich Koz, the Babe Ruth of the old-time movie hosts, let’s move to his (and his predecessor’s) running jokes about Berwyn, a Polish American community near Chicago. In the 1960’s Cleveland’s late night movie host Ghoulardi poked fun at the Polish suburb of Parma. In the early 1970’s the original Svengoolie used Chicago’s equivalent of Parma, Berwyn, as the butt of frequent jokes. The mere mention of the name would prompt the sound byte of a disbelieving voice quipping “BURRRRR-wiiin?” Son of Svengoolie continued the tradition.
Here are Continue reading
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The National Christian College Athletic Association Division 2 World Series is over and the Toccoa Falls College Eagles are the champions! They put away the Clearwater Christian College Cougars by a score of 3-0 to take the title. For those unfamiliar with how the college baseball divisions do their World Series there are several teams (the number varies from division to division) and they Continue reading
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