AUGUSTANA REGION – The top seeded WEBSTER UNIVERSITY GORLOKS returned to the D3 World Series with a 7-3 victory over the 4 seeds, the CONCORDIA (Chicago) COUGARS, in the regional title game. Along the way the Gorloks also defeated the 6th seeded RIPON COLLEGE RED HAWKS and the 3rd seeded Continue reading
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D3 COLLEGE BASEBALL REGIONAL CHAMPS MOVE ON TO 2013 D3 WORLD SERIES
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THE TOP FOUR FORGOTTEN CONFLICTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
With the Memorial Day holiday weekend coming up what could be more appropriate than to examine a few of the forgotten conflicts from America’s past? The soldiers who fell in those wars are no less dead just because they served in actions that are neglected in the history books and/or were never formally declared by Congress. (details, details)
And in keeping with my blog’s overall theme I won’t be bringing any of that weak Korean War, World War One or War of 1812 crap. When Balladeer says forgotten I mean forgotten with a capital (or at least italicized) “F”. As forgotten as The Montefuscos and Hizzoner. As forgotten as a Polish memoir or a promise from a presidential candidate.
4. THE FORGOTTEN YEAR OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1781 – 1782) – My fellow Revolutionary War geeks and I are forever rolling our eyes at documentaries that act like Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown marked the end of that conflict. True, it was the last MAJOR battle of the war, but there were 13 more months of open bloodshed and another year after that before the peace treaty was signed.
October 1781 to November 1782 saw General “Mad” Anthony Wayne’s campaign to fully recover Georgia from British Loyalists and Continue reading
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D2 COLLEGE BASEBALL REGIONAL CHAMPS MOVE ON TO 2013 D2 WORLD SERIES
ATLANTIC REGION: The 4th seeded SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY RED RAIDERS took the Regional title by defeating the 3rd seeded SETON HILL GRIFFINS in two games, first by a blowout score of 10-3 then again in a 3-2 nailbiter. Along the way to the Atlantic Region Championship the Red Raiders also defeated the top seeded MILLERSVILLE MARAUDERS and the (2) WINSTON-SALEM STATE RAMS.
CENTRAL REGION: The MINNESOTA STATE MAVERICKS lived up to their top seeding and obliterated the 5th seeded ST CLOUD STATE HUSKIES by an unbelievable SEVENTEEN to ONE in the title game. On their way to the Regional Championship the Mavericks had also defeated the 6th seeded MISSOURI SOUTHERN LIONS and the 4th seeded MISSOURI WESTERN GRIFFONS.
EAST REGION: The 6th seeded FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY RAVENS defied all the prognosticators by winning the Regional Championship! And the Ravens did it in convincing fashion, upsetting the top seeded WILMINGTON (DE) WILDCATS, first in a 7-0 shutout on Day One and again in the title game by a score of 5-1. FPU also shocked the 5th seeded PACE UNIVERSITY SETTERS and the 4th seeded SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE PENMEN, last year’s Continue reading
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IROQUOIS EPIC MYTH: HODADEION PART TWO
In the tradition of Balladeer’s Blog’s previous looks at neglected epic myths from the Navajo, Vietnamese and Chinese pantheons here is Part 2 of my look at the Iroquois god of magic Hodadeion.
PART 2 – THE WASP-MEN – (Hodadeion was the son of the creator god Tharonhiawakon and a mortal woman, the same mortal woman who bore him Hodadeion’s siblings. Those siblings were Otgoe, the wampum god and Yeyenthwus, the future goddess of chestnut trees.)
Hodadeion ventured to the north despite his sister Yeyenthwus’ warnings. He came across a few more villages that were now deserted like his own and he realized how far-reaching was the reign of terror of the cannibalistic wizards who had decimated the population of his and his siblings’ home village.
Eventually Hodadeion stumbled into the territory of the Wasp-Men, who flew after Hodadeion, forcing him to Continue reading
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CAL BAPTIST LANCERS REPEAT AS NCCAA WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS
Yesterday the top seeded defending champions of NCCAA Division One baseball, the CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY LANCERS, took their second national championship in a row. Their opponents were the 5th seeded SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE and though there was a lot of riveting baseball throughout the rest of the NCCAA College World Series the championship game was kind of anticlimactic.
The Lancers wound up winning by a score of 7-0, leaving the only real question yesterday being whether or not Cal Baptist can make it a Threepeat next year. In the NCCAA Division Two this year Toccoa Falls College did just that. Congratulations to the Lancers! Balladeer’s Blog will continue its coverage of the postseason in Continue reading
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NCCAA WORLD SERIES SEMI-FINAL RESULTS FROM MAY 17TH
Yesterday the final two teams to make it to the semi-finals won the early games to fill the final two slots in the Final Four. The 5th seeded SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE advanced to the semis by shutting out the 9th seeded OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY EAGLES 4-0. The 6 seeds, the OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY TIGERS, completed the party list with a 5-2 victory over the 10th seeded COVENANT COLLEGE SCOTS.
In the actual semifinals the Fire upset the 2nd seeded CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY TIGERS in a 2-0 game for the ages. The top seeded defending champions, the CAL BAPTIST UNIVERSITY LANCERS, bounced Olivet Nazarene by a score of 3-0. The Lancers defend their title against the Fire in the Continue reading
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NCCAA WORLD SERIES DAY TWO ACTION
Yesterday was Day Two of the College World Series in Division One of the NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association).
The top seeded defending champions, the CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY LANCERS, are 4-0 in Series play this year after notching another pair of victories yesterday. First they smacked down the 9th seeded OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY EAGLES by a score of 11-4, then won a much closer 3-1 affair against the 4 seeds, the MOUNT VERNON NAZARENE UNIVERSITY COUGARS.
OCU then bounced back with a 5-2 upset of the 8th seeded CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY YELLOW JACKETS. Cedarville had dropped a 1-0 pitcher’s duel with the 5th seeded SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE earlier in Continue reading
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BAD MOVIE: STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM (1942) ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT: JULY 6TH, 1985
Starring All Kinds of People Who Died Before Your Grandparents Were Born
In the middle 1980’s/ Way down on Level 31 …
Before MST3K there was … The Texas 27 Film Vault!
Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of this neglected cult show from the mid-1980′s with the 7th review in a series where exact broadcast dates can be determined. My research through VERY old newspapers, my interviews with the show’s co-star and co-creator Randy Clower plus emails and comments from my fellow fans of the program are helping us piece together bits and pieces of the show’s history. Keep those Texas 27 Film Vault memories coming, ladies and gentlemen.
Episode originally broadcast: Saturday July 6th, 1985, from 10:30pm to 1am. Special thanks to my fellow T27FV fan Roberta for the date.
Extras: With 2 1/2 hours to work with each week Randy Clower and Richard Malmos, as machine-gun toting “Film Vault Technicians First Class”, would usually present and mock episodes of old Republic serials, then still had time to follow that up with a bad or campy movie AND their comedy sketches. Those sketches centered on their fictional Film Vault Corps, “the few, the proud, the sarcastic”, the men and women who “protected America’s schlock-culture heritage” in the form of the Golden Turkeys beloved by bad movie buffs.
Star Spangled Rhythm was so long that, with commercials plus Randy and Richard’s comedy sketches, there was no time for a serial episode before the film for this episode of The Texas 27 Film Vault.
The Movie: Star Spangled Rhythm was a Continue reading
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NCCAA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES DAY ONE RESULTS
Yesterday was Day One of the College World Series for Division 1 of the NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association). Last week was Division 2’s tournament.
The 3rd seeded ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FIRESTORM trailed the 10th seeded COVENANT COLLEGE SCOTS 5-1 early on but had tied the ballgame up at 5-5 by the 5th inning. The Firestorm went on to win by a final score of 8-5, bouncing back after their 9-1 loss to the (6) OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY TIGERS earlier in the day.
Olivet Nazarene themselves had gone on to lose a 3-2 heartbreaker with the 2nd seeded CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY TIGERS in the Continue reading
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