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By Ryan McGowan
I’ve been humming the same bars of music for weeks now. If I knew anything about notes and melodies, I could easily play it on a piano. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, mindlessly flubbing unintelligible lyrics, but the song is always the same.
Boxer Phil Chason got a shock at the start of his Northeast Regional Championship bout
By Shawn French (Windham Independent, Nov. 10, 2004)
Following his appearance in the Golden Gloves national tournament in Kansas City, Mo., Windham’s Phil Chason took four months away from the ring. He returned on Oct. 30 in a four-round brawl against Alex Ayala in the Northeast Regional Championship semifinals.
God help us if this happened…
The Windham Wiffle®-ball League is up and running
By Shawn French (Windham Independent, Nov. 10, 2004)
With football season over and several cold months before baseball starts up, Andrew Shute and company put together a new sports league. The Windham Wiffle®-Ball League is several games into its season and already the competition for the title is heating up.
The higher Gods of Sport have been telling us that the end is near.
Stop laughing, I’m serious…the apocalypse is upon us.
Consider for a moment the circumstances and facts, which I choose to call signs, of the last couple of weeks.
Most recently we as a nation have, as close as I can tell, re-elected the Prince of Darkness to the office of President. By the way, the folks in England, who have always thought that we were idiots, now have a justification that isn’t solely based on the fact that we call rugby football. This global blunder has left the gods upset, you see they have been sending signs and are dumbfounded that they have been missed, I must admit, I myself missed them…but my eyes are wide open now!! Please allow me to witness to you brothers and sisters, behold the signals of the almighty.
(Cue any song from Depeche Mode’s 1990 album Violator)
For the most avid sports fanatic, being a sportswriter can be considered a dream come true. It is the chance to fulfill your inner-most dreams and fantasies (Sports related, that is). The best part of it all is that you get paid for doing something that you truly love.
When coach Steve Merfeld was at Hampton University, his first team went 14-12, his second team went 8-18, went 17-12 in year three, and in year four, as a #15 seed, they knocked off #2 seed Iowa State in the NCAA tournament. At Evansville, he has gone 12-16, then 7-22 last year. A pattern is developing. The Aces may not make the jump all the way to 17 “W’s” in the tough Valley, but the foundation is there, and the Aces are headed in the right direction.
In March 2001, Indiana State defeated Oklahoma State in the first round of the NCAA before losing to Gonzaga in the second round. Since then, the Sycamores have gone 22-64 overall and 11-43 in the Missouri Valley Conference, with 5 of those wins against one team, Evansville. Looking at this team, it may win more than the 4 “W’s” it has averaged in conference play the last 3 years, but it won’t be easy.
Forgive Bradley if they spend the pre-conference part of their schedule with “Hello, my name is…” stickers as part of their uniforms. Seven newcomers join a roster that has only one senior and two juniors. The transition of playing together with all the new teammates will be eased a bit by the fact the Braves were able to play five games in four days on a Canadian trip in mid-October. The result: five wins, and more of a comfort level with unknown teammates. On the flip side, Bradley lost nearly 50 ppg and 20 rpg due to graduation and departures. No Valley team lost even close to that.
This is the first of ten team previews for the upcoming Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball season. The teams are presented in reverse order of their predicted conference finish.
Last years edition of the Redbirds did something only 5 of the last 33 Illinois State teams have done: end the season with a losing record. To make it even worse, it was the second of back to back losing records, and the salt in that wound is that going into this year, the outlook is even bleaker.