One last round of congratulations to the 2017 college soccer champions in the NINE divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog.
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics)
National Champions – SPRING ARBOR UNIVERSITY COUGARS
Runners-Up – Benedictine College Ravens
2016 Champions – University of Northwestern Ohio Racers
NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) Division One
National Champions – BIOLA UNIVERSITY EAGLES
Runners-Up – Indiana Wesleyan University Wildcats
2016 Champions – Colorado Christian University Cougars
NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) Division Two
National Champions – BOB JONES UNIVERSITY BRUINS (Threepeat)
Runners-Up – Providence University College Pilots
2016 Champions – Bob Jones University Bruins Continue reading
THE LUNARIAN PROFESSOR AND HIS REMARKABLE REVELATIONS CONCERNING THE EARTH, THE MOON AND MARS TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE CRUISE OF THE SALLY ANN (1909) – Written by James B Alexander back in the glory days of titles so long they might not fit in a 140 character limit. 
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics)
NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) Division One
GHETTO BLASTER (1989) – Rose Marie, best known as Sally Rogers on the ancient Dick Van Dyke Show, started in movies at age 4 in 1927 billed as “Baby Rose Marie.” Legend holds she was in a Vitaphone SOUND short released as an opener for The Jazz Singer, usually credited as the first feature-length movie with sound. 
I’ll start the review-proper for Ghetto Blaster by pointing out that you should buy this film for the Battlestar Galactica (Original Series) fan in your life. Richard Hatch from that show tries to portray the kind of grim and relentless inner city vigilante made iconic by Charles Bronson in Death Wish. 
The UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION PURPLE RAIDERS are the NCAA Division Three champs for 2017.
Readers of Balladeer’s Blog get to vote on the winner over the next week, so NAIA and D3 boosters can begin their annual deluge of emails to me arguing for their choice.Email voting is the ONLY official way to let your decision be known, a procedure I implemented years ago to cut down on repeat voting by the same people. 
THE PURPLE DEATH (1895) – Written by William Livingston Alden. Presented in the first person this story is narrated by a British gentleman staying in Italy. He becomes friendly with his neighbor, a German M.D. and bacteriologist named Dr Schmidt. 
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) 
NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) Division Two 
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2012) – This adaptation of A Christmas Carol was a noble effort to try something different that was not just a gimmick. Ignore the negative IMDb reviews which accuse this adaptation of using “Elizabethan language.” They’re off by a few hundred years, since in reality the dialogue follows that in the Dickens novel of 1843. 
