Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The Swell Season
The crowd was large but very well-mannered. We waited in anticipation of Glen and Marketa taking the limelight. It was actually Glen Hansard who took the stage first. He performed his first number of the night standing away from the mic, playing on his acoustic guitar – the one with the big hole in...
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
“When life breaks your chiminea, make shards.”
This is a play on words, but as the old poster stated, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” This is how I’m viewing what could have been but wasn’t (for us) a tragic night. I was up at 2:00 a.m. I was still writing something or to someone on the computer when the storm hit. It had stormed...
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Pt. 2 What PomPon Girls Do When ….
~~ It’s less than 24-hours before game #1 of the National Championship ~~ Two buses, containing the 1974 University of Kansas (KU) Pep Band, PonPom Girls and Yell Leaders, arrived in Greensboro, North Carolina, where our Jayhawk Basketball team was competing in the Final Four National Championship...
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What PomPon Girls Do When ….
~~ 24 Hours – On a Bus ~~ In 1974, I was so lucky to experience going to a Final Four Basketball Playoff as part of the Spirit Squad at the University of Kansas. We had come back from a 9-point deficit with three minutes left to go to defeat Oral Roberts University to advance to the Final Four, in...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Cher-ry Smash!
-- CHER-RY SMASH -- It was determined who would go to the Final Four differently in 1974, and it wasn’t nearly the Hoopla it is these days. In those days, the brackets were built upon who had won their regional conferences. We had just won the Big 8 Conference Title by defeating K-State by 38...
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Where’s the Picture?
I knew Willy the Wildcat. His name was Steve. Who was that and why should you care, you may wonder? I'm just telling another of my old Jayhawk stories, like I said I would. I've got several more to go, too! Willy the Wildcat was a yell leader/mascot from Kansas State (KSU). The Kansas Jayhawk (KU)...
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Silly Bastard Wrecked the Game
Sports fans, have you ever felt that a television announcer, impartial though they beg to be, has definitely favored the “other team?” We usually listen to the radio and turn the TV volume down to zero, but our new receiver, top of the line though it may be, won’t let us do that and use the surround...
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Monday, April 7, 2008
Chalk and Awe!
(ESPN is running a replay of the game; check your local listings) Hey there, Randy Jackson!! Yo, yo, yo Dawg. That was pretty good. 75,000 people have amassed on Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kansas Monday night to celebrate their team. They started out as underDAWGS, and ended up as the...
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Th KU Underdawgs
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
PREDICTION!
(Written pre-game, morning of April 5th, 2008) Who Goes on to the Championship Game There is an old curse, tradition, whatever you want to call it, that says any team whose picture appears on Sports Illustrated the week before the Final Four is going to lose. Since NC is on the East Coast cover and...
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