Posted by Allen Vaughan on July 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The High Road: Brett Wallace waits to doom the Cards for the next decade, The Royals Double-A rotation is crazy hyped and fall sports await.
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Posted by Allen Vaughan on July 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The SGF Cardinals open a three-game series with first-place Frisco. The Double-A affiliate of the first-place Texas Rangers are loaded with talent.
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Posted by Allen Vaughan on June 23, 2010 · 1 Comment
Thought Notebook: Cuonzo Martin’s wacky contract extension, the T of C gets its best compliment yet with the NBA Draft and why did David Kopp get promoted?
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Posted by Allen Vaughan on June 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
For the Royals, Anthony Lerew and Mario Santiago have great starts and for the Cardinals, Memphis gets shut out and Nick Additon has a fantastic start.
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Posted by Allen Vaughan on June 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
With only 10 games left in the Texas League’s first half, the SGF Cardinals are five games back with a four-game visit from last-place Arkansas on deck.
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Posted by Allen Vaughan on June 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Thought Notebook: The MLB Draft bullies the Ozarks, what you should believe about college expansion and why it’s OK for Daily Young to come home again.
Posted by Chris DeRosier on June 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
3:28 p.m.: Stats: Shots on goal: England 16, U.S. 11. Fouls: U.S. 14, England 12. Possession: England 54 percent, U.S. 46 percent. FIFA Man of the Match: United States keeper Tim Howard. Damn right. Well, time to tab out. Thanks for reading. We’ll be back here for the next USA match against Slovenia on Friday, [...]
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Posted by Chris DeRosier on June 11, 2010 · 4 Comments
3:26 p.m.: Stats time. Uruguay, you got owned. Shots on goal: France 12, Uruguay 6. Fouls: France 20, Uruguay 13. Possession time: France 53 percent, Uruguay 47 percent. Both teams accumulated three yellow cards, but the red card against Lodeiro will take him out for the next game. They had better hope that doesn’t burn [...]
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Posted by Chris DeRosier on June 10, 2010 · 2 Comments
Shakira, The Black Eyed Peas and a few other music artists sang and danced on worldwide TV earlier today and South Africa declared World Cup 2010 officially open. It was not quite the check-out-our-explosions-and-interpretive-dancers kind of event the Olympics put on, though; mostly just hip shake. More importantly, it means tomorrow morning there will be [...]
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Posted by Allen Vaughan on June 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As the SGF Cardinals come home for an 8-game homestand, we break down what the hometown club has been up to and dissect the opponents — the Tulsa Drillers.
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Posted by Chris DeRosier on June 8, 2010 · 1 Comment
We are just days away from a surprisingly en vogue event in American sports culture: the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa, which starts Friday and continues through July 11. The World Cup has come to the United States just once, in 1994, and while soccer’s profile has steadily grown in America in [...]
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Posted by Allen Vaughan on June 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
For the Royals, RHP Tim Melville is red-hot and making fans salivate. For the Cardinals, Jon Jay, Joe Mather and Tyler Greene make their MLB cases.
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Posted by Allen Vaughan on June 7, 2010 · 3 Comments
Everything came together at the right time for Seth Conner, the Rogersville baseball player who went from junior college to MLB Draft sleeper. How did he do it?
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Posted by Allen Vaughan on May 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Ever since his national baseball breakthrough, Republic’s Tyler King has battled unattainable expectations. Is he a disappointment? Is he overrated? Only he knows the answer.
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