*** USCAA WORLD SERIES ***
DAY ONE: GAME ONE – To start things off the 8 seeds – the CLEARY UNIVERSITY PROWLING COUGARS – took on the 9th seeded PSU-BEAVER NITTANY LIONS. A 3-3 tie in the 2nd Inning became a 4-3 edge for the Prowling Cougars in the 3rd and ultimately a 7-6 win for Cleary University. Pitcher Jack Ropp of the Prowling Cougars picked up the win. Continue reading
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Here at Balladeer’s Blog I criticize both American Liberals and American Conservatives. At this particular point in history the Liberals are so self-infatuated and are so pompous they are even MORE fun to ridicule than Christian Conservatives used to be.
I’ve been getting bombarded with emails from Liberals expressing their usual outrage when other people don’t praise them the way they praise themselves constantly. The cause for this most recent storm was my examination of how Aristophanes’ comedy The Birds could be adapted to fit the present day. Does it deserve THIS much outrage? TO JUDGE FOR YOURSELF CLICK HERE
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RED RIVER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE: CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The 3 seeds – the LSU-SHREVEPORT PILOTS (Riverboat Pilots) – had already moved on to the Championship Game. Their opponent wound up being the top seeded LSU-ALEXANDRIA GENERALS, who defeated the 4th seeded JARVIS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE BULLDOGS 6-1 in the early game. In the Main Event the Pilots folded, spindled and mutilated the Generals, spanking them ELEVEN to ONE! * THE PILOTS ARE CHAMPIONS OF THE 2016 RRAC TOURNAMENT * Continue reading
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USC has been a power in Beach Volleyball going back to when it was still called Sand Volleyball.
Beach Volleyball is now the 90th NCAA sport with an official National Championship. This year was the first ever title tournament under the NCAA and the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TROJANS have won it.
The Women of Troy defeated the Florida State Seminoles in straight sets 3-0 and enter the history books. The other teams who made this inaugural championship tournament were the Stetson University Hatters, the Pepperdine College Waves, the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, Continue reading
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NORTH STAR ATHLETIC ASSO-CIATION ROUND TWO – The 7 seeds – the VITERBO UNIVERSITY V-HAWKS – eliminated the 3rd seeded DAKOTA STATE TROJANS in a 7-4 upset ### The 6th seeded MAYVILLE STATE COMETS toppled the 2 seeds – the UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN JIMMIES – in a thrilling 3-2 affair ### The Jimmies then stayed alive in the night game by eliminating the aforementioned V-Hawks by a score of 7-5. ### Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the grand and exciting Hawaiian epic about the goddesses Pele and Hi’iaka.
PART TWENTY-SIX
The ship carrying Hi’iaka, Prince Lohiau and Wahine arrived at Iloli on the island of Molokai. The generally barren nature of the area prompted the trio to remain with the ship’s crew when they soon put off for Maui. Continue reading
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THE SUN CONFERENCE – ROUND ONE – The top seeds – the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT BEAUFORT SAND SHARKS – won an 8-7 thriller against the 6th seeded WARNER UNIVERSITY ROYALS ### Meanwhile the 5th seeded SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE clobbered the 2nd seeded SAINT THOMAS UNIVERSITY BOBCATS in an 11-6 upset ### And the 4 seeds – the KEISER UNIVERSITY SEAHAWKS – devastated the 3rd seeded WEBBER INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY WARRIORS 15-4.
SOONER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE – ROUND ONE – The 2 seeds – the UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND ARTS OF OKLAHOMA DROVERS – roped and branded the 7th seeded SAINT GREGORY’S UNIVERSITY CAVALIERS to the tune of 14-4 ### Next the (6) MID-AMERICA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY EVANGELS upset the (3) SOUTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY EAGLES 14-7, then the Eagles eliminated the Cavaliers 16-6 in the night game ### Continue reading
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KENTUCKY INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE – ROUND TWO – The top seeded INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST GRENADIERS, fresh off their Round One pummeling of Brescia, squeezed out a 2-1 victory over the 3rd seeded POINT PARK UNIVERSITY PIONEERS ### Meanwhile the 4 seeds – the UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE (OH) RED STORM – toppled the 2nd seeded WEST VIRGINIA TECH GOLDEN BEARS 10-1 ### And the 6th seeded BRESCIA UNIVERSITY BEARCATS upset the 5th seeded ASBURY UNIVERSITY EAGLES in a 9-7 thriller. Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog presents another examination of an ancient Greek political satire. This comedy by Aristophanes was one that I was planning on covering very soon when I started posting my reviews of Attic Old Comedy years ago. For various reasons it kept falling by the wayside.
Where am I going with this? For Aristophanes’ line “In Cloud-Cuckooland things become what they are called rather than being called what they are” make it “In Ivory Towerland things become what they are called rather than being called what they are.” But I’m getting ahead of myself.
The Birds is Aristophanes’ lengthiest surviving comedy and also the most analyzed (some would say over-analyzed). So much has already been written about this particular work that I’ve decided to forego my usual intensive examination of every scene. Instead I’ll go with a brief synopsis followed by a way I feel The Birds could be adapted (as opposed to translated) for the present day.
SYNOPSIS
More than 2,300 years before George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, Aristophanes was dealing with some of the same political themes.
Pisthetaerus and Euelpides, Athenians feeling alienated by the increasingly restrictive laws and lawsuits of their home city have left Athens behind to start over with a new society. Part of the comedy centers around the ages-old theme of how those who seek to overthrow oppression often wind up becoming the new oppressors themselves. (Think of the 1960s generation of American liberals who became just as oppressive as they claimed previous generations had been)
Another Orwellian theme finds Aristophanes satirizing the way in which the ruling class in any society uses and corrupts language to strengthen the subjugation of the populace. The Birds even features the importance of religious and historical myths in any culture as the leaders of the new civilization conjure up an all-new cosmology with “the birds” at the center to justify their own rule. Continue reading
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Here are the nine teams participating in the 2016 USCAA College World Series:
ONE SEED
Institution: COLLEGE OF SAINT JOSEPH’S (sic)
Team Name: FIGHTING SAINTS
Comment: The Fighting Saints were last year’s Runners-Up and hope to settle unfinished business in this year’s tourney.
TWO SEED
Institution: ROCHESTER COLLEGE
Team Name: WARRIORS
Comment: Year in and year out Rochester College seems to wind up in the USCAA Championship Series. They plan to make it further than in 2015. Continue reading
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