MARYVILLE, Mo. — The voting has concluded for the NCAA Division II College Football Player of the Year Award and Northwest Missouri State senior quarterback Blake Bolles has been invited to attend the 25th Annual Harlon Hill Trophy Presentation Banquet as one of the top three place finishers.
The banquet is set for Friday, Dec. 17, in Florence, Ala., prior to the NCAA Continue reading
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I’ve added my review of the joyously weird sci-fi film The Wizard Of Mars to my Bad Movie Page. Here is the link: https://glitternight.com/bad-movies/
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The Blue Angels of Mt. Mary College defeated the Red Lions of Lincoln Christian University in Women’s basketball 67-32 Tuesday evening , dropping LCU to 0-5 for the season.
Lincoln was led in scoring by Jonni McCaslin with 10 points, Ashley Ingram with nine and Sharon Albert with eight. The Red Lions were only able to score 13 points in the second half as they shot 16.4% from the field for the night.
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This is my 4th installment of lesser-known versions of A Christmas Carol. The first one I’m covering this time was produced in Spain in 1947 (and was remade for Spanish television in 1966 ) and the Spanish language title is Leyenda de Navidad ( Legend of Christmas, of course). The film was written and directed by Manuel Tamayo (who wrote the screenplay for the 1955 feature Tarde de Toros) This is a wonderful version for several reasons, not the least of which would be its well-done (for the time period) sets of 1843 London.
We’ll take the differences and similarities to other versions in order – 1. Scrooge has several people working for him for some reason, not just Bob Cratchit and NONE of them get Christmas Day off from this Scrooge … 2. Marley’s Ghost steps out of a life-sized portrait of the man that adorns the wall above a fireplace, and returns to that portrait after his standard warning about Continue reading
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The Missouri Valley College Vikings volleyball team had their ups and downs this year, but four of the ladies made the All-Conference Team because of their on-court achievements. Ali Schrader made the first team in the Heart of America Athletic Conference honors and Miranda Groth made the second team while Paula Tieman and Dustina Bitten got All-Conference Honorable Mention. The time seemed right to get to know these ladies a little better and find out their opinion of the Roger Corman B-movie called Viking Women vs The Sea Serpent. (I’m kidding!)
Ali Schrader
Official Balladeer’s Blog Nickname: The Schrade
What should opponents fear the most from you? “My intensity. I love playing the game of volleyball and with every set that I get I try and make the most out of it. After every block that I get I jump in the air as high as I Continue reading
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Time is running out! December 14th is the last day to vote for your favorite cool-named team on my list of the 20 Coolest-Named USCAA And NCCAA teams. Click here to see the whole list again: https://glitternight.com/2010/11/24/the-20-coolest-named-uscaa-and-nccaa-sports-teams/
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I updated the page with an entry on Thien Loi, the Vietnamese thunder god plus I expanded my entries on the hearth god Ong Lo and on the god Ngoc Hoang, the Zeus/Odin/Ruhanga/Kane/Brahma of the Vietnamese pantheon. Click here: https://glitternight.com/vietnamese-myth-new/
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EXCUSE ME FOR USING ALL CAPS HERE BUT I JUST HEARD TWO MORE TALKING HEADS IN CABLE SPORTS MISTAKENLY CLAIM THAT A PLAYOFF IN 1A FOOTBALL WOULD TAKE THE TOP 8 TEAMS IN THE RANKINGS!!! TO SAVE MY CYBER-BREATH HERE’S A LINK TO MY BIT WHERE I DEBUNK THAT AND OTHER MISCONCEPTIONS: https://glitternight.com/2010/11/23/i-love-having-playoffs-in-the-divisions-i-cover-but-1a-playoff-advocates-need-to-learn-a-few-things/
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GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE RUSTLERS
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Conference Affiliation: Orange Empire Conference
Major sports: football, baseball, soccer, volleyball, softball
Site: http://www.gwcathletics.com/
Comment: That fellow up there is Rustler Sam, the mascot for the Golden Continue reading
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ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – (box score) No. 3-seed Hastings (Neb.) continued its offensive fireworks, this time plowing past No. 4 Notre Dame (Ohio), 5-3 to win its first-ever NAIA Men’s Soccer National Championship. Continue reading
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