NOT PICTURED: FRED MITCHELL
CHICAGO – Saint Xavier University junior place-kicker Tom Lynch (Frankfort, Ill./Southern Illinois University/Joliet Junior College/Lincoln-Way East) is the recipient of the 2010 Fred Mitchell Award. The Award is provided to the nation’s top place-kicker in FCS, Division II, Division III and NAIA for excellence on the football field and in Continue reading
Filed under college football
NEW ORLEANS — Unbeaten Xavier University of Louisiana moved from 10th to ninth in the NAIA Division I Men’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 on Monday.
It’s the highest rank for the XU men since Feb. 13, 2008, when they were eighth. It’s the first time since the 2003-04 season that the Gold Rush made the top 10 in consecutive polls.
Xavier (10-0) won 85-66 at Loyola in their only game of the past week. It’s the first time since 1983-84 and just the second time since World War II that the XU men won their first 10 Continue reading
Filed under College Basketball
ALASKA-FAIRBANKS NANOOKS
Location: Fairbanks, AK
Conference Affiliation: Great Northwest Athletic Conference
Major sports: hockey, basketball, volleyball, skiing, rifle
Site: http://alaskananooks.com/
Comment: The Nanooks combine two of my passions – college sports and Continue reading
Filed under Cool names and cool logos
NEW ALBANY, Ind. – The IU Southeast women’s basketball team defeated Union College 89-74 Saturday afternoon (Dec. 11) in the Southeast Activities Building.
The Grenadiers beat the visiting Bulldogs with their ability to attack the defense and get easy lay-up opportunities. The Grenadiers shot very well from the Continue reading
Filed under College Basketball
We are now just 12 days from Christmas so I figured what better time to update my Bad Movie page with a review of the atrocious attempt at entertainment called Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny, a live-action clunker from the famous Barry Mahon. For more Bad Movies: https://glitternight.com/bad-movies/
SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY – (1972) – Category: Bad enough and with a classically weird premise but not fun-bad enough for my highest rating This thoroughly bizarre little holiday-themed movie will redefine the term “low-budget” for you. Normally I cut some slack to films that are clearly targeted at children but this bomb doesn’t seem targeted at children as much as it seems targeted at morons.
The opening scene of this odd movie is set in a very cramped set that is supposed to be Santa’s North Pole workshop. Some very tall children are dressed as elves and are awkwardly pretending to be working on toys that are quite obviously already completed, lending the scene a joyously inept “grade-school Christmas play” kind of feel.
The opening credits inform us that these children/elves are players from “Ruth Foreman’s Pied Piper Playhouse” as they sing a song that has been so poorly-recorded we can only make out an occassional few words. The gist of the song seems to be that the elves are wondering where Santa is since it’s only a few days until Christmas. Continue reading
Filed under Bad and weird movies
Lincoln, IL – The Lincoln Christian University Red Lions defeated the Cougars of Kuyper College 76-66 Saturday afternoon. After leading 42-28 at the half and scoring the first six points in the second for a 20 point lead, Continue reading
Filed under College Basketball
Well, it is now official – make it SIX years in a row that the Whitewater Warhawks and the Mount Union Purple Raiders will play each other for the D3 football National Championship. The Warhawks upheld their end of the bargain today by trashing the Wesley Wolverines on their own field by a final score of 27-7. All of this is made more impressive when you consider that for the 4th week in a row Whitewater was without Continue reading
Filed under college football
No NAIA football games today. Their championship game between the Sioux Falls Cougars and the CC Fighting Saints will be held next Saturday in good old Rome, GA of course.
NCAA DIVISION 3 SEMIFINALS
Whitewater Warhawks … Wesley Wolverines … Why, what wonders we will witness, won’t we? – Alliteration aside, the Wolverines try to do what no other D3 football team has been able to accomplish in the past 5 years – break the half-decade stranglehold that the Warhawks and the Continue reading
Filed under college football
In my fifth installment of lesser-known versions of A Christmas Carol I’ll look at three opera versions of the classic Dickens tale. I’ll start off with the most lauded one- the 1982 Granada TV broadcast of the Royal Opera House’s staging of the opera by THE Thea Musgrave. Musgrave has also done the libretto and music for the celebrated operas Mary, Queen Of Scots … Harriet, The Woman Called Moses … Simon Bolivar and most recently Pontalba in 2003. The opera is fairly faithful with the most significant changes obviously being imposed by the format. For efficiency’s sake the only scene at nephew Fred’s home is at the very end so things can close on a very festive note. Every performer except the Continue reading
Filed under A CHRISTMAS CAROL
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The 2010 National Championship trophy was awarded to Hastings (Neb.) after a 5-3 victory over Notre Dame (Ohio) on Dec. 4 in Orange Beach, Ala., from the Orange Beach Sportsplex. The Broncos out-scored their five Continue reading
Filed under college sports
