Here are the Bowl Games for NJCAA College Football for 2015.
HEART OF TEXAS BOWL
Date: December 5th
Time: 12:00 Noon Eastern Time
Teams: The 15th ranked EAST CENTRAL COLLEGE WARRIORS will take on the number 20 KILGORE COLLEGE RANGERS. Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of this epic myth of the Nyanga people.
PART SIXTEEN
In the restored village of Tubondo, with all the dead brought back to life by Mwindo it was at last time to pass judgment on the captured Shemwindo. In some versions of the Mwindo Epic the semidivine hero sits upon a throne made of spears as if deciding the fate of prisoners of war. Other versions claim Mwindo’s friend Nkuba the lightning god sent down copper chairs for Mwindo and his Aunt Iyangura to sit on while judging the former Chief Shemwindo.
Still other versions depict Iyangura’s husband Mukiti the river god sitting alongside Mwindo and Iyangura as they decide Shemwindo’s fate. Some versions claim the trio floated in the air in the copper chairs provided by Nkuba. Continue reading
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Here are the 32 teams in the D3 playoff field for 2015. Will it be yet another championship game between Whitewater and Mt Union? Only time will tell.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT WHITEWATER WARHAWKS (Defending Champions) host the
SAINT NORBERT COLLEGE GREEN KNIGHTS
UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION PURPLE RAIDERS host the
SAINT LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY SAINTS
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This year there are some slight changes to the format now that the playoff field has expanded to 28 teams. In the past the 1 and 2 seeds from each region had a Bye in the 1st Round. Going forward only the four 1 seeds have a Bye in the opening round.
ONE SEEDS – The four teams who get a Bye this weekend: NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE BEARCATS ### UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA WOLVES ### SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY RAMS ### And the MIDWESTERN STATE MUSTANGS
* ROUND ONE MATCHUPS *
(4) COLORADO STATE AT PUEBLO THUNDERWOLVES (Defending Champions) host the (5) UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS GREYHOUNDS. Continue reading
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As a followup to my earlier list of The Top 12 Deities in Choctaw Mythology here’s a look at two additional figures from that same pantheon.
IMMA – The Choctaw goddess of war. Unlike most war deities Imma did not participate in actual combat herself, but was the idealized woman to whom Choctaw warriors dedicated all their battlefield heroics. She was the most beautiful goddess in the Choctaw pantheon and, like her husband, the hunting god Hatakachafa, Imma was originally a mortal raised to godhood in the afterlife by the supreme deity Nanishta. He did this after Imma died from grief after Hatakachafa was given up for dead during his year-long struggle to return home to her. When Imma’s true love at last returned home astride his giant white wolf and learned she was dead he too died of grief. The two were reunited in the afterlife as husband and wife.
OKLATABAHSHIH – The patron god of Continue reading
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The 2015 Playoff Field has been announced for the NAIA. Here are the first- round matchups for this Saturday November 21st as Southern Oregon University begins its defense of its crown.
GAME ONE
(1) MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE MUSTANGS
host the
(16) SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY COUGARS
Starting Time:
2:00 pm Eastern Time
GAME TWO
(2) BAKER UNIVERSITY WILDCATS
host the
(15) POINT UNIVERSITY SKYHAWKS
Starting Time:
1:00 pm Eastern Time Continue reading
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* HEADLINES *
USCAA FOOTBALL CHAMPS – The first college football championship of the 2015 season has been decided. The WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES MECHANICS were last season’s runners- up and this year are the National Champions in the USCAA (United States Collegiate Athletics Association). This year’s runners- up are the NEWPORT NEWS APPRENTICE SCHOOL BUILDERS. For that old-school feel there is no championship game in the USCAA, just standings.
UPSET IN THE TOP TEN – On a Saturday that was almost all-chalk there was only one upset of a team ranked in the Top Ten of the various four-year divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog. In NCAA Division Two the 11th ranked MIDWESTERN STATE MUSTANGS traveled to face the number 8 team in the nation – the TEXAS A&M AT COMMERCE LIONS. The Mustangs edged the Lions 37-33 in a nailbiting Instant Classic. Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of this epic myth of the Nyanga people.
PART FIFTEEN
The semidivine hero Mwindo at last stood face to face with his evil father Shemwindo. After the villain had led his heroic son on a long chase through the various realms of the gods that honeycombed the subterranean region Mwindo finally had satisfaction.
There in the hut of the Nyanga creator deity Ongo the two adversaries eyed each other with the intense hostility born from prolonged conflict. Mwindo had bested Ongo at the Nyanga gambling game called Wiki and – as good as his word – the creator god had turned Shemwindo over to the victor. Continue reading
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FRIDAY THE 13th: THE ORPHAN (1977) – H.H. Munro must have turned over in his grave at this adaptation of one of his short stories. This quasi-horror film was re-released in 1979 as just The Orphan and despite the original title it has no connection to the Friday the 13th series of slasher flicks. At least, no REAL connection. I’m surprised some unscrupulous distributor never tried sneaking this into theaters in the 1980’s as a “prequel” to the slasher movies by presenting the insane young boy in the movie as the grandfather of Jason Voorhees.
Even so the title makes it hard not to think of our wealthy young protagonist “David” (Mark Owens) as an ancestor of the hockey- masked slice and dice man from Crystal Lake. In the 1920’s David’s mother accidentally shoots his African Big Game Hunter father Kevin to death during an argument about his frequent overseas trips. David not only witnesses this but sees his mother put the gun in her mouth and kill herself immediately afterward. Next David gets VERY disturbed when a presumed family member (an uncredited Christopher Lloyd in a “blink-and-you’ll- miss- him” appearance) forces him to kiss his dead father as he lies in his coffin. Continue reading
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Captain Z-Ro and Jet
CAPTAIN Z-RO – (1951-1960) Over a full decade before Great Britain’s ultimate cult show, Doctor Who, hit the airwaves this American show featured the titular Captain traveling in time and space with various sidekicks, including Jet, the young man pictured with Captain Z-Ro in the photo to the left. Continue reading
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