Archive for January, 2010
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Having seen this video about 50 times when the song "Closest Thing To Heaven" came out in 2004, I never knew who the girl in the video was. I just recently was sorry to learn that the "damsel in distress" at sea was Brittany Murphy.
Murphy passed away just over a ...
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Rachael Manuel is one of only two Senior players at Youngstown State University. Times are tough and the win column is bare, but Manuel is making the most of her minutes on and off the court. The Texas-born Lady Penguin gets it. She knows that she and her fellow hoopsters ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
The Youngstown Phantoms don't want to come off as an unpatriotic group of people, but they broke a six-game winless streak and set records of a positive nature in their destruction of Team USA, 7-3. Cody Strang (pictured) collected the first hat trick in Phantoms history as the home team scored ...
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Butler rolled into Youngstown having handled the Lady Penguins the last seven times they had met. Youngstown State also entered the contest as the only team in Division-I without a victory this season. The odds were against Youngstown State coming out ahead, but when a struggling team compiles 25 turnovers, the end ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Everyone who watches football cannot seem to understand why New Orleans is a seven point favorite against Arizona in this weekends playoff game. Without question, the line is wrong and New Orleans should be -12 and here is why.
Usually when a team rests their starters (i.e. Indianapolis) down the stretch of ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Youngstown State University came into their Horizon League matchup with Valparaiso as the only Division-I program without a victory. Boki Dimitrov, one of the Lady Penguins leading scorers, was not dressed leaving the full active roster at seven. For the first 17 minutes, YSU looked really good. The rest of ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Everyone had a pretty good idea that Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were on something in 1998. What a fun year it was to watch the Cubs play against the Cardinals toward the end of the season. The McGwire & Sosa show captivated baseball fans from coast-to-coast. Home runs a-plenty ...
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
DeAndre Mays (above, courtesy of Ron Stevens) was named the Player Of The Week in the Horizon League on Monday. Mays had an outstanding week in helping YSU go 2-0 with wins over UIC and Loyola.
For the two games, Mays averagaed 22.5 ppg (50% from field), 66.7% from three-point range, ...
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