Tag Archives: Edward Wozniak

March 28, 2012 · 7:54 pm

COLLEGE BASEBALL TOP 25: WEEK OF MARCH 26TH – APRIL 1ST

 Basketball season is over in the divisions covered by Balladeer’s Blog, so it’s on to baseball! Seamheads have been emailing me about how anxious they are to start my coverage since the season’s over a month old for collegiate play.

As always I’ll cover baseball for colleges in the NAIA, D3, D2, USCAA, NCCAA, ACCA and NJCAA all the way up through the World Series in each division.

For starters here’s a look at the Top 25 in the NAIA:  1. Lee Flames (up from 3) *** 2. LSU-Shreveport Pilots (as in riverboat pilots) *** 3. Oklahoma City University Stars *** 4. Embry- Riddle Aeronaut Continue reading →

2 Comments

Filed under College Baseball

Tagged as , , , , , , , , , ,

March 27, 2012 · 9:10 pm

INUIT MYTHS: KIVIOQ

 For more of my entries on Inuit myths click here: https://glitternight.com/inuit-myth/

KIVIOQ – The greatest hero and monster- slayer of Inuit mythology. The exact structure of Kivioq’s saga varies wildly from region to region, some of them with a fully Continue reading →

46 Comments

Filed under Mythology

Tagged as , , , , , , ,

March 26, 2012 · 8:48 pm

2012 COLLEGE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS

 All the championship games in the divisions of college basketball covered by Balladeer’s Blog are over now. Here’s a final round of congratulations to this year’s champs and the teams they faced in those title games.

NAIA Division 1 – CONCORDIA (CA) EAGLES (def the Oklahoma Baptist University Bison)

NAIA Division 2 – OREGON TECH HUSTLIN’ OWLS (def the Continue reading →

20 Comments

Filed under College Basketball

Tagged as , , , , , , , , , , ,

March 24, 2012 · 5:16 pm

NCAA DIVISION 2 AND NJCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES TODAY

 Today ends the 2011-2012 college basketball season for the divisions covered by Balladeer’s Blog. The final two championship games take place this afternoon and evening.

First up, the Western Washington University Vikings (logo above left) play the Montevallo Falcons at 1pm ET for the D2 title. Tonight at 9pm ET the NJCAA championship game features the South Plains College Texans taking on the NW Florida Raiders. The Continue reading →

14 Comments

Filed under College Basketball

Tagged as , , , , , , , , , ,

March 23, 2012 · 9:23 pm

NJCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT FINAL FOUR: MARCH 23RD

 Tonight the South Plains College Texans (logo at right), the Eastern Oklahoma Mountaineers, the Seward Saints and the NW Florida Raiders battle for the right to advance to tomorrow’s NJCAA Championship Game. Consolation games continue today and tomorrow featuring teams like the Monroe College Tribunes and the Otero Rattlers. The NCAA Division 2 Championship Game will Continue reading →

8 Comments

Filed under College Basketball

Tagged as , , , , , , , ,

March 22, 2012 · 12:03 am

NJCAA COLLEGE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT AND THE D2 FINAL FOUR: MARCH 22ND

 All you varmints can get ready for more college hoops action today as the NJCAA tournament continues and the NCAA Division 2 Final Four will play tonight to see who advances to the championship game this Saturday! Will Bellarmine get back to the title game? Find out!  

The Three Rivers Raiders (logo at left, believe it or not, with Rocky the Raider) take on the defending champs of NJCAA basketball, the College of Southern Idaho Golden Eagles at Continue reading →

18 Comments

Filed under College Basketball

Tagged as , , , , , , , ,

March 16, 2012 · 3:11 am

SHINTO DEITY: KUYEBIKO

 Kuyebiko was the Shinto scarecrow god. Originally he functioned as the protector of the rice fields, a task assigned him by his father Inari the rice god. He was considered to be incarnate in all scarecrows and eventually came to be  considered as a divinitory deity who knew everything that transpired under the heavens.

The leap from being the god of scarecrows to divinitory deity came about because of Continue reading →

20 Comments

Filed under Mythology

Tagged as , , , , , , , , ,

March 14, 2012 · 8:54 pm

NAIA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT RESULTS – MARCH 14TH (UPDATED)

 The 9th- seeded Rogers State University Hillcats (logo at left) tipped off the NAIA Division 1 basketball tournament at 10am ET today. The Point Loma Nazarene University Sea Lions, the Life University Running Eagles and the top- seeded Shorter Hawks have also seen action so far.

To look at the scores of Continue reading →

2 Comments

Filed under College Basketball

Tagged as , , , , , , , ,

March 8, 2012 · 8:07 pm

ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY: ORE MINERS (C 420’s BCE)

 I had planned on examining another comedy by Cratinus for my next Ancient Greek Comedy post here at Balladeer’s Blog. Understandably my sister Rosemary’s hospitalization has changed quite a few things. She is out of the hospital now but needs more assistance than usual for a while so with the limited time I have available right now I figured it was better to do a brief take on the VERY fragmentary remains of Pherecrates’ comedy Ore Miners AKA Metalles.

THE PLAY

A group of ore miners accidentally dig so deep underground that they stumble upon the Netherworld. While there they observe the automatist Utopia that Pherecrates depicts the souls of the dead as dwelling in.

Rivers flowed with porridge and soup instead of water and on the Continue reading →

54 Comments

Filed under Ancient Greek Comedy

Tagged as , , , , , , , ,

February 25, 2012 · 4:20 pm

COLLEGE BASKETBALL CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT ACTION: FEBRUARY 25TH

 Balladeer’s Blog’s February Frenzy continues! The Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference climbs aboard today as their conference tournament tips off, featuring the top- seeded Indiana University Southeast Grenadiers (logo at right). Other teams  making the tournament field from the KIAC are the St Louis College of Pharmacy Eutectics, the Indiana East Red Wolves and many others.

Meanwhile, other conferences will be featuring their semifinals or championship games today, and there are regional tournaments already underway in the NCCAA and CCCAA. First, to recap yesterday’s Continue reading →

4 Comments

Filed under College Basketball

Tagged as , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,