Duff Man

Bonner was there in 1995. Just last weekend I stumbled upon some B&W negatives I shot at this event. I will scan them and see how they look. 1996 was the ESPN year with the dunk contest. The only thing I remember is Rasheed Malik doing the "raising the roof" gesture after his dunk.

I'm not so sure our ability to fill stadiums for a handful of exhibitions matches featuring the best players in the world means we could draw 20k per game over a full season (17 regular season home games) for a (presumably) mediocre MLS team. As a soccer fan, I will attend every big time exhibition game that comes to town, but I have no interest in annually committing 17 weekend dates to a team of which I have no emotional attachment. That's not to suggest that the St. Louis market couldn't support an MLS team, but marketing wise it's a completely different animal compared with the Special Event matches we've been getting in 2013. re: the lack of a stadium or owner... The only way I see it happening is if Kroenke really intends to keep the Rams in St Louis and 5 or 10 years down the road (if the Rams aren't so awful, and soccer is even more mainstream than it is now) he manages to get St Louis County to kick in $200-300M towards a new stadium (presumably at the Fenton Chrysler site) on the dual conditions that it will keep the Rams in STL for 30-40 years and that it will land St Louis an MLS team, with the NFL kicking in $200-300M, and Kroenke covering the rest. Kroenke would have majority ownership of the stadium, and in addition to the 27+ Rams/MLS games, he could book the big time exhibition matches that the DeWitts are currently getting. and that scenario - while plausible - is not likely because voters are unlikely to approve any kind of tax increase for a sports stadium. In 2004, St Louis County voters overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the county charter that mandates referendums for any public funding for the development of a professional sports facility. ultimately, I'll settle for 2-3 world class exhibitions a year over 17 MLS games.

Amazing that the Billikens - coming off a 5-23 season - trumped the Cardinals in the highlights pecking order. So much going on in this segment...Mike Keenan, Ed Belfour, Dominik Hasek, Brett Hull (with a Keenan jab!), the Highmark interview, the 2 former coaches sons aren't coming back? Oh do you think so doctor?, "new coach" Charlie Spoonhour, [insert Carlos McCauley joke here], Cardinals looking sharp wearing the blue caps on the road (get rid of the red road caps!), Bob Tewksbury, David Cone, Willie Randolph, Doc Gooden. All that was missing was drunk Vince Coleman throwing firecrackers at kids... (Vince wore #1 for the Mets, that's not him scoring in the highlight)

I'm fascinated that best 3pt shooter in Billikens history played without a 3 point line for the bulk of his basketball development.

Crews Interview on The Press Box Cheaney Interview on Middle Relief (starts around 16:30)

Um, he was the motherfuoking National Player of the Year, is the all-time Big Ten leading scorer, played in the Final Four, and went 3-1 against the Fab 5.

"Not Isiah Thomas" is the most important thing on my list.

I had a client of mine - not a SLU fan, but someone who knows the local and national sports landscape and with whom I've discussed Crews/recruiting with previously - call this article to my attention this morning. He seemed genuinely enthused and my takeaway was that he's more likely to follow the program in the early part of the season to see how Crews and the incoming recruits perform.

The entire cable TV business model revolves around forcing people to pay for content they will never watch. A-la-carte channels/programming isn't going to happen until there is government intervention, and that isn't going to happen until there is an organized movement that exerts political pressure. There are ways around it, but you're stuck using proxy servers to beat the blackouts (e.g. for MLB.tv) and that's a hassle each time, forced to torrent shows (which works pretty well, except not all shows get posted, and you can't participate in the twitter/recaps/water cooler conversations in the immediate aftermath). Soccer was always the easiest sport to torrent because of the international following and (up until recently) the low risk of spoilers in your local coverage, but most sports are difficult to watch like that. Sports bars work great for big games - and for football saturdays/sundays, but it gets expensive (not to mention the toll on your liver) if you're watching every Cardinals/Blues/etc game in a bar. I gave up cable when I got my first post-college apt, then came crawly back years later once I could legitimately afford the luxury. I wish someone would bust up that cabal but in the meantime we're stuck with no real alternative - and that's just the way they engineered it (also, it's no coincidence that the content providers got into telecom and vice versa).

I'll take Orlando Stewart's (even if it's not ) cover of Maggot Brain over this any day of the week

I know reading comprehension is hard, but the single sentence I quoted and was replying to implied that Gillman was not even on the radar of ESPN's recruiting site. The point was simply providing evidence to the contrary.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/187062/austin-gillman

I'll cede authority to anyone who GSTKP, but if he's listed as both a PG (verbal commits, yahoo rivals) and a SG (espn), I'll assume he's a combo guard capable of playing either the 1 or the 2.

I'll sleep better tonight knowing SLU has a PG* for 2014-15 in the bag** *besides McBroom **even if it's just a verbal

Single year APR 2008-09: 933 2009-10: 915 2010-11: 945 2011-12: 1000

My general understanding is that it's more difficult for academically challenged athletes to remain eligible at private institutions as opposed to public schools which naturally offer a wider array of courses to a wider spectrum of students.

Does SLU offer a class called Physics in Sports?

If Keith Carter took his time to think through decisions as Randy O is doing, he possibly never would have come here at all...or maybe he would have come, and not left. There is nothing wrong with Randy O taking his time before he making one of the most important decisions of his life. From the kid's perspective, it's better to avoid signing an LOI. SLU, Miami University, and LSU would all be wildly different experiences, and it really comes down to where he feels is the best fit.

LOL

Does anyone else realize Willie (inactive bench player, sure) is in a playoff series against a player who ended the SLU careers of Claggett, Waldman, and Highmark?

MLB has been (re)selling online broadcast feeds for 10+ years. You used to (c. 2000) be able to listen online to Cardinals games on a non-KMOX member of the Cards radio network, but they cracked down around 2002.

Of course, it's incredibly sh1tty that Jim Crews hung this kid out to dry like this...of course But maybe...it was never going to end well for the kid here...maybe Crews did him a favor by cutting him loose before he wasted another year of eligibility riding the bench. Of course, it's fuoked up that they waited so long to break the news...of course But maybe...there's never a good time to break the news...maybe it's better for everyone that he complete his finals without the devastating circumstances hanging over him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkjmzEEQUlE

Who could resist the urge to play for Rondo? (NSFW audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCvJO0--yk