Former News/Senior sports reporter and columnist, Evansville Courier & Press. Contributor Evansville Living. Pro baseball fanatic and rock 'n roll historian.
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‘Smallville’ at 25: Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum on Clark Kent and Lex Luthor’s Origin Story, the Journey to Superman and That Final Moment variety.com/2026/tv/news/sma… via @variety
May Cliff Hagan, master of the hook shot long before Kareem, RIP. The Owensboro, Ky., native helped lead UK to 1951 NCAA championship and St. Louis Hawks to 1958 NBA title. Hagan was a five-time NBA All-Star and ABA All-Star.
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A Gridiron Legacy evansvilleliving.com/randy-m… via @Evansville Living Magazine
Don Mattingly is expected to be named the Phillies full time manager sometime this week, according to The Athletic. He guided the Phils to a 79-55 record and NL Wild Card berth as interim.
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So, if we’re gonna celebrate the ABA all season long, we’re also gonna include ABA stats in the NBA records. Right?!
@NBAHistory @NBA @Pacers @spurs @BrooklynNets @nuggets @RebBrownell
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This is the most brutal honesty you’ll ever hear from a Major League Baseball player.
Cameron Maybin was drafted 10th overall, spent 15 years playing at the highest level, won a World Series and is well-respected around the game.
Anyone who spends enough time around a major league clubhouse knows that what Cameron is saying is a very common sentiment around the league from those who play it and coach it!
Many are afraid to say it because of obvious reasons, so take a moment and appreciate Cameron’s honesty.
He is 1,000,000% spot on!
At some point, baseball has to get back to valuing ballplayers and not just numbers on a screen. Give me the Freddie Freemans, the Buster Poseys, Hunter Pences, Pablo Sandovals, Michael Youngs, Ian Kinslers of the world. Guys who just flat out know how to play the game. Everyone wants to talk launch angle and exit velo, but what happened to valuing a quality at bat?” The 9-pitch battle that might end in an out, but forces a pitcher to show everything he’s got.
The guy who hits behind the runner, takes what’s given, or just refuses to give a pitcher an easy inning. Those at-bats might not look sexy in the box score, but they show up in the 7th, 8th, and 9th. Some of these dudes could absolutely leave the yard too. That’s the point. They weren’t one-dimensional. Somewhere along the way, we confused measurable tools with knowing how to win baseball games.
I’m not against analytics or hitting the ball hard, but there is an art to winning that you can’t fully measure. We need more guys who know how to play baseball, not just hitters, not just athletes, ballplayers. And I promise you, those dudes never go out of style
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Jackie Young ties the game at 71 with a bucket that eventually sent the game to overtime 👏
(via @LVAces)
Here’s my Ditka story. A young reporter in N. Illinois I covered the Bears on verge of greatness in early 80s. They lost to Landry and Cowboys and Iron Mike was breathing fire. Chicago TV guys baited him and he says, “Yes, next question.” Then “No, next question” and on it went!
I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked the Beatles. I asked Timothy Leary and he couldn’t help me either…
"There were bands that I loved, and songwriters that I loved, like Ray Davies and Townshend — lots of people. But you know, when it’s all said and done, there was the Beatles and then there was everybody else. I don't think anyone ever put anything together as incredible as those guys. They were the band of all bands.
"I don’t think that the phenomenon of a band like the Beatles can ever be repeated. I just don’t think that you can get someone like John Lennon, someone like Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, you know, that kind of talent in one band. When you listen to the music and listen to all the parts, and you listen to the way the records sound, you think: 'there’s something else going on.' It creates something else . . . I think it has to do with how long they played together, the fact that they sang and played like — well, like brothers — but also there was just something divine about it, you know? I mean I’m not a religious person, but there was something.
"And I think that’s the thing that won’t be repeated. You know, you can get different people together and play those same songs and replicate everything and it’ll just sound nothing like them. That’s the remarkable thing."
--#ColinHay
#MenAtWork #Songwriter #ARIAHallOfFame #Actor #Beatles #TheBeatles #Influence #Unicorn #GOAT
Sources: SiriusXM, 2018, 2021; NBC San Diego, 2011
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Don Mattingly on whether he earned the right to return as the Phillies manager.
Mattingly was named interim manager in April after the team started 9-19.
Not only do surprising Sox have Colson Montgomery and SIU product Tristan Peters, they boast four former Cardinals, not three, in Hicks, Grichuk, Pham and Fedde. After three 100-plus losing seasons, Sox win first playoff series since 2005. Go Sox go.
Don Mattingly guides Phils to playoffs, averting visions of 1964 collapse in which surging Cards took advantage and beat Yanks in World Series.
Phillies survive scare, clinch playoff berth in Game 162: Three reasons why they can win the World Series
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Great run by the Otters, who fell short of their goal of winning Frontier League title every 10 years, trying to join 2006 and ‘16 champions.
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The Princeton Community HS graduate became our state's all-time girls career scoring leader in 2016 finishing with 3,268 points! @PCHSTigers
EXCLUSIVE: Jackie Young is a historic basketball winner. @IHSAA1 state champion at @TigersPchs. NCAA National Champion at @ndwbb. 3-time WNBA champion for @LVAces. 3-time Gold Medalist.
But, Young wants her legacy to be more than her accomplishments. 🏀📝
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Glad for Southridge HS product Colson Montgomery, SIU product Tristan Peters and three former Cardinals.
And rebuild the bullpen.
Just mentioned this on the show: Andre Pallante is the 1st #STLCards starter to throw at least 150 innings with a sub-3.7 ERA since Jack Flaherty did so in 2019.
The Brewers, meanwhile, have had 10 individual seasons meet that criteria from 2021-2026.
That's the gap to close.
Asterisk-Cards were under .500 in 1994 and ‘95 as well, but ‘94 was not a full season because of the stupid strike ended play after 114 games.