February 8th, 1643 – The Parliamentarians repulse a dawn raid by the Continue reading
KEEP UP WITH THE REIVERS OR NOBODY WILL EVER LOVE YOU! (I’M KIDDING!)
Basketball Both the men and women are making for a busy home game schedule Continue reading
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TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM – CISCO COLLEGE
CISCO COLLEGE WRANGLERS
Location: Cisco, TX
Division: JUCO
Major sports: football, basketball, base/softball, soccer, volleyball
Site: http://www.cisco.edu/s/926/athletics/athletics.aspx?sid=926&gid=1&pgid=287
Comment: Should I go for the obvious Wranglers jeans reference or Continue reading
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HAPPY SUPER BOWL SUNDAY! THE COOLEST HELMETS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
Team: MILLERSVILLE MARAUDERS
Location: Millersville, PA
Site: http://www.millersvilleathletics.com/
Comment: The Marauders play in the conference that tv and radio announcers call “The P-SAC” and keep completely straight faces when Continue reading
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THIS DATE IN ENGLISH CIVIL WAR HISTORY
February 5th, 1643 – Queen Henrietta Marie, the wife of Charles I, set sail from Holland with the supplies and a force of professional soldiers she had Continue reading
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LYNX WOMEN’S BASKETBALL DOWNS SOUTHERN MAINE
CONCORD — The NHTI, Concord’s Community College women’s basketball team downed their rivals Southern Maine Community College 64-59.
Lindsey Carr (Gilford) paced the Lynx with 18 points 11 rebounds and had four blocks. Also, Jess Hardiman (Loudon) netted 15 points, Kaylee Towle (Dover) added 13 points, eight boards Continue reading
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TRITONS BASEBALL OPENS UP THE SEASON WITH A WIN
LA JOLLA, Calif. – The second-ranked UC San Diego baseball team kicked off a new era on a winning note Friday, defeating Western Oregon 4-1 in its season opener at Triton Ballpark.
Senior outfielder Aaron Bauman went 2-for-2 at the plate and scored a pair of runs, while senior right-hander Tim Shibuya tossed seven strong innings to lead the defending national finalists to their first regular season victory under the newly-installed Continue reading
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A BED THAT EATS PEOPLE WHO SLEEP IN IT? IT’S DEATH BED FROM 1977
Death Bed
For a nice Friday post we’ll depart from our usual week-ending edition of my Cool-Named Team Of The Day to do a Bad Movie. It’s 1977’s Death Bed and it’s hilariously bad. It gets my highest rating, in fact. For more Bad Movies click here: https://glitternight.com/bad-movies/
DEATH BED – (1977) – Category: A neglected bad movie classic that deserves a Plan 9-sized cult following A bed that eats everyone who lies on it is the hilarious premise of this actual straight-faced attempt at a horror film. You know how water-beds have water in them? This living bed has digestive juices in it. Its victims are somehow sucked through the Continue reading
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SIOUX FALLS COUGARS TAKE DOUBLE OT THRILLER
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — It took two overtime periods but the University of Sioux Falls men’s basketball team defeated No. 22 Dakota Wesleyan University (19-7 overall, 9-6 GPAC) at the Stewart Center tonight.
No. 17 USF (17-6 overall, 10-3 GPAC) was led by Kelly Hubbard’s (Sr.; Carson, Continue reading
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STREAKING RAILSPLITTERS BASKETBALL MOVES UP TO NUMBER SIX!
HARROGATE, TN – The Lincoln Memorial Univesity men’s basketball team learned Tuesday afternoon that it has moved up to the no. 6 spot in the latest National Association of Basketball Coaches poll.
Tuesday’s announcement comes less than a week after the Railsplitters extended their winning streak to 18 games by capturing South Atlantic Conference wins last week over Carson-Newman College (90-69) on the road last Wednesday, and (85- Continue reading
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