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Remembering Lou Brock: City Honors A Legend
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu Baseball Hall of Famer and Cardinals Legend Lou Brock, who passed away on September 6, 2020 at the age of 81, will always be remembered in “Cardinals Nation”. He had over…
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Crop of Cards Covid Cases Temporarily Pauses Season
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu St. Louis’s beloved baseball team has been doing a lot of nothing lately. Just five games into the shortened MLB season, the Cardinals were forced into quarantine, following a handful of…
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MLS, At Soccer’s Expense
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu As the St. Louis MLS team awaits their big unveiling this week, news has come out about the city’s current and only pro soccer team, Saint Louis FC, who will likely…
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Better Know A Sport: Jai Alai
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu In this edition of Better Know A Sport, we hit the casinos of South Florida to take a look at jai alai. Now nearly forgotten, jai alai (pronounced high uh-lie) once…
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BattleHawks Back In 2021? Their President Says So
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu “Lifelong” BattleHawks president Kurt Hunzeker spoke to Randy Karraker and Michelle Smallmon this week on their 101 ESPN morning show about the potentiality of professional football coming back to St. Louis…
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NBA Players are Adapting to Their New Normal in The Bubble
By Chris Thomas cbthomas@lc.edu Covid-19 has thrown a lot of curveballs that we did not expect. It has changed the way we play sports, interact with others and participate in activities. This new normal is…
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ESPN’s “Long Gone Summer” Review: Had To Be There
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu On Sunday, June 14, ESPN debuted it’s latest documentary “Long Gone Summer”. The documentary was a look into the 1998 MLB home run race between Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire and Chicago…
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Cardinals Chairman DeWitt: “The Industry Isn’t Very Profitable”
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu In a radio interview with Frank Cusumano on 590 “The Fan” on Tuesday, June 9, Cardinals owner and Chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. turned heads with comments he made on the financials…
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Sports Are Back(?): A Look At Professional Sports Restarting In The US
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu Despite surging positive cases of coronavirus in some regions of the US, the nation’s biggest team sports leagues have decided to push onward and start playing games in July. Popular non-team…
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Better Know A Sport: Endurance Racing
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu While motorsport might not be an outside concept to most sports fans here in the States, most tend to think of NASCAR, or stock car racing. A more dedicated racing fan…