A mudcat is a type of catfish that lives in the Spoon River in west-central Illinois. So it would make some sort of sense that Spoon River College, a community college with four campuses along said river, would adopt the mudcat as its mascot.Well, okay, it would make sense if you ignore the fact that a mudcat is, technically, a bottom-feeder. But it sounds scrappy. And sort of cool.So cool, in fact, that news of the Spoon River Mudcats traveled as far as Zebulon, North Carolina, home of the Caro
On weather.gov, it's a balmy 32 degrees outside. By this link, the Cardinals' pitchers and catchers don't report for spring training for another three weeks. Yet Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin -- which is playing tonight at the Billiken Club with Flaming Death Trap -- conjures warm summer nights and pennant-race baseball games with the following song. Written in homage to the Springfield Cardinals, the AA affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals, "Cardinal Rules" is a breezy, catchy, awesome
