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Box and Won

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  1. When you mentioned a hotel, were you thinking of the Drake Plaza Apartments on Olive? I would be very happy to see that building spared from the wrecking ball. The Grand Center option sacrifices way too many historic structures that could play a role in the renaissance of the area. Building the arena on the site of the Waring School makes so much more sense to me.

  2. As Bill_Ken_R mentioned in an earlier post. Here is the press release from the St. Louis Business Journal:

    SLU buys SLPS' Waring School for $1.25 million

    Saint Louis University has purchased Waring School from the St. Louis Public School for $1,251,000.

    Waring School, at 25 S. Compton, was closed over the summer because of declining enrollment. The school originally opened in 1940.

    The St. Louis Business Journal reported in its Oct. 17 issue that the St. Louis Public School District put up 39 surplus properties for sale, including 16 schools that were closed. Waring School was listed for sale with an offering price of $1 million.

  3. He wouldn't let you give him the facts. Every time you started to make a point, he'd cut you off. The whole time he was complaining about Duquesne and Fordham, I was sitting here yelling "what about Northern Iowa and Drake!" which you also brought up.

  4. Hey Drew! This is Brian S. I was in your class at SLUH as well, but transferred, thus eliminating my shot at triple billiken status. The last time I saw you, we were at Llewellyn's, and you were just starting law school. Hope all is well with you.

    More info on me: 28, grew up in St. Louis (Des Peres), BA Communication 1997, MBA 2001. After growing up in west county, going to school in the city exposed me to all the great things that city living has to offer, and I now live about a block away from Forest Park. Still looking for Mrs. Box and Won. Currently work as a one-man marketing department for a local bank, but am looking to go into business for myself soon.

    Started going to Billiken games with my dad during the Grawer years, and still have an autographed team picture from the first NIT finals team. I often miss the environment of the old Kiel. In high school, I had already been accepted to several collleges but made my decision to go to SLU at a game at the Arena in which Spoon's first team beat DePaul.

    I used to haze A Bomb during our fraternity days. Actually, he was a pretty good kid unlike most of his pledge brothers. :)

    I created this screen name when Triangle and Too was at the height of his absurdity, so that I could tear him a new a-hole. My plan (which now seems fairly absurd itself) was to respond to each one of his posts as his more intelligent alter ego. I was too (sorry about using that word) lazy to pull it off though. I also used to post on the old Rivals board under a different name.

    My season tickets are in section 120, row J. That's the young alumni discount. For people who recently graduated, you can get a major discount on some good seats with the young alumni discount. It would be nice to fill that section up!

  5. True, but most of us (and hopefully most columnists) can discern fact from opinion. There is plenty of factual-based information here that I'm sure Stu uses when writing his articles or at least provides the inspiration for his articles. This board would be a good starting point for anyone wishing to write an article on Billiken basketball from an informed standpoint.

  6. Well said, Roy. The sad thing is that all he has to do is spend 20 minutes reading the posts on this board for research purposes, and he's not even willing to do that. Just like most of his columns, this latest one sounds like he wrote it off the top of his head.

  7. Roy,

    I was a student at SLU at the same time as Larry Sssssssimmons, and I don't really remember his recruitment. Weren't there high hopes for him originally? I seem to remember him showing an occasional flash of talent early in his Billiken career, but by the end, he earned hardly any playing time. Was he an underachiever or just no good?

  8. When he says "our own", it's difficult to discern whether he's referring to GW or the Atlantic 10 Conference. While perhaps our academic mission may not be identical to that of GW (I don't know enough about GW to say either way), it's safe to say that we are as strong academically, if not stronger, than the majority of the schools in the conference. Sounds like he could stand to do his homework.

  9. I wish I were old enough to have witnessed the Ekker days. These incidents sound pretty hilarious now, although I'm sure they must have been hard to stomach at the time.

    I want to hear more about BilliLou!

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