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More On Chris Tanev
Canucks.com has a great piece up today on Tanev, whom the Canucks signed out of Rochester Institute of Technology. Dave Gagner has been watching this guy since he was 11 years old. Tanev is currently about 6'2" and 182 pounds. He intends to bulk up this summer and try make the Canucks this...
Churchill's Farm Report Rises like the Phoenix out of the Ashes of the P-I...
I'm sure a lot of you are aware of the story of the Seattle P-I print edition's demise, and how some of the former staffers put together a grassroots site -- SeattlePostGlobe.org. And a lot of you know that Jason wrote the Minor League Farm Report weekly for the P-I. He's now reprising that gig...
Cabrera Signs With The Nats
MLB.com's Bill Ladson has confirmed that Daniel Cabrera won't be moving far this offseason. It's a one-year deal, pending a physical. The Pirates and Mets were also in contention. Terms were not disclosed. It seem to me that we might ultimately be trading Daniel Cabrera for Tim Redding this year....
New Warren St. John Book
Warren St. John, author of Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer has a new book coming out in April called Outcasts United, about a youth soccer team of refugees (primarily from Africa and the Middle East) in Clarkston, Georgia. Don't know if y'all saw the article he wrote on them last year, but it was...
Comment on A Sea of Blue newsfeed articles
Google reader keeps improving the feed reader sharing capabilities, and I keep using them. The newsfeed is located here on A Sea of Blue just below the "Featured Stories" list on the right sidebar. If you look down at the bottom of that feed, you will see a "Read more..." link. Click on it and...
ASO buys Unipublic & Vuelta a España
There will be a press conference today announcing that Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO) is going to buy 49% of Unipublic's shares. Don't worry because there will be no ban for Contador in this year's Vuelta. Source: AS.com This increases ASO's control of the European calendar after another...
Best to James Johnson and Chris Patterson for a Speedy Recovery
Former K-State running back James Johnson and current linebacker Chris Patterson were injured in an altercation in Manhattan last weekend (or here at GoPowercat, $). My best to both, and I'm encouraged to hear the injuries apparently aren't serious. Let's hope this remains an isolated incident...
Big News Coming in the Athletic Department
At this point I don't have any sources that include non-premium information, but there is big news coming later today in the K-State athletic department. If you have a GoPowercat subscription, check out that site for more.For now, just know that athletic director Tim Weiser will speak at a press...
New Jerseys
It isn't officially official, but it's all but official that K-State will be busting out some new jerseys later this year. These are the Nike Elite jerseys, similar to what Texas and Syracuse (among other teams) wear. I love the use of "K-State" above the number, rather than "Kansas" above the...
K-State AD Takes Position with Big 12
Haven't seen this posted here yet, sorry if I missed it. K-State athletic director Tim Weiser has taken a job as the Big 12's deputy commissioner.Sorry, wish I could give you more insight on this, but there's not a whole lot of info at this point. Weiser held a press conference at 4:30 p.m. and I...
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