For the second year, State Senator Jeff Smith brought his A-game to Fairgrounds Park, but this time a lot more people joined him. While Smith showed his love for the game, others showed their love of an incumbent senator. Several faces who were not at “Candidate Smith’s” event last year came out Saturday to support “Senator [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 7, 2007
Watch St. Louisan (and my fellow CBC alumnus) Larry Hughes in the NBA Finals tonight at 8:00 on Channel 30. Go Cavs! Here’s a conversation starter: When the hell is St. Louis going to get another NBA team? Update: Not a great game for the Cavaliers. Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net
Continue reading...Monday, April 30, 2007
Saint Louis University President Lawrence Biondi introduced Rick Majerus as the men’s basketball head coach today. Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net
Continue reading...Monday, January 8, 2007
St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop — and now author — Ozzie Smith has written a children’s book and will read it to students this week at Shenandoah Elementary. The book, “Hello Fredbird!”, features the sights and sounds of a game day captured by Smith during his 19 years as a Cardinal. “Reading has always [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 7, 2006
Rumor has is that homerun king Barry Bonds had a meeting this week with an unnamed official from the St. Louis Cardinals. From Yahoo! Sports: The Cardinals’ interest was difficult to define. Their general manager, Walt Jocketty, said Thursday morning he had not met with Bonds and added, “I don’t know where that’s coming from.” Asked if [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Despite repeated assertions by the school board president, St. Louis Public Schools maintains that Vashon’s new basketball coach does not make a $125,000 per year salary. As late as yesterday in a “You Paid for It” segment on KTVI Channel 2, Board Pres. Veronica O’Brien repeated her claims that Anthony Bonner, the former NBA star who [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 29, 2006
In a room on the 18th floor of Bank of America Plaza on a rainy Friday afternoon, just hours before the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Championship, the team’s owners, their developer, and Mayor Francis Slay held a press conference which was as void of details as the day was of sunshine. Maybe it was [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 27, 2006
The same day that the home team may win their first World Series in more than twenty years, the mayor, the owners of the Cardinals, and representatives of developer Cordish Company will hold an event this afternoon to formally announce plans to move forward with the new Ballpark Village. The meeting will be at the Bank [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Two St. Louis Public School students will take center stage at the next two World Series games as the St. Louis Cardinals take on the Detroit Tigers. Anthanisha McMiller, a 5th grader at Gateway Elementary will throw out the first pitch at tonight’s tomorrow night’s game at Busch stadium, and Donald Buckner, a junior at Gateway [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 20, 2006
St. Louis expatriate Margie Newman, a former KETC producer and cheerleader for City living, and KWMU 90.7 FM’s Tom Weber will be among the thousands of people running Sunday in the Chicago Marathon. This is the third marathon for Weber, a Chicago native. He completed both the St. Louis and the Honolulu Marathons back in 2005. [...]
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Monday, July 30, 2007
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