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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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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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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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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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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Yes, just five months from now will be the first Friday in August, which regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know and love (?) as the holiday called Frontierado. Since I had just started writing this blog on June 21st of last year there wasn’t really enough lead time to do this momentous occasion justice, but this Continue reading
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CHICKASHA – With 10 strikeouts thrown, sophomore pitcher David Garcia led the Drovers to their 10th win of the season and a first Sooner Athletic Conference victory.
Garcia, who is now 2-2, pitched the first seven innings of the nine-inning game against Saint Gregory’s University. In the 29 batters he faced, he gave up just four hits and one run.
After getting three immediate outs in the first inning, first baseman Garan Qualls doubled to left center early in the second. During the next at bat, Continue reading
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COUNTERSTRIKE is a tragically forgotten British sci fi television series from 1969. Jon Finch (left) portrayed Simon King, an alien agent who worked for the Intergalactic Council. This council had sent him to Earth to protect it from a group of renegade aliens from a dying planet who wanted to conquer the Earth and make it their new home. Not the most original of premises, but that inimitable British panache breathed life into the series, which unfortunately ran Continue reading
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The number one team in the nation, the Walsh University Cavaliers, are also the overall top seed for the NAIA Tournament which begins next week. Ohio’s oldest team called the Cavaliers head the 32 team field. For full bracket info click here: http://naia.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl-div2/spec-rel/030211aak.html
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CONCORD, NH – The NHTI, Concord’s Community College men’s basketball team downed Williamson Trade School 64-60 in overtime in the first round of the USCAA Men’s Division II National Basketball Championship being held in Uniontown, PA. NHTI was seeded sixth and Williamson was the number three Continue reading
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