YOU DON’T MESS WITH DESTINY – Well, those people who were calling the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs this year’s Team Of Destiny in NCAA Division 2 football turned out to be right, as UMD defeated the self-destructing Delta State Statesmen 20-17. The game was knotted up at 17 late in the 4th quarter and looked sure to be headed for overtime but an interception thrown by Statesmen QB Micah Davis allowed the Bulldogs to set up shop in good Continue reading
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME RESULTS: DECEMBER 18TH
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LMU RAILSPLITTERS MEN’S BASKETBALL UNBEATEN AS WE GO INTO THE HOLIDAY BREAK
HARROGATE, TN – On Tuesday night in the Railsplitter men’s basketball team’s 96-84 victory over conference opponent Catawba College, Lincoln Memorial University forward D’Mario Curry (Detroit, MI) reached a milestone when he scored a personal best 41 points to push his career total over the 1000 point mark and to set a new Turner Arena single-game scoring record.
Since his first season with the Railsplitters as a sophomore, Curry has been named Continue reading
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VOLLEYBALL ROYALTY: A QUICK Q AND A WITH LADY RAILSPLITTER LAUREN KIWACKA
The Lincoln Memorial Lady Railsplitters volleyball team had a stellar season and Lauren Kiwacka is one of the reasons why. The senior rightside hitter/ setter was named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association Southeast All- Region Team. This following a season in which she and her teammates tied a school record by going 23-8, recorded an all-time high in conference victories at 12 and helped Coach Mike Smith (If that IS his real name. I’m kidding!) pick up his 350th career victory. Kiwacka ends her LMU career with 58 double-doubles, 12 triple-doubles, 660 kills, 3,159 assists, 140 service aces, 1,164 digs and 250 blocks. It was great to talk to an athlete who wears the number 4 but is all about the team and not themselves.
Lauren Kiwacka
Position: RS/S
Official Balladeer’s Blog Nickname: Lethal Lauren
What should opponents fear the most from you? “The chemistry I have with my team. When we are all together and work as a team there is no stopping us. I expect a lot out of my team and they expect just as much if not more out of me.”
Why would you say you had the kind of successful season you had? “As an athlete and competitor I am never satisfied because there is always Continue reading
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARDS FOR DECEMBER 11TH
No NAIA football games today. Their championship game between the Sioux Falls Cougars and the CC Fighting Saints will be held next Saturday in good old Rome, GA of course.
NCAA DIVISION 3 SEMIFINALS
Whitewater Warhawks … Wesley Wolverines … Why, what wonders we will witness, won’t we? – Alliteration aside, the Wolverines try to do what no other D3 football team has been able to accomplish in the past 5 years – break the half-decade stranglehold that the Warhawks and the Continue reading
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CAN REPORTERS WHO COVER 1A FOOTBALL GET SOMETHING THROUGH THEIR HEADS?
EXCUSE ME FOR USING ALL CAPS HERE BUT I JUST HEARD TWO MORE TALKING HEADS IN CABLE SPORTS MISTAKENLY CLAIM THAT A PLAYOFF IN 1A FOOTBALL WOULD TAKE THE TOP 8 TEAMS IN THE RANKINGS!!! TO SAVE MY CYBER-BREATH HERE’S A LINK TO MY BIT WHERE I DEBUNK THAT AND OTHER MISCONCEPTIONS: https://glitternight.com/2010/11/23/i-love-having-playoffs-in-the-divisions-i-cover-but-1a-playoff-advocates-need-to-learn-a-few-things/
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DECEMBER 4TH’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS
NAIA SEMIFINALS
The football gods love drama, as evidenced by the fact that the NAIA National Championship Game will get one final round of the Sioux Falls Cougars taking on the CC Fighting Saints before USF heads off for D2. In 2007 the Fighting Saints beat the Cougars 17-9. The following year USF defeated CC in a filthy, rainy, muddy, beauty of a game by a final score of 23-7. 
Saturday, December 18th will see the rubber game between these two NAIA football dynasties of recent years. The Cougars also won titles in 1996, 2006 and just last December and are hoping for a Threepeat. The Fighting Saints won the title four years in a row earlier this decade. At least one of these teams has played in every National Championship game since 2002. It’s very appropriate to see them square off against each other one Continue reading
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TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM: GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE BULLETS
Location: Iwo Jima. No, Gettysburg, PA
Division: NCAA Division 3
Conference Affiliation: Centennial Conference
Major sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball
Site: http://www.gettysburgsports.com/
Comment: Since I’m very fond of schools whose team’s nickname reflects Continue reading
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF MATCHUPS FOR SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27TH: NAIA, D3 AND D2
NAIA
SIOUX FALLS COUGARS host the MCKENDREE BEARCATS
CC FIGHTING SAINTS host the MARIAN KNIGHTS
ST XAVIER COUGARS host the ST FRANCIS (IN) COUGARS Continue reading
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NCAA D3 PLAYOFF PREVIEW: GENERALS AT SAINTS
THE SERIES:
Washington and Lee and Thomas More will be meeting on the gridiron for the first-time ever. In fact, W&L has played just one of the nine schools currently competing in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. The Generals are 0-3 all-time against Washington & Jefferson but has not met the Presidents since 1923. Continue reading
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