Ah, a relaxing evening watching professional wrestling. And for me, that’s All Elite Wrestling’s Dynamite broadcast on TBS. Hell of a set of matches last night – Wardlow defeated Orange Cassidy in a rare face v. face match; Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee overpowered two teams to claim the AEW tag titles, AEW is bringing…
Read MoreAlbany Patroons v. Tampa Bay Thrillers – Washington Avenue Armory, Albany, N.Y. – March 31, 1985 – The Musselman-Sanders “Phone Call Series”
“I have friends who eat nails, and they’ll be in Albany tonight. So watch it.” Those words are an approximation of a telephone call from Bill Musselman, coach of the Tampa Bay Thrillers, to Frankie J. Sanders, the shooting star of the Albany Patroons. Both men spent the first two games of the CBA Eastern…
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The “Golden Ticket” postcard from Iowa, 2022 Edition
I know the postcard’s coming. It just takes an extra day or two to arrive. It always does. Let me explain. The Iowa State Fair’s Photography Salon is one of five spokes of my “Competition Season” wheel of photography. Last month, I submitted these four photos to Iowa for consideration. You know … just an…
Read MoreAlexander went walkies.
During my 2022 college reunion, I took several photos around campus, including snagging this shot of the statue of Alexander Hamilton, for whom the college was named. Backstory. The college itself was formed in 1793 as the Hamilton Oneida Academy, a school that Presbyterian seminarian Samuel Kirkland hoped would educate the local indigenous peoples. The…
Read MoreThe egg that probably came from a constipated chicken
I enjoy Sunday mornings at the local farmer’s market. Fresh air, peaceful times, and 100% of what I spend goes directly to the merchants and farmers. That means all the vegetables and breads and meats came from the farmers, and my money goes right back into their pockets. In other words, I’m helping to stimulate…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, July 9 2022
First off, I enjoy sharing the works of my fellow bloggers and podcasters and photographers. Every Saturday, I shift the blog focus from me to them. I provide links to their articles for you to visit and to enjoy. Marc Beebe is one of those photographers who I feature on this blog. He lives up…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for July 8, 2022
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode features a lot of great songs, including a track that influenced a #1 song – which later influenced a song…
Read MoreThe moment that the Shreveport Mavericks ripped out my heart and stomped on it.
Last night. The Albany Patroons were on the cusp of claiming their fourth franchise title. The game went back and forth between the Patroons and the Mavericks all night. All night. But in the final seconds, Albany had a two-point lead, 120-118. All they had to do was keep the Mavericks from claiming one more…
Read MoreAlbany Patroons force Game 3 of 2022 TBL Finals!
The Albany Patroons have fought their way back from adversity throughout this entire postseason. In the opening playoff round, they lost the first of a three-game series against Atlantic City, only to sweep the Gambits in Games 2 and 3 at the Armory to advance. They then had to hold off the Huntsville Hurricane in…
Read MoreDid Asuka try to steal second base on Becky Lynch? :D
Although I haven’t really watched WWE’s professional wrestling shows of late, I sometimes take a glance if I know that a couple of the promotion’s best wrestlers are competing against each other. That’s usually the case when you get a match between Japanese wrestler Asuka and Irish wrestler Becky Lynch. The two of them work…
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