I know. Most of you would be more interested in spring training baseball games, or maybe the NCAA men’s basketball tournament right now. But for me … my Saturday was spent flipping between a women’s college ice hockey tournament round and a minor league basketball all-star contest. I started out with the NCAA Division III…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, March 9, 2024
It’s a bad Daylight Saving Time routine for me. I don’t set my clocks forward before I go to bed. I set them forward on the Saturday morning when I wake up. That way, I’m not forgetting to do it at night and finding out on Sunday morning that I’m an hour behind in my…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for March 8, 2024
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. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreHey, Nazareth women’s ice hockey team … NIGHT NIGHT!!
Okay. I’m home last night, laptop computer up and ready. I log into the Hamilton College website, then go to the athletics page, and there it is. The one-and-done eliminator match, airing live from Sage Rink on campus, between the Hamilton College women’s ice hockey team and the whatever-they-ares from Nazareth College in Pennsylvania. This…
Read MoreThe Adventures of Prisma and Hydrofera Blue
That sounds like a way-cool superhero concept, doesn’t it? I can see it now. The evil villains have Silver Star City in its grip. And just when all hope seems lost … Out of the sky … like bolts of lightning … there they are. Silver Star City’s two guardians of justice, the superheroes Prisma…
Read More“I pulled into Nazareth … on the way to the NCAA’s…”
Last year, I blogged about the amazing success achieved by my alma mater‘s women’s ice hockey team. The Hamilton College Continentals made a lot of noise in their first-ever NCAA tournament run, knocking off several colleges before getting up-ended by Amherst in the semifinals. Look, any time my college makes any sort of NCAA tournament,…
Read More“Just throw those perfectly good medical supplies away.”
I finished my wound vac therapy on Friday. Thank heavens. If you’ve never worked with a wound vac before, it’s a device that applies suction over your open wound and helps the tissue and muscles heal from the inside out. Once healing commences, then the patient can move to a different treatment. During the wound…
Read MoreThe $20 Junior Challenge – Race 5
Last week, our intrepid harness horse Pay Me To Knight (also known around the stable as “Junior”) came in second in his race at Saratoga Harness, only a whisker behind a speedster known as Yucatan Party Man, who won at 13-1 odds. Well, this Sunday the two horses will have a rematch in the 10th…
Read MoreThe Albany Patroons go up 2-0 on the 2024-season … 24 seconds at a time
As you know, I am a loyal and ardent supporter of the Albany Patroons basketball team. Let me say that again. I am a loyal and ardent supporter of the THREE-TIME CHAMPION Albany Patroons basketball team. And as the Patroons start their 2024 TBL championship run – as far as I’m concerned, just give us…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, March 2 2024
So … I’m in a really good mood today. And there are plenty of reasons why. First off, Hamilton College, my alma mater, just knocked off the #1 seed Amherst on Friday afternoon en route to the New England Small College Athletic Conference finals in women’s ice hockey – and one more win will send…
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