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BLUE DRAGONS FOOTBALL OPENS TONIGHT AGAINST ELLSWORTH
… And that’s just one of ELEVEN games tonight as the 2018 College Football season begins. KICKOFF FOR HUTCH VS ELLSWORTH WILL BE 8PM ET.
The Hutchinson College Football team opens its 87th season tonight as the Ellsworth Panthers come to Gowans Stadium.
This will be Hutchinson’s fourth Thursday Night season opener, the first since 2015.
The Blue Dragons have won 10-straight season openers and are 50-34-2 all-time in season openers.
Thursday night’s game with Ellsworth also kicks off the fifth season of the Jayhawk Conference-Iowa Conference scheduling alliance. Last season in a rain-soaked Iowa Falls, the Blue Dragons defeated Ellsworth 25-13. Hutch and Ellsworth are 2-2 in the first two seasons of the scheduling alliance.
Thursday’s game will be broadcast live on Blue Dragon flagship station KHUT-FM (102.9) and sister station KWBW-AM (1450) beginning at 6:30 p.m. with Countdown to Kickoff. Rusty Hilst (play-by-play), Rob Dreher (analysis) and Glen Grunwald (sidelines) will call the action. The game will also be videostreamed on the Blue Dragon Sports Network with the link available at 6:50 p.m.
RENO COUNTY FIRST RESPONDERS NIGHT
The Blue Dragons and Hutchinson Community College are honoring all Reno County first responders at Thursday’s game. All Reno County first responders Continue reading
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THE PRISONER: LIVING IN HARMONY
Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the 1967 science fiction/ existential drama The Prisoner. For Part One, in which I examined the themes and concepts at play in the series click HERE
Episode Title: LIVING IN HARMONY … In the ongoing debate about the exact numbering of the 17 episodes of The Prisoner I place this as the 6th episode.
In this installment the Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan) finds himself living a western version of his current plight. After resigning as a Sheriff and turning in his badge he is captured and knocked out by unknown parties.
When he comes to he discovers he is trapped in a Wild West town called Harmony … And his captors are obsessed with finding out why he resigned as Sheriff.
First-time viewers of this episode are as disoriented as McGoohan’s character. The program starts with this “western” revision of the usual opening sequence in which he is shown resigning from British Intelligence and getting abducted to the prison city called the Village.
It’s easy to underestimate the commitment shown by creative director McGoohan in insisting on this alternate version of the opening credits sequence. I’ll bet NO American television executives of the time would have okayed reshooting the entire opening for just one episode.
“That’d cost too much! Plus the audience will be confused and won’t understand what’s going on!” That would no doubt have been the reaction back then. It’s all just another of the many ways that The Prisoner was ahead of its time. Sometimes it pays to have faith in the intelligence of your audience.
The Story:
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Filed under Forgotten Television, Prisoner (tv series)
JOHN BRENNAN, C.I.A. FILTH … PLUS MORE!
JOHN BRENNAN: THE MAN FROM S.C.U.M. – The anti-Trump fascists have proven once again that they will ally themselves with ANYONE, no matter how low, in their insane hatred of President Trump, the working class and the poor.
John Brennan, former head of America’s forever- repulsive C.I.A. had his Security Clearance rightfully yanked by President Trump since Brennan has been abusing it by peddling his access to make money as an “expert” on Democrat tv programs.
C.I.A. trash Brennan resigned long ago after a scandal involving illegal and unconstitutional COVERT SPYING OPERATIONS ON MEMBERS OF CONGRESS! Democrats have decided to pretend amoral C.I.A. thugs like Brennan are heroic when they’re running Dirty Tricks Programs for their political party and are pretending it’s a “scandal” that Trump yanked “Dirty John” Brennan’s Security Clearance.
PRESIDENTS HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWING SECURITY CLEARANCES FOR FORMER GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FOR YEARS – Obama, George W Bush and other presidents have withdrawn security clearances for former officials for YEARS. If you weren’t upset about it when previous presidents did it, don’t pretend to care when President Trump does it.
THE GANG WARFARE IN OUR GOVERNMENT CONTINUES – It’s no secret that Donald Trump is a de facto Third Party President. His efforts to Drain the Swamp of Democrat and Republican corruption is why career politicians from both political parties – AND the bloated rich pigs who OWN those career politicians – have been fighting President Trump so hard.
Only an outsider like Trump could do what he has done to rock the boat of crooked business as usual in Washington D.C. and I have been riveted by the man’s virtual one-man battle against the white-collar criminals called Democrats and Republicans.
Supposedly – I repeat – supposedly, we are close to seeing the much-hyped possibility of the President de-classifying some of the documents about Obama’s FBI, NSA and CIA helping Hillary Clinton while targeting Trump in our last presidential race. NewsMax TV ran an interview with Joseph DiGenova regarding this possibility. It’s all just talk right now but supposedly the President will declassify the docs if Congress refuses to expose Obama and Hillary’s abuse of the intelligence agencies. For the DiGenova interview click HERE and for a written piece outlining the potential implications click HERE . Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: D2 RANKINGS
This Thursday the 2018 college football season kicks off in the NAIA and NJCAA. D2 kicks off the following week, so here’s Balladeer’s Blog’s preseason rankings in NCAA D2.
RANKINGS: 1. TEXAS A&M AT COMMERCE LIONS (Defending National Champions) ### 2. UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA ARGONAUTS ### 3. INDIANA UNIVERSITY – PENNSYLVANIA CRIMSON HAWKS ### 4. MINNESOTA STATE MAVERICKS ### 5. FORT HAYS STATE TIGERS ###
6. NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE BEARCATS ### 7. FERRIS STATE BULLDOGS ### 8. UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS GREYHOUNDS ### 9. GRAND VALLEY STATE LAKERS ### 10. HARDING UNIVERSITY BISON ### Continue reading
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THE BATTLE CRY OF FLASHMAN: LOST FLASHMAN PAPERS
For Flashman Down Under, Flashman in the Opium War & Flashman and the Kings click HERE Balladeer’s Blog moves on to another Harry Flashman adventure referred to but never completed before George MacDonald Fraser’s death.
Projected Title: THE BATTLE CRY OF FLASHMAN
Time Period: Part of the United States Civil War
NOTE: The title is a play on the famous Civil War ballad The Battle Cry of Freedom. That title was also used for one of Bruce Catton’s examinations of the conflict.
The Story: Personally I think a collection of short stories would be the only way of reconciling all the scattered and varied references made to Flashman’s Civil War adventures in other novels. From those other Fraser writings we know that Harry somehow wound up serving on both sides of the war but ultimately won a Medal of Honor for his service in the Union Army.
Further complicating things is the fact that the author mentioned how Flashman left and re-entered the U.S. multiple times during the war after his initial involvement starting at some point in 1862. Continue reading
Filed under Neglected History, Pulp Heroes
THE GOLDEN BAT (1966): FILM REVIEW
The Golden Bat: the ugliest superhero in the world.
THE GOLDEN BAT (1966) – Ogon Batto is the name of this film in its native Japan. The movie was based on the title character, Japan’s very first comic book superhero who debuted in 1930. That 1930 date puts him years before Superman and Batman in the west!
At any rate for the 1966 movie Japan’s perennial action star Sonny Chiba played the leader of a group of science-oriented commandos in what looked like aluminum foil suits. Chiba and his gang have fancy aircraft like England’s Thunderbirds and their debut mission finds them trying to save the Earth from collision with a rogue planet called Icarus.
Chiba’s outfit has constructed a giant laser cannon to destroy Icarus before it can reach our planet. Trouble is it needs a final component to be found only on a lost island. When Sonny Chiba’s Mighty Aluminum Foil Power Rangers explore the ancient city on that island they uncover the tomb of … the Golden Bat! Continue reading
Filed under Bad and weird movies, Superheroes
KALTHAR: NEGLECTED SUPERHERO
Superhero movies continue to dominate at the box office, so Balladeer’s Blog figured it was time to look at another neglected comic book star: in this case Kalthar, from MLJ Publishing. FOR MY BIG LIST OF NEGLECTED MLJ SUPERHEROES CLICK HERE
KALTHAR THE GIANT MAN
Secret Identity: None. Kalthar is his real name.
Origin: The father of the infant who would become known as Kalthar the Giant Man gave his life saving the Urgana African tribe from Muslim slave traders. To thank the dead hero for his role in keeping them free the Urgana people raised his infant son as one of their own and named the child Kalthar.
As he reached adulthood Kalthar formed a Tarzan-like bond with all the jungle animals around the Urganas’ Congo River locale. Kalthar so impressed Ta-Lo, the High Priest of the tribe, that the medicine man chose the adopted young man to receive the gift of the secret grains which Urgana medicine men discovered in the jungle. Those grains enabled Kalthar to grow to giant size and helped him battle evil-doers throughout Africa.
First Appearance: Zip Comics number 1 (February 1940). His final Golden Age appearance came in 1941.
Powers: Continue reading
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JUST ONE WEEK TILL 2018 COLLEGE FOOTBALL BEGINS!
One week from today the 2018 college football season kicks off in the divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog. Some of the games scheduled for next Thursday night:
NAIA
The 20th ranked ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE BATTLIN’ BEARS will be hosting the CARROLL (MT) COLLEGE FIGHTING SAINTS. It’s a risky opening week clash between two Frontier Conference teams.
The number 22 team in the nation, the SOUTHWESTERN ASSEMBLIES OF GOD UNIVERSITY LIONS, will take it on the road against the (RV) EVANGEL UNIVERSITY CRUSADERS. Crucial early season positioning is on the line in this battle.
At number 25 are the DAKOTA STATE TROJANS, who travel to face the DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY TIGERS (should be the Blue Tigers). This matchup will be the Midco Sports Network’s Game of the Week. Continue reading
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