On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 22

Extra! Extra! If still remaining home like cardboard cutout because of mixed masked messaging from Plagiarist Biledumb's Oval Office and wondering if #ShrillaryRotten is duped #MessMedia's female version of Sgt. "I Know Nothing" Schultz regarding false Russian collusion narrative about #TheDonald, you can read news in your office about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former college hoopers George Altman (Tennessee State), Bruce Bochte (Santa Clara), Bill Davis (Minnesota), Chubby Dean (Duke), Dick Gernert (Temple) and Gil Hodges (St. Joseph's IN/Oakland City IN) made news as MLB first basemen on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 22 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 22

  • Chicago Cubs 1B George Altman (appeared in 1953 and 1954 NAIA Basketball Tournament with Tennessee State) swatted two homers in a 4-3 win against the Atlanta Braves in the nightcap of 1966 doubleheader.

  • San Diego Padres RHP Andy Benes (joined Evansville's shorthanded basketball squad in 1985-86 under coach Jim Crews) tossed a three-hit shutout against the Chicago Cubs in 1992.

  • Seattle Mariners 1B Bruce Bochte (starting forward for Santa Clara's NCAA playoff team in 1969-70) went 4-for-4 and chipped in with six RBI in a 12-11 win against the Kansas City Royals in 1979.

  • 1B Bill Davis (averaged 12.5 ppg in 1963-64 for a Minnesota team including eventual NBA standouts Archie Clark and Lou Hudson) traded by the San Diego Padres to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1969.

  • Philadelphia Athletics 1B Chubby Dean (reserve guard for Duke in 1936) smacked a game-tying homer with two outs in bottom of the ninth in eventual 10-9 win in 11 innings against the Chicago White Sox in 1937.

  • 1B-LF Dick Gernert (Temple hoops letterman in 1948-49) was one of four Boston Red Sox players to wallop a homer in the sixth inning of an 11-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians in 1957.

  • Baltimore Orioles RHP Dick Hall (averaged 13.5 ppg from 1948-49 through 1950-51 with Swarthmore PA Southern Division champions in Middle Atlantic States Conference) notched his fourth relief win of the month in 1964.

  • San Francisco Giants C Tom Haller (backup forward for Illinois in 1956-57 and 1957-58 under coach Harry Combes) banged out four hits against the Houston Astros in the opener of a 1965 doubleheader.

  • Pittsburgh Pirates 3B Lee Handley (Bradley hoops letterman from 1932-33 through 1934-35) went 4-for-4 against the New York Giants in a 1939 game.

  • Brooklyn Dodgers 1B Gil Hodges (hooper for St. Joseph's IN in 1943 and Oakland City IN in 1947 and 1948) collected two homers and six RBI against the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 1951 contest. Twelve years later, Hodges became manager of the Washington Senators in 1963 after his acquisition from the New York Mets for OF Jimmy Piersall.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers rookie RF Frank Howard (two-time All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection when leading Ohio State in scoring and rebounding in 1956-57 and 1957-58) contributed four hits against the Philadelphia Phillies in a 1960 contest.

  • 3B Jerry Lumpe (hooper for Southwest Missouri State's 1952 NAIA Tournament championship team) notched the New York Yankees only hit (a single) in a 5-0 setback against knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm of the Baltimore Orioles in 1959. The next year as a Kansas City Athletics 2B in a 1960 outing, Lumpe launched two homers against his original team (Yankees).

  • Chicago White Sox RHP Ted Lyons (two-time All-SWC first-team selection with Baylor in the early 1920s) beat the Washington Senators, 9-2, in 1938 for his 200th career victory.

  • In 1965, Detroit Tigers rookie RF Jim Northrup (second-leading scorer and third-leading rebounder for Alma MI in 1958-59) jacked his first MLB homer (off Hall of Famer Robin Roberts of Baltimore Orioles).

  • Montreal Expos LF Curtis Pride (led William & Mary in steals three times and assists twice while averaging 5.6 ppg and 3.1 apg from 1986-87 through 1989-90) went 3-for-3 against the New York Mets in a 2001 contest.

  • Chicago Cubs LF Dave Robertson (one of two reserves on North Carolina State's first basketball team in 1911) went 3-for-3 with five RBI in 1920 game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

  • Baltimore Orioles RF Ken Singleton (Hofstra freshman hoops squad in mid-1960s) smacked a game-ending grand slam in the bottom of ninth inning against the Detroit Tigers in 1976.

  • Utilityman Jimmy Stewart (All-Volunteer State Athletic Conference hoops selection for Austin Peay State in 1959-60 and 1960-61) purchased from the Chicago Cubs by the Chicago White Sox in 1967.

  • Chicago White Sox DH Jim Thome (played junior-college hoops for Illinois Central in 1988-89) whacked a two-run double and three-run homer in 2007 game against the Oakland Athletics.

  • Pittsburgh Pirates LHP Bob Veale (scored 1,160 points from 1955-56 through 1957-58 with Benedictine KS) tossed his second shutout of the month in 1966.

  • Kansas City Royals RHP Chris Young (All-Ivy League first-team selection as Princeton's leading scorer and rebounder in 1999-00) won first four decisions and compiled 0.78 ERA through his first 10 outings of 2015 campaign.

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 21

Extra! Extra! While receiving mixed masking messages from Oval Office and Dr. Anthony Fraudci as confusing as San Franfreakshow's Drag Laureate plus ridiculous reparations petition, you can read news in your office all about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former Duke basketball All-Americans Dick Groat and Billy Werber provided significant MLB offensive performances on this date. Ex-San Diego State hoopers Tony Gwynn and Jim Wilson also made MLB news on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 21 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 21

  • Toronto Blue Jays 2B Danny Ainge (three-time Brigham Young All-American and national basketball player of year as senior in 1980-81) stroked three hits and scored three runs against the Cleveland Indians in his MLB debut in 1979.

  • LF Ethan Allen (Cincinnati hoops letterman in 1924-25 and 1925-26) traded by the Philadelphia Phillies to the Chicago Cubs in 1936.

  • Seattle Mariners RHP Jim Beattie (Dartmouth's top rebounder in 1974-75 when selected team MVP and honorable mention All-Ivy League) notched his third victory in 11 days in 1980.

  • Minnesota Twins 3B John Castino (medical redshirt for Rollins FL in 1973-74 under coach Ed Jucker) went 4-for-4 in a 1980 game against the Chicago White Sox.

  • Hall of Fame C Mickey Cochrane (Boston University hooper in early 1920s) clobbered three homers as a Philadelphia Athletics rookie in a 20-4 rout of the St. Louis Browns in 1925. Six years later, Cochrane collected five hits and four RBI against the Detroit Tigers in a 1931 contest.

  • New York Giants 2B Pat Crawford (Davidson hoops captain in early 1920s) contributed two extra-base hits and four RBI for the second time in a 10-game span in 1930.

  • Atlanta Braves 3B Darrell Evans (member of Jerry Tarkanian-coached Pasadena City CA club winning 1967 state community college crown) homered twice in a 1975 outing against the Montreal Expos.

  • In 1962, Pittsburgh Pirates SS Dick Groat (two-time All-American with Duke in 1950-51 and 1951-52 when finishing among nation's top five scorers each season) went 4-for-4 against the Chicago Cubs in the midst of a career-high 15-game hitting streak.

  • LHP Don Gross (Michigan State freshman hooper in 1949-50) permitted his lone run in first 10 relief appearances with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1958.

  • Atlanta Braves rookie RHP Kevin Gryboski (backup hooper for Wilkes PA in 1991-92 and 1992-93) contributed his 13th consecutive scoreless relief appearance in 2002.

  • San Diego Padres RF Tony Gwynn (All-Western Athletic Conference second-team selection with San Diego State in 1979-80 and 1980-81) went 4-for-4 against the Philadelphia Phillies en route to a N.L.-high 211 hits in 1986.

  • New York Yankees LHP Steve Hamilton (Morehead State's leading scorer and rebounder in 1956-57 and 1957-58) registered a save by getting the last two outs to preserve a 2-0 shutout against the Washington Senators in 1970 after starter Mel Stottlemyre issued 11 walks.

  • Cleveland Indians RHP Wynn Hawkins (Little All-American was all-time leading hoops scorer for Baldwin-Wallace OH upon graduation in 1957) hurled his lone MLB shutout (9-0 against Minnesota Twins in opener of 1961 twinbill).

  • INF-OF Rick Herrscher (All-SWC first-team selection led Southern Methodist with 17.5 ppg in 1957-58) shipped by the Milwaukee Braves to the New York Mets in 1962 to complete an earlier deal.

  • Boston Red Sox C Duane Josephson (Northern Iowa's scoring leader in 1962-63 and 1963-64 under coach Norm Stewart) jacked two homers in an 8-4 victory against the Baltimore Orioles in 1971.

  • San Francisco Giants RHP Frank Linzy (listed on Oklahoma State's freshman hoops roster in 1959-60) supplied his third scoreless relief appearance of at least 3 2/3 innings in a 12-day span in 1966.

  • Cincinnati Reds RF Danny Litwhiler (member of JV hoops squad with Bloomsburg PA in mid-1930s) smacked a pinch three-run homer to break a 6-6 deadlock against the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950.

  • CF Don Lock (led Wichita State in field-goal percentage in 1956-57 and 1957-58) ended an 18-inning marathon in 1967 when his two-out single gave the Philadelphia Phillies a 2-1 win against the Cincinnati Reds.

  • San Francisco Giants LF Terrell Lowery (two-time All-West Coast Conference first-team selection and league-leading scorer for Loyola Marymount in 1990-91 and 1991-92) banged out five hits, including three doubles, in a 16-10 victory against the Milwaukee Brewers in 2000.

  • Boston Red Sox 1B Ed Morgan (Tulane hoops letterman from 1923-24 through 1925-26) had five hits against the Chicago White Sox in a 1934 outing.

  • Chicago Cubs rookie C Cal Neeman (Illinois Wesleyan's leading scorer in 1947-48 and 1948-49), igniting a career-high 11-game hitting streak through end of month, stroked game-winning single in bottom of ninth inning in a 4-3 win against the New York Giants in 1957.

  • Hall of Fame RHP Robin Roberts (Michigan State's second-leading scorer in 1945-46 and 1946-47) signed by Baltimore Orioles in 1962 after he was released by the New York Yankees.

  • Brooklyn Dodgers INF Jackie Robinson (highest scoring average in Pacific Coast Conference both of his seasons with UCLA in 1939-40 and 1940-41) supplied six RBI in a 15-6 romp over the St. Louis Cardinals in 1949.

  • Cleveland Indians 3B Jim Thome (played junior-college hoops for Illinois Central in 1988-89) smacked two taters in a 6-5 win against the Milwaukee Brewers in 1996.

  • Boston Red Sox 3B Billy Werber (first Duke hoops All-American in 1929-30) collected three stolen bases and scored four runs against the Chicago White Sox in a 1934 game.

  • RHP Jim Wilson (hoops letterman for San Diego State's 1942 NAIA Tournament participant) traded by the Baltimore Orioles to the Chicago White Sox in 1956.

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 20

Extra! Extra! Rather than wondering if Plagiarist Biledumb's fake followers on Twitter also voted for fossil fool in 2020, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former Big Ten Conference basketball players Frank Howard (Ohio State) and Jerry Kindall (Minnesota) each hit two homers in an American League game on this date. Four ex-hoopers from Pennsylvania colleges - Glenn Beckert (Allegheny), Al Downing (Muhlenberg), Charlie Gelbert (Lebanon Valley) and Fritz Knothe (Penn) - plus three from Louisiana universities - Zeke Bonura (Loyola New Orleans), Alvin Dark (LSU) and Ed Morgan (Tulane) - also made MLB news on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 20 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 20

  • Chicago Cubs 2B Glenn Beckert (three-year basketball letterman for Allegheny PA) stroked an inside-the-park HR in a 20-3 romp over the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1967. RF Ted Savage (Lincoln MO scoring average leader in 1955-56) rounded out the Cubbies' scoring by stealing home in the seventh inning, prompting Dodgers P Don Drysdale to wave a white handkerchief of surrender.

  • Pittsburgh Pirates LF Carson "Skeeter" Bigbee (Oregon hoops letterman in 1915) provided three extra-base hits among his four safeties against the New York Giants in a 1922 game.

  • Chicago White Sox rookie 1B Zeke Bonura (best basketball forward for Loyola LA in late 1920s and early 1930s) belted two homers in his second consecutive contest in 1934, giving him 10 round-trippers in his first 25 outings.

  • Philadelphia Athletics RHP Jack Coombs (captain and starting hoops center for Colby ME) went 4-for-4 with three RBI and scored three runs in 14-12 win against the Detroit Tigers en route to switch-hitter posting A.L.-leading 28 victories in 1911.

  • SS Alvin Dark (hoops letterman for Louisiana State and Southwestern Louisiana during World War II) traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to Chicago Cubs in 1958.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers LHP Al Downing (attended Muhlenberg PA on hoops scholarship but left before ever playing) tossed a two-hit shutout against the Houston Astros in 1972.

  • St. Louis Cardinals SS Charlie Gelbert (scored at least 125 points each of last three seasons in late 1920s for Lebanon Valley PA) collected five RBI against the Chicago Cubs in a 1930 contest.

  • Oakland Athletics rookie 3B Wayne Gross (Cal Poly Pomona hoops leader in assists in 1974-75) contributed five RBI against the Seattle Mariners in a 1977 outing.

  • RHP Rich Hand (averaged 6.2 ppg for Puget Sound WA in 1967-68) traded by the Texas Rangers to the California Angels in 1973.

  • Washington Senators LF Frank Howard (two-time All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection when he led Ohio State in scoring and rebounding in 1956-57 and 1957-58) hammered two homers against the Baltimore Orioles in a 1967 game.

  • Cleveland Indians 2B Jerry Kindall (averaged 6.9 ppg for Minnesota as junior in 1955-56) clubbed two homers against the Detroit Tigers in the opener of a 1962 doubleheader.

  • Boston Braves rookie 3B Fritz Knothe (member of Penn's freshman hoops squad in 1923-24) stroked three doubles among his four hits in a 1932 game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

  • Detroit Tigers LF Don Lund (Michigan hoops starter in 1943-44 and 1944-45) delivered four hits against the New York Yankees in a 1953 contest.

  • St. Louis Cardinals RHP Lindy McDaniel (hooper for Oklahoma's 1954-55 freshman squad) tossed a shutout against the Philadelphia Phillies in 1958.

  • In the midst of a 14-game hitting streak, Cleveland Indians RF Ed Morgan (Tulane hoops letterman from 1923-24 through 1925-26) manufactured four RBI against the Chicago White Sox in the nightcap of a 1930 doubleheader.

  • Chicago Cubs RHP Claude Passeau (Millsaps MS hooper in late 1920s and early 1930s) saw his record of 273 consecutive errorless chances come to an end in 1946. Four years earlier, Passeau homered for the second time in back-to-back starts in 1942.

  • RHP Jim Perry (averaged more than 20 ppg in late 1950s for former juco Campbell) traded by the Cleveland Indians to the Oakland Athletics in 1975.

  • Detroit Tigers LF Tony Phillips (New Mexico Military juco hooper in 1977-78 as teammate of eventual Drake All-American Lewis Lloyd) banged out four hits and scored four runs in a 10-4 triumph against the Milwaukee Brewers in 1994.

  • RF Ted Tappe (leading scorer in 1949 NJCAA Tournament was Washington State's third-leading scorer following year), batting just before Hall of Famer Ernie Banks in the Chicago Cubs' lineup, ripped a homer in his second straight contest in 1955.

  • C Birdie Tebbetts (Providence hooper in 1932) traded by the Detroit Tigers to the Boston Red Sox in 1947.

  • Cleveland Indians 3B Jim Thome (played junior-college hoops for Illinois Central in 1988-89) whacked decisive three-run homer in top of eighth inning of 7-5 win against the Boston Red Sox in 1995.

  • In the midst of seven straight seasons hurling more than 200 innings, Pittsburgh Pirates LHP Bob Veale (scored 1,160 points from 1955-56 through 1957-58 for Benedictine KS) won his first six decisions in 1967.

  • Washington Senators RHP Monte Weaver (hoops center for Emory & Henry VA in mid-1920s) hurled a five-hit shutout against the Chicago White Sox in 1933.

  • New York Giants rookie 1B Bill White (two-year Hiram OH hooper in early 1950s) went 5-for-7 in 1956 doubleheader sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals. Three years later as member of Cards, White supplied three hits for the third time in a four-game span in 1959.

  • In the midst of a career-high 20-game hitting streak, San Francisco Giants CF Randy Winn (Santa Clara backcourtmate of eventual two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Steve Nash in 1993-94) registered his third three-hit outing in a span of six contests in 2007.

  • Boston Braves 3B Chuck Workman (two-time All-MIAA first-five selection was leading hoops scorer in 1937 when Central Missouri won inaugural NAIA Tournament) contributed three hits in both ends of a 1945 doubleheader split against the Cincinnati Reds.

  • Washington Senators 3B Eddie Yost (NYU freshman hooper in 1943-44 under coach Howard Cann) was issued at least one walk in his ninth consecutive contest in 1950 en route to A.L.-leading 141 bases on balls. Nine years later with the Detroit Tigers, Yost homered twice, scored three of his league-leading 115 runs and amassed six RBI in a 1959 game against the New York Yankees.

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 19

Extra! Extra! Unless you're enthralled by Scary Poppins karaoke reject Nina J singing about wanting to know who to "hook up with" or sue to be famous and powerful en route to pompous priss becoming short-lived #Dimorat diva for DHS's Disinformation Governance Board, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former hoopers for colleges in Mississippi - Joe Gibbon (Ole Miss), Paul Gregory (Mississippi State) and Claude Passeau (Millsaps) - supplied significant performances as MLB pitchers on this date. Ex-Louisiana State hoopers Joe Adcock and Mark Freeman also made MLB news on this date. Ditto ex-Pasadena City CA community college hoopers Darrell Evans and Irv Noren. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 19 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 19

  • Cleveland Indians 1B Joe Adcock (Louisiana State's leading basketball scorer in 1945-46) contributed two homers and six RBI in a 7-6 loss against the Minnesota Twins in the nightcap of a 1963 twinbill.

  • Chicago Cubs 2B Glenn Beckert (three-year hoops letterman for Allegheny PA) had his 26-game hitting streak snapped by Ken Brett of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1973.

  • Tossing his second shutout in less than three weeks in 1981, Pittsburgh Pirates RHP Jim Bibby (Fayetteville State NC backup hooper and brother of UCLA All-American Henry Bibby) hurled a one-hitter against the Atlanta Braves.

  • Milwaukee Braves 2B Frank Bolling (averaged 7.3 ppg for Spring Hill AL in 1950-51) banged out four hits against the Chicago Cubs in the opener of a 1963 doubleheader.

  • In his debut with the Oakland Athletics, CF Glenn Burke (averaged 16.3 ppg in six basketball games with Nevada-Reno in 1974-75 before dismissal from squad) banged out three safeties in a 1978 contest against the Chicago White Sox.

  • LF Bob Cerv (ranked fourth on Nebraska's career scoring list in 1949-50 when finishing his career) traded by the Kansas City Athletics to the New York Yankees in 1960.

  • Cincinnati Reds 1B George Crowe (four-year letterman from 1939-40 through 1942-43 for Indiana Central after becoming first high school player named state's Mr. Basketball) collected four hits and four RBI in an 8-7 win against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the opener of a 1957 twinbill.

  • San Francisco Giants 3B Darrell Evans (member of Jerry Tarkanian-coached Pasadena City CA club winning 1967 state community college crown) homered twice in a 1978 game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

  • RHP Mark Freeman (averaged 3.6 ppg for LSU as a senior in 1950-51) traded by the New York Yankees to the Chicago Cubs in 1960.

  • Cincinnati Reds LHP Amir Garrett (averaged 7.4 ppg and 4 rpg for St. John's under coach Steve Lavin in 2011-12 and 2012-13 before redshirt transfer year at Cal State Northridge) had a 1.35 ERA through first 21 relief appearances of 2018 campaign after notching hold in 5-4 triumph against the Chicago Cubs in opener of a doubleheader.

  • In 1968, LHP Joe Gibbon (two-time All-SEC forward for Ole Miss was nation's second-leading scorer as senior in 1956-57) yielded his only earned run in first 13 relief appearances with the San Francisco Giants.

  • In 1933, Chicago White Sox RHP Paul Gregory (Mississippi State hoops letterman in 1929-30) tossed his second complete-game victory in three weeks when allowing only one run.

  • Raising his batting average to .306, Chicago White Sox 1B Ron Jackson (second-team All-Mid-American Conference hoops choice from 1951-52 through 1953-54 led Western Michigan in scoring and rebounding his last two seasons) extended hitting streak to a career-high 10 games but finished the 1956 campaign with a .214 mark.

  • RHP Frank Linzy (listed on Oklahoma State's freshman hoops roster in 1959-60) traded by the San Francisco Giants to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1970.

  • Philadelphia Phillies RF Danny Litwhiler (member of JV hoops team with Bloomsburg PA in mid-1930s) went 4-for-4 against the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 1942 contest.

  • Cleveland Indians CF Kenny Lofton (Arizona's leader in steals for 1988 Final Four team compiling 35-3 record) went 4-for-4 against the Baltimore Orioles in a 1993 outing.

  • Chicago Cubs LF Les Mann (Springfield MA hooper in 1913 and 1914) went 4-for-4 against the Brooklyn Robins in a 1916 game.

  • LF Irv Noren (player of year for California community college state hoops champion Pasadena City in 1945) traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Chicago Cubs in 1959.

  • Chicago Cubs RHP Claude Passeau (Millsaps MS hooper in late 1920s and early 1930s) pounded a grand slam in a 14-1 romp over the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1941. Passeau's blast was his first of three circuit clouts in a span of five starts.

  • In the midst of surrendering fewer than three earned runs in 15 of 17 starts from late April to early July, Cleveland Indians RHP Sonny Siebert (team-high 16.7 ppg for Missouri in 1957-58 as All-Big Eight Conference second-team selection) tossed a one-hit shutout against the Baltimore Orioles in nightcap of a 1968 doubleheader.

  • Detroit Tigers 2B Gary Sutherland (averaged 7.4 ppg with Southern California in 1963-64) smacked two homers against the Minnesota Twins in a 1975 game.

  • Cleveland Indians 1B Jim Thome (played junior-college hoops for Illinois Central in 1988-89) contributed four hits and four RBI in 1998 game against the Kansas City Royals.

  • San Diego Padres RF Will Venable (All-Ivy League first-team selection as junior and second-team choice as senior averaged 9.3 ppg under Princeton coach John Thompson III from 2001-02 through 2004-05) scored four runs and supplied three extra-base hits in a 10-5 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2010.

  • Kansas City Royals C John Wathan (averaged 3.7 ppg in 11 games for San Diego in 1968-69) went 4-for-5 against the Oakland Athletics in a 1980 contest.

#MessMedia Maven Maggots: Press Pestilence Requires Complete Overhaul

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." - William F. Buckley Jr.

How inept was the holier-than-thou lamestream media covering Russian collusion (see Durham Report and FBI whistleblowers), excessive flow of illegal aliens on our Southern border, shoplifting scumbags, liberal poster boy Mario Cuomo's nursing home death sentencing, haughty Hunter's Russian-hacked laptop, mask-less hypocrites (rules for thee but not for "Ds"), CNN's parade of pervs, deity Dr. Fraudci's masking treatment of innocent children during China's Olympian coronavirus as vile as his animal experiments, morally-superior cancel culture converging on renegade Joe Rogan, #ShrillaryRotten associates trying to infiltrate Trump servers, Whoopi's whooping it up with The View vixens, etcetera? A question also lingers as to how in hell did incessant shady shenanigans in hoopdom go on for decades under the nose of incompetent national and local so-called journalists. Whether covering politics or sports, the spineless media have slinked away from unbiased and thorough responsibilities while "blocking" anyone who artfully opposes their sanctimony. The FBI doesn't need to spy on the "slinkys" to acknowledge they're good for nothing beyond a Beto spasm. However, the imbeciles do bring a smile to your face when a contrarian such as #TheDonald figuratively pushes them down the stairs to make airheads entertainingly useful before a woke SI swimsuit rag. If discriminating dog bites any of majority of distasteful leftist journalistic jackals complicit in conga line of collusion delusion, the hampered hound has to lick its butt for hours to shed taste of their ingrained stench. Political press puke compiled accusation accuracy average about Trump and his family even lower than abysmal charity donation ratio of income average for colossal collection of contemptible characters otherwise known as deceitful #Dimorat politician freak show.

After selective-belief-in-women creeps and blue-check media maggots needing warp-speed vaccine for TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) put all their Easter eggs in Robert Mueller's report basket had their infanticide-craving posteriors handed to them, more than 400 "America Was Never Great" liberal-leaning newspapers with same opinion as confused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo conducted genuine collusion via group-think gabfest with inept editorial responses to #TheDonald Trumping them. Let's get after them! The cavalier Cuomos of the world claiming "ICE is a bunch of thugs," whether in press or politics, can't comprehend the separation of families involving murdered Mollie Tibbetts and Kate Steinle versus law-breaking illegal immigrants. But what was different about the pro-journalism editorial exercise? Spare us the contrived outrage! Haven't self-anointed Guardians of the Galaxy already been immersed in conservative-hating resistance for an extended period (including charges that BLM activist and former Louisville Courier-Journal editorial columnist attempted murder of Jewish mayoral candidate)? Vaccinated against facts and integrity, these are the same phony folks effusive in praise for late Sen. John McCain after emasculated elite promoted en masse the POW's opponent in presidential election in previous decade. But to hypocritical libnuts who wondered "is McCain mentally fit to be president," perhaps the only good Republican is a deceased Republican; especially if the funeral can be weaponized as miscast Meghan fell off her horse again manufacturing a mess as much as her father did in facilitating Russian dirty dossier. If CIA didn't give smear merchants a head's-up, then ex-President Trump will directly inform majority of loathsome losers in the press they've been driving fake news (in a Ford?) in same misguided direction for a longer time than Sen. Dianne Feinstein's 20-year Chinese spy valet trying to figure out what to do with "confidential" letter (perhaps routed to or from her $40 million Tahoe compound) following one of unlicensed psychologist "Dr. Christine Blasey Fraud's" many seemingly heavily-medicated flights. If not Putin toying with him, at least masked-chaos clueless clowns from left-wing orthodoxy ask Plagiarist Bi-dumb about favorite ice cream.

Media malfeasance of highest order may have been manufactured if intelligence hacks John Brennan (NBC) and James Clapper (CNN) were involved in leaking dirt to the networks subsequently hiring them. It's a byproduct of sordid show that could be called Truth or Consequences featuring smear-artist swamp creatures such as #HollyweirdHarveySwinestein, Fusion GPS filthy bankrollers to the tune of millions of dollars, rigging primary of already mentally-disturbed national political party and biased upper brass of FBI/DOJ. Concurrently, what in hell is happening when a high-priced Clinton machine attorney defends low-level IT staffer for disgraced DNC chair? How fortunate can a McDonald's dropout be? As #DebbieDoesDC amid her "adviser" trying to flee the country in shenanigans appearing to go far beyond bank fraud by the $160,000-per-year IT brothers (about three times going rate), it's time to resist these IQ-less clowns! Giving $400 million to Iran rather than Louisiana flood victims, there are plenty of press(ing)-problem reasons why the symbol of the "deplorable" Democratic Party is a jackass because they're not real bright. Unless waiting for ransom payment in foreign currency in unmarked plane or smitten with strain of "overheated" pneumonia, any Capt. Obvious simpleton including intellectually-lazy press parasites, underwear model John Conyers (a con; not icon) and maudlin #MadMaxine Waters should be able to promptly connect the dots. Exercise a few brain cells by noticing self-righteous Dim mayors for extended periods usually are seasoned diaper-pin donning leftists in charge of decaying or riotous cities such as Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York, Oakland, Portland, St. Louis (Ferguson) and San Juan. For instance, icy Oakland mayor went out of her way to warn illegal ailens about impending ICE round-up before Minority Leader "Devil Mom" #NannyPathetic extolled the "spark of divinity" in violent MS-13 gang members.

MAGA "winning" walls are closing in on self-righteous leftist lunatics and socialist sycophants. Amid seductive attempts to remove God from party platform, Dems have become a sanctuary for Satanic precepts and history revisionism via anonymous sources such as absent-minded spin-machine attorney Lanny "Go-Fund-Me Backtracker" Davis. Their clown-show conversation convention in Philly, punctuated by demonstrable DNC staff infection (highlighted by prohibiting FBI from checking hacked server) after incorrect guess regarding which restroom to use, was a BleachBit graveyard where #MikaVirus brain-damaged cells went to die after face-lifting bleeding. It wasn't long before the predictably pathetic press corps assembled a City of Brotherly Love support group for the Kaine and Unable (to walk without aid) carnage where #BlackLiesMatter more than #BlueLivesMatter. Fair-minded observers know there is "huge" gold-star difference between immigration-lawyer Wrath of Khan coming more than a decade after Donald Trump was building his business while basket-case Hillary "I Don't Recall" Clinton was boss contemporaneously when dissing Smith family about deceased State Department employee victim of terrorist scum. Seriously? Who actually believes Khan('s) job over the years focused more on a Christian-based U.S. Constitution than Middle Eastern Sharia Law, martyrdom's 72 virgins and watering-down American immigration? Since #BlackRobesMatter, Khan exhibits every credential for Progressives to promote grandstander as 9th "Short" Circuit judge seemingly more concerned about violating Sharia rather than our Constitution.

Speaking of building, let's compare the construction handiwork. #TheDonald boasts skyscrapers, luxury hotels and resort golf courses while #ShrillaryRotten has a bungled red-plastic Russia "reset" button and had aides destroying her numerous mobile devices with hammers. Until emerging from her safe space to first learn about DNC manipulation from mess-media reports, aging-gracelessly Over-the-Hillary probably thought 'WikiLeaks' was a STD Bubba contracted while she was away flying her broom with license #666 to rope-around-dope function, video lying to grieving family members in front of their loved one's casket, waddle-dodging bullets or wiping server with specially-laced cloth to shed "boring emails." Taking credit for #MeToo Movement, we need to double check #HarveySwinestein's long list to discern if he had a pet name for delusional dame before, during or after their post-election TV documentary dinner in Manhattan. As self-absorbed/special-status #ShrillaryRotten, putting the "C" in corruption appointing disgraced DNC official to position as her honor(ary)-among-thieves campaign co-chairman, allegedly told former Bill & Hill consultant Dick Morris: "Look, the average Democrat voter (such as Miss Piggy) is just plain stupid. They're easy to manipulate. That's the easy part." No wonder typical CNN producer and DNC agitator planters described their foils as "mentally ill people, that we pay to do shit." The mentally deficient must include comedic "genius" Samantha Bee's Full Frontal gushing portrayal of disgraced NY attorney general Eric Schneiderman as a superhero and disgusting comments condemning Ivanka Trump. Perhaps sleazy Samantha would feel better about herself if the ex-President's delightful daughter donated some attire seconds to the demented dimwit or Nike-brand killer #ColonKrapernick told her: "Let's Do It." How about? "Just Blew It."

Providing pap to such a discerning audience, the "Unreliable Sources" press pimps such as ex-CBS charmer Charlie Rose and MSNBC's #PrissyTingles probably will probe whether #TheDonald directed deflating of buddy Brady's footballs. Whatever the case while groping about Lesley Stahl script, the combination of preening Dimorat politicians such as big-fat-idiot Al Franken(stein) and equally goofy accomplices among #MessMedia simply Aren't Good Enough, Aren't Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People (With Activated Brain Cells) Don't Like Them. Left-wing demented dumpster divers such as eye-rolling Anderson Pooper at CNN and perpetually-perplexed Tavis Smiley aren't just snowflakes apparently subsisting on Jayson Blair and Janet Cooke honorariums. The factories of ignorance digging dirt with "Conway shovel" are a whole damn white-out blizzard looking paler than zero-credibility #GoryGriffin during a video apology (severed head photograph always has wrong individual blurred). Anonymous sources with all of the credibility of Omarosa and jerk Jussie Small-nut (for brain) will tell Kathy's contemptible CNN colleagues, while writing political donation checks almost exclusively to alternate-nostril breather, Macedonian hackers inserted this paragraph before screwing her by manipulating Upper Midwest vote tallies. Maybe the inquisitors hiding behind "some people say" will make it up to blame-game dame by paying big bucks to attend "What the Hell Happened (to Dignity)?" marathon book tour if she also throws in a piece of huckster history (certified birth certificate proving she was named after renowned mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary or errant bullet dodged in Bosnia race out of plane or BleachBit-laced server-wiping cloth or one of post-subpoena 30,000-plus missing emails acknowledging genesis of Benghazi video hoax or piece from one of her many electronic devices destroyed by hammer or copy of #SickWillie's $500,000 "Uranium One" check from Russia for arousing speech).

Watch Project Veritas expose human debris and dirty dealing from under the (producers) table at CNN's freak show featuring creepy "Prancer" (Anderson Cooper) and weepy "Dancer" (recently-fired Don "See With Ears" Lemon) in prime time. It is easy to discern "Z" stands for zero as in no integrity exhibited by abhorrent animals in zany CNN-Minus zoo such as Stormy's low-life lawyer incessantly promoted by Russian-zealous dumped President Jeff Zucker. Is there any doubt AT&T will divest itself of this hunk of junk? Ask yourself which set of "losers" tried harder to sway the presidential election - #MessMedia maggots in cahoots with unmasking #DirtyRice moonlighting as Ace Ventura in their political playpen, AG Loretta "It's a Matter" Lynch dealing from the bottom of the deck with FBI chief/leaker James "Coward" Comey, dismissing volume of non-citizens voting illegally or Russian agents hypnotizing all those "red" counties across America to do their bidding. Despite sanctuary from presstitute pansies such as morally-tainted Cokie Roberts' Southern guilt trip promoting registering "D" for dumb, the more difficult "pivot" was persuading independents and that is where collusion with lame-stream media came into play. If permanently-injured CNBC was part of a horse network rather than peacock, the smear machine would have to be shot after previous woeful performance moderating a Republican debate. Reinforcing what many right-thinkers (not left-feelers) already believe with CNBC's conceited John Whorewood serving as Exhibit A (as in _ss), the unhinged American media can no longer be trusted. Incapable on the job of putting one foot in front of the other even more than deplorable #ShrillaryRotten, their warped make-love-not-war sentiment includes lying to the masses about what comprises a winner following her admitting lying about who was responsible for the murders of individuals under her charge. Whether it is assessing the veracity of an owe-your-gender-one presidential candidate by national political pundits or prominent college basketball coach by the toy department (sports), an overwhelmingly liberal lame-stream press predictably focused on style (Ready For Hillary 2016) over substance (Shrillary for Prisoner 2016) and gave Rick Pitino's polluted program an accountability pass. In the feeble minds of genius lib-nuts hooked on #MorningJerk, it was justifiable or there was rationale for certifiably corrupt influence-peddling Clinton deserving designation as POTUS-in-waiting and Pitino's "free-love" contract with Louisville should be extended another couple of terms for more Best-Little-Whoredorm-In-KY boys-gone-wild recruiting regalia. Twisted minds must think alike as Slick Rick served as Shrillary's post-election ball boy whining about TheDonald similar to many hypocritical coaches such as Shaka Smart and Roy Williams demonstrating self-control about the then president-elect as if it was closing time at upscale Italian bistro in Get-Your-Fill-In-The-Ville. Have Get Smart and Roy Boy weighed in with their political expertise on silly Sandy "Everyone Wants Me" Cortez or Bozo Bernie boosting the voting credentials of Boston Marathon terrorist bomber?

Influence of stiletto-obsessed big media fond of vile Michelle Wolf monologue and Outlandish Omar with her head gear on a mite too tight is decreasing exponentially under own truly deplorable weight. It was a shame #TheDonald couldn't put the goofball gatekeepers out of their pecan-pie misery and bruise their widdle feelings with a single "You're Fired!" After cry-in Dim(wit)s filled pity-party WAHHHHmbulances upon losing the presidential race and failing to recapture Senate, patronizing college and professional coaches coasted from coast to coast to phony status by protecting their lifeline - access to minority mercenaries. Meanwhile, welcome to the lame-stream media cleaning service, which won't clean up its abysmal act but will sweep things under the rug for the corrupt Clintons from erection with Eve through election eve and from cattle futures through glass ceiling falling down in locked hotel room. Discernment isn't in the DNA of Washington/New York/LA elites such as the Huffington Post, which chose to cover #TheDonald in entertainment rather than political section. Why is America so "blessed" with such a magnitude of it-takes-a-village idiots in the press so cerebral they promoted apocalyptic attorney #Avenaughty as a viable presidential candidate? Deplorable before deplorable became cool, their corruption cup runneth over exemplified by condescending Washington Compost columnist Dana Milbank asking the DNC to do the majority of the opposition research for a reflexively hostile "The Ten Plagues of Trump" piece of spit before media maggot incurred Trump-induced malady. #TheDonald also was responsible for Milbank going through high school and college without a date plus bed-wetting episodes during same time frame and thereafter. Face it as lyin' eyes are supplemented by lyin' emails and rigged #Dimorat primary! If the farce-to-be-reckoned-with media was competent at its job, there wouldn't be need for WikiLeaks to shine the light of truth ("persecution") on "Dirty Donna" #Brazila pounding her suspect CNN Christian woman chest or detailing how the dishonest Clintons went from selling the Lincoln bedroom to selling Honest Abe's entire nation. Call the mess-media debris Lyin' Brian fallout as the pathetic press sniffed Dr. Ben droppings similar to "The View" pack of demented dogs doggedly trying to prove #TheDonald used Russian dressing on his salad or sandwich. How promptly did #Dimorat fraudulent feminist "leaders" or porker-borker ABC vixens whine about anyone coerced to view sweaty Swinestein massage, "a con" in Congressional underwear model John Conyers, full-throated Frenchy Franken wet-kiss fantasy following hands-full Sinator hug or their corrosive exploitation of adolescent-sounding deity Dr. Fraudci?

In a previous election cycle before dumb rumps foamed at the mouth attacking Trump's family and Mayor Pete became religion lecturer, a slobbering NBC anchor Brian "Save the Tin Foil" Williams of climate-change commercial fame (a/k/a self-proclaimed patriot) was fond of displaying adoring news magazine "halo" covers to failed ex-President Barack Obama and then asking if His Earness' mother would have liked the image. No wonder Williams, another thrill-down-his-leg Peacock employee, was criticized for such a softball interview of Obama, who seems more comfortable in a mosque and exhibits more cartoon-like aggression toward Christian Conservatives dictating rules of engagement than to cartoon-hating Muslim marauders murdering Seal Team 6 patriots or a nervy CNN host-ette lecturing a former Navy SEAL about ethics. Since four-Pinocchio nose-for-news Williams is in dire need of a drool bucket and truth serum, perhaps one of his echo-chamber Clinton-camp counterparts who isn't certified Obama Orgasmic should brandish photos of murdered Americans in front of pen-and-a-phone POTUS and ask DingleBarry if he sleeps well at night knowing the Monarch Messiah did everything humanly possible ("Leave No Man Behind") before and during the Benghazi consulate attack to protect and save these hero sons of steadfast mothers. The Drone Ranger, refusing to provide Benghazi attack-night itinerary amid whatever situation-room manly game playing with body-man Reggie Love, could also be asked what was the "dishonor-the-memory" initiative for give-me-a-break trusted "cloth-wiping comrade" when the former Secretary of State flippantly said during previous testimony: "What difference does it make?"

Feeling any Clinton Corruption Fatigue as the contemptible couple and cu-cu immunity minions such as overbearing Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban and Muslim marauder Keith Ellison drinking their fool-aid claim they're doing the Lord's foundation work via Mount Everest of lies? Shouldn't Cuban be a mite more concerned about his renegade front office? Astute observers donning "Make Martha/Mika/Schmucky/ChelseaHandler Weep Again" caps are still waiting on the Transparent Titans to acknowledge what percentage of Muslims are deplorable due to their religion's genuine sexism and homophobia. It seems as if every word the disgusting duo utters is a fabrication, including "and" and "the," while exposing their grandchildren and dense daughter to all sorts of maladies. Insofar as "I Am Woman/Hear Me Bore" (curing insomnia even more than fossilized sex-expert socialist/Russia honeymooner/Muppet Show balcony babbler Bozo Bernie) and a vital general weren't interviewed by the less-than-thorough accountability review board, the difference could be a "smidgeon" of honesty with the country's citizens boasting a triple-digit IQ vs. cover-up deception with much of the misguided media such as ABC phony journalist Gorgeous George serving as maddening wicked accomplices. After a geriatric "Free Spit vs. Bull Spit" duel, a probing press remained sitting on the bottom-feeder sideline missing as much as the Rose Law Firm documents collecting dust on a table years ago in Hillary the Horrible's White House office (probably under Bubba's strategically-placed cigar box) or authenticity of Lyin' Brian's stories. When she mentions private server, is "C" stands for Clinton referring to "C" for computer activity in limbo or "C" for carnal activity by #SickWillie with latest bimbo or "C" for curvature of golf drive and erect organ. Media misfits keep up with facts and vital news as well as former First Fabricator does her hustler husband's "Energizer" Honey and ex-VP's daughter/"undercover" journalist after serial sexual harasser #SickWillie's number of extra-martial affairs more than doubled the age of a pizza-delivering intern in the Oral Office. In the wake of Moonlite Bunny Ranch hookers endorsing Stepford Shrillary, Bimbo-chasing Bubba probably headed West Old Man to herd a "load of bull" and join Lamar Odom in verifying level of libido support unless hedge-fund billionaire buddy Jeffrey Epstein arranged another trip as crooked as Peyronie's Disease to Virgin Islands.

Speaking of arousal, perhaps saucy Megyn Kelly, after "The Lady in Red" pries herself loose from memorialized unwanted Roger Ailes haunting hug or blood reference or mooching off O'Reilly ratings, can lure the "I-wasn't-thinking-a-lot" Compassionate Communist to an authentic interview focusing on more than Hot Sauce in purse. Despite viewers having to settle for more of facelift-feuding Kelly's annoying lame one-liners and voice inflections while more interested in setting stage for contract negotiations, at least the shrewd ex-lawyer knows a jury needs to be comprised of peers of the accused shrew. In this instance, it will be 12 liars, con artists and/or corrupt politicos resembling her shady staff and haughty hangers-on. Beyond driving her spouse crazy to where he can't define "is" and probably installed a bed rather than desk in his Harlem office, the only thing HRC's bloated carcass has driven in the last 20-plus years is a broom with license #666. The First Felon's dignity bound together with duct tape after flaunting defense of deviant accused of raping a 12-year-old girl, Ms. Re-set Button also apparently hasn't done the wash enough like common folk to know how to tell "co-worker" to get stain off a dress. Between choleric coughing fits choking on her own #Demonrat drivel, seems as if the Hag Been was too busy selecting original Star Trek wardrobe while ignoring pleas from a soon-to-be murdered sacrificial-lamb ambassador seeking more security. Only "I'm With Her" gullible groupies grasp how he couldn't get through protective maze although someone as vital as virile actor Ben Affleck was anointed with Hillaryous' direct email amid her compromising shoddy handling of top-secret-plus communiques. Unable to spell Hill without back-to-back L's; thus can't wait to find out what was Barry's pseudonym in emails between the two Losers. Responding to Russian hackers at rare press conference or not, look for her to tersely say: "I did not have inappropriate email with that server." It was just as well press conferences were rare for worn-out "Woodsy" because honest Americans can't stand to gaze at her super-predator lying eyes. Hopefully, Mateen will "order" her to don burka for any future stern Q-and-A session or ad when She-ria Law secures royalty from BleachBit for name change of disk-space "cleaning" product to BleachBit(ch). Puke press fan-club protestations notwithstanding, lock her up is assuredly "what should happen" after $50 million underwriting of fake dossier on #TheDonald triggering a cooking-the-books FISA application from FBI/DOJ's biased brass and leaking to CNN by jaded James Claptrapper.

Anyone with a brain wave knew right off the bat "sleep-deprived" Hil-liar-y (thought she said "don't feel no ways tired") was fibbing about bogus Bosnia sniper-fire battle when Cacklin' Cankles claimed she "ran" rather than waddling over to pose for photographs with her iPhone and "proud-every-day" teenage daughter at the time. ISIS probably is using video of haggard Hillary's escape artistry, comparable to facts inventor's tale to the unwashed masses about Chelsea jogging around the World Trade Center on 9/11, to instruct recruits how to elude enemy gunfire. Excessive lying and fake news putting lives at risk takes a lot out of an old geezer, leaving one with "very low energy" and bags under their eyes while protecting Wall Street speech transcripts more than national top secrets on private server. Apparently in dire need again of beauty sleep, she cut Z's instead of getting vital intelligence briefing just days after the Benghazi attack. No wonder Sleepy avoided family members of victims and was uninterested in viewing riveting movie 13 Hours inasmuch as George-Soros-in-drag "already slept through it once." Ignoring more than 600 requests for security from "friend" she never talked with after hiring him, did the well-traveled Secretary of State, sporting a fake smile reeking of psychopath, savage the truth maneuvering more adroitly than "the guys out for a walk" who savaged four Americans in Libya? Donning a wig or not, perhaps she could have moved more adroitly if been able to join the Marines. Keg Legs' dressing-down actions such as server-wiping come out of the blue similar to wiping superior-server Monica's DNA-stained blue dress or hurling a blue vase stemming from hubby's blue-night(gown) special at K(neepad)mart. No wonder empty-suit Joe Lockhart must have been black-and-blue tackling empty-stadium-seat duties as ex-NFL p.r. chief after previous spin-doctor responsibilities (without donning helmet) in the brain-damaged Clinton Out House.

In a rare moment of gold-mettle winning candor among DC swamp creatures and #MessMedia glamorizing Kim Jong Un's sister during Winter Olympics, former DNC Chairman Ed Rendell implied majority of the left's nasty female supporters are ugly. Hitlery's hugely-hyphenated hatchet hags/goon girls/treacherous toadies fond of "If I Had a Hammer" lyrics, including Muslim Brotherhood-connected Ms. Huma Abedin-Weiner-Danger-Mongoose, left a permanent "stain" on credibility by discarding their Blackberry, which should earn each of them a "term" (four years behind bars) unless investigators are card-carrying Dimocraps or politically savvy as Charles Barkley's playing the race card. An above-the-law home-brew email account utilized on government time "transparently" describes orchestrating mindset of the frosty frequent-flyer faker forgetting to bring her pretty-and-pink outfit out of cesspool mothballs (rather than "drowned rat" look or pretty-in-prison-suit-orange) while explaining with grating voice if didn't-really-think-it-through Snapchat Queen had sufficient sleep after yoga workout when deleting more than 30,000 "personal" emails. Long before she accrued wrinkle filler by the barrel with her 4-H Fan Club President Angrier Mitchell (Hill's Haughty Hack Horde), you can go to HELLary for ethical lapses all the way back to her involvement in the Watergate probe. Talking "past" normal Americans, the height of short-circuiting diabolical "diplomacy" would be if hacked emails prove she armed jihadists in Syria (including ISIS) or triggered "if-he-has-to-leave" execution of Iranian nuclear scientist/informant Amiri.

If no Little Rock offspring, Olympian swimmer lyin' Ryan Lochte must be Chelsea's long-lost brother or infected by airborne exposure to "overheated" Clinton-speak. In a best-case scenario, the ratio of Over-the-Hill's deleted emails from an apparently premeditated setup indicates she spent more than half of her arduous labor conducting personal business circling the sewer drain on government time despite her sordid spouse failing to use email. As Yoda Jr. lackey Cheryl Mills does her reset-button bidding en route to immunity status, it takes a village idiot to fail to discern the litany of lies whenever the Margaret Sanger devotee's lips are moving; although comedy relief is welcomed when repulsive reprobate embraces black voice imitation mode. While the furor among cultist mouthpieces depended on what the meaning of classified is, a rendezvous in a dimly-lit parking garage wasn't necessary for Hillary's email scandal to remind Washington Post Watergate sleuth Bob Woodward of the Nixon tapes. If accurate about her emails would have been safer on Ashley Madison's cheating website according to former NBC news reporter Fred Francis, the alleged world's smartest woman (despite failing to discern "header" spouse was in adjacent room securing from Monica) is "Queen of the Bile" unqualified to even carry bed-pan urine in or around the nation's capitol. Always confusing to the unwashed exemplified by her stance on dealing with ISIS (whether upper or lower case, defining is-is defies description for her and sordid spouse), the Democratic Dominatrix's theme song at coronation ceremonies should have emanated from a Leslie Gore tune with the following updated lyrics: "It's my Party and I can lie if I want to . . . ."

In the meantime while blaming Colin Powell for email edicts, we anticipated another Goiter Goddess tear-fest at a Cafe' Expresso so the serfs and plebeians (militant feminists, welfare magnets, victim-hood vultures, societal illegals, lazy leeches, retread hippies, Hollyweird selfie sluts, etc.) "feel" compelled to vote for the ultimate empty pants suit because the personality-deficit-disorder eyesore is "sad as Eeyore." How convenient the State Department attorney (Katherine Duval) in charge of document production in classified information scandal had a stint at IRS putting her at center of another high-profile missing-email case. Upon a smoking gun emerging during another FBI probe, it should be relayed to the paw-some presidential candidate in the following "classified" way: "Say 'hello' to my little friend (ghost of John Dean or non-wiped server containing pertinent information)." If the wicked witch fell off national schoolmarm wannabee broom, she shouldn't balk taking a "Balkan run" so a departure door doesn't hit prolific place where the Good Lord amply split her! But if Grandma the Great's grating gatlin gun (a/k/a voice) ever is dispatched to jail, who will be there to succeed the Secretary of Yoga in supporting all the forlorn females and children around the world by wearing red outfit? For crying out loud, how long will we be subjected to Curse Ratchet barking about needing to clarify on her classified statement regarding clarification of the statement she'd previously tried to clarify? Upon seeking a future headline if thank-God-she's-gone AG Loretta Lynch properly defines gross negligence, don't be stunned if e-nailed Hillary's hell-on-earth cellmate sues for "cruel and unusual punishment" around the time Sean Penn conducts an El Chapo-like interview for Rolling Stone. If her sewer side of the aisle succeed in ridding Gitmo of disgusting terrorists, it would be fitting if she was incarcerated there cleaning toilets "like with a cloth or something" as their replacement symbolizing Central Committee corruption. Surely, such an outcome is more appropriate than charging dupes to attend a book function or screed and then persistently whine to them. Similar "hearing-impaired" Dimorat Senators such as Bozo Blumenthal (fake soldier), groping T-Bone Booker (fake Newark character before fake Spartacus), "Turban" Durbin (fake WH meetings), Cursing Kirsten, Kamala "What Can Old (Wee Willie) Brown Do For Me?" Harris, Leaker Leahy and Lie-a-lotta Warren (fake squaw) helped orchestrate Judge Kavanaugh chaos. After becoming omniscient from reading inane H.S. yearbook blurbs and looking deep into Googly Eyes of Blaze, this consortium of character-assassinating human debris would be a mite more impressive if they were qualified to be colleague Feinstein's deceitful driver. Dim Diane's stem-winding staff may extemporaneously deny everything, but her financial ties to China are extensive before playing shameless super sleuth involving hail-mary/dirty-tricks rumor forwarded to FBI about ice-throwing Kavanaugh as a teenager. Bring on the #Dimorat investigations of #TheDonald in the House of Representatives. The demented Dims will be shown for the fools they are. After left-leaning, but seasoned, prosecutors couldn't create any substantive charges, deranged House committee losers (not leaders) couldn't discern who deposited the brown streaks in their own undies.

Are the uncouth and crude - rubes in flyover country with tentacles reaching more and more to Upper Midwest - required to stop constructing boxcars and reinforce at least one inquiry for which we're entitled a direct answer? Loathsome #ShrillaryRotten, as callous as probable supporters and depraved Josephine Mengele baby butchers from Planned Profithood flushing down an organic salad with red wine while the ghouls gleefully discussed "crunchy" dismembering of a "17-weeker" or Lamborghini dreaming, needs to undergo a polygraph test to gauge her truth telling. If not a veracity quiz amid the Dims' war on words narrative, then how about a driving test since she is so fond of mingling with commoners evidenced by her rope-around-dope during a holiday parade? The Dimorat dilemma stemming from Benghazi bungling, IRS mess and self-serving server are textbook examples of cheesy corruption. Weep for our nation because thumb(drive) suckers/bed wetters among the mess media and political players needing brain bleach are in positions of power rather than rooms with padded walls. Memo to nanny-state speech-control puppeteers: What does the "I" in ISIS/ISIL stand for although the "I" in impudent accurately describes cooking-the-books INTEL about waging war against the terrorists? Amid the Obama Out House whining and dining excessively with Planned Murderhood, the cultural hope and change among the intellectually and morally bankrupt is on steroids. How else can observer explain vanity of Bruce Jenner evolving nearly 40 years after Wheaties Box appearance to secure a social-engineering courage award from ESPN (Extra Sensitive Pious Network) prior to #KneelWithJemele spiels? Actually, it takes infinitely more fortitude these days to say you are white, religious and conservative man proud of your heritage and unashamed to voice your life matters, too. But if in need of some grins amid hags and thugs striving to suppress your voice, real men can console themselves that, if Bruce gives another Olympian effort and focuses on Hill's Chairman Mao Collection outfits and $600 haircuts to try to match number of security requests from an ambassador, he can almost end up looking like Hellary, who probably needed to spend $6,000. Cosmetically, it's comparable to slim odds of viewing a video featuring an attractive female employee from PP's plundering Hag Haven Holocaust hem-hawing over whether to sell body parts or send them to a landfill. You'd have more success locating Sasquatch among the visual birth control or, for that matter, an authentic racist soiling the ranks of Tea Party patriots. Cable cockroaches Rich-with-ill-will Madcow and sister/brother or whatever Sally Kohn are so fond of abortion the ghoul girls likely seek to be artificially inseminated by #MockItMan Sir Lawrence, #SickWillie or #HollyweirdHarvey to participate firsthand in weekend special as Butch(er)'s Baby winner. Either BSLSD or CNN will then erect a Michelle Wolf "Salute to Abortion" statue honoring first snuffer as Queen of the Chicken Little "Sky-is-Falling" routine exemplifying debauchery debris lust for sale of Charlie Gard body parts.

Amid Clinton interacting with all the warmth of a slug about breaking the law while collecting her sheep supporters like yesterday's trash, the general public can't possibly have any faith in a pathetic press monitoring these contemptible characters protecting bugs more than babies. It's an injustice to say a low-end used-car salesman is infinitely more honest and credible than majority of #MessMedia promoting polls designed to create a reality rather than reflecting it. A parade of progressive puke running their mouths on outrageous cable sibling MSNBC (Moronville rather than Nerdland), in dire need of mental health checks to "pilot" their valueless programs where "All Truth Matters" is a hateful remark, clearly has contaminated the vanishing credibility of the network's news division. Between stints virtually serving as Shrillary campaign managers, insufferable Krystal "Punked I" Ball and aging Angrier "Punked II" Mitchell probably passed up Williams in their internal on-air personality rankings before execs triggered an internal fact-finding mission. At some crooked juncture, Lyin' Brian probably told "Kibble Bits" Mitchell he was there when Sick Willie manhandled Juanita Broaddrick and never saw abuse occur. When Yoda's mother Andrea, separated at birth from ET twin James Carville, subsequently fell out of the unethical tree, she struck every "awful" branch on the way down dodging "sniper" comments similar to "discredited" Shrillary and cankle comrade Loretta Lynch's view of the Federal Bureau of Matters.

But isn't "fact" a dirty four-letter word to the steady stream of left-wing televangelist imbeciles such as Donny Dunce plus goofy "GameChangers" John Heil(Hitler)mann and sociable Mark "With Virtually No Respect" Halperin deemed "talent" on this deplorable "Lien Forward" network shackled by hypocritical flock of tax cheats headlined by bow-wow Al? Inability to comprehend tax forms "is-is" who they are! Jaundiced Joy-less Reid probably feels #TheDonald colluded with time-traveling Russians to hack her pint-sized brain. Despite shifting around human-waste time slots like plunger in a commode, MSLSD's principal audience remains comprised of its control room, about half of a haughty host's immediate family plus far-left lunatics attempting to get a glimpse of their relatives on Lockup. After serving a six-month suspension, Williams was consigned to a sinking ship as (fabricating) face of an egregious enterprise full of partisan hacks and harassing sickos. Williams said his undefined number of stretched stories "came from a bad place" and then secured an "11th-hour" reprieve to return to the stench of a bad place (MessLSD), which is to journalism what the National Enquirer is to literature and what Mika the Misguided Mannequin among 100-plus supportive Brokaw Babes are to regal reporting. Despite his excessive baggage and gigantic gall condemning fake news and lecturing about moral authority, Williams is an improvement over MessLSD's low-grade lineup and witless panels unless he also failed to attend a H&R Block tax seminar. Mingling amid this cesspool of flooded-out fools fond of fake squaw Elizabeth Warren (a/k/a "Pow Wow Chow" contributor Lie-awatha envious of The Donald after failing to flip enough tee-pees), the paleface press potentate at least won't have to fib about seeing (brain)dead bodies, tingling or not, pass him in the halls of his esteemed workplace where falsehoods came as naturally as breathing before they hired Megyn to inspire them with GQ poses, voice inflections and lame puns only her mother could appreciate. When trying to withstand Warren's "withering" wit and history of ethnic exploitation, you learn anew Native-American history as to why real Indians didn't permit "nasty" squaws, fake or not, to sit around the council fire other than delivering word-for-word recipe result of Warren's "Pow Wow Chow."

Long before Amazon deleted negative reviews of Over-the-Hill's book for bozos, perhaps the most accurate of all of Trump's tranquil talk sissy RINOs revile describes "the media as the lowest form of humanity." As laughable as Trumping Univision antagonist, "courageous" NBC executives such as Andrew Lack(ofintegrity) played role of Shrillary by avoiding interviews on their own networks about the Jimmy Carter intern who never graduated from college. In other words, NBC's brass knew for an extended period about the truth decay as Williams frequently was fond of fables but the enema of the American people allowed the storytelling go on and on and on. If Variety is the spice of life regarding NBC's culture, Bozo Brian's moral compass was infected by crass face-of-network Tom Brokaw. Sounds similar to the way the wink-and-nod enablers and their piss-poor press counterparts such as Today's Olympian ogre Matt Liar treat 50-troop "man" Obama by persistently kissing the ring in No Drama's back pocket plus coddling delusional Dims claiming climate change will force women into prostitution. Meanwhile, the BBC's chatty Katty Kay can't quite comprehend between her going-to-pot MSNBC appearances whether Mainstream Media Midget George tilts left or right - which is equivalent to discerning if the Earth is flat or round. Ditto the gall of Judy Woodruff claiming she is a fair-and-balanced news reader while NPR virtually ignored the Planned Murderhood videos scandal. Do you have any doubt these media mavens gave hemorrhoid-causing Hillary a pass when she seamlessly revised and extended remarks to their limits as much as stretching seams of her Chairman Mao Collection pants suits? The leftist butt-kisser's club members also do the same for clean-and-articulate ex-Vice Plagiarist Joe Biden in regard to his anemic charitable donations. Shouldn't MSNBC's malpractice maven Mike Barnicle and Clinton News Network's token profane Arab bull-spitter Fareed Zakaria have exclusively been Biden boosters solely because they're both profound plagiarists or have they already been admonished as JV by previous POTUS because "You Didn't Write That"?

Helicopter hallucinating Williams, the (bald) face (liar) of NBC News with a five-year, $50 million contract, slapped veterans in the face with his distortion about being "under fire" during the Iraq War. The Chinook Crooks, including Williams' NBC crew, are so delusional they must have exchanged war stories with corkscrew-flying #ShrillaryRotten. Mr. Misremember apologized for the longstanding blatant falsehood but it was chock full of weasel words and deceptive in making it seem as if he witnessed the attack despite being about 30 minutes behind the actual incident. If the lunatic Lohans can sue Fox, then the nation's viewers seeking truth, especially veterans, should be able to file a class-action suit against the $10 million/year valor thief. Williams' lame excuse for the principal chopper whopper was his celebrity-driven "memory evolved," giving critical thinkers added-value insight into how evolution really works for tree-hugging/tin-foil-saving leftists. Demoncrat media celebrities from Dan Blather to perky Katie Couric's gun-rights film deception, displaying all of the analytical ability of a chipmunk, are fond of portraying themselves as righteous although Liberal Lyin' companion Mary Jo Kopechne can not be reached for comment. Meanwhile, #TheDonald can be reached after Pushy succeeded Pussy. If he seeks to be a teddy bear addressing their brain power, he'll distribute coloring books and Play-Doh. If he wants to be a teed-off bear giving media a yellow shower for overlooking DNC and Shrillary dossier funding, he'll rip their heads off and pee down their sorry necks similar to his initial one-against-everyone POTUS presser, toying with media misfits about Comey tapes and possibly thwarting incessant White House press corps grandstanding by reducing on-camera briefings. Abusing our intellect ("blah, blah, blah. . . . we despise Donald Trump. . . . blah, blah, blah"), maniacal #MessMedia is nearly as disgusting as Pennsylvania priest pedophile scandal and Catholic "I will not comment" cover-up of sexual abuse going all the way over to walled-in Vatican. Perhaps the pompous political papacy was too consumed with leftist view of illegal immigration plus playing celebrity scientist lecturing the masses during masses about man-made climate change.

Let's capsulize media mess in sufficiently rudimentary terms aptly-named Don Lemon could comprehend along with fellow stage prancer Anderson Pooper and similarly confused Commie colleague Van Jones. Okay, strike thought as these characters have well-reasoned standards comparable to anal CNN legal beagle Jeffrey Toobin persistently spewing nonsense out his butt and while petting pet snake after knocking up Jeff Greenfield's 13-year younger daughter in an extramarital affair. Dear Ill-Equipped Liberals: What if a gorilla shot an alligator with AR-15 to save Muslim refugee child of trans-gendered parents ignoring infant while "stalled" by fascination over restroom access? Do-gooder logic from self-styled intellectual supremacists insists any record-snow natural phenomenon in New England, flood in Louisiana or wild-fire out West are directly attributable to man-caused global warming. They could "gun" for a shred of credibility by supporting having Muslims register pressure cookers and knives. As intense as the lovely faces and inspiring brains on The View, the pressure to conform even has the pope seeking to become a climate change-fighting superhero rivaling Al Bore and globe-trotting Barry Obama. Meanwhile, staff-sleeping genius David "No Kidding" Letterman looked like the king of dolts by accepting BSW's series of tall tales hook, line and sinker although an all-wet majority of bed-wetting media misfits curled up in their safe places wet-kissed him and fellow leftist Jon Stewart upon their retirements. Defying common sense, a striking number of progressive nut-jobs claimed they couldn't discern incessantly creepy Letterman's politics. Ditto for slanted Stewart, a wannabee journalist comparable to Step-on-the-truth-to-us hiding behind comedian mask when a topic thrown out for consumption by Anthony Weiner's beach-house buddy doesn't strike public's funny bone.

Come on folks! Labeling the current pack of jackals as journalists is akin to designating dog food as filet mignon. Rather than focused on two scoops of ice cream for #TheDonald, shouldn't they be probing murder of DNC operative Seth Rich or at least roaming through New York woods looking for dismantled electronic devices? Don't you "trust" your memory if a dog bit you drawing blood way back in grade school or receiving stitches in an accident "playing Army" (like Williams) with your childhood buddy down the street? When will NBC's complicit colleagues chime in with firsthand accounts of Blustery Brian's brave crusades or are they just classic "yes-people" cowards reveling in street-cred infotainment limelight of "Black Hawk Down Meets Saving Private Ryan"? Call it 50 shades of say(ing) nothing from a network worthy of sponsorship from Burger King (Home of the Whoppers). Did the hangers-on also secure special-ops gifts (throat-cutter, knife and piece of helicopter fuselage destroyed in Abbottabad compound raid) from acclaimed Navy SEAL Team Six? Geez! It has reached the point where we're surprised their embedded boss didn't manage to edit events where he actually shot and killed UBL rather than Robert O'Neill to try to thwart Fox News' ratings-grabber two-part interview. Running the risk of NBC cancelling Collegehoopedia's beauty pageant, it's time to assert: "A liar is a liar is a liar." Despite needing teleprompter to tell her when to "sigh," a single screed secures more money for Shrillary than the average annual salary of a CEO. If hideous Hillary had dropped out of the presidential race to become press pundit, she could have had a "little-hard-to-take" show on MSLSD known as "The Anchor Lady." Resembling tongue-tied colleagues, her intro limerick should be "I'm a little teapot, old and stout; open my mouth and lies come out" before "hammering" home signature sign-off citing Sir Walter Scott's quote: "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."

Akin to majority of Shrillary supporters with their credibility shrinking comparable to George Costanza's appendage at a beach house, none of stench stemming from Williams' preposterous assertions passed plausible smell test. The egomaniac ex-member of the Board of Directors of the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation must want for himself an award (Yellow Heart from yellow-streak POTUS by toeing the line and refraining from saying Islamic terrorist) or at least an action figure with his likeness. Beset by a bizarre super-hero addiction, Williams asserted he saved puppies as a volunteer firefighter in New Jersey, endured mugging while selling Christmas trees, witnessed history at the Brandenburg Gate the night the Berlin Wall came down and braved rocket fire just under him in Israel (another hectic helicopter trip) before performing marvelous deeds in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina - "I see dead people" floating by hotel window in French Quarter, coping with gangs invading his five-star lodging (staging area for law enforcement), insisting he contracted dysentery from ingesting flood-waters and craving Slim Jims due to a far-fetched absence of nourishment. But let's face the "facts": If the "more you know (or concoct)" every-man can survive being hit by a R.P.G. (although likely just harrowing sand), the habitual "news-faker" can survive anything (including genuinely being shot down via a six-month suspension without pay). The Tonight Show host wannabe, apparently taking acting lessons from his risque-scene daughter (Allison on HBO series "Girls") based on half-baked apology still alienating the military, must moonlight as a mortician because he claims to "have seen thousands of dead people," including a suicide in the Superdome. The trauma has sure impaired his judgment after he focused on how climate-change conference slated for Paris would be impacted before anyone knew much about carnage stemming from Islamic terrorist attacks.

In the aftermath of serial-embellisher Williams' return, it's only a question of when before parent company Comcast overhauls or pulls the plug on moronic MSNBC where, if evolution is so authentic, a possible Planet of the Apes descendant or General Ursus stand-in (apparently his evolutionary view while trying to learn to spell r-e-s-p-e-c-t) feels compelled to dwell on Happy Darwin Day? Facing a dossier of fantasy fibs, a tearful mea culpa co-hosted by Oprah and Baba Wawa is probably the only way to salvage his career by admitting celebrity was more vital to him than journalism. Speaking of apologies, when will Al Jazeera reject Ayman Mohyeldin, a miscreant Middle East reporter for NBC (No Basic Credibility), seek forgiveness for his repulsive claim that sniper hero Chris Kyle was a "racist" on "killing sprees" while protecting troops in Iraq? It's all as perverted as 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft over at CBS although another broadcast network puff-piece yields insight to the convenient love-fest arrangement regarding Kroft's menage-a-trois interview with Obama and Clinton and Williams successor Lester Holt's psychiatric question about feelings. By any fair-minded definition (including University of Michigan's offensive word-free campus and Shrillary volunteers censuring adjectives), Kroft's claptrap, Holt's hard-hitting question and ABC's Stephanopoulos selling his Dear George soul to the Clintons beyond old Whitewater whitewashing were textbook examples of the ultimate man-made disaster - press and government working together for the common good of the people comparable to pissy-and-prissy Trudeau Administration in Canada.

What difference does it make? Frequently amused by pathetic press coverage of elusive definition of radical Islam, $400 million Iranian ransom, unprotected national borders featuring an illegal immigrant disease-dump invasion coming to your community soon, short-term soccer virus knock-out of real football as the nation's top concussion-causing or flopping sport, computer "recycling" by the environmentally-sensitive/magical-way IRS, myopic Michelle's talking shopping carts and a ballet-loving Coast Guard washout worth five Taliban human debris, there are ample reasons why the majority of Americans fail to have confidence in a biased mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. Grabbed by the press posse, major TV networks and liberal rags devoted to "seeking the whole truth" refused to give coverage to a Fox News report acknowledging the dictionary-less Obama Administration denied aid multiple times to Americans attacked and murdered by "random-acting" terrorists in Benghazi on September 11 of all days. A self-righteous stonewalling White House failed to supply requested information to Congress for its hearing oversight, but Judicial Watch obtained declassified emails showing ex-Out House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodes and other "rogue" (likely from Cincinnati plus probably Phoenix) West Wing p.r. officials/demented dudes/"shadowy characters" orchestrating a "spontaneous" false-narrative prep memo/campaign, especially via cozy chit-chat with AP, to "reinforce" POTUS and to portray the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being "rooted in an Internet video, and not a failure of policy." The knuckleheads tried to portray the closing of the U.S. embassy in Yemen as a victory in the "War Against Whatever." Meanwhile, IRS intimidation icon Lerner (a/k/a Toby Miles), disgraced ex-DNC chair Debbie Blabbermouth-Schultz, leftist Congressmen supporting Iranian nuclear deal and Dimorat benefactor George Soros will be among the few Jews in the world for whom Barry Insane Obummer's Administration would defend their backs. Although Little Debbie's (beef)cake brother is an assistant US attorney for District of Columbia, OJ did a superior job in prison searching for real killers of Nicole than the DNC did investigating or offering award regarding murder of one of their own (Seth Rich). We'll know the fusion-driven pressure is getting to female version of Sgt. "I Know Nothing" Schultz if her hair goes scared straight.

Validity of "CNN Sucks" chants terrifying Little Jimmy Acostass were reinforced with the way the Most (Dis)trusted Name in News rushed in to feed "buzz" to viewers regarding BuzzFeed's trumped-up Russian rejoinder. After all, the #MessMedia's motto is "you have to engage in false statements. If the group-think pretentious press, spearheaded by certifiable close-minded "Journolist" lib-nuts (including testy Toobin, Eric Alterman, Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman) incapable of separating corrupt from crude, withheld evidence (such as emails from the National Security Advisor's office telling a counter-terrorism unit to stand down), they're as corrupt in a cover-up as the amateurish administration's self-righteous Siskel & Ebert wannabees more concerned with monitoring content of "Bible-clinger" prayers, doctoring talking points, collective salvation outreach, making faces for Buzzfeed video promoting ObamaCare and muzzling Benghazi survivors plus front-line troops who served with a deserter (forced to sign non-disclosure agreements) rather than transparency with the public. Amid the high-horse chaos, we pay for State Department tutors (to get their stories straight) and have the prospect of the incompetent lost-all-pertinent emails IRS enforcing Obamacare if its $1 billion investment enrolling "millions" ever functions properly. Incredibly, there are IRS dogs receiving bonuses despite being delinquent on their own taxes as a VA scandal became a precursor of flailing Obowwowcare. Does the medical coverage for Conservatives include throwing up in their mouths listening to "Dim" politicians, pathetic political pundits on CNN and MSNBC plus vengeful not-quite-vixens on "The View"?

The CCCP (Colossal Collection of Condescending Politicians) fails to comprehend they work for "We the People"; not the other way around. How else did you explain the moral compass of former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen See-Soul-less, too busy to testify before Congress but not to attend a gala, failing to help a young girl secure a lung transplant years after the "human servant" prolonged her political life by accepting significant donations in Kansas from an abortion doctor known as Tiller the Baby Killer? Perhaps bloodthirsty Demonrats, capable of labeling political opponents as such but not genuine terrorists, would have a little compassion for innocent human babies if they were furry fetuses. Have these petty "public servants" any shame as their leader jokes about a pastry chef lacing pies with crack cocaine? This is supposed to be a nation of laws; not of self-absorbed men and women seemingly releasing more Gitmo detainees than creating quality jobs. Why wasn't there a single honorable IRS employee step forward casting out demons as a whistle-blower about the keep-your-faith-to-yourself agency's targeting of outstanding organizations such as Billy Graham's "mean-spirited" ministries or auditing conservative donors at 10 times the rate of the average citizen?

Why didn't the lapdog media do its watchdog job and pursue the Benghazi issue providing accountable answers to the many questions accumulated about what precisely occurred in the Celebrity-in-Chief's chamber? The Last Half-rican Standing, stymied by almost 20 years as member of the Church of GD America, failed to rise to occasion and become a genuine leader should have simply get the hell out of the way. Setting aside "fast-and-furious" race-card reveling DOJ activity, disgusting IRS transgressions, offensive lecturing of Christians at a prayer breakfast and VA Hospital waiting-list death counts, why do the vast majority of the message-massaged media remain so disinterested in pursuing the litany of "jaw-dropping" misstatements and dissembling regarding what was known before and after the Benghazi horror? It wasn't because the misfit media was too busy in Philly prepping for coverage of the chilling capital case carnage in serial killer Dr. Kermit Gosnell's late-term abortion trial or delving into the abuses of an arrogant in-over-his-head AG such as error-prone Eric and party-animal IRS targeting conservative groups plus a network (Fox) more conservative (conspiratorial to loony leftists) than its counterparts. General Motors is alive, but truth from crass Obama White House, Democratic legislators and State Department officials plus an inept press corps is dead. Meanwhile, ex-POTUS (a/k/a "Basketball Bones") was too busy going to the rack at a ceremony with UConn's male and female NCAA hoop champions rather than assembling a coherent response to a full-court press siege in Iraq or take the time to attend Justice Scalia's funeral. After feeding the hungry Huskies his rehearsed lines, a do-our-part plan for the Saul Alinsky devotee in the immediate aftermath included glamour golfing in Palm Springs, where he also went to celebrate Father's Day weekend while his vacation-junkie family ran up another hefty tab separately in Italy.

What difference does it make amid NBC's honey beer-drinking summit Super Bowl interview of Obama Been Lyin' by a network honey? Al Jazeera becomes more objective in its coverage of U.S. politics than incestuous AP (Administration's Press), ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC (More Socialist Nonsense By Commentators) and CNN (Contemptible News Network when moderator Candy Crony became a shameless shill as a virtual member of presidential debate team). It seemed like standard operating procedure when CNN's VP and Washington bureau chief tipped the Clinton campaign off to a favorable poll just before its release via her husband, who served as a deputy secretary of state under Shrillary and whose name was floated for a possible high-level spot in a second Clinton White House. In addition to taxpayers underwriting a welfare-receiving terrorist clan in Boston to the tune of more than $100,000 and paying in excess of $300,000 to merciless Major Nidal Hasan while waiting for trial since the felonious Fort Hood shooting, we finance fastidious NPR (should be NWR for National Welfare Radio), which is such a gigantic joke "All Things Considered" aired no Benghazi features the weekend after compelling Congressional testimony but did allot time to "consider" riveting rhino horns trading. It doesn't seem as if the "All Things" mindset has changed much since a former co-host's husband worked for the presidential campaigns of Obama and ready-to-serve-spit John Kerry (the self-proclaimed Vietnam War hero before heaving his medals and dignity over a fence comparable to Israel's security in a dismal deal with Iran he was still trying to salvage even after being OOO).

Everywhere you turn unless negotiating a bike with all the expertise of shadow ambassador Kerry, there is an immeasurable mess stemming from his presidency similar to the former IRS chief's wife toiling for a leftist campaign finance reform group. Incredibly, Obama lackey Valerie Jarrett's daughter boasted zero experience in journalism but was slated to cover the DOJ for CNN. Also devoid of media credentials, First Daughter Chelsea Clinton was given a political favor on a silver-spoon platter via an annual salary of $600,000 when she joined NBC News as a rock-solid "special correspondent" for Williams' Rock Center (in excess of $25,000 for each minute she displayed her hard-working brilliance on-air to make certain she wasn't dead-broke after leaving the White House and academic pursuits). If Webb Hubbell-lipped Chelsea was worth $600,000 to NBC long before possibly reaching Congress on a silver platter after Mommy Dearest was treated in same fashion en route to Senate seat, the peacock-sure network should have paid Ivanka Trump $6 million. Let's hope spoiled-brat Chelsea's "Get Going" book geared toward kids is 180 degrees removed from Bubba's get-going targeting/stalking of younger crowd. Who in their right mind other than perhaps Clinton leg humper Dear George would pay $75,000 for a nepotism-laced one-percenter Chelsea chat (down to $7,500/minute for her precious "work" while mooching off Clinton Foundation)? How much are speeches from Natasha and Malia worth; especially if they remember any of Rev. Wrong's spellbinding sermons unlike their parents, and admit hiding Oreo snacks and smoking products under beds after enduring organic-garden goodies all day or served as experimental youngsters using same restroom as troubled transgenders in father's apostate administration lowering nation's inspiration to "tear down that stall" from "tear down that wall"?

Presidents of ABC and NBC News had siblings working at the Obama White House with cozy ties to Benghazi, CNN's deputy bureau chief was married to a former aide for (brain)dead-broke Hillary, #DirtyRice was married to an ABC News executive producer and #Shrillary's cocksure campaign manager (Robby Mook) interned for Stephanopoulos. Mook learned so much from Curious George he knows more about how many times chronically-confused Kramer visited Seinfeld's apartment than how often his colleagues and White House personnel met with chaos-causing Creamer. NBC News senior political editor Mark Murray was married to an Obama official, former MSNBC "Spittle-Boy" (Chris Matthews) is married to chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, host-ette Savannah Guthrie's spouse was traveling chief of staff for #AlBore, half-ass conservative Margaret Hoover's spouse is CNN/Newsweek/Daily Beast flack, CNN-to-Fox host John Roberts' spouse has worked for CNN and ABC plus Meet the Depressed moderator UpChuck Todd's spouse worked on 2006 Senate campaign for Jim Webb (D-VA). Todd, exhibiting his typical behavior of a buffoon when saying he was proud of NBC for its handling of Williams' integrity scandal and moonlighting as DNC therapist, secured his start in politics toiling in 1992 presidential campaign for Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), who wound up nearby for the Howard Dean exorcism and endorsed the Clinton Charade. All "Rhodes" at CBS detour when inquiring about Les Moonves' manhandling maneuvering but do lead to the network's prez being the brother of Mr. Accountability's "mind-melding" speechwriter and escape-artist extraordinaire going to great lengths to avoid divulging potentially-damaging information on a "Jason Bourne" deserter. It was the best place for previous Out House operation using a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing to "combat" Islamic terrorism.

CBS, with tasteless Moonves doing his titillating tidings with board support from former Bowdoin ME hooper/Clinton Secretary of Defense William Cohen, hired former Obama chief of staff Bill Daley as a contributor while respected investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson maneuvered out of her contract amid the network's depraved indifference. By any measure, Moonves' wife, Julie Chen, is a journalistic joke when compared to Attkisson. Around 30 liberal journalists passed through Obama's revolving door as employees. A prime example of the seamless transition for in-the-tank media was Linda Douglass, who became communications director for the Oval Office's Health Reform Office after serving as ABC's chief congressional correspondent. Such BS shouldn't have been surprising insofar as her lawyer/husband was a big fundraiser for BO. Similarly, Washington Post political reporter Shailagh Murray fit like a glove working under Biden and Obama before wild-eyed communicator Rachel Racusen sandwiched a stint with MSLSD between West Wing flings and daughter of Univision "baby" anchor Jorge Ramos joined Shrillary's campaign. Any legal immigrant knows Whore-hey is the equivalent of Ted Baxter for White America - a joke. Political operative Murray was married to a key employee for Fusion GPS, which was funneled money by the same law firm paid nearly $1 million by Obama's official campaign organization. At CBS, a bozo producer mocked Sen. Rand Paul about "being a doctor" while clueless that he indeed is a physician. Democratic operative/convicted felon Robert Creamer, the husband of Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowky, made 340 visits to Obama's Out House. Elsewhere, you can always count on Tingles Matthews, the tedious tapeworm of TV tales on MessLSD's "Dumbball," to pee on himself non-stop offering alternate-universe commentary for which you should promptly believe just the opposite; especially when #PrissyChrissy spewed venom about the mother of a deceased State Department employee.

The Beltway is East Coast version of Hollywood only with ugly people. Amid one of the Clintons' best friends funneling in excess of half-million dollars to spouse of high-ranking FBI official, you can't possibly make up all of this conflict-of-interest journalistic junk unless fond of the chummy White House Correspondents Dinner. The "Let's Move" (in together) extends into the kitchen where WH chef Sam Kass is married to dim-bulb former host-ette Alex Wagner from "Fall Backward" network MSLSD. Did she get talking points along with organic-food leftovers from Michelle's gorgeous garden? Departed Spite House Press Secretary/Carnival Barker Jay Carney's wife is Claire Shipman, a senior national correspondent for ABC. Blatant bias stemming from the bozo version of a "Band of Brothers (and Sisters)" also includes the Washington Post's justice department reporter married to the general counsel of the Department of Human Services, ABC News producer married to National Security Advisor/military micro-manager Susan Rice, CNN's deputy Washington bureau chief married to an ex-deputy secretary of state under Clinton, Huffington Post political editor and ex-Newsweek flack Sam Stein's spouse working for White House and NPR's WH correspondent married to a lawyer in the White House counsel's office. The symbolic evacuation from the White House press room because of smoke must have stemmed from deep-background Carney trying to blow smoke up the media's sorry butt with an off-the-record briefing for selected stenographers. Obstructing justice he was sworn to uphold, the ill-tempered AG was the next nefarious nabob to deploy a farcical off-the-record stench-fest pussyfooting around behind closed doors prior to giving illegal immigrants welfare attorneys. His successor was no better as she conducted ill-advised meeting with Bubba before FBI announced its decision regarding subversive spouse. In addition to potty training of their grandchildren, perhaps they also discussed the Clintons' expertise on underwear - Sick Willie getting tax deduction for his skivvies and #ShrillaryRotten orchestrating evidence involving pre-teen raped by her client.

Were reports any surprise about Clinton BleachBit operatives privately sanitizing potentially-damaging State Department documents to protect "7th floor" personnel? Oh, the Huma-nitwit-he-he! In Hill's wacky world where she looks more into Yoda than yoga, only four people were killed and she didn't know three of them, anyway. After spit hit the fan, State Department lackey Jan sought to silence contractors. But from their graves, the deceased cried out: "In lieu of flowers, please don't elect Hitlery (unless she at least admits we died)." In an effort to help the buffoonish media shine the light of truth on the Benghazi bungling and scrubbed-a-dozen-times talking points, following are basic "who/what/when/why/where" questions for which the public deserves answers via the president's acolytes:
* Long before throwing INTEL community under the bus, who changed the original talking points and concocted "the (fanciful) spontaneous reaction" to a YouTube video explanation for the attack (framed before the final two deaths) and did the same individual help orchestrate a coordinated response at various venues in the days and weeks immediately following said attack?
* What portion of the entire 7 1/2 hours of the attack did POTUS himself spend in the Situation Room with fellow "mom-jean dudes" and was he directly involved with multiple "stand-down" orders while the attacks were in place? Perhaps he was too busy with debate prep, playing Spades again or some Man's Country "game" with body man/ex-Duke hooper Reggie Love rather than spending 13 seconds overseeing mobilization of rescue troops enduring 13 hours of hell. Let's hope Love, charged with driving while impaired in college, didn't take Barry out on the town to a frat party rather than doing his job in Situation Room.
* When precisely did increasingly imperial POTUS and/or his national security staff first become aware that an attack was underway at the Benghazi compound and did Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta compare notes before Clinton's proclamation emphasizing a video as the culprit?
* Why was the no-drama Obama Administration's response so lax - failing to issue a CBA (Cross Border Authority) - despite an unmanned drone providing real-time live video feed of the scene? Who atop the chain-of-command was so insensitive they let Americans die during a "demonstration" (not an attack) akin to butchering innocent babies?
* Where is evidence of the "Betray Us" administration's responses to repeated pleas to strengthen security for Americans in Libya, not only from the State Department security chief and man on the ground in charge of security, but from the ambassador? Or were progressive normalization goals with Libya more important than traditional sense of duty? Did the "Deleter of the Free World" aspirant encourage Stevens to go to Benghazi or not to set up a diplomatic outpost?

Trying to find someone "on Koch" more revolting amid the myriad of political con artists than former Senate Dimorat "leader" Harry Reid (Nevada), how do you distinguish "Dingy" (who also chimed in with "What Difference Does It Make?" before wowing the nation threatening not to attend a Redskins game) from Dumb from Dumber from Dumbest as the government goofballs and goons reveal they would rather focus their energy on invoking the 5th Amendment by grifters, coddling illegal immigrants, supporting same-sex unions, attending line-dancing conferences at taxpayers' expense, underwriting Sandra Flukey's birth control, sanctioning gays in professional sports and the Boy Scouts, funding transgender operation for military misfit Bradley Manning, monitoring everyone's phone calls including the Pope, bullying insurance companies to keep them quiet, ordering federal workers to spy on each other and giving Miranda rights to terrorists while profiling patriot, pro-life plus Tea Party affiliates? Schmucky Schumer, Dingy's successor, isn't the answer to giving a craving nation one huge "happiness" conference by dismantling the IRS. In a sick version of Obama "care," the media dimwits such as Eleanor Off-the-Cliff seem as careless and clueless in unearthing authentic autopsy results for a virtually defenseless Ambassador Stevens as the administration is in resolutely rendering justice to the incorrigible Islamic perpetrators. They reach out a kumbaya hand to Islamic scum seeking to slice off our hands (if not more). It's foreign to civility, but it spurs one to drag All the ex-President's "Men" (political parasites) through the caught-by-surprise mud similar to the ambassador's body dragged through foreign streets.

Whether or not they are yucking it up about a significant delay in apprehending terrorist leader or looking under every rock for a Christian extremist group, this is no witch-hunt because the witches in and out of government are already easy to discern. A classic example was shabby State Department spokesperson #MakeMe Barf, wearing glasses to try to appear smart, trashing brave front-line soldiers from her thousands-of-miles-away ivory tower while the haughty hag permanently stained from serving on Obama's debate prep team described torturing towel-heads as "gentlemen", deemed job-training for ISIS (Jobs for Jihadis) as the cure for halting Middle East conflict and doesn't think it's pertinent to know if Hillary's emails contained classified material. While the world went to hell around her, equally dense State Department amateur-hour colleague Gem SockItToMe tweeted about fashion before displaying her utter ignorance being unaware Jews were killed in a terrorist attack on a kosher deli in Paris prior to a timid correction tweet. Can't wait for explanation from intellectual heavyweight rejoining White House communications staff after the State Department reportedly ordered Marines to destroy their weapons upon a humiliating abandonment of the U.S. embassy in Yemen, which was Obama's textbook example of success only months earlier. Regrettably, we pay the salaries of charming charlatans who threw their political weight behind declining to put Boko Haram thugs on the terrorist list before the Islamic militants in Nigeria burned 29 students alive, massacred 59 schoolboys at a boarding school and kidnapped nearly 300 school girls (threatening to sell them into slavery). Incredibly, Fox News deemed dim bulb #MakeMeBarf capable of enlightening its viewers as a regular contributor after her dismal displays during the Obama years. Ditto chest-pounding "Dirty Donna" Brazila.

What happened? Roped-off reporters were so far up Hillary's butt during her cow(ard) roundup they could detail what she consumed doing lunch with double-dipping scrawny surrogate Huma after running down their Scoobie Doo SUV. Has the idolatry-practicing media, with fawning NBC planning a mini-series on Clinton before backing off on the project, contrasted "equal-protection-under-the-law" security measures for Ambassador Stevens compared to her when she went overseas? Did Eleanor Roosevelt give Her Thighness seance insight on baking cookies, covering up a sex and prostitution probe on her watch, lessons on transporting herself on a broom or how mostly unseen movie trailers incite Muslims? Seemingly, it's always the fault of someone else with this contemptible crowd, looking as phony as actress Diane Lane playing the role of Shrillary - which is akin to George Clooney playing the role of Dick Vitale. It takes-a-village idiot such as truth deflector Victoria "F**k the EU!" Nuland to believe her crutch, but perhaps the Democrap ditz potty mouth is simply adding to the vast right-wing conspiracy featuring a seemingly never-ending gateway list from Whitewater to Wipeserver including Filegate, Sandy Burglar "lifting" National Archives classified documents, Buddhist Templegate, Sick Willie's intern cigar, Travelgate, Vince Foster's suicide, Lippogate, Marc Rich's pardon, Lootergate, wagging the dog, Vandalgate, Orgy Island, Servergate, Foundation pay-to-play, etc., etc., etc. Now, gaffe-tastic Hillary "misses the bigger picture" sounding "is-is" similar to hubby: "I did not have decision-making responsibilities for that compound - Benghazi." Meanwhile, Billy Boy stayed above the email and server frays by claiming: "I did not have texts with that woman - who lied about name origin." When Hillary eventually implodes just before or after ObamaCare does the same, lunatic Oven Stuffer Sugar-daddy Soros will have underwritten a leftist Holocaust similar to when the Democratic Party hijacker posed as a Christian teenager watching numerous fellow Hungarian Jews shipped off to death camps.

The "buck" couldn't find any place to stop during Obama's tenure at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where "time-is-of-the-essence" ex-POTUS chimed in on earthshaking cultural topics involving dumbbell Donald Sterling, Undocumented Democrats-to-be and documentarian Michael Sam but didn't supply his itinerary the evening when Americans were killed in Libya. Neither the self-enamored emperor nor his underwhelming underlings have any clothes or complete candor as the IRS commissioner only remembers one Easter Egg roll among his excessive 157 White House visits. Amid trying to discern State Department protocol during an attack, there was a preposterous assertion from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that "assets couldn't get there (Benghazi) in time." Did patronizing Panetta also commiserate with an omniscient Eleanor regarding upper-brass orders to save Americans? How did he know with such authority the length of "time" the siege would take as they fought for their lives? Maybe he was too busy on other travel-time matters planning his next cross-country commute home to California at tax-payer expense on military jets. Panetta isn't as principled as the press likes to portray him after Monica "I'm No. 44 (or so)" Lewinsky "worked" in the Chief of Staff's office during the government shutdown. Did this leech-filled leadership just cut their losses and "run" (let them die) rather than risk additional casualties before making the rounds, including hard-hitting media moguls Letterman (there he is again) and Barbara Walters, with their video fairy-tale?

What difference does it make? Our nation's ex-Effeminate Embellisher didn't need to be Winston Churchill while putting his bust in mothballs, but we didn't need Ward Churchill off the reservation overseeing our 57 states. Is there a single stooge from his out-of-control whining White House crew who served with honor and distinction as they boasted fewer jobs created than babies aborted? They should have focused more on closing their collective mouths than closing Gitmo and unmasking intelligence reports. If they were candid, they would be promoting their ex-boss as cover boy on the new $10 bill. The second term of a president, resembling life, is like a roll of toilet paper when you're ill. The closer you get to the end, the faster the _ _ _ _ goes resembling his brother-in-law cast adrift as Oregon State's coach. Held hostage by an Ariel Castro-like media as manipulative as Jodi Arias, the general public suffers from gullible glorification syndrome. Whatever political position you're in when the _ _ _ _ hits the fan, you just hope the grandstanding leader of the free world letting the entire Middle East turn into Alqaedaistan exhibits more "Barry" backbone (equivalent of a slinky according to Fox News funnyman Greg Gutfeld) than a best-and-the-brightest Boy King raised by an Indonesian nanny who subsequently joined a group of transvestites called the Dancing Dolls.

Unwilling to be a doll and dance around the topic like CNN's purported plane video of Sinator Oboner on the campaign trail pretending he was a basketball star strutting his stuff at nightclub, a problem ("phony scandal") persisted that the overwhelming majority of slanted reporters chronicling events big and small, including the toy department (sports), write through a liberal prism insulting our common sense and intelligence. A classic example of unethical standards was the love triangle among the elite press (Washington Compost)/government (DOJ and FCC)/sports (soft landing with The Undefeated). Many media minions such as CBS hoops elitist/Puke political science graduate/failed stand-up comedian shamelessly promoting his mom's alternative-medicine cancer elixir and dad's failed friend (#ShrillaryRotten) are as embarrassingly attentive to what is going on in their area of expertise as Supreme Judge Ruth at the state-of-the-union speech. Thus, the toughest question Obama, the executive with excessive excuses and 72% approval among Muslims, faced in a given year from the press "rat pack" probably was an ESPN bracket racket inquiry concerning whether his alma mater (Harvard) was going to advance to the second round in NCAA basketball playoff competition. How often did ESPN saps such as golfing partner Michael Wilbon and chatty host of show for non-workers Jemele Hill indulge themselves with "Audacity of Hype" presidential picks promoting the NCAA tourney while failing to exactly provide "fair share" equal time from the opposing party? At least Around-the-Horn(dog) ESPN, a Ashley Madison underwriter presenting itself as knowing as much about everything as Edward Snowden (including driving social issues down our just-want-to-watch-sports throats), didn't also portray Sir Remake America as a baseball expert following the bleeding-heart leftist's feeble ceremonial first pitch worthy of wearing mom jeans while attending a MLB All-Star Game. Unquestionably, social engineering ESPN, gutting Grantland while trying to launch Undefeated website, seeks to provide fib-lib ideals such as obsession with "Redskins" more of a forum than conservative commentators such as Mike Ditka and Curt Schilling. Perhaps ESPN is too busy working on investigative piece regarding former college basketball women's player (three-point specialist for Western Illinois in 2009-10 and Arkansas State in 2011-12) who became an exotic dancer known as "Dallas" before encountering low-life energy expert lapdog Hunter Biden. Similar to information-laden laptop, the foolish First Son claimed he had no memory of meeting stripper but she was on his consulting firm's payroll while pregnant. Come on, man! Check your Russian-hacked laptop. Plagiarist Bi-dumb should be asked if he knows name of his granddaughter she bore and whether ex-hooper should have been booted off insurance plan by hideous Hunter months after giving birth.

Let me be clear: Don't you wish the agenda-driven media would have "encouraged" leave-no-deserter-behind to develop priorities putting as much effort into meeting a budget deadline or getting the FBI to investigate Benghazi sooner than a month later instead of swooning over the Rev. Wrong disciple while providing a bracket, accepting mulligan lessons from Tiger, hosting parties at Club Obama, helping fill out H&R Block tax forms for Al "Not So" Sharpton or releasing illegal immigrant criminals from prison? If not relevant items, couldn't they have at least asked him: "What's the deal with the First Lady taking separate planes at taxpayer expense on your vacation junkets?" or "Why are Gitmo detainees receiving better health care than American veterans?" or "Did global warming cause Godzilla to return?" or "Do you want to be known as Traitor Jack after an incentive-for-kidnapping swap of five gold-star throat-slitting savages for one lily-white deserter?" or "Do you accept the laughable line that the IRS, which demands Charles Citizen keep his financial records for seven years, can't supply pertinent emails over a critical seven-month span for the gang-of-seven?" or "How many lone wolves does it take to make a pack of Islamic terrorists?" or "Are the three branches of the federal government called Me, Myself and I?"

Obama administration transplant Jim Sciutto, CNN's certifiably compromised chief national security correspondent, is a gigantic joke in network's continual Comedy Club. But then most of the honorable and distinctive media elite such as former CNN Misfire moron/shameless shrew Stephanie "Lying is a Virtue" Cutter are in the same fast-tracking cartel with chronic fabricator Tokyo Rice, who said the meandering misfit served with "honor and distinction" after a repulsive victory-lap Rose Garden publicity-stunt production where Allah was praised by Papa Taliban but not a word of gratitude directed toward the numerous shut-up-and-salute authentic soldiers killed and injured striving to rescue Mr. AWOL for Afghans. Would an extremist rules-for-radicals administration gone awry cooperate with a Hollyweird producer for a movie ("Saving Private Bergdahl"), available in Pashto, focusing on an ultimate warrior gone bad probably because of another YouTube video failing to generate four stars from Shrillary's shady State Department? Only the smartest man in the world could interrupt his ideological executive orders and negotiate a deal to save someone ashamed to be an American. Bowe Knows Islam apparently was fading fast with an illness that could only be promptly treated at a VA hospital. If you boast a triple-digit IQ and believe anything from the Worst Wing spin machine including smug Christiane Amanpour and Valerie Jarrett with their Iranian backgrounds plus DNC demons paying millions to Pakistani Anwar brothers as IT experts, then God (not Allah) help us all. Who possesses the most credibility and represents the best of us - selfless soldiers daily putting their lives on the line or self-centered White House/DNC dolts/State Department shills or DOJ version of Bonnie and Clyde (Bruce and Nellie Ohr) or self-important genuinely raggedy reprehensible press?

What difference does it make? Well, when the lame-stream sports media is as incompetent as the general newsroom and editorial department, they foist make-believe heroes upon us such as Lance Armstrong, Ryan Braun, Jose Fernandez, Aaron Hernandez, Ben Johnson, Marion Jones, Muslim convert Colon Crapernick, Johnny Manziel, Slick Rick Pitino, Ray Rice, A-Roid, Josh Shaw, O.J. Simpson, Manti Te'o, Michael Vick, Jameis Winston, Tiger Woods, "The Carolina Way" (Afro-Studies academic fraud) and shady Jackie Robinson West All-Stars. Do you really believe brand-protecting ESPN knew absolutely nothing about stretching the Chicago boundaries of Little League Baseball? A majority of the cesspool press pool cheered Sam Who I Am's social-engineering progressive values amid sizing up his shower habits after jeering Tim Tebow's religious "The Great I Am" standards. In basketball specifically, hoop media sycophants canonized tattooed Louisville coach Pitino not long after his brazen bistro-closing porn-star tryout and Jimmy V is hailed endlessly in history rewrites despite coach Valvano having two different schools - Iona and North Carolina State - vacate NCAA playoff participation. As if enthralled with Pitino getting a title tattoo, catching an enormous marlin, being featured on Maker's Mark bourbon bottles, donning Kanye West adidas shoes and competing in a seniors tournament isn't enough, the inept media's touchy-feely attempts in social engineering included trying to elevate Jason Collins to Jackie Robinson-like status.

At the time, Collins was cited as a "star" by sports know-nothing ABC anchor-ette Diane Sawyer, the wife of a Hollyweird director. Was Collins embellished as celestial because he averaged 1.1 points and 0.9 rebounds per game last season, 1.1 ppg and 1.3 rpg over the last two seasons, 1.2 ppg and 1.4 rpg over the previous three seasons, 1.4 ppg and 1.6 rpg the previous four seasons, 1.3 ppg and 1.5 rpg the previous five NBA seasons or because he fits nicely into smug Sawyer's social world view as Charles Gibson's truth-telling successor before she herself stepped aside in mid-2014? At least sanctimonious Sawyer, sounding almost like Shrillary after putting on Depends adhesive side up, showed her expertise in softball(s) with hot-air inquiries to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad about iPods and video games. Sawyer and #Shrillary must be sharing their meds with Pelosi (#NannyPathetic), Warren (#PrincessLieawatha), Waters (#MadMaxine) and #Dimorat Congressional Odd Squad (AOC/Omar/Tlaib/et al).

The misguided media, responding like the NSA in the "least untruthful manner," is so focused on accuracy that majority of folks with limited professionalism offered a one-sided depiction of troubled teen Trayvon Martin as a Skittles-loving (not weed-smoking) model citizen who must have innocently been kicked out of his home and school perhaps because he was fond of hanging around full-fledged liars who can't read cursive (eloquent to MSNBC smear merchants) coupled with his flaws including prejudiced thinking that Hispanics (White-Hispanic to appease race hustlers) could become "creepy-ass crackers." Fueled by hoodie-donning intellectual heavyweights such as the Miami Heat, a reported $1 million-plus wrongful death settlement with a homeowners association was a "justice" byproduct of the demise of the parents' son apparently enthralled with a "Gangsta" culture. It didn't take long for Baltimore bozos to exhibit their political prowess in a similar $6.4 million settlement regarding an individual with nearly two dozen drug-related offenses while incompetent city attorney failed to turn over exculpatory evidence to defense attorneys for their own police officers.

Of course, it's all about just one side of the political spectrum getting along with the other to the Amen progressive "pew" from politically-correct pundits plus gaily being who you are in a permissive society. What a stunner Collins was promptly slated to join the First Lady at a high-fiving Democrapic fundraiser. But this fundraiser was a genuine political spontaneous reaction! Collins, a college classmate of Chelsea Clinton, didn't exactly courageously dwell on the No. 98, which is about the number of months he fraudulently strung his fiancée along (see Cosmopolitan feature on fellow Stanford product Carolyn Moos). The brave Brooklyn Nets should have signed Moos to a contract as the first women's player in the NBA since Collins didn't help inspire his teammates any more than coach Jason Kidd. At least it would have taken some attention away from nut-job Donald Less-Than-Sterling, who should have remembered the old adage: "It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than opening your mouth and removing all doubt!"

What difference does it make? The full-confidence Soviets with Pravda boast a more objective and truthful media slant than the ABC pap provided from Stephanopoulos, who received a masters in (liberal) theology utilized in a bimbo-eruption Clinton War Room before "earning" a seven-year, $105 million contract. By any measure, the puff-piece enemies of illumination failed vetting Obama and his leftist fantasies before he became POTUS other than perhaps focusing on an alleged hoop prowess. But as former NBA Commissioner David Stern, a stereotypical liberal-leaning lawyer, said in jest about Obama's basketball background: "He thinks he's better than he really is." Although probably not intentional, Stern's dispassionate assessment also summarizes Obama's outlandish high-horse presidency running up the national debt as fast as he runs away from using the phrase "Islamic terrorist." At the risk of becoming the next U.S. citizen subject to a drone strike, it should be emphasized, when failing to toe the fictional party line of the high-and-mighty real sideshow, you become a demoted diplomat, face intimidation tactics having your phone records seized or are targeted by going on the abuse-of-power IRS enemies list (a/k/a "horrible customer service"). Obummer, while never mentioning the Clinton Cash racket, is so delusional he theorizes Republicans/conservatives are to blame for Loser Lois' widespread targeting.

Astonishingly, the staging-question IRS was "used" as a springboard by West Wing wackos to drive Obamacare down our throats via the same wily _itch with no integrity but plenty of bonus money despite showing her disdain for conservatives by calling them A-holes as part of her "serving" the public's interest in a non-partisan fashion. While the disgraced I-R-ME$$ official is feeding at the public servant trough (six-figure retirement) after previously harassing the Christian Coalition while with the FEC, someone needs to slow "learn her" by forcing miscreant Ms. 5th to take a remedial ethics class commencing with the Golden Rule while waiting for fallout from being held in contempt of Congress and a convenient catastrophic computer crash. Meanwhile, the nauseous networks yawned and "confidentially" looked the other way when e-mails showed computer-recycler Loser, amid distributing feelers to hook on with a pro-Obama group, sent a database of tax-exempt organizations to the FBI right before the 2010 midterm elections.

Portraying a murderous attack in Benghazi, Libya, as if it occurred in the same war as the Battle of the Bulge, it might be old news to former "stylistic" Left Wing spokesperson/current CNN spin-meister Jay Blarney while the ex-Time magazine Washington chief did his zero-credibility imitation of propagandist Joseph Goebbels with a "hope and change (the topic)" routine before getting out of Dodge (The Truth). Seems as if jaundiced Jay, who implied the IRS apologized for "not" doing something wrong, and his unprincipled ilk such as equally truth-allergic successor Josh "Anything But" Earnest proclaim a memo emphasizing Benghazi has nothing to do with Benghazi and Baghdad Bergdahl served honorably. In regard to sizing up real men, Blarney, Earnest and their misleading minions aren't a pimple on the butt of any of the genuine patriots the Out House slimed as swift-boating someone the soldiers knew firsthand. Previously, a classic example of the blame game and absence of accountability from the meek media was when the feds were more concerned with detaining some obscure producer of an anti-Islamic film making light of the prophet Mohammed. At least the dereliction-of-duty dunderheads such as CIA taxpayer-paid liar Mike More-ill(ness) didn't pull out the workplace-violence or man-made disaster card again during this convenient-truth process.

What difference does it make? Well, the excuse-ridden Obama Administration - either grossly incompetent or purposefully in "crude and disgusting" fraud - dealt with a terrorist assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi by shamelessly standing in front of caskets at an airport hangar (plus the White House press corps, the U.N. and national politically-oriented shows such as Meet the Depressed) offering an orchestrated al-Qaeda on-the-run narrative claiming the nondescript video was responsible for the murder of the American ambassador and three other Americans. Their most despicable act was regurgitating the same outrageous ruse face-to-face to grieving family members while focusing more on securing "second" non-disclosure agreements from survivors. How authentic or outright evil were those narcissistic embraces from Big Balls Biden and fellow fatal finaglers? Any miserable individual who emphasized a movie lie in one-on-one conversations with mourners doesn't possess the dignity worthy of setting foot on White House grounds except solely to use a pooper scooper while donning rubber gloves. Ingrained into their psyche, they consider lying normal behavior while showing true colors shunning nation's largest police union. If the Clinton Crime Syndicate Foundation and co-conspirators would only pay a dollar to U.S. Treasury for every fabrication emanating from them, the deficit could be paid off in short order. "How's Your Faith" journalistic jackal David Gregory is unbiased when his wife, Beth Wilkinson, represented #ShrillaryRotten's former state department staffers in FBI's probe of Clinton's use of private email? Ditto CNN colleague Jake Tapper (a/k/a Faker), ex-press secretary for a Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania.

Incredibly, a Navy SEAL among the deceased violated stand-down orders to help save numerous individuals at the death-trap embassy and then fought the terrorists for 7 1/2 hours while his pleas for backup at a nearby annex were ignored by government officials real-time watching events unfold. Weeks later, the evasive apologist-in-chief and cowardly cronies were still striving to supply a cogent response to their deflect-and-deny sacrificial-lamb inaction all for the sake of propping up progressive policies. Where's a photo of the vaunted Obama Team deliberating at least 7 1/2 minutes, or even 7 1/2 seconds, during the Benghazi attack? Was Mr. Teleprompter even there at all to provide any input possibly "sending in the cavalry" or were his charges more concerned about contacting YouTube about a manufactured vile video? Bracing for a cross-country campaign trip, did malingerer "That's Not What We Do" go to bed while brave Americans were savaged or is it indeed "an irrelevant fact" less important than raising funds in Las Vegas? If not, then be transparent enough to at least conduct a stand-up, man-up press conference detailing what you did do during the "acting stupidly" stand-down. The Sgt. Schultz "I know nothing!" ploy isn't very becoming for an infallible commander-in-chief as it spills over to the FBI and all of the terribly-flawed feet-of-clay mental-midget mercenaries surrounding a conceited community organizer with their evolving web of deceit. Wasn't fist-bumping Obama back on the golf course about 7 1/2 minutes after announcing an American was beheaded?

Infected by pop culture, reality shows, Al Bore's global-warming hoax and thrills going up noxious newscasters legs, the average shallow American dwells on Angelina Jolie's discarded mammary glands, forlorn Amanda Knox's knife collection, Donald's luck dealing with 50-year younger model/archivist and Gitmo hunger strikers but can't spell Benghazi or even know which continent it's located. When not exploiting children as human shields for an assortment of altruistic motives, POTUS didn't mind hiding behind Hildebeast via a film fabrication as her pay-for-play State Department lawyer told witnesses not to speak to House investigators. If elected POTUS after "Debbie Does (Debate) Delay," Hillary's "tough choices" judgment is so grandiose she probably would have appointed a pervert (either Sick Willie or Huma's half-witted husband "Carlos Danger/Randy Mongoose") to be in charge of the White House's intern program and cigar room. Bubba probably would have secured the seeds-to-sow "job" since her success was achieved solely from riding his coattails. When pushing for crackdown on "epidemic" of campus sexual assault, she could have gotten off to good start regarding topic in general by neutering her chasing-tails spouse who VP pick Tim Kaine previously proclaimed should resign because of intern intertwining. Perhaps the womanizing enabler should be reminded about her personal "War on Women" cherishing so-called bimbo eruptions.

If you had a family member in dire straits pleading for help, would you rather summon support from blameless Barack Hussein Obama/Ben Rhodes dynamic duo, Hillary the Hypocrite's hubris, opportunist Omarosa or heroic Tyrone Woods? You don't need a lie-detector to even contemplate thinking about debating who is more Benghazi believable - Woods' father or Hillary Rotten? Hitting closer to home in raw terms, who would you rather have as a "sacrificial" neighbor because of comparable integrity and moral values? Period! The U.S. "isn't a Christian nation" according to our ex-fearless leader, but the answer is clear among God-fearing folks in flyover country who always seem to know a mite more about vital issues than our country's CEO (Creative Explanation Opportunist) until hearing after-the-fact media reports. Shackled by a warped sense of tone-deaf priorities, how hard did ethically-bankrupt Obama and Clinton negotiate a deal with Iran's Revolutionary Guard to release an American Christian pastor detained for years after entering the country on a humanitarian mission?

What difference does it make? Before making a repugnant remark that the Taliban 5 senior leadership isn't a threat to America, hoodwinking @Hillary's principal documented achievement as Secretary of State may have been putting an excessive amount of emphasis on that specific difference-making phrase/question. On the other hand, it could be facial pain every night after all the fake Joker-grin smiling Hill the Hun (husband's description of her) does all day on her Area 51 campaign trail more concerned about aliens from outer space than those strutting across unchecked along our Southern border. Easily recognized as Old Yeller to aging sexists fond of affixing Disney-movie titles as nicknames, her corrosive comments are reminiscent of disgraced Dan Rather at CBS frequently ending with an inane Robert Redford-worthy reference to "courage." Her tenacity, the genesis of which is captured in her senior thesis at Wellesley on Saul Alinsky, consisted of roaming the globe comparable to the ghost of Jacob Marley dragging money trunks behind her on a chain. Rather's blather was a lamentable trait exhibited by CBS when it concealed footage for an extended period from a 60 Minutes interview with Obama where he clearly refused to categorize the Benghazi attack as an act of terror. Of course, curious George is deemed a journalistic giant by ABC and eye candy for opposite-sex viewers after earning his spurs as a political hack for the petulant Clintons disparaging one female after another in the midst of Sick Willie's debauchery and hiding $75,000 in donations to their suspect enterprise. Did Little Georgie, not only vertically challenged but integrity challenged, know interns (especially blue-dress donning female) were not supposed to be in the West Wing without an escort or did the butt boy for the Clinton Crime Family simply look the other way? Perhaps Lyin' Williams was there and can give us the straight libido scoop about "Crooked" Bill relieving job pressure doing the dirty on the presidential seal rather than the self-styled chick magnet focusing on sealing the fate of OBL. Eschewing ethics and honor, are these condescending guttersnipes the best and most honest our country can produce in the newsrooms, Oval Office and State Department as they stretch the truth as much as excuse-ridden Nanny Pathetic does her sparkling-and-dazzling face while latest hacked hag supported get-out-of-jail-free cards to savages and denial of the total truth to family members of savaged Americans?

A colossal collection of contemptible characters and ethical-escapee excrement, telling the truth as often as cicadas return, could fill their own "worst wing" of the aptly-named Clinton Correctional Facility by telling pasty Shrillary she looks stunning in a bikini. Surrounded by army of apoplectic aliens sucking up to her like a Kardashian can, no wonder she is so fond of UFOs. Old vacuum cleaners don't suck as much as Step-child George, fellow Clintonista cretinous creeps such as Paul Begala, Sandy Burglar, Sidney Blumenthal, David "Let-Boys-Be-Boys" Boies, David Brock, "Trailer Trash" Carville, Greg Craig, Lanny Davis, Rahm Emanuel, David Gergen, Harold Ickes, David Kendall, Terry Lenzer, Bruce Lindsey, Lockhart, Terry "Lincoln Bedroom Racketeer" McAuliffe, Bernie Nussbaum, Panetta, John "Password" Podesta, Bill Richardson plus Cody Shearer and many media mavens defending the Clinton Foundation erstwhile slush fund. Perhaps it's easier to refrain from dealing with parasite Podesta "making an example of suspected leaker" or investigating his brother (Tony) lobbying for a pro-Russian Ukrainian group. If Snuff-out-the-truth-to-us wasn't a hollow shell of a journalist, Georgie would help orchestrate an illuminating expose on allocation of charitable donations comparing the Clinton ruse of 10% to 15% directly aiding charity work to organizations such as Feeding America (98%), Feed the Children (92%), Red Cross (91%), World Vision (85%) and Salvation Army (82%). But at least the anemic charity-aid percentage is higher than Obama's resettlement percentage of Christians among Syrian refugees. At any rate, shouldn't the Clinton Global Initiative already have ample resources stemming from hefty speaking-engagement fees and program for safe-drinking water in third-world locales such as Haiti and Flint? Need any more rehab input, Gorgeous, to help with your self-inflicted stronger-together credibility crisis leaving you "All Too (Partisan) Human"?

Gorgeous never had credibility, anyway, after his handling of Sick Willie's draft induction notice and wispy War Room wizardry. Whether or not Williams was there, perhaps Step-child thought Mitchell was going to get to the entire truth for once in her biased career. Odds are Little George was in the vicinity in moonlighting role as a Jiminy Cricket conscience when his boss turned the White House into personal Out House brothel. Does this truth-telling "titan" have firsthand knowledge regarding how Monica became the "Blue Pass Princess" as a paid staffer or will he elaborate on bigotry stemming from racial elements involving Little Rock hooker Bobbie Ann Williams and William Clay alias? Rather than accepting Rhodes' fiction verbatim, should Step-on-the-truth-to-us give an authentic author - thriller novelist Brad Thor - insider information and a forum to create a solution to the Clinton corruption? In the meantime, journalistic giant Georgey and majority of lame-stream media don't believe a Secret Service agent is worthy of interview about his book to discern whether Shrillary cursed SS agents and hurled a Bible at one of them. So wooden she makes Walter Mondale and Al Bore appear charismatic, at least she isn't a Bible-clinger of whom Obama is so derisive.

Offsetting Hillary For Prisoner 2016, the clever dwarf perhaps can help her concoct a new campaign slogan: "Hurry up and elect me so I can pardon myself before I'm incarcerated." Meanwhile, she sounded like a Maxine Smart(ass) with half-baked server apology: "Sorry about that, fief!" But at least right-thinking Americans are "Get(ting) Smart" by tuning out the Clintons' aging act/stale show. They have emerged as Exhibit A for fecal formula forging what a liberal education and law degree can do for an individual - provide license to be dishonest, insincere and unaccountable. All right, in Albright lingo there is a special place in hell for anyone who supports the Clinton corruption. Anything they say is reminiscent of floating a bad check. Albright probably thinks Shrillary's following comments are supportive of Bubba's victims: "Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody's going to believe them." Just like believing her spiel about equal pay for women except on her staff. Bottles of Trump wine should be put on distinguishing characteristic ice all across the country waiting to celebrate an indictment of can't-be-civil HRC (Hillary Really Corrupt). Last unqualified human out of Over-the-Hill(ary) campaign HQ needed to turn off the lights and customized server. Eventually, there will be no vetting by God for HildaBeast and her craven Clinton cronies; simply a chute straight to see Satan. Until then, every time we look at demeanor of her pretty-in-red marchers, the climate for our day negatively changes. The deranged include "nasty" Ashley Judd, the opportunistic hoops fan so far removed from reality she likely though UK lost to North Carolina in the NCAA playoffs because Russia did it with contact from key Trump associates by hacking the scoreboard.

The biggest loser over the last couple of election cycles is the mangy "never-seen-you-lose" media serving as little more than the Praetorian Guard for liberal lunacy praising Planned Murderhood and its accompanying neck-snipping murders of innocent babies while smearing whistle-blowers crestfallen over the "abandoned" murders of innocent colleagues and revealing ABC's spiking story about egregious Epstein. No matter their gender, one half expected the #MessMedia to throw their underpants up to podium when sacred Big O spoke/performed in front of them. Meanwhile, has an enterprising sports reporter ever evaluated how many abortions have been sanctioned by college basketball coaches so female players could remain on the court and male players wouldn't be hampered by becoming deadbeat dads (see Duke All-American J.J. Redick's abortion contract with a model)? No, the media can't be too concerned about the cavalier blood-thirsty hobby to lobby for ditching unwanted little ones when a men's championship coach has an extortion trial, end-of-the-pack Kentucky Derby horse, limited-edition bourbon bottle, meaningful marlin, favorite son, Lexus dealership and testimonial tattoo to cover. And by the way, will computer whiz Dickie V charge a premium for his next speech on hacking after he was sacked from covering Duke/North Carolina?

Americans deserve an honest government covered by a media doing more than just being PRESStitutes for POTUS or extension of a university's public-relations department. Although his publication seemed to always go out of its way to support the Obama Administration, it's a mite unnerving how former Princeton hoopster Richard Stengel seemed to make a smooth transition from managing editor of TIME magazine to under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs at the State Department. Stengel subsequently supported a one-sided deal with Iran where the U.S. doesn't exercise leverage and multiple journalists were jailed. As shamelessly one-sided as conservatives have asserted for years, excessive media malpractice finally discarded the pretense of objectivity. Once and for all after spouse for NPR's White House correspondent joined counsel's office for her beat, they have been unmasked as aggressive advocates; not adversarial journalists. According to a Gallup poll, fewer than 1/4 of American adults have "a great deal" of confidence in newspapers and television news as meaningless red lines behind widespread yellow streaks. In a classic case of bias, Brazilla-based CNN had countless instances of fabrications to investigate (Liar! Liar! Pantsuit on Fire!) but spent an inordinate amount of effort trying to find a modest misstatement or two in stories from Dr. Ben Carson's childhood practicing their craft prior to parsing every word from The Donald to fit their next distortion narrative.

Running in parallel with a decrease in quality of play on the court is a reduction in competence of the pom-pom press covering them. How many sports news outlets based in the states of North Carolina and Kentucky regularly follow Duke and Louisville basketball in the ACC? How could the "Worst Little Whorehouse in KY" go on for years unnoticed? But a student newspaper and aging hooker needed to exhibit sufficient spine to do down-and-dirty jobs. Why didn't a single enterprising reporter from the professional local press and national media rise to the occasion; especially in Carolina on the heels of UNC's scholastic shenanigans? A worthwhile story stared them right smack in their mugs (faces and beers) regarding why Rasheed Sulaimon became the first in-season dismissed player during Mike Krzyzewski's long Durham Dynasty tenure. Methinks the see-no-(d)evil/hear-no-(d)evil/speak-no-(d)evil journalistic jewels were an Olympian distance up King K's 1,000-win can en route to trying to secure access to the Rio luxury ship living quarters. When the legal laryngitis fades away, will ESPN conduct a spectacle with Jay Bilas and Jay Williams interviewing K about a potential colossal cover-up while other former Blue Devil standouts and chronic coaching apologist Duke Vitale serve as a support backdrop? In an effort to help separate fact from fiction, inquire whether athletic department personnel aware of sexual assault allegations reported the cases to the Office of Student Conduct per their Title-IX obligation (including allegations against Corey Maggette after he was paid by an AAU coach/convicted felon).

It's the server, stupid! Blind chimps chucking darts connect more often with accuracy than the weekday evening/Sunday morning intellectually-superior ruling class/political pundits/strategists (a/k/a snake oil salespeople). J-School graduates are bad enough but many of TV's haughty hosts are beyond repair since they weren't so much as groomed as undergraduates to learn their craft as authentic journalists. Law school, history/international studies, philosophy and political science/economics majors dominate among Stephanopoulos and other haplessly jaded journalistic "jewels" including David Axelrod, Ashleigh Banfield, Wolf Blitzer, Erin Burnett, Eleanor Clift, Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo, S.E. Cupp, Seth Davis, Ronan Farrow, David Gregory, Poppy Harlow, Chris Hayes, Margaret Hoover, Kasie Hunt, Abby Huntsman, Hallie Jackson, Megyn Kelly, Martha MacCallum, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Meghan McCain, Andrea Mitchell, Joe Scarborough, Kate Snow, Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd, Katy Tur, Gillian Turner, Greta Van Susteren, Meredith Vieira, Alex Wagner, Nicolle "New York Slimes Cougar" Wallace and Judy Woodruff. Scarborough seems to have been the banjo boy in movie Deliverance before infected by #MikaVirus to form BSLSD's version of Beavis and Butthead. The only time #TheDonald should take #MourningJoe's advice is if previous POTUS also wants to be the next Joe Crock(ofcrapper) musician, if medication is helpful in combating morbid #MikaVirus or if a mortician is needed because a young female staffer dies of head injury in the White House.

In the aftermath of Brian's lyin' and CNN Senior Media Correspondent Brian Stelter, great-and-glorious Geraldo, PolitiFact refusing to rate Williams' Iraq fable plus USATODAY hacks going out of their way to try to defend a fellow fib-lib, the good news is that the influence-peddling gig for the reprehensible broadcast networks, major daily newspapers and newsweeklies is nearly expired because the less-than-honest brokers are gutless wonders shackled by a business model in free-fall. Just ask tarnished leftist know-it-all Tina "Bitter Brit" Brown after losing $100 million in editorial endeavors and commentary totally devoid of neutrality highlighted by her failure to "Talk" about handouts and hand whatever involving humiliating head honcho #HollyweirdHarveySwinestein. Ditto equally ignorant and aggrieved Joan Walsh running Salon.com into the ground to where consortium of cultural crap can't pay its rent. Whether it's ESPN Magazine, NewsWeak, New York Magazine, Pro Football Weekly, Spin, The Sporting News, Talk magazine, 30 AOL brands after The Huffington Post "gold-digger" merger or debt-ridden dailies offering employee buyouts all across the country, good riddance to the fourth-rate estate (NY/LA/St. Petersburg Slimes, Washington Compost, NY/Philly Daily Liberal Views, Milwaukee/Orlando Libs Slantinel, Atlanta Journal-Constipation, St. Louis Post-Disgrace, USELESS Today, etc.) and don't let death's door hit you in your contemptible can on the way out! To put it bluntly after a neurotic NY Slimes feature writer flagged FLOTUS Melania as floozy (filthily in manly manner behind closed doors of course), may you and your deplorable-descriptive adjectives such as "White-Hispanic" rot among feces at the bottom of a bird or animal cage! Our nation should have a new "Yellow Shower" holiday relieving ourselves on #MessMedia's variety of perverted products such as TIME, where leftists Halperin and Stengel previously were editors similar to D.C. swamp nimrods chasing down sizzling story about Trump aide Stephen Miller eating glue as a third-grader.

Huffin'-and-Puffin'-a-ton, paying its contributors in the neighborhood of 15 cents an hour, knows as much about the difference between entertainment and politics as Airhead-ianna physically contributed to keep her husband from crossing over to what he perceived a more stimulating gender. How sick is Franken(stein) by groping Airhead-ianna? When the putrid press as we know it, totally wrong so incredibly long, is put out to pasture (including many suspect sports sandboxes and eventually the worthless White House press corps), what difference does it make as the disgraced relinquish the fight akin to quitter Roberto Duran (No Mas! No Mas!)? Actually, comedian Ron White has blossomed over the years into the smartest man in the world; especially with his "you-can't-fix-stupid" routine accurately depicting the vast majority of entitled mess media and political pundit personalities summed up by Williams, Stephanopoulos and Walsh as she took her pap from one piece of crap (MSNBC) to another (CNN). Lame-stream media wunderkind Ali Watkins became the latest poster child portraying how the press' journalistic standards include getting down on its hands, knees and back (with someone more than twice her age) to get the headline story. She resembles patronizing Kamala Harris' sugar-daddy dealing with Mayor Wee Willie Brown in the mid-1990s.

In the meantime while seeking a free-speech safe place on the fringe, we'll simply conduct a "Countdown Circumcision" for when washed-up caustic commentator Keith "Worst Person in the World" Olbermann inevitably returns to or departs from BSPN or Mess-LSD again as lunatic lie-beral keeps coming back to his flunky followers like herpes infection. After a huge hammer removed the empty pants suit blocking the draining of the swamp, we need to discern where to donate funds for celebrities promising to leave country after they were trumped in election. Unless the Russians made them do it, ditto for media misfits such as Tur-rible with Caitlyn Jenner-like parent infected by "flexibility fatigue" rubbing shoulders and whatever else against twice-her-age unprincipled Olbermann. First step to recovery for majority of #MessMedia is simply to admit that they're dumbasses. The industry is beyond repair and redemption. Truth and facts are so foreign to them that they should be shipped to sanctuary cities along with illegal immigrants. If #MessMedia such as filthy floozie Katie Nolan don't shape up, they need body slammed to activate their brains (> 90% of political donations to #Dimorats) and hearts (avid supporters of abortion/aka black genocide). In the meantime, #TheDonald and remainder of us will need to endure ene-media COVFEFE (Constant Outlandish Vitriol From Egregious Fake-news Excrement) more outraged by Trump's now-suppressed tweets than Rocket Man's plans and FBI's self-absorbed sixth-floor upper mismanagement.

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 18

Extra! Extra! Instead of belly laughing at #Dimorat-led Congressional hearing on UFOs amid Plagiarist Bile-dumb's bumbling and stumbling rather than tackling staggering gas prices, criminality on nation's streets, massive inflation, out-of-control educational systems indoctrinating young children with all types of liberal lunacy including sexual/gender matters and illegal alien border crisis, you should read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former college hoopers Joe Adcock (Louisiana State), George Altman (Tennessee State), Dick Gernert (Temple), Don Lock (Wichita State) and Dave Winfield (Minnesota) each hit two homers in a MLB game on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 18 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 18

  • In a 1958 game, Milwaukee Braves 1B Joe Adcock (Louisiana State's leading basketball scorer in 1945-46) smacked two homers against his original team (Cincinnati Reds).

  • Cincinnati Reds CF Ethan Allen (Cincinnati hoops letterman in 1924-25 and 1925-26) went 4-for-4 in a 7-6 win against the Brooklyn Robins in 1928.

  • Chicago Cubs RF George Altman (hooper appeared in 1953 and 1954 NAIA Tournament with Tennessee State) provided two homers for the second time in three contests in 1962.

  • OF Brant Alyea (Hofstra's leading scorer and rebounder in 1960-61 after being runner-up in both categories the previous season) traded by the Oakland Athletics to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1972.

  • New York Yankees RHP Jim Beattie (Dartmouth's top rebounder in 1974-75 when selected team MVP and honorable mention All-Ivy League) hurled a four-hit shutout against the Boston Red Sox in 1979.

  • Detroit Tigers 2B Frank Bolling (averaged 7.3 ppg for Spring Hill AL in 1950-51) scored five runs in a 14-2 victory against the Boston Red Sox in 1959.

  • Detroit Tigers 1B Tony Clark (San Diego State's leading scorer in WAC games in 1991-92) stroked four hits against the Kansas City Royals in a 1997 outing.

  • Boston Red Sox RHP Gene Conley (All-Pacific Coast Conference first-team selection led the North Division in scoring as Washington State sophomore in 1949-50) tossed a four-hit shutout against the Detroit Tigers in 1961.

  • Philadelphia Athletics 1B Chubby Dean (reserve guard for Duke in 1936) ripped a game-winning, three-run homer in bottom of the eighth inning in 8-7 win against the Detroit Tigers in 1937. Five years later as a LHP, Dean won his first three appearances of the 1942 season with the Cleveland Indians.

  • In 1985, Detroit Tigers 1B Darrell Evans (member of Jerry Tarkanian-coached Pasadena City CA club winning 1967 state community college crown) homered in his fourth consecutive contest, going 4-for-4 for the second time in that span.

  • OF Hoot Evers (hoops starter for Illinois in 1939-40) awarded on waivers from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Giants in 1954.

  • Chicago White Sox RHP Eddie Fisher (played for Oklahoma's 1954-55 freshman squad) posted his sixth save in as many relief appearances in a seven-day span in 1965.

  • Boston Red Sox 1B Dick Gernert (Temple letterman in 1948-49 swatted two homers in an 8-4 win against the Baltimore Orioles in 1958.

  • Philadelphia Phillies 1B Harvey Hendrick (Vanderbilt hoops letterman in 1918) went 4-for-4 for the second time in a five-game span in 1934. Five years earlier in the midst of a career-high 25-game hitting streak for the Brooklyn Robins, Hendrick homered in back-to-back contests against the Phillies in 1929.

  • San Francisco Giants LHP Bill Henry (hoops letterman for Houston's 1947 NAIA Tournament team featuring co-captain Guy Lewis) allowed his only earned run in first 17 relief appearances of 1966 season.

  • Washington Senators LF Frank Howard (two-time All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection when All-American led Ohio State in scoring and rebounding in 1956-57 and 1957-58) tied an A.L. record with a homer in six consecutive contests in 1968.

  • New York Giants OF Monte Irvin (Lincoln PA hooper for 1 1/2 years in late 1930s) clobbered a grand slam in rain-shortened, 10-4 triumph over the Chicago Cubs in 1950.

  • Chicago White Sox RHP Bart Johnson (averaged 30.5 ppg for Brigham Young's freshman squad in 1967-68) hurled a three-hit shutout against the California Angels in 1976.

  • New York Yankees LF Charlie Keller (three-year hoops letterman with Maryland from 1934-35 through 1936-37) contributed three extra-base hits against the St. Louis Browns in a 1948 outing.

  • Chicago Cubs SS Don Kessinger (three-time All-SEC selection for Mississippi from 1961-62 through 1963-64 collected four hits and scored four runs in a 1970 game against the Cincinnati Reds.

  • Washington Senators CF Don Lock (led Wichita State in field-goal percentage in 1956-57 and 1957-58 under coach Ralph Miller) smashed back-to-back homers against the Detroit Tigers in a 1964 contest.

  • LF Jerry Martin (1971 Southern Conference MVP after he was Furman's runner-up in scoring the previous season), pinch-hitting for Richie Hebner, slapped a game-winning, three-run homer for the Philadelphia Phillies in 8-5 victory against the Houston Astros in 1978.

  • Chicago Cubs RF Bill Nicholson (Washington College MD hoops guard for two years in mid-1930s) amassed five RBI against the Brooklyn Dodgers in a 1945 game.

  • INF-OF Tony Phillips (New Mexico Military juco hooper in 1977-78 as teammate of eventual Drake All-American Lewis Lloyd) traded by the Chicago White Sox to the Anaheim Angels in 1997.

  • New York Yankees RF Sammy Vick (three-sport athlete for Millsaps MS), subbing for legendary Babe Ruth (sidelined by mild strain), stroked a three-run double in 1920 game against the Cleveland Indians.

  • New York Yankees RF Dave Winfield (starting forward for Minnesota's first NCAA playoff team in 1972) whacked two homers against the Oakland Athletics in a 2-1 win in 1987.

  • Washington Senators 3B Eddie Yost (NYU freshman hooper in 1943-44 under coach Howard Cann) reached base eight times in nine plate appearances (five singles and three walks) in a 1952 doubleheader split against the Chicago White Sox.

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 17

Extra! Extra! If still remaining home confused by bureaucratic mask recommendations/orders from deity Dr. Fraudci while craving entertaining Peleton workout videos featuring Nanny Pathetic, MadMaxine, SackofSchiff, farting Eric "Chinese Check-her-out" Swalwell, Nutty Nadler, Sheila Jackass-Lee, et al, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Several former hoopers from Michigan colleges - Ron Jackson (Western Michigan), Jim Northrup (Alma) and Roy Parmelee (Eastern Michigan) - made MLB news on this date. Ditto ex-Drury MO hoopers Roy Smalley Jr. and Bill Virdon. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 17 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 17

  • Milwaukee Brewers 1B Joe Adcock (Louisiana State's leading basketball scorer in 1945-46) collected a homer among his four hits in a 9-4 triumph against the New York Giants in 1955.

  • Philadelphia Phillies LF Morrie Arnovich (Wisconsin-Superior hooper in early 1930s) went 5-for-5, raising his batting average to .426, in a 7-3 win against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1939.

  • Chicago Cubs 2B Glenn Beckert (three-year hoops letterman for Allegheny PA) went 4-for-4 against the St. Louis Cardinals in the midst of a 26-game hitting streak in 1973.

  • San Diego Padres RHP Andy Benes (joined Evansville's shorthanded basketball squad in 1985-86 under coach Jim Crews) tossed a three-hit shutout against the Colorado Rockies in 1993.

  • 1B-OF Larry Biittner (runner-up in scoring and rebounding for Buena Vista IA in 1966-67) traded with RHP Steve Renko (averaged 9.9 ppg and 5.8 rpg as a Kansas sophomore in 1963-64) by the Montreal Expos to the Chicago Cubs for 1B Andre Thornton in 1976. The next year, Biittner belted two of the Cubs' seven homers in a 23-6 romp over the San Diego Padres.

  • Detroit Tigers 2B Frank Bolling (averaged 7.3 ppg for Spring Hill AL in 1950-51) swatted a homer in his third consecutive contest in 1958.

  • Detroit Tigers 1B Tony Clark (San Diego State's leading scorer in WAC games in 1991-92) socked two homers for the second time in a six-game span in 1997.

  • New York Mets 1B Donn Clendenon (four-sport letterman with Morehouse GA) clubbed two homers against the Atlanta Braves in a 1971 outing.

  • California Angels OF Billy Cowan (Utah hoops letterman from 1957-58 through 1959-60 was co-captain of NCAA playoff team as senior) hit safely for the fourth time in a span of five pinch-hit appearances in 1970.

  • Boston Braves SS Dick Culler (#9 jersey retired by High Point for Little All-American in 1935 and 1936) went 4-for-4 in a 3-2 victory against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1947.

  • Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo (first player in Connecticut history to average 20 ppg in single season with 21.7 in 1942-43) homered twice in 1950 game against the Detroit Tigers.

  • Detroit Tigers CF Hoot Evers (hoops starter for Illinois in 1939-40) broke up a scoreless duel with a two-run homer in the ninth inning against the Philadelphia Athletics in 1947.

  • Boston Red Sox 1B Dick Gernert (Temple letterman in 1948-49 when averaging 2.7 ppg) went 4-for-4 in a 10-1 triumph against the Detroit Tigers in 1959.

  • San Francisco Giants RHP Ed Halicki (NAIA All-American third-team choice in 1971-72 when leading Monmouth in scoring with 21 ppg after setting school single-game rebounding record with 40 the previous season) hurled his second straight two-hitter in 1979.

  • Philadelphia Phillies RHP Jim Holloway (Southwestern Louisiana hoops letterman from 1926-27 through 1928-29) tossed a hitless inning of relief in his MLB debut in 1929.

  • 1B Ron Jackson (All-MAC second-team choice from 1951-52 through 1953-54 led Western Michigan in scoring his last two seasons) traded by the Boston Red Sox to the Milwaukee Braves for INF Ray Boone in 1960.

  • Atlanta Braves CF Kenny Lofton (Arizona's leader in steals for 1988 Final Four team compiling a 35-3 record) supplied his third five-hit game of the 1997 campaign in an 11-6 triumph against the St. Louis Cardinals. Three years earlier with the Cleveland Indians, Lofton smacked two homers against the Milwaukee Brewers in 1994.

  • RHP Ted Lyons (two-time All-SWC first-team hoops selection for Baylor in early 1920s) started the first of eight straight doubleheader openers for the Chicago White Sox in 1942.

  • Washington Senators 1B Sam Mele (NYU's leading hoops scorer in 1943 NCAA playoffs) supplied two triples among his four hits in 1951 game against the Detroit Tigers.

  • CF Billy North (played four basketball games with Central Washington in 1967-68) traded by the Oakland Athletics to the Los Angeles Dodgers for OF Glenn Burke (averaged 16.3 ppg in six basketball games with Nevada-Reno in 1974-75) in 1978.

  • CF Jim Northrup (second-leading scorer and third-leading rebounder for Alma MI in 1958-59) drilled a game-winning grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Detroit Tigers a 7-3 victory over the Washington Senators. It was one of Northrup's five grand slams in 1968.

  • In 1935, New York Giants RHP Roy Parmelee (Eastern Michigan hoops letterman in 1924-25 and 1925-26) lost for the only time in his first 10 decisions to early July.

  • Brooklyn Dodgers 2B Jackie Robinson (highest scoring average in Pacific Coast Conference both of his seasons with UCLA in 1939-40 and 1940-41) supplied three extra-base safeties against the Chicago Cubs in 1949, triggering a streak where he had multiple-hit outings in 2/3 of his next 39 contests en route to a N.L.-high .342 batting average. Two years later, Robinson went 4-for-4 against the Cubs in 1951.

  • Chicago Cubs SS Roy Smalley Jr. (one of top scorers for Drury MO in 1942-43 and 1943-44) went 4-for-5 against the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 1953 doubleheader.

  • LHP Eric Stults (hooper for 1999 NAIA D-II Tournament runner-up and 2000 NCCAA Tournament titlist with Bethel IN) awarded on waivers from the Chicago White Sox to the San Diego Padres in 2012.

  • CF Bill Virdon (Drury MO hooper in 1949) traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1956 only one year after being named N.L. Rookie of the Year. He finished runner-up in the N.L. batting race with a .319 mark (.211 for Cards and .334 for Pirates).

  • Chicago Cubs CF Cy Williams (Notre Dame forward in 1909-10) went 4-for-4 with five RBI in a 7-2 win against the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1916.

  • New York Yankees LF Dave Winfield (starting forward for Minnesota's first NCAA playoff team in 1972) cracked two homers against the Detroit Tigers in a 1983 game.

  • In the midst of a career-high 20-game hitting streak in 2007, San Francisco Giants CF Randy Winn (Santa Clara backcourtmate of eventual two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Steve Nash in 1993-94) drove in the decisive run in the 12th inning of a 2-1 triumph against the Houston Astros.

  • In 1925, Washington Senators LHP Tom Zachary (Guilford NC hoops letterman in 1916) yielded the 3,000th hit of Cleveland Indians OF Tris Speaker's Hall of Fame career.

Been Around Block: Three New Bench Bosses in Familiar League Territory

Porter Moser coached two schools in the Missouri Valley Conference (Illinois State and Loyola of Chicago) before aligning with Oklahoma. Ditto Chris Beard in Big 12 (Texas Tech and Texas) prior to moving to Ole Miss. Three mentors - Ed Cooley, Dave Paulsen and Rick Pitino - have accepted new positions, joining the following alphabetical list of active coaches who were bench bosses of two different members in the same league:

Active Coach Conference Previous School Present School
Ed Cooley Big East Providence (2011-12 through 2022-23) Georgetown (since 2023-24)
Steve Donahue Ivy League Cornell (2000-01 through 2009-10) Penn (since 2015-16)
Cliff Ellis Sun Belt South Alabama (1976-77 through 1983-84) Coastal Carolina (since 2007-08)
John Groce Mid-American Ohio University (2008-09 through 2011-12) Akron (since 2017-18)
Stan Heath Mid-American Kent State (2001-02) Eastern Michigan (since 2021-22)
Bob Huggins Big 12 Kansas State (2006-07) West Virginia (since 2012-13)
George Ivory SWAC Arkansas-Pine Bluff (2008-09 through 2020-21) Mississippi Valley State (since 2022-23)
Archie Miller Atlantic 10 Dayton (2011-12 through 2016-17) Rhode Island (since 2022-23)
Dave Paulsen Patriot League Bucknell (2008-09 through 2014-15) Holy Cross (since 2023-24)
Bruce Pearl SEC Tennessee (2005-06 through 2010-11) Auburn (since 2014-15)
Rick Pitino Big East Providence (1985-86 and 1986-87) St. John's (since 2023-24)
Keith Richard Sun Belt Louisiana Tech (1998-99 through 2000-01) Louisiana-Monroe (since 2010-11)
Kelvin Sampson Big 12 Oklahoma (1996-97 through 2005-06) Houston (joining in 2023-24)
Michael White SEC Florida (2015-16 through 2021-22) Georgia (since 2022-23)
Maurice "Mo" Williams SWAC Alabama State (2020-21 and 2021-22) Jackson State (since 2022-23)
Sean Woods SWAC Mississippi Valley State (2008-09 to 2011-12) Southern LA (since 2018-19)

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 16

Extra! Extra! If double-masked still staying at home because you put stock into fluctuating opinions of feeble baseball thrower/doctor Anthony Fraudci and much of misguided #MessMedia comprising the epitome of AI and NI (No Intelligence), you have time to read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Springfield, MO-based small college Drury had two former hoopers - Roy Smalley Jr. and Bill Virdon - impact MLB on this date. Ditto in-state hoopers Jim Gleeson (Rockhurst), Sonny Siebert (Missouri) and Preston Ward (Southwest Missouri State). Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 16 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 16

  • Chicago Cubs RF Frankie Baumholtz (MVP in 1941 NIT and first player in Ohio University history to score 1,000 career points) banged out three extra-base hits in a 14-4 rout of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951.

  • Cleveland Indians SS Lou Boudreau (leading scorer for Illinois' 1937 Big Ten Conference co-champion) went 4-for-4 against the Chicago White Sox in the nightcap of a 1948 twinbill.

  • St. Louis Cardinals CF Taylor Douthit (California hoops letterman from 1922 through 1924) amassed five hits and four RBI in a 9-8 win against the Chicago Cubs in 1930.

  • Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo (first player in Connecticut history to average 20 ppg in single season with 21.7 in 1942-43) homered twice in a 1951 game against the Chicago White Sox.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers RF-C Joe Ferguson (hooper in 1967 NCAA playoffs with Pacific) furnished four hits, including a game-winning homer, in an 8-6 triumph against the Cincinnati Reds in 1973.

  • St. Louis Cardinals SS Charlie Gelbert (scored at least 125 points each of last three seasons in late 1920s for Lebanon Valley PA) went 5-for-5 and scored four runs in 9-8 victory against the Chicago Cubs in 1930.

  • Cleveland Indians rookie RF Jim Gleeson (hoops captain and all-league honoree graduated in 1933 from Rockhurst MO) registered four hits in a 10-3 victory against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the opener of a 1940 doubleheader.

  • Atlanta Braves RHP Kevin Gryboski (backup hooper for Wilkes PA in 1991-92 and 1992-93) collected his second relief victory within a week in 2003.

  • San Francisco Giants LHP Atlee Hammaker (averaged 5 ppg for East Tennessee State in 1976-77 and 1977-78) allowed only two hits in first 6 1/3 innings against the Philadelphia Phillies while providing three safeties himself along with three RBI.

  • Utilityman Chuck Harmon (freshman starter was Toledo's second-leading scorer for 1943 NIT runner-up) traded by the Cincinnati Reds to the St. Louis Cardinals for INF Alex Grammas and OF Joe Frazier in 1956.

  • Washington Senators LF Frank Howard (two-time All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection when leading Ohio State in scoring and rebounding in 1956-57 and 1957-58) notched his third two-homer contest in a four-game span in 1968.

  • Atlanta Braves 1B Davey Johnson (averaged 1.7 ppg for Texas A&M in 1961-62) smacked two homers against the San Diego Padres in a 1974 contest.

  • Boston Red Sox rookie LHP Vic Johnson (Wisconsin-Eau Claire hoops letterman in 1942-43) hurled 11 2/3 innings in a loss against the St. Louis Browns in a 1944 start.

  • Atlanta Braves RF David Justice (Thomas More KY assists leader in 1984-85 while averaging 9.3 ppg and 3.5 rpg) stroked three extra-base hits against the Colorado Rockies in a 1995 outing.

  • Boston Braves RHP Andy Karl (Manhattan letterman from 1933 through 1935) sustained his first defeat of the 1947 season after failing to allow a run in first six relief appearances.

  • Chicago Cubs SS Don Kessinger (three-time All-SEC selection for Mississippi from 1961-62 through 1963-64 while finishing among nation's top 45 scorers each year) went 4-for-4 against the Philadelphia Phillies in a 1972 game.

  • A bases-loaded pinch triple by Rick Leach (averaged 15.5 ppg for Michigan's JV hoops squad in 1975-76) put the Toronto Blue Jays ahead to stay in an 8-7 triumph against the Minnesota Twins in 1984.

  • New York Giants RHP Christy Mathewson (Bucknell hooper at turn of 20th Century) had his string of 47 straight innings without issuing a walk end against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1913.

  • St. Louis Cardinals RHP Lindy McDaniel (hooper for Oklahoma's 1954-55 freshman squad) fired a four-hit shutout against the Philadelphia Phillies in 1957.

  • New York Yankees 3B Graig Nettles (shot 87.8% from free-throw line for San Diego State in 1963-64) whacked two homers against the Detroit Tigers in a 1979 contest.

  • INF Tony Phillips (New Mexico Military juco hooper in 1977-78 as teammate of eventual Drake All-American Lewis Lloyd) became first member of Oakland Athletics to hit for the cycle, going 5-for-5 against the Baltimore Orioles in 1986.

  • Chicago White Sox RF Carl Reynolds (Southwestern TX hoops MVP and captain in mid-1920s) stroked two safeties in his seventh straight contest in 1931.

  • Philadelphia Phillies LHP Eppa Rixey (Virginia hoops letterman in 1912 and 1914) hurled a 15-inning complete game at Cincinnati and won, 3-2, via his sacrifice fly in 1920.

  • Detroit Tigers RF Leon Roberts (grabbed one rebound in four basketball games for Michigan in 1970-71 under coach Johnny Orr) provided three safeties against the Texas Rangers to extend his career-high hitting streak to 17 games since the opening of 1975 campaign. Nine years later as LF with the Kansas City Royals, Roberts drilled a decisive run-scoring triple in 7-6 win against the Chicago White Sox in 1984.

  • Detroit Tigers RHP Jeff Robinson (two-time NAIA All-District 3 hoops honoree in early 1980s left Azusa Pacific CA as school's No. 9 all-time scorer) hurled a four-hit shutout against the Texas Rangers in 1990.

  • Cincinnati Reds RHP Jeff Shaw (freshman guard for Rio Grande OH squad compiling 31-5 record and reaching second round of 1985 NAIA Tournament) allowed his only earned run in 13 relief appearances during the month in 1997.

  • RHP Sonny Siebert (team-high 16.7 ppg for Missouri in 1957-58 as All-Big Eight Conference second-team selection) traded by the San Diego Padres to the Oakland Athletics in 1975.

  • Washington Senators RHP Dave Sisler (All-Ivy League second-team selection for Princeton's first NCAA Tournament team in 1952) didn't allow an earned run in his first 12 relief appearances of the 1961 campaign.

  • In his debut with the Milwaukee Braves, SS Roy Smalley Jr. (one of top scorers for Drury MO in 1942-43 and 1943-44) smacked a pinch homer against the New York Giants in the nightcap of a 1954 doubleheader.

  • Washington Senators rookie RHP Dave Stenhouse (three-time All-Yankee Conference hoops selection for Rhode Island from 1952-53 through 1954-55), lowering his ERA to 0.88 through initial seven outings, won first three MLB starts in 1962.

  • Cincinnati Reds utilityman Jimmy Stewart (All-VSAC hoops selection for Austin Peay's NCAA DII Tournament teams in 1959-60 and 1960-61) contributed a pinch-hit, three-run homer against the New York Mets in a 1969 game.

  • Boston Red Sox rookie 3B Jim Tabor (Alabama hoops letterman in 1936-37) knocked in five runs against the Chicago White Sox in a 1939 contest.

  • Pittsburgh Pirates CF Bill Virdon (Drury MO hooper in 1949) stroked two triples against the Milwaukee Braves in a 1962 outing.

  • 1B-OF Preston Ward (second-leading scorer for Southwest Missouri State in 1946-47 and 1948-49) traded by the Pittsburgh Pirates to the Cleveland Indians in 1956.

  • Brooklyn Dodgers LHP Tom Zachary (Guilford NC hoops letterman in 1916) hurled a 13-inning shutout against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1935 after allowing one earned run in each of his previous two complete-game starts.

Lost in Shuffle: All-Time Winningest Bench Bosses Obscure Predecessors

More than 40 current NCAA Division I schools feature all-time winningest coaches, boasting in excess of 400 triumphs. The length of tenure necessary to win so many games makes it almost impossible to remember their predecessors. Anyone who can name 1/4 of the mentors they succeeded goes straight to the Trivia Hall of Fame and is exempt from being forced to be accepted by nursing home in #Dimorat-run state during pandemic plus pardoned from any FBI probe led by anyone affiliated with James Comey's cabal. When Denny Crum recently passed away, virtually nobody knew who he succeeded at Louisville. Do you remember fellow CBS analyst Steve Lappas preceded Jay Wright at Villanova? By any measure, Wright didn't hang around too long similar to other prominent pilots.

A question lingers as to what other individuals are completely overshadowed as successor to a coaching legend. Record holders Phog Allen, Dale Brown, Gale Catlett, Denny Crum, Ed Diddle, Hec Edmundson, Jack Friel, Don Haskins, Lou Henson, Hank Iba, Frank Keaney, Bob Knight, Bob McKillop, Ray Meyer, Lute Olson, Alex Severance, Norm Stewart, Bob Thomason, John Thompson Jr., Gary Williams, John Wooden and Ned Wulk for more than 12,500 victories at their respective schools where they established new standards. Who would have thought such achievements were in store after their predecessors collaborated to go more than 300 games below .500 over a collective 100-plus seasons?

One of the predecessor names in particular should surprise you. Incredibly, the only one of Kansas' 10 head coaches with a career losing record is the inventor of the sport (Dr. James Naismith). Naismith is among the following coaches who were succeeded by individuals posting more than 400 wins to become the all-time winningest mentor at the same institution:

School All-Time Winningest Coach Predecessor (W-L Record During Tenure)
Arizona Lute Olson (590 victories) Ben Lindsey (4-25 mark in 1982-83)
Arizona State Ned Wulk (405) Bill Kajikawa (88-137 from 1948-49 through 1956-57)
Austin Peay Dave Loos (402) Howard Jackson (19-35 in 1983-84 and 1984-85
Butler Tony Hinkle (549) Harlan O. "Pat" Page (94-29 from 1920-21 through 1925-26)
California Clarence "Nibs" Price (449) Earl Wright (60-20 from 1920-21 through 1923-24)
Connecticut Jim Calhoun (626) Dom Perno (139-114 from 1977-78 through 1985-86)
Davidson Bob McKillop (634) Bobby Hussey (107-126 from 1981-82 through 1988-89)
Dayton Don Donoher (437) Tom Blackburn (352-141 from 1947-48 through 1963-64)
DePaul Ray Meyer (724) Bill Wendt (23-20 in 1940-41 and 1941-42)
Duke Mike Krzyzewski (1,202) Bill E. Foster (113-64 from 1974-75 through 1979-80)
Florida Billy Donovan (467) Lon Kruger (104-80 from 1990-91 through 1995-96)
Georgetown John Thompson Jr. (596) Jack Magee (69-80 from 1966-67 through 1971-72)
Gonzaga Mark Few (689) Dan Monson (52-17 in 1997-98 and 1998-99)
Houston Guy Lewis (592) Alden Pasche (135-116 from 1945-46 through 1955-56)
Illinois Lou Henson (421) Gene Bartow (8-18 in 1974-75)
Indiana Bob Knight (659) Lou Watson (62-60 from 1965-66 through 1968-69 and 1970-71)
Kansas Phog Allen (590) Dr. James Naismith (55-60 from 1899 through 1907)
Kentucky Adolph Rupp (875) John Mauer (40-14 from 1927-28 through 1929-30)
Louisiana State Dale Brown (448) Press Maravich (76-86 from 1966-67 through 1971-72)
Louisville Denny Crum (675) Howard Stacey (12-8 in 1970-71)
Maryland Gary Williams (461) Bob Wade (36-50 from 1986-87 through 1988-89)
Missouri Norm Stewart (634) Bob Vanatta (42-80 from 1962-63 through 1966-67)
Niagara Taps Gallagher (465) Bill McCarthy (44-35 from 1927-28 through 1930-31)
North Carolina Dean Smith (879) Frank McGuire (164-58 from 1952-53 through 1960-61)
Notre Dame Mike Brey (483) Matt Doherty (22-15 in 1999-00)
Oklahoma State Hank Iba (655) Harold James (13-41 from 1931-32 through 1933-34)
Oregon State Slats Gill (599) Robert Hager (115-53 from 1922-23 through 1927-28)
Pacific Bob Thomason (414) Tom O'Neill (51-110 from 1982-83 through 1987-88)
Princeton Pete Carril (514) Butch van Breda Kolff (103-31 from 1962-63 through 1966-67)
Purdue Gene Keady (512) Lee Rose (50-18 in 1978-79 and 1979-80)
Rhode Island Frank Keaney (403) Fred Murray (9-8 in 1920-21)
St. John's Lou Carnesecca* (526) Frank Mulzoff (56-27 from 1970-71 through 1972-73)
Saint Mary's Randy Bennett (507) Dave Bollwinkel (35-78 from 1997-98 through 2000-01)
Syracuse Jim Boeheim (1,116) Roy Danforth (148-71 from 1968-69 through 1975-76)
Temple John Chaney (516) Don Casey (151-94 from 1973-74 through 1981-82)
Texas A&M Shelby Metcalf (438) Bobby Rogers (92-52 from 1957-58 through 1962-63)
Texas-El Paso Don Haskins (719) Harold Davis (18-30 in 1959-60 and 1960-61)
UCLA John Wooden (620) Wilbur Johns (93-120 from 1939-40 through 1947-48)
UNLV Jerry Tarkanian (509) John Bayer (44-36 from 1970-71 through 1972-73)
Villanova Jay Wright (520) Steve Lappas (174-110 from 1992-93 through 2000-01)
Washington Hec Edmundson (488) Stub Allison (7-8 in 1919-20)
Washington State Jack Friel (495) Karl Schlademan (18-27 in 1926-27 and 1927-28)
West Virginia Gale Catlett (439) Joedy Gardner (59-53 from 1974-75 through 1977-78)
Western Kentucky Ed Diddle (759) L.T. Smith (3-1 in 1922)

*Carnesecca succeeded Joe Lapchick when he served his first stint with St. John's from 1965-66 through 1969-70

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 15

Extra! Extra! If infected by Plagiarist Biledumb's petty policies and afraid to go unmasked to outside sporting event or suppy-chain frustrated by lack of baby formula, you have time to read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former Bucknell hoopers Bob Keegan and Christy Mathewson provided premium MLB pitching performances on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 15 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 15

  • Chicago Cubs RF George Altman (appeared in 1953 and 1954 NAIA Tournament with Tennessee State basketball team) made an eighth-inning leaping catch in 1960 to help preserve Don Cardwell's no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals. It was Cardwell's first start for the Cubbies after he was acquired from the Philadelphia Phillies.

  • Chicago White Sox CF Ken Berry (freshman hooper for Wichita in 1959-60) homered twice in a 1970 game against the Kansas City Royals.

  • Kansas City Athletics LF Bob Cerv (ranked fourth on Nebraska's career scoring list in 1949-50 when finishing his career) blasted three homers against the Detroit Tigers in a 1960 doubleheader.

  • Cincinnati Reds 1B George Crowe (four-year letterman from 1939-40 through 1942-43 for Indiana Central after becoming first high school player named state's Mr. Basketball) collected five RBI in a 9-4 win against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1958.

  • RHP George Earnshaw (Swarthmore PA hooper in 1922) purchased from the Chicago White Sox by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1935.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers C Joe Ferguson (hooper in 1967 NCAA playoffs with Pacific) furnished two homers and five RBI against the Houston Astros in a 1974 game.

  • Hall of Fame C Rick Ferrell (Guilford NC hooper in mid-1920s) traded by the Washington Senators to the St. Louis Browns in 1941.

  • Philadelphia Athletics 2B Gene Handley (Bradley hoops letterman in 1932-33 and 1933-34) had four hits in a 14-inning game against the Detroit Tigers in 1947.

  • Cincinnati Reds LHP Bill Henry (hoops letterman for Houston's 1947 NAIA Tournament team featuring co-captain Guy Lewis) secured his fifth save in first five relief appearances of month in 1960.

  • Brooklyn Dodgers 1B Gil Hodges (hooper for St. Joseph's IN in 1943 and Oakland City IN in 1947 and 1948) homered twice against the Chicago Cubs in a 1951 contest.

  • Atlanta Braves RF David Justice (Thomas More KY assists leader in 1984-85 while averaging 9.3 ppg and 3.5 rpg) sidelined for the remainder of the 1996 campaign after dislocating his right shoulder swinging at a pitch.

  • Chicago White Sox RHP Bob Keegan (Bucknell hoops letterman in 1941-42 and 1942-43) went the first 21 2/3 innings of the 1956 season without yielding an earned run. The previous year, Keegan went 3-for-3 at the plate in nightcap of a 1955 twinbill against the Washington Senators.

  • Chicago Cubs SS Don Kessinger (three-time All-SEC selection for Mississippi from 1961-62 through 1963-64 while finishing among nation's top 45 scorers each year) contributed five hits in a 14-inning outing against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1974, triggering a 13-game hitting streak.

  • New York Giants RHP Christy Mathewson (Bucknell hooper at turn of 20th Century) tossed his third straight shutout in 1901.

  • In 1984, Philadelphia Phillies 1B Len Matuszek (starter for Toledo's 18-7 team in 1975-76) smashed a homer in his fourth contest in a five-game span.

  • The first MLB victory for San Francisco Giants rookie LHP Phil Nastu (averaged 13.6 ppg and 4.2 rpg as senior for Bridgeport CT 1976 DII Elite Eight team compiling 24-5 record) ended up as his lone complete game (8-1 nod over Houston Astros in 1979).

  • New York Yankees LF Irv Noren (hoops player of year for California junior college state champion Pasadena City in 1945) stroked an inside-the-park grand slam in an 8-4 win over the Kansas City Athletics in 1955.

  • 2B Marv Olson (all-conference hoops selection was team MVP for Luther IA) traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees in 1933 but never played for the Bronx Bombers.

  • RHP Nels Potter (leading scorer during two years attended Mount Morris IL in early 1930s) purchased from the St. Louis Browns by the Philadelphia Athletics for $17,500 in 1948.

  • New York Giants RF Dave Robertson (one of two reserves on North Carolina State's first basketball team in 1911) went 3-for-3, scored three runs, knocked in three teammates and swiped two bases in 1915 contest against the Chicago Cubs.

  • Kansas City Athletics 1B Norm Siebern (member of Southwest Missouri State squads capturing back-to-back NAIA Tournament hoops titles in 1952 and 1953) smashed two homers against the Cleveland Indians in a 1962 game.

  • LHP Jack Spring (freshman hooper for Washington State in 1951-52) purchased from the Los Angeles Angels by Chicago Cubs in 1964.

  • San Diego Padres RF Will Venable (All-Ivy League first-team selection as junior and second-team choice as senior averaged 9.3 ppg under Princeton coach John Thompson III from 2001-02 through 2004-05) banged out four hits in a 6-1 win against the Washington Nationals in 2012.

  • Chicago White Sox RHP Jim Wilson (hoops letterman for San Diego State's 1942 NAIA Tournament participant) tossed his second of back-to-back shutouts en route to an AL-leading five whitewashes in 1957.

  • Minnesota Twins DH Dave Winfield (starting forward for Minnesota's first NCAA playoff team in 1972) smacked two homers against the Boston Red Sox in a 1993 contest.

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 14

Extra! Extra! Rather than debate whether fossil-fool Plagiarist Biledumb's Out House principal propagandist diva went from Fake (Jenny Sock-it-to-me) to Faker (Ka-ringe "Binder Babe" Jean-Pierre) among colossal collection of contemptible CNN/MSNBC leftist castoffs, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Ex-Fordham hoopers Frankie Frisch and Babe Young were full of MLB extra-base hits in National League games on this date. Former juco hoopers Darrell Evans (Pasadena City CA) and Jim Thome (Illinois Central) made home-run news on this date as MLB third basemen. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 14 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 14

  • In 1977, RHP Jim Colborn (attended Whittier CA in mid-1960s before studying for master's at Edinburgh where he was All-Scotland in basketball) hurled the first no-hitter at Royals Stadium by a Kansas City pitcher (6-0 win against Texas Rangers).

  • New York Giants SS Alvin Dark (hoops letterman for Louisiana State and Southwestern Louisiana in mid-1940s) went 5-for-5 in a 1954 game against the Chicago Cubs.

  • Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo (first player in Connecticut history to average 20 ppg in single season with 21.7 in 1942-43) homered in both ends of 1950 twinbill against the Washington Senators.

  • San Francisco Giants 3B Darrell Evans (member of Jerry Tarkanian-coached Pasadena City CA club winning 1967 state community college basketball crown) homered twice for the second time in a six-game span in 1983.

  • Boston Red Sox RHP Boo Ferriss (Mississippi State hoops letterman in 1941) threw only 78 pitches in a 3-0 shutout against the Chicago White Sox in 1946.

  • Baltimore Orioles LHP Mike Flanagan (averaged 13.9 ppg for UMass' freshman hoops squad in 1971-72) fired his first MLB shutout, a five-hitter against the Oakland Athletics in 1977. Four years later, Flanagan hurled his second whitewash in a little over two weeks in 1981.

  • St. Louis Cardinals 2B Frankie Frisch (Fordham hoops captain) supplied three extra-base hits against the New York Giants in a 1930 contest.

  • One of five victories by Kansas City Royals RHP Rich Gale (led New Hampshire with 7.2 rpg in 1975-76) during the month in 1979 was a five-hit shutout against the Seattle Mariners.

  • Detroit Tigers 1B Hank Greenberg (enrolled at NYU on hoops scholarship in 1929 but attended college only one semester) whacked two homers against the St. Louis Browns in the opener of a 1939 doubleheader.

  • California Angels RHP Paul Hartzell (averaged 5.9 ppg and 3.4 rpg for Lehigh in 1972-73) posted his fifth save in less than a month in 1978.

  • Philadelphia Phillies 1B Davey Johnson (averaged 1.7 ppg for Texas A&M in 1961-62) jacked two homers against the San Diego Padres in a 1977 game.

  • Detroit Tigers RF Rusty Kuntz (J.C. hooper for Cuesta CA) registered two extra-base hits among his three safeties against the Seattle Mariners in a 1984 outing.

  • SS Doc Lavan (Hope MI hooper from 1908 through 1910) purchased from the Washington Senators by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1919.

  • Chicago White Sox RHP Ted Lyons (two-time All-SWC first-team hoops selection for Baylor in early 1920s) hurled a shutout against the New York Yankees. The whitewash was one of four triumphs for Lyons in a 12-day span in 1925.

  • Mel McGaha (first Arkansas player to earn four letters from 1943-44 through 1946-47) fired as manager of the Kansas City Athletics by owner Charlie Finley in 1965.

  • New York Yankees 3B Graig Nettles (shot 87.8% from free-throw line for San Diego State in 1963-64) smashed two homers against the California Angels in a 1977 game.

  • Chicago Cubs rookie SS Paul Popovich (teammate of Jerry West for West Virginia's 1960 NCAA playoff team) stroked four hits and scored three runs in a 6-3 victory against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the nightcap of a 1967 twinbill.

  • Boston Braves RHP Charlie Robertson (Austin College TX hooper before joining U.S. Army during WWI) toiled a mind-boggling 17 1/3 innings in a loss against the Chicago Cubs in 1927.

  • OF Ted Savage (Lincoln MO scoring average leader in 1955-56) purchased from the St. Louis Cardinals by the Chicago Cubs in 1967.

  • 1B Dick Siebert (Concordia-St. Paul MN hooper in 1929 and 1930) traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia Athletics in 1938.

  • Chicago Cubs rookie 2B Wayne Terwilliger (two-year letterman for Western Michigan averaged 5.6 ppg in final season in 1947-48) stroked two doubles in each end of a 1950 doubleheader against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

  • Cleveland Indians 3B Jim Thome (played junior-college hoops for Illinois Central in 1988-89) whacked a homer in his fourth consecutive contest in 1996. The next year as a 1B, Thome mashed the 100th of his 612 MLB career round-trippers.

  • Minnesota Twins DH Dave Winfield (starting forward for Minnesota's first NCAA playoff team in 1972) collected two homers and five RBI against the Baltimore Orioles in a 1994 contest.

  • PH Babe Young (Fordham hoops letterman in 1936) contributed a double and triple in a 10-run, eighth-inning explosion propelling the New York Giants to a 12-6 triumph against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1942.

Poisoning Ivy: All-Ivy League Choices Transferring to Power Conferences

Well-endowed Harvard, which should have been more concerned about school ties to sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, accepted admonition about rejecting millions of dollars from Small Business Administration's PPP. Meanwhile, it isn't business as usual for the Crimson and fellow Ivy League members as well-endowed PPPs (Productive Premium Players) leave their programs; especially after conference intellectuals cowered in fetal position in ivory tower corner cancelling a season because of coronavirus.

The Ivy League is recognized as the nation's most academically prestigious NCAA Division I conference. But as the previously-idealistic Ivy League accepted more athletic exemptions, including transfers from other institutions, the alliance also exponentially increased the number of prominent players leaving the Ivy to learn about playing at the highest athletic level. Last year's MVP Jordan Dingle (Penn shifting to St. John's) and three other all-conference selections last season (Yale's EJ Jarvis, Harvard's Chris Ledlum and Brown's Paxson Wojcik) joined a trend featuring All-Ivy players in the past eight years transferring to a power conference. Seth Towns, aspiring to make a last hurrah, is on the following alphabetical list of players leaving the Ivy League for a power-league member:

Transfer Player Position Ivy League School Power-League Member
Quinton Adlesh G Columbia 16-19 Southern California 20
Bryce Aiken G Harvard 17-20 Seton Hall 21
Paul Atkinson F Yale 18-20 Notre Dame 22
Joe Beaulieu C Harvard 77 Boston College 79-81
Ryan Betley G Penn 17-20 California 21
Jimmy Boeheim F Cornell 18-20 Syracuse 22
Evan Boudreaux F Dartmouth 16-17 Purdue 19-20
Jordan Bruner F Yale 17-20 Alabama 21
Brian Buckelew G Harvard 81 Connecticut 82
Kyle Castlin G Columbia 15-18 Xavier 19
Peter Coker Sr. F-C Dartmouth 63 North Carolina State 65-66
Nolan Cressier G Cornell 13-14 Vanderbilt 16-17
Jordan Dingle G Penn 20-23 St. John's 24
Jaron Faulds F Columbia 18 Michigan 20-22
Danny Feldmann F Columbia 11 Missouri 13-14
Jaylan Gainey G Brown 19-22 Florida State 24
Stone Gettings F Cornell 16-18 Arizona 20
Christian Gore G Brown 12 Texas Christian 14-15
Tony Hicks G Penn 13-15 Louisville 17
Max Hooper G Harvard 12 St. John's 14
EJ Jarvis F Yale 20-23 Florida 24
Jeremiah Kreisberg C Yale 11-13 Northwestern 15
Ryan Langborg G Princeton 20-23 Northwestern 24
Chris Ledlum F Harvard 20-23 St. John's 24
Jaelin Llewellyn G Princeton 19-22 Michigan 23
Makai Mason G Yale 15-18 Baylor 19
Shonn Miller F Cornell 12-15 Connecticut 16
Grant Mullins G Columbia 13-16 California 17
David Onuorah F-C Cornell 14-16 Connecticut 18
Will Scott G Cornell 05 Louisville 07-09
Mike Smith G Columbia 17-20 Michigan 21
Ben Spiva C-F Penn 88 Memphis State 90-91
John Stovall F Penn 86-87 Boston College 89
Patrick Tape F Columbia 17-19 Duke 21
*Seth Towns F Harvard 17-18 Ohio State 21
Pax Whitehead G-F Cornell 93 Vanderbilt 95-97
Paxson Wojcik G Brown 22-23 North Carolina 24

*Subsequently aligned with Howard University for 2023-24 campaign.

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 13

Extra! Extra! Instead of wondering if bird will do more than poop on Plagiarist Biledumb next time whispering hair-sniffer blames everyone but himself for record-breaking inflation, crime chaos, illegal alien fiasco along Southern border and complete failure of Build Back Never initiative, you have time to read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Duke basketball All-Americans Dick Groat and Billy Werber each hit at least three doubles in National League games on this date. Former college hoopers Beau Bell (Texas A&M), Ed Bouchee (Washington State), Larry Doby (Virginia Union), Hoot Evers (Illinois) and Cal Neeman (Illinois Wesleyan) were involved in MLB transactions on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 13 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 13

  • Cincinnati Reds LF Joe Adcock (Louisiana State's leading basketball scorer in 1945-46) socked two homers against the St. Louis Cardinals in the opener of a 1951 twinbill.

  • OF-1B Beau Bell (Texas A&M two-year hoops letterman in early 1930s) traded by the St. Louis Browns to the Detroit Tigers in a 10-player deal in 1939.

  • 1B Ed Bouchee (freshman hooper for Washington State in 1951-52) traded by the Philadelphia Phillies to the Chicago Cubs in 1960.

  • Brooklyn Dodgers RHP Ownie Carroll (Holy Cross hoops letterman in 1922), in the midst of winning five straight decisions, didn't allow an earned run in a 10-inning, 1-1 tie against the Cincinnati Reds in 1933.

  • OF Larry Doby (reserve hoops guard for Virginia Union's 1943 CIAA titlist) purchased from the Detroit Tigers by the Chicago White Sox in 1959.

  • RF Hoot Evers (hoops starter for Illinois in 1939-40) traded by the Cleveland Indians to the Baltimore Orioles in 1956.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers RF Joe Ferguson (hooper in 1967 NCAA playoffs with Pacific) smacked a homer in his third consecutive contest against the Montreal Expos in 1979.

  • Boston Red Sox rookie RHP Boo Ferriss (Mississippi State hoops letterman in 1941) set an A.L. record for scoreless innings at the start of a MLB career by reaching 22 shutout frames before allowing a tally in 1945. Ferriss struck out Detroit Tigers 1B Rudy York four times - all on called third strikes in an 8-2 win in the opener of a doubleheader.

  • St. Louis Cardinals SS Charlie Gelbert (scored at least 125 points each of last three seasons in late 1920s for Lebanon Valley PA) contributed four hits in an 8-7 victory against the Philadelphia Phillies in 1932.

  • Pittsburgh Pirates SS Dick Groat (two-time hoops All-American with Duke in 1950-51 and 1951-52 when finishing among nation's top five scorers each season) went 6-for-6 (including three doubles) in an 8-2 triumph over the Milwaukee Braves in 1960.

  • In 1984, 3B Wayne Gross (led Cal Poly Pomona in assists in 1974-75) knocked in all of the Baltimore Orioles' runs in a 5-1 win against his former team (Oakland Athletics).

  • Pittsburgh Pirates RHP Dick Hall (averaged 12.8 ppg for three MASC Southern Division champions with Swarthmore PA from 1948-49 through 1950-51), a former big-league OF, singled in both ends of 1956 twinbill, igniting a 6-for-7 spurt at the plate for him through early August.

  • Chicago Cubs RF Harvey Hendrick (Vanderbilt hoops letterman in 1918) banged out four hits in a 7-5 victory against the Philadelphia Phillies in the opener of a 1933 doubleheader.

  • Cleveland Indians 1B Doug Howard (second-team All-WAC choice for Brigham Young in 1968-69 and 1969-70) delivered a career-high three hits against the Boston Red Sox in 1976.

  • New York Yankees LF Charlie Keller (three-year hoops letterman with Maryland from 1934-35 through 1936-37) clobbered two homers against the St. Louis Browns in a 1947 game.

  • C Cal Neeman (Illinois Wesleyan's leading hoops scorer in 1947-48 and 1948-49) traded by the Chicago Cubs to the Philadelphia Phillies in a four-player swap in 1960. The next year, Neeman's RBI double in fourth inning provided go-ahead run for Phils in 3-1 decision over the St. Louis Cardinals in 1961.

  • Boston Red Sox rookie RHP Dick Radatz (center on Michigan State's freshman hoops squad in 1955-56) didn't allow an earned run in his first 12 relief appearances covering 16 1/3 innings.

  • Philadelphia Phillies RHP Robin Roberts (Michigan State's second-leading scorer in 1945-46 and 1946-47) yielded a lead-off HR before retiring the next 27 Cincinnati Reds batters to prevail, 8-1, in 1954.

  • Chicago White Sox RHP Charlie Robertson (Austin College TX hooper before joining U.S. Army during WWI) hurled a three-hit shutout against the New York Yankees in 1925.

  • Baltimore Orioles LF Larry Sheets (All-ODAC hoops selection in 1981-82 and 1982-83 with Eastern Mennonite VA) socked two homers against the Kansas City Royals in a 1987 outing.

  • Baltimore Orioles DH Ken Singleton (Hofstra freshman hoops squad in mid-1960s) cracked two homers against the Texas Rangers in a 1983 game.

  • In 1940, Cincinnati Reds 3B Billy Werber (first Duke hoops All-American in 1929-30) became the only player to hit four consecutive doubles in a game in each league (14-inning, 8-8 tie with St. Louis Cardinals).

  • In the midst of an eight-game hitting streak, Chicago Cubs RF Bob Will (all-league athlete was hoops captain for Mankato State MN in 1954-55) supplied three hits against the Los Angeles Dodgers in a 1961 contest.

Transfer Talk: Pac-12's Rodman Another Example of Intra-Conference Move

Since they frequently can't trust their counterparts, forbidding intra-conference player transfers usually was on league meeting agendas for coaches and ADs. But many alliances finally saw the light and backed off their dogma. For instance, DJ Rodman, son of NBA rebounder deluxe Dennis Rodman, is part of power-league surge after transferring from Washington State to Southern California in the Pac-12 Conference.

Previously, there was little mention of the double standard whereby coaches aren't denied a right to do the same thing. We don't recall former UW coach Bo Ryan raising a stink about intra-conference transfers when Sharif Chambliss led Wisconsin in assists and three-pointers in nearly guiding the Badgers to the 2005 Final Four in his lone season with them after leaving Penn State. But Ryan, clearly perturbed when Jarrod Uthoff left UW and wound up at Iowa, likely would still be on the Badgers' sideline gunning for another top four finish in the Big Ten Conference if Uthoff had remained in Madison and the mentor exercised a mite more self-control. Instead, Uthoff joined John Lucas III (Baylor to Oklahoma State in Big 12) as the only players in NCAA history to become an All-American after transferring within a league. OSU may have another potential A-A guard on its roster when Bryce Thompson joined the Cowboys after leaving league rival Kansas.

In regard to priorities, there is virtually no word on coaches and conferences wanting the NCAA to introduce guidelines to determine a penalty to enforce if a player is caught doing drugs, committing domestic violence or taking no-show classes. At any rate, CollegeHoopedia.com is unaware of the following players extensive trouble because they transferred within a league:

Transfer Player Pos. Conference Two League Members Played For
Al Akins ? Pacific Coast Washington State 42-43/Washington 44
Akok Akok F Big East Connecticut 20-22/Georgetown 23
Spike Albrecht G Big Ten Michigan 13-16/Purdue 17
Carvell Ammons F Big Ten Northwestern 97/Illinois 99
Alex Anderson G Ohio Valley Jacksonville State 13/UT-Martin 15-16
DeMario Anderson G Northeast Central Connecticut State 04-05/Quinnipiac 07-08
Luke Axtell F-G Big 12 Texas 98/Kansas 00-01
Twany Beckham G Southeastern Mississippi State 09-10/Kentucky 12-13
Markedric Bell F SWAC Arkansas-Pine Bluff 20-21/Prairie View 22
Max Bielfeldt F Big Ten Michigan 13-15/Indiana 16
Lamarquis Blake G SWAC Arkansas-Pine Bluff 02-03/Alabama State 05-06
Quincy Bowens G Midwestern Collegiate Butler 93/Detroit 95
Jalen Bradley G Summit League Nebraska-Omaha 14/Oral Roberts 16-17
Mel Braxton F PCAA New Mexico State 85/Long Beach State 87
Josh Bright G MEAC Morgan State 07/Maryland-Eastern Shore 08-11
Lincoln Browder F SWAC Prairie View 90/Southern 91
Jack Carby F Big Seven Kansas 50/Kansas State 52
Chris Carter C SWAC Texas Southern 94/Grambling 97-98
Jason Carter F Southeastern Alabama 11/Mississippi 13
Sharif Chambliss G Big Ten Penn State 01-03/Wisconsin 05
Matt Chastain G-F Missouri Valley Loyola of Chicago 17/Illinois State 19-21
Patrick Cole G MEAC Coppin State 13/North Carolina Central 16-17
Jalen Coleman-Lands G Big 12 Iowa State 21/Kansas 22
Corban Collins G Southeastern Louisiana State 13/Alabama 17
Richard Congo F East Coast Lafayette 80/Drexel 82-84
Andrew Dakich G Big Ten Michigan 14-16/Ohio State 18
Javian Davis F Southeastern Alabama 20/Mississippi State 21
Kevin Degnan C-F MAAC Fairfield 15-16/Siena 18
Lucas Devenny F Big West UC Santa Barbara 10-11/UC Riverside 13-14
Riley Didion G Atlantic Sun Jacksonville 03-04/North Florida 06
Thomas Dodd C-F SWAC Texas Southern 95-96/Grambling 98-99
Charles Dorsey G Midwestern Collegiate Loyola of Chicago 81-82/Oral Roberts 84-85
Terrance Duncan F SWAC Grambling 95/Arkansas-Pine Bluff 99
Tristan Enaruna G-F Big 12 Kansas 20-21/Iowa State 22
Gary Ervin G Southeastern Mississippi State 04-05/Arkansas 07-08
Tye Fagan G Southeastern Georgia 19-21/Mississippi 22
Isaiah Felder G MEAC Savannah State 16-18/South Carolina State 20
Jamel Fields G Metro Atlantic Fairfield 11-12/St. Peter's 14-15
Brenden Floyd G Northeast St. Francis (N.Y.) 96/Central Connecticut State 98-99
Cedric Foster G SWAC Alcorn State 94-95/Mississippi Valley State 97-98
Josh Fox F Big West UC Riverside 13/UC Davis 15-16
Alex Fudge F Southeastern Louisiana State 22/Florida 23
Lawrence Funderburke F Big Ten Indiana 90/Ohio State 92-94
Antonio Gates F Mid-American Eastern Michigan 00/Kent State 02-03
Michael Gbinije G-F Atlantic Coast Duke 12/Syracuse 14-16
Deremy Geiger G Western Athletic Utah State 09/Idaho 11-12
Tre Gilder F Southland McNeese State 04/Northwestern State 07-08
John Gordon G America East Maine 96-97/Delaware 99-00
Josh Gray C Southeastern Louisiana State 21/South Carolina 22
Michael Green C Southern Furman 97/Western Carolina 99
Richard Griffin G SWAC Mississippi Valley State 04/Alcorn State 07-08
Derick Grubb C West Coast Pepperdine 03-06/Loyola Marymount 07
Jason Grunkemeyer G Mid-American Ohio University 97/Miami (OH) 99-01
P.J. Hardwick G Sun Belt North Texas 13/Arkansas State 15-16
Damontre Harris C Southeastern South Carolina 11-12/Florida 14
Jovan Harris G West Coast Saint Mary's 00-01/San Francisco 03-04
James Harrison G Southland New Orleans 14/Lamar 18
Jarrett Hart G Big 12 Oklahoma 00/Kansas State 03-04
Charles Hatcher G Northeast Loyola (Md.) 89/St. Francis (N.Y.) 92-93
Allen Hatchett G Ohio Valley Southeast Missouri 96-97/Middle Tennessee State 99
Jason Hernandez G America East New Hampshire 97/Hofstra 99-01
John "Babe" Higgins G-F PCC California 44/Stanford 47-48
Derek Holcomb C Big Ten Indiana 77/Illinois 79-81
Randy Holcomb F WAC/Mountain West Fresno State 99/San Diego State 01-02
David Hollaway G Big West San Jose State 89/UC Irvine 91-92
Jeff Holmes G ECAC North Boston University 84/Maine 86-88
Robert Hooper F Mid-Continent Cleveland State 94/Youngstown State 97-98
Bobby Horodyski G CUSA Marshall 10/UCF 12-13
Johnny Hudson G Trans America Athletic Houston Baptist 88-89/Hardin-Simmons
David Huertas G Southeastern Florida 05-06/Mississippi 08
Lindsey Hunter G SWAC Alcorn State 89/Jackson State 91-93
Tyrese Hunter G Big 12 Iowa State 22/Texas 23
Quintrius Hutchinson F SWAC Alabama A&M 11/Alabama State 12
Derek Jackson G Mid-American Central Michigan 11-12/Kent State 14-15
Tony Jamison G Mid-American Kent State 75-76/Eastern Michigan 78
Avery Johnson Jr. G Southeastern Texas A&M 15/Alabama 16-17
Ben Johnson G Big Ten Northwestern 00-01/Minnesota 03-04
Cam Johnson G-F ACC Pittsburgh 16-17/North Carolina 18-19
Durand Johnson F Big East Pittsburgh 13/St. John's 16
K.D. Johnson G Southeastern Georgia 21/Auburn 22
Napoleon Johnson C SWAC Texas Southern 80-81/Grambling 83-84
Trey Johnson G SWAC Alcorn State 04/Jackson State 06-07
Yondarius Johnson G SWAC Grambling 11/Southern LA 13-14
Curtis Jones Jr. G Big Ten Indiana 17-18/Penn State 20
Jamal Jones G Southeastern Mississippi 12/Texas A&M 14
Rob Jones F West Coast San Diego 08-09/Saint Mary's 11-12
Tyler Jones F MEAC Maryland-Eastern Shore 17-19/North Carolina A&T 21
Pierre Jordan G ACC Florida State 09-11/Georgia Tech 12-13
Oggie Kapetanovic C Ivy League Brown 97-98/Penn 00-01
Shannon Kennedy G Missouri Valley Memphis State 73/Drake 75
Ellis Kidd Jr. G Big 12 Oklahoma State 01/Baylor 03-04
Michael Knight G America East Maryland-Baltimore County 05/Albany 07
Ray Knight C Big East Georgetown 81/Providence 83-85
Rob Koch F Mid-American Kent State 80-81/Central Michigan 83-84
Miller Kopp F Big Ten Northwestern 19-21/Indiana 22
Willy Kouassi C Southeastern Auburn 12/Arkansas 16
Dan Leighton F Mid-American Toledo 84/Western Michigan 86-88
John Lucas III G Big 12 Baylor 02-03/Oklahoma State 04
Mike Lucas G SWC Arkansas 85-86/Southern Methodist 88-89
Chris Mack G Midwestern Collegiate Evansville 89-90/Xavier 93
Cameron Madlock F Mid-American Bowling Green 08/Northern Illinois 11
Jonathan Malloy G Big Sky Montana State 07/Cal State Sacramento 09-10
Derick Malone F SWAC Prairie View 96/Texas Southern 98-00
Jim Manuel C Mid-American Miami (Ohio) 82-83/Western Michigan 84
Dominick Martin C Ivy League Princeton 02/Yale 04-06
Royal Maxwell F SWAC Grambling 98-99/Jackson State 01-02
Ashton McClelland G SWAC Texas Southern 20-21/Alabama State 22
Matt McClelland F Northeast Monmouth 93/St. Francis (Pa.) 95-96
John McDonald G Metro Atlantic Athletic Loyola MD 95-96/Iona 97-98
Darrick McGriff G SWAC Prairie View 93-94/Alabama State 96-97
Horace "Bones" McKinney C Southern North Carolina State 41-42/North Carolina 46
Clay McKnight G Big West UC Irvine 96/Pacific 98-00
Dominique McKoy F Atlantic 10 Rhode Island 12/Duquesne 14-15
Jamar Miles F SWAC Alabama A&M 99/Prairie View 01-03
Hunter Miller G Atlantic Sun Florida Gulf Coast 10-11/Stetson 13-14
Torrey Mills F Mid-American Central Michigan 93-94/Eastern Michigan 96-97
Charles Mitchell F ACC Maryland 13-14/Georgia Tech 15-16
Gary Moeller F PCAA UC Santa Barbara 81-82/Cal State Fullerton 84-85
Tim Morris G Pacific-10 Stanford 05-06/Washington 08
Antwine Murchison F Big Sky Idaho 82/Northern Arizona 85-86
Ross Neltner F-C Southeastern Louisiana State 04-05/Vanderbilt 07-08
Tyrone O'Garro F Northeast Monmouth 13/Fairleigh Dickinson 16-17
Sam Okey F Big Ten Wisconsin 96-97/Iowa 99
Kevin Olekaibe G Mountain West Fresno State 13/UNLV 14
Andy Oliveira G PCAA Pacific 73/UC Santa Barbara 77
Patrick Onwenu F SWAC Texas Southern 12/Alcorn State 16
Jack Owens G Ohio Valley Murray State 96/Eastern Illinois 98-99
Marvin Owens G-F Midwestern Collegiate Oklahoma City 84-85/Detroit 87-88
Jason Parker F Southeastern Kentucky 01/South Carolina 03
Darrell Patterson G PCAA Cal State Fullerton 82/Long Beach State 85
Fenorris Pearson F Mid-American Central Michigan 89-90/Eastern Michigan 91-93
Sam Pearson G Ohio Valley UT-Martin 08/Southeast Missouri 10
Carl Pierce F WCAC Santa Clara 76-77/Gonzaga 80
Xavier Pinson G SEC Missouri 19-21/Louisiana State 22
Marquis Poole G Big Sky Eastern Washington 01/Idaho State 03-04
Franklin Porter G West Coast Saint Mary's 16/Portland 18-20
Micah Potter F Big Ten Ohio State 17-18/Wisconsin 20
Justin Powell G Southeastern Auburn 21/Tennessee 22
Charles Price F SWAC Grambling 86-87/Texas Southern 89-90
Mark Price G Metro Atlantic Fairfield 00/Siena 02
C.J. Prince G Mid-Eastern Athletic Maryland-Eastern Shore 06/Howard University 09-10
Jim Ray F Southeastern Georgia Tech 46/Mississippi State 48-49
Luke Recker G-F Big Ten Indiana 98-99/Iowa 01
Eric Rhodes G-F Southland Stephen F. Austin 88/Sam Houston State 91
Ben Rishwain G Big West UC Irvine 90/Pacific 92-94
Nican Robinson G Pacific-10 UCLA 06/California 08-09
Kirk Rocheleau G Big Sky Montana State 74/Montana 76-77
Jason Rogers G Southland Texas State 06/Stephen F. Austin 08
Earnest Ross F Southeastern Auburn 10-11/Missouri 13-14
Steve Ross G West Coast San Diego 99/Santa Clara 01-02
Andres Sandoval G Atlantic 10 Richmond 05/Dayton 07-08
Nate Schindewolf G Mid-American Miami (Ohio) 97/Akron 99-01
Brian Schmall G Big South Augusta 89-90/Radford 92-93
Rodney Scott G PCAA UC Irvine 85/San Jose State 87-88
Bo Segeberg C Big Sky Cal State Sacramento 00/Montana State 02-03
Glen Selbo G Big Ten Wisconsin 44 & 47/Michigan 46
Brad Sellers F Big Ten Wisconsin 82-83/Ohio State 85-86
Zach Sellers G MEAC Savannah State 17-19/South Carolina State 20
Frank Sillmon F SWAC Alabama State 85-86/Alabama A&M 88-89
Trant Simpson G SWAC Alabama A&M 07-09/Prairie View 11
Jason Smeathers F Summit League IUPUI 09/IPFW 11-12
Adam Smith G ACC Virginia Tech 14-15/Georgia Tech 16
Jevon Smith G-F SWAC Mississippi Valley State 17/Jackson State 20
Vinson Smith G Mid-Continent Youngstown State 93/UMKC 97
Marcus Stewart F Big South Coastal Carolina 98-99/Winthrop 01-02
Curtis Stuckey G Missouri Valley Drake 88/Bradley 90-91
Rashaan Surles G SWAC Prairie View 14/Mississippi Valley State 16-17
Kenny Taylor G Big 12 Baylor 02-03/Texas 04
Michael Taylor G Big Sky Eastern Washington 07/Montana 09-10
Charles Terrell G Big West San Jose State 90-91/Pacific 93-94
Bryce Thompson G Big 12 Kansas 21/Oklahoma State 22-23
Derryck Thornton G ACC Duke 16/Boston College 20
Riley Trone G CAA George Mason 94-95/James Madison 98
Tyler Troupe F Southern Chattanooga 06-07/Georgia Southern 09-10
Kevon Tucker G Southern Wofford 17/East Tennessee State 19
Cory Underwood F Northeast St. Francis (N.Y.) 00/Wagner 02
Jarrod Uthoff F Big Ten Wisconsin 12 (RS)/Iowa 14-16
Eloy Vargas C Southeastern Florida 09/Kentucky 11-12
Jason Walberg G West Coast Saint Mary's 05/Pepperdine 07-08
Damion Walker C-F WAC Texas Christian 96-97/New Mexico 99-00
Ryan Wall G Mountain West New Mexico 04-05/Texas Christian 07-08
Blake Wallace F West Coast Pepperdine 07/San Francisco 09-10
Bubba Walther G Mid-American Akron 05-06/Ohio University 07-08
Jerome Washington G ECAC Metro St. Francis NY 83-85/Long Island 87
Marcus Watkins G Big 12 Texas A&M 03-04/Missouri 05-06
David Wear Sr. C PCAA Fresno State 77-78/Cal State Fullerton 81
David Weaver F Ivy League Princeton 94/Harvard 96-97
Jamari Wheeler G Big Ten Penn State 18-21/Ohio State 22
Sahvir Wheeler G Southeastern Georgia 20-21/Kentucky 22-23
Malcolm White F Southeastern Mississippi 08-09/Louisiana State 11-12
Dwain Whitfield F SWAC Mississippi Valley State 15-16/Arkansas-Pine Bluff 18-19
Trent Whiting G Mountain West Utah 00/Brigham Young 01
C.J. Wilbourn F Horizon League Milwaukee 20-21/Wright State 22
Jacob Wiley F Big Sky Montana 13/Eastern Washington 17
Isaiah Wilkins G ACC Virginia Tech 19-20/Wake Forest 21
Bernard Williams G PCAA Long Beach State 70-71/Fresno State 73
Jamaine Williams F MEAC Morgan State 90/North Carolina A&T 93-94
LeRon Williams F Southeastern Florida 95-96/South Carolina 98-99
Josh Wittensoldner G Mid-American Bowling Green State 96/Akron 98

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 12

Extra! Extra! Rather than be dismayed by outgoing Chi-raq Mayor Lori "Ms. Beetlejuice" Lightweight more exorcised about conceptual legislation regarding queer peers than widespread authentic brutality on her citizenry, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former Washington State hoops starters Gene Conley and Ted Tappe contributed significant National League performances on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 12 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 12

  • In 1984, Seattle Mariners RHP Jim Beattie (Dartmouth's top rebounder in 1974-75 when selected basketball team MVP and honorable mention All-Ivy League) registered his second shutout in last four starts.

  • Baltimore Orioles CF Al Bumbry (Virginia State's runner-up in scoring with 16.7 ppg as freshman in 1964-65) suffered a broken leg sliding into second base, missing most of the remainder of the 1978 season.

  • Milwaukee Braves RHP Gene Conley (All-Pacific Coast Conference first-team selection led North Division in scoring as Washington State sophomore in 1949-50) toiled 12 innings in prevailing, 2-1, ending the Dodgers' streak from the start of the 1955 season of 25 consecutive contests where they led at some point in the game. It was one of five straight wins for Conley during the month following a setback when he went 11 1/3 innings at Brooklyn.

  • CF Billy Cowan (Utah letterman from 1957-58 through 1959-60 was co-captain of NCAA playoff team as senior) rapped a game-winning, two-run single in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the California Angels a 6-5 win against the Boston Red Sox in 1970.

  • In 1940, Cincinnati Reds CF Harry Craft (four-sport letterman with Mississippi College in early 1930s) contributed three hits in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals for the second straight day.

  • In 1930, Philadelphia Athletics RHP George Earnshaw (Swarthmore PA hooper in 1922) committed three balks and Cleveland Indians counterpart Milt Shoffner had five balks (three in third inning).

  • Los Angeles Dodgers RF Joe Ferguson (played in 1967 NCAA playoffs with Pacific) jacked a homer in his third consecutive contest against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1976.

  • St. Louis Cardinals 2B Frankie Frisch (Fordham hoops captain) supplied four hits against the Brooklyn Robins in a 1929 game.

  • LHP Johnny Gee (sixth-leading scorer in Big Ten Conference for Michigan's 16-4 team in 1936-37) purchased from the Pittsburgh Pirates by the New York Giants in 1944.

  • Boston Red Sox LF Dick Gernert (Temple hoops letterman in 1948-49 when averaging 2.7 ppg) contributed two homers and six RBI but it wasn't enough to prevent a 12-9 reversal against the Washington Senators in 1956.

  • St. Louis Cardinals RHP Bob Gibson (Creighton's leading scorer and rebounder in 1955-56 and 1956-57) struck out the side on nine pitches in the seventh inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1969. At the plate, Gibson went 3-for-3, knocked in two runs and walked once in a 6-2 triumph.

  • After seven scoreless relief appearances, Philadelphia Phillies RHP Dallas Green (Delaware's runner-up in scoring and rebounding in 1954-55) made his first start of 1963 campaign. The next year, Green yielded his only run covering first eight relief stints of 1964.

  • Washington Senators 3B Chuck Hinton (played multiple sports for Shaw NC before serving two years in U.S. Army in mid-1950s) hammered a homer for the Nats' lone safety in the nightcap of a 1963 twinbill at Boston.

  • New York Mets 1B Gil Hodges (hooper for St. Joseph's IN in 1943 and Oakland City IN in 1947 and 1948) hit a ninth-inning, game-ending HR in the nightcap of a 1962 doubleheader. Teammate Hobie Landrith did the same thing in the opener against the Milwaukee Braves.

  • Baltimore Orioles RHP Ben McDonald (started six games as 6-6 freshman for Louisiana State in 1986-87 under coach Dale Brown) squared off against 6-10 Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners in 1991 in the tallest starting pitching matchup in MLB history.

  • St. Louis Cardinals rookie CF Wally Moon (averaged 4.3 ppg with Texas A&M in 1948-49 and 1949-50) notched his second five-hit game and scored five runs in a 13-5 pounding of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1954.

  • In 1981, San Francisco Giants CF Billy North (played hoops briefly for Central Washington in 1967-68) stole three bases as a 33-year-old for the second time in his last four games.

  • New York Yankees rookie RHP Al Shealy (Newberry College SC hooper in early 1920s) won his first five decisions in a 17-day span in 1928.

  • Chicago Cubs RF Ted Tappe (leading scorer in 1949 NJCAA Tournament was Washington State's third-leading scorer following year) opened the game's scoring with an RBI double and closed scoring with a homer off Vern Law when Sam Jones no-hit the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-0, in 1955.

  • Washington Senators 2B Wayne Terwilliger (two-year hoops letterman for Western Michigan averaged 5.6 ppg in final season in 1947-48) stroked four hits against the Detroit Tigers in a 1953 outing.

  • Chicago White Sox DH Jim Thome (played junior-college hoops for Illinois Central in 1988-89) smacked two homers in a 2009 game against the Cleveland Indians.

  • SS Billy Werber (first Duke hoops All-American in 1929-30) purchased from the New York Yankees by the Boston Red Sox in 1933.

  • Boston Braves 3B Chuck Workman (two-time All-MIAA first-five selection was leading scorer in 1937 when Central Missouri won inaugural NAIA Tournament) slugged a homer in his third consecutive contest in 1945.

  • LHP Tom Zachary (Guilford NC hoops letterman in 1916) awarded on waivers from the New York Yankees to the Boston Braves in 1930.

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 11

Extra! Extra! Rather than joining juvenile jubilation rejoicing about proud-as-a-peacock Plagiarist Biledumb and his spokesperson ("The Binder Babe") resembling grade schoolers after learning a new word (Ultra-MAGA) focus-group tested by #AudacityofHype leftist lunatic leftover Anita Dunn, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former Texas A&M hoopers Beau Bell and Wally Moon supplied significant offensive performances as National League outfielders on this date. Ditto ex-Santa Clara hoopers Bruce Bochte and Randy Winn making American League news. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 11 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 11

  • Cincinnati Reds LF Joe Adcock (Louisiana State's leading basketball scorer in 1945-46) cracked two homers against the St. Louis Cardinals in a 1952 game.

  • St. Louis Browns RF Beau Bell (two-year hoops letterman for Texas A&M in early 1930s) went 4-for-4 in a 7-5 win against the Washington Senators in 1937.

  • OF-1B Bruce Bochte (starting forward for Santa Clara's 1970 NCAA playoff team) traded by the California Angels to the Cleveland Indians in 1977.

  • Cleveland Indians SS Lou Boudreau (leading scorer for Illinois' 1937 Big Ten Conference co-champion) went 4-for-4 against the Philadelphia Athletics in a 1950 contest.

  • 1B Cal Emery (scored four points in three Penn State basketball games in 1957-58) purchased from the Philadelphia Phillies by Los Angeles Angels in 1964.

  • Hall of Fame C Rick Ferrell (Guilford NC hooper in mid-1920s) traded by the St. Louis Browns to the Boston Red Sox in 1933.

  • Detroit Tigers 1B Hank Greenberg (enrolled at NYU on hoop scholarship in 1929 but attended college only one semester) socked a homer in his third consecutive contest in 1935.

  • New York Mets 2B Tommy Herr (hooper with Delaware's freshman team in 1974-75) whacked a homer among his four hits in 6-2 win against the San Francisco Giants in 1991.

  • Frank Howard (two-time All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection when leading Ohio State in scoring and rebounding in 1956-57 and 1957-58) hammered two homers for the Washington Senators but they weren't enough to prevent a 6-5 defeat at Seattle in 1969.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers LHP Sandy Koufax (Cincinnati's freshman hoops squad in 1953-54), continuing his comeback from a circulatory ailment in his left index finger, hurled a no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants in 1963.

  • INF Vance Law (averaged 6.8 ppg for Brigham Young from 1974-75 through 1976-77) contributed a 10th-inning squeeze bunt to give the Chicago Cubs a 1-0 victory against the San Diego Padres in 1988.

  • OF Danny Litwhiler (member of JV hoops squad with Bloomsburg PA in mid-1930s) traded by the Boston Braves to the Cincinnati Reds in 1948.

  • Washington Senators OF Don Lock (Wichita State field-goal percentage leader in 1956-57 and 1957-58 under coach Ralph Miller) banged out four hits against the California Angels in a 1966 outing.

  • St. Louis Cardinals LF Les Mann (Springfield MA hooper in 1913 and 1914) lashed two homers against the Philadelphia Phillies in a 1923 contest.

  • New York Yankees SS Gene Michael (Kent State scoring leader with 14 ppg in 1957-58) generated his fifth two-hit outing in first seven games of the month in 1973.

  • In the midst of a career-high 24-game hitting streak in 1957, St. Louis Cardinals LF Wally Moon (averaged 4.3 ppg with Texas A&M in 1948-49 and 1949-50) homered in four consecutive contests. Moon assembled a 20-game hitting string later in the season.

  • Boston Red Sox 1B Ed Morgan (Tulane hoops letterman from 1923-24 through 1925-26) manufactured four hits against the Cleveland Indians in a 1934 contest.

  • Chicago Cubs CF Dave Robertson (one of two reserves on North Carolina State's first basketball team in 1911) knocked in six runs in 1921 outing against the Philadelphia Phillies.

  • Philadelphia Phillies rookie LF Ted Savage (Lincoln MO scoring average leader in 1955-56) stroked four hits against the Chicago Cubs in a 1962 contest. Nine years later, Savage was traded by the Milwaukee Brewers to the Kansas City Royals in 1971.

  • Utilityman Roe Skidmore (scored 41 points for Millikin IL in game against Illinois College on 1-28-66) purchased from the St. Louis Cardinals by Houston Astros in 1974.

  • Boston Red Sox 3B Jim Tabor (Alabama hoops letterman in 1936-37) knocked in five runs against the New York Yankees in a 1941 game.

  • Philadelphia Phillies CF Cy Williams (Notre Dame forward in 1909-10) contributed three homers and seven RBI against the St. Louis Cardinals in a 1923 outing.

  • RF Dave Winfield (starting forward with Minnesota's first NCAA playoff team in 1972), citing a no-trade clause in his contract with the New York Yankees, refused to report to the Angels after being traded in 1990. Five days later, he accepted the deal.

  • RF Randy Winn (Santa Clara backcourtmate of eventual two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Steve Nash in 1993-94) whacked a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth inning to give Tampa Bay a 6-4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in 2002, snapping the Devil Rays' 15-game losing streak.

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 10

Extra! Extra! Rather than debating whether petty Plagiarist Biledumb knows anything about how to deal with inflation, Southern border and how many grandchildren he has (fewer than 20-plus shell companies concealing millions of dollars in foreign donations to his family members), you have time to read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Two former hoopers from Minnesota small colleges - Rip Repulski (St. Cloud State) and Howie Schultz (Hamline) - made MLB news on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 10 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 10

  • Baltimore Orioles 2B Jerry Adair (one of Oklahoma State's top three basketball scorers in 1956-57 and 1957-58 under coach Hank Iba while ranking among nation's top 12 free-throw shooters each season) jacked two homers against the Minnesota Twins in a 1961 game.

  • Philadelphia Phillies RHP Ray Benge (multi-year hoops letterman for Sam Houston State first half of 1920s) tossed a five-hit shutout against the Cincinnati Reds in 1932.

  • Cleveland Indians RHP Jim Bibby (Fayetteville State NC backup player and brother of UCLA All-American Henry Bibby) hurled a 1-0 shutout against the Milwaukee Brewers in the opener of a 1977 doubleheader.

  • Cleveland Indians SS Lou Boudreau (leading scorer for Illinois' 1937 Big Ten Conference co-champion) banged out two hits in six straight games in 1942.

  • 1B Donn Clendenon (four-sport letterman with Morehouse GA) went hitless in his first 18 at-bats with the St. Louis Cardinals until stroking two safeties against the Houston Astros in 1972.

  • Philadelphia Athletics C Mickey Cochrane (five-sport athlete with Boston University) collected four hits against the St. Louis Browns in a 1928 contest.

  • St. Louis Cardinals RF Grant Dunlap (Pacific hoops letterman in 1942-43 and 1946-47) hammered a pinch-hit homer against the Cincinnati Reds in 1953. The circuit clout was Dunlap's lone MLB round-tripper.

  • Brooklyn Robins 2B Jake Flowers (member of 1923 "Flying Pentagon" championship squad for Washington College MD) contributed four hits against the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 1930 outing.

  • 1B-OF Dick Gernert (hoops letterman with Temple in 1948-49 when he averaged 2.7 ppg) traded by the Detroit Tigers to the Cincinnati Reds in 1961.

  • The first MLB shutout supplied by Kansas City Athletics RHP Dick Hall (averaged 13.5 ppg from 1948-49 through 1950-51 with Swarthmore PA Southern Division champions in Middle Atlantic States Conference), 10-0 against the Baltimore Orioles, was one of three complete-game triumphs for him this month in 1960.

  • Utilityman Chuck Harmon (freshman starter was Toledo's second-leading scorer for 1943 NIT runner-up) traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1957.

  • Cincinnati Reds LHP Bill Henry (hoops letterman for Houston's 1947 NAIA Tournament team featuring co-captain Guy Lewis) fanned three St. Louis Cardinals batters in one inning of relief in his seventh scoreless outing in first seven relief appearances of 1961.

  • Milwaukee Braves SS Johnny Logan (Binghamton hooper in 1948-49) went 4-for-4 with five RBI in a 10-5 win against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1957.

  • Boston Red Sox OF Rip Repulski (started several basketball games for St. Cloud State MN) ripped a grand slam against the Chicago White Sox in 1960.

  • 1B Howie Schultz (Hamline MN product played and coached professional basketball) purchased from the Brooklyn Dodgers by the Philadelphia Phillies for $50,000 in 1947.

  • Chicago Cubs RHP Lee Smith (averaged 3.4 ppg and 1.9 rpg for Northwestern State in 1976-77) posted a perfect three-inning save against the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1983.

  • Minnesota Twins 3B Jay Ward (McKendree IL hooper in 1956-57 before forgoing hoops to concentrate solely on pro baseball) accounted for both of game's tallies with a two-run double in 2-0 decision over the Kansas City Athletics in 1963.

  • 3B John Werhas (led Southern California in scoring average in 1958-59 and 1959-60) traded by the Los Angeles Dodgers to the California Angels for fellow USC product Len Gabrielson in 1967.

  • San Francisco Giants OF Randy Winn (Santa Clara backcourtmate of eventual two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Steve Nash in 1993-94) collected four hits and scored four runs in a 7-5 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers in a 2009 game. The next day, Winn chipped in with three hits and three runs against the Washington Nationals.

Father Knows Best: Davis Ranks Among Top 10 Players Under Dad/Coach

After returning to Detroit for his unique fifth season of eligibility as senior graduate due to COVID-19 considerations, Antoine Davis eventually became runner-up to LSU's Pete Maravich as the all-time leading scorer in NCAA history. Where does Davis clan rank among the most successful father-son, coach-player combinations in NCAA annals (including Maravich and his dad)? The Davis worksheet together (59-88 record) resembles the modest marks manufactured by the Houstons (Tennessee) and Berrys (San Jose State) more than the the regal records registered by the McDermotts (Creighton) and Drews (Valparaiso). Despite losing mark, Davis cracked the Top 10 on the following list of luminaries playing under dear old dad (with emphasis on winning percentage):

Rank Coach/Father School(s) Record Player/Son Pos. Son's Career Summary Under Father
1. Greg McDermott Creighton 107-38 Doug McDermott F Doug was three-time NCAA first-Team All-American from 2011-12 through 2013-14 after originally signing with old MVC rival Northern Iowa. As a sophomore and junior, he was MVC MVP before earning same award when Bluejays moved to the Big East Conference.
2. Press Maravich Louisiana State 49-35 Pete Maravich G Pete, a three-time unanimous NCAA first-team All-American, became the NCAA's career record holder for total points (3,667 in three years from 1967-68 through 1969-70) and scoring average (44.2 ppg). In his senior season, the Tigers had their highest SEC finish (2nd) and only postseason tournament appearance (NIT) in a 24-year span from 1955 through 1978.
3. Wade Houston Tennessee 60-68 Allan Houston G Allan, a four-time All-SEC first-team selection, averaged more than 20 ppg each of his four seasons en route to becoming the Volunteers' all-time leading scorer (2,801 points from 1989-90 through 1992-93). They participated in the NIT in his freshman and junior campaigns.
4. Bill Berry San Jose State 46-41 Ricky Berry G-F Ricky, after playing his freshman season with Oregon State, averaged 21 ppg, 5.6 rpg and 3.2 apg for the Spartans from 1985-86 through 1987-88 en route to becoming their all-time leading scorer (1,767 points). He was a three-time All-Big West Conference first-team selection.
5. Dick Acres Oral Roberts 47-34 Mark Acres C Dick coached his sons (including Jeff) from midway through the 1982-83 campaign through 1984-85. Mark, a three-time All-Midwestern City Conference first-team selection, averaged 18.5 ppg and 9.6 rpg and shot 56.4% from the floor. Mark was a two-time Midwestern City MVP who led the Titans in scoring and rebounding all four seasons. ORU participated in the 1984 NCAA Tournament.
6. Homer Drew Valparaiso 88-36 Bryce Drew G Bryce, who averaged 17.7 ppg, 5.2 apg and 1.5 spg from 1994-95 through 1997-98 en route to becoming the school's all-time leader in scoring and assists, was the Mid-Continent Conference MVP his last two seasons. The Crusaders won the MCC regular-season and league tournament championships all four years.
7. Dick Bennett Wisconsin-Green Bay 87-34 Tony Bennett G Tony, a three-time All-Mid-Continent Conference first-team selection, averaged 19.4 ppg and 5.1 apg from 1988-89 through 1991-92, finishing as UWGB's all-time leading scorer (2,285 points). He holds the NCAA career record for highest three-point field-goal percentage (.497/minimum of 200 made) and won the Frances Pomeroy Award his senior year as the nation's top player shorter than six feet tall. The Phoenix won the 1991 MCC Tournament and 1992 regular-season title.
8. Mike Davis Detroit 59-88 Antoine Davis G Antoine finished runner-up to Pistol Pete in all-time scoring despite minimal postseason competition because of four losing records in five seasons.
9. Ron Hunter Georgia State 65-35 R.J. Hunter G R.J. became the most prolific freshman scorer in Panthers history, averaging 17 ppg in 2012-13. Finished his three-year career with averages of 18.4 ppg and 4.8 rpg before declaring early for the NBA draft.
10. Sonny Allen SMU/Nevada-Reno 64-48 Billy Allen G Billy averaged 13.1 ppg and 8.2 apg in 1981-82 and 1982-83 after transferring from SMU. The two-time All-Big Sky Conference selection set a UNR single-season record with 8.6 apg as a junior when he was a second-team choice before moving up to first-team status the next year. Billy led the SWC in assists as a freshman in 1978-79 (9 apg) and sophomore in 1979-80 (9.1 apg). He also paced the Mustangs in free-throw percentage both years. In his sophomore season, SMU tied its highest win total (16) in a 15-year span from 1967-68 through 1981-82.
11. Steve Alford UCLA 96-45 Bryce Alford G Won nearly 2/3 of games from 2013-14 through 2016-17 when Bryce averaged 13.7 ppg, 2.8 rpg and 3.9 apg. As part of the Alfords boosting the Bruins back to national prominence, Bryce supplied school-record nine three-pointers at Colorado.
12. Jerry Tarkanian UNLV 77-19 Danny Tarkanian G Danny led the Rebels in assists and steals each of his three seasons from 1981-82 through 1983-84 after transferring from Dixie Junior College (Utah). The All-Pacific Coast Athletic Association second-team selection finished second in the nation with 8.5 apg as a senior. UNLV participated in the NIT in 1982 and NCAA Tournament in 1983 and 1984. The Rebels captured the PCAA regular-season championship in 1983 and 1984.
13. Fred A. Enke Arizona 60-18 Fred W. Enke G Fred W., a future NFL quarterback, was a three-time All-Border Conference first-team selection from 1945-46 through 1947-48. The Wildcats participated in the 1946 NIT after their first of three consecutive league championships.

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 9

Extra! Extra! Rather than poke fun at Dimorats as the party of weak woke men and baby-butchering shrill women, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former Louisiana State hoopers Joe Adcock and Alvin Dark delivered significant MLB performances on this date. Elsewhere in National League games, lefthanded ex-college cagers Danny Coombs (Seton Hall) and Eric Stults (Bethel IN) hurled shutouts on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 9 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 9

  • Milwaukee Braves 1B Joe Adcock (Louisiana State's leading basketball scorer in 1945-46) clobbered two homers against the Chicago Cubs in a 1961 game.

  • In his final game with the California Angels, DH Bruce Bochte (starting forward for Santa Clara's NCAA playoff team in 1969-70) collected four hits in a 5-3 win against the Kansas City Royals in 1977.

  • New York Giants 2B Andy Cohen (Alabama hoops letterman in 1924 and 1925) cracked a leadoff homer but they wound up losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-2, in 1929.

  • Houston Astros LHP Danny Coombs (Seton Hall's third-leading scorer and rebounder as sophomore in 1961-62) tossed his lone MLB shutout (two-hitter against Montreal Expos in 1970).

  • New York Giants SS Alvin Dark (hoops letterman for Louisiana State and Southwestern Louisiana in mid-1940s) amassed four hits and four RBI for the second time in a four-game span in 1951.

  • St. Louis Cardinals CF Taylor Douthit (California hoops letterman from 1922 through 1924) stroked four hits against the Boston Braves in a 1930 contest.

  • Hall of Fame C Rick Ferrell (Guilford NC hooper in mid-1920s) traded by the St. Louis Browns to the Boston Red Sox in 1933.

  • Pittsburgh Pirates 3B Lee Handley (Bradley hoops letterman from 1932-33 through 1934-35) banged out four hits against the Boston Braves in a 1938 outing.

  • Cleveland Indians 1B Mike Hargrove (Northwestern Oklahoma State hoops letterman) supplied five RBI against the Oakland Athletics in a 1982 game.

  • Atlanta Braves RF David Justice (Thomas More KY assists leader in 1984-85 while averaging 9.3 ppg and 3.5 rpg) collected two homers and five RBI against the Colorado Rockies in a 1993 contest.

  • St. Louis Cardinals CF Lynn King (All-Missouri Valley Conference second-team hoops selection with Drake from 1928-29 through 1930-31) collected a career-high three hits against the Chicago Cubs in 1936.

  • OF Wally Moon (averaged 4.3 ppg with Texas A&M in 1948-49 and 1949-50) reached base in his first six pinch-hit appearances for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1965.

  • C Cal Neeman (Illinois Wesleyan's leading scorer in 1947-48 and 1948-49) purchased from the Philadelphia Phillies by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1962.

  • Washington Senators RF Carl Reynolds (Southwestern TX hoops MVP and captain in mid-1920s) registered multiple safeties in his sixth successive contest and 11th time in 13-game span in 1932.

  • INF-OF Mel Roach (averaged 9.3 ppg in 1952-53 in Virginia's final season prior to helping form ACC) traded by the Milwaukee Braves to the Chicago Cubs for OF-INF Frank Thomas in 1961.

  • New York Giants RF Dave Robertson (one of two reserves on North Carolina State's first basketball team in 1911) delivered four hits and scored three runs in 1916 game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

  • In his first game outside of New York City, Brooklyn Dodgers 1B Jackie Robinson (highest scoring average in Pacific Coast Conference both of his seasons with UCLA in 1939-40 and 1940-41) collected two hits and scored two runs in a 6-5 loss at Philadelphia in 1947.

  • RHP Sonny Siebert (team-high 16.7 ppg for Missouri in 1957-58 as All-Big Eight Conference second-team selection) homered for the Cleveland Indians in the nightcap of a 1965 doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers LHP Eric Stults (hooper for 1999 NAIA D-II Tournament runner-up and 2000 NCCAA Tournament titlist with Bethel IN) fired a four-hit shutout against the San Francisco Giants in 2009.

  • Pittsburgh Pirates RHP Kent Tekulve (freshman hooper for Marietta OH in mid-1960s) won for the fourth time in first five relief appearances of the month in 1980.

  • New York Yankees CF Dave Winfield (starting forward for Minnesota's first NCAA playoff team in 1972) delivered three extra-base hits against the Cleveland Indians in a 1984 game.

  • Washington Senators 3B Eddie Yost (NYU freshman hooper in 1943-44 under coach Howard Cann) provided multiple hits in his fifth consecutive contest in 1950. Seven years later, he went 4-for-4 in a 1957 game against the Detroit Tigers.

The Way We Were: Hartford Heads to DIII After First DI Tournament in 2021

Hartford supporters, in the aftermath of the school's initial NCAA Tournament appearance in 2021, couldn't get Division I hoops out of their blood. They aspired to convince the school to reverse its decision to de-emphasize program to Division III in 2023-24 but were unsuccessful. The Hawks' premier player in history is Vin Baker, who ranked among the nation's top four scorers in back-to-back seasons (1991-92 and 1992-93).

Abilene Christian, Houston Baptist, New Orleans, Northern Colorado and Seattle returned to the DI ranks after stints competing at the small-college level. Which school might be next to return? Following is a trip down memory lane assessing historical tidbits on the impact of former major-college programs (listed alphabetically):

  • In 1944-45, Baldwin-Wallace (OH) handed NIT runner-up Bowling Green State its only regular-season loss to a collegiate opponent. Bowling Green State, which compiled the seventh-best record in the nation during the decade of the 1940s, also lost against Baldwin-Wallace four years later in a season the Falcons finished third in the NIT (extras/nit-summary). Baldwin-Wallace had two players finish among the national statistical leaders in the early 1950s - John Popp was fourth in free-throw shooting (83.1%) in 1949-50 and Dick Retherford was seventh in scoring (21.8 ppg) in 1951-52.

  • Baltimore's Terry Copeland led the ECAC Metro in free-throw percentage in 1982-83 (84.4%).

  • The only non-winning season for Birmingham-Southern (AL) in its six years at the NCAA Division I level was 2001-02 when it went 13-14. BSC tied for the Big South Conference regular-season title in its first season in the league in 2003-04 when the Panthers led the nation in three-point field-goal shooting (43%).

  • Brooklyn defeated Toledo to open the 1985-86 season the same year the Rockets beat Houston in coach Guy Lewis' 30th and final campaign with the Cougars. Brooklyn's Glen James finished sixth in the nation in assists with 7.5 apg in 1984-85 (higher than Wake Forest's Tyrone Bogues and North Carolina's Kenny Smith). The Kingsmen finished fourth in the country in field-goal shooting in 1990-91 (52%).

  • Case Western Reserve (OH) featured two All-Americans in a four-year span in the mid-1930s - Eddie Finnigan in 1933 and William Fleishman in 1936. In its final season at the major-college level, Dick Howard finished 16th in the nation in scoring (24.3 ppg in 1954-55).

  • Glenn Kolonics finished 15th in the nation in scoring with 23.5 ppg for Catholic (DC) in 1976-77 in its debut season at the major-college level. Catholic defeated NIT-bound Saint Joseph's in 1979-80, which was one season before St. Joe's upset top-ranked DePaul in the 1981 NCAA Tournament.

  • Centenary (LA) compiled an 87-21 record during center Robert Parish's four-year career from 1972-73 through 1975-76 when he averaged 21.6 ppg and 16.9 rpg while shooting 56.4% from the floor. Parish led the nation in rebounding his last two seasons after finishing among the top five his first two campaigns. The Gentlemen, after winning the 1990 TAAC regular-season title, paced the country in steals in 1992-93 with 14.1 per game. Centenary's Willie Jackson is the Trans America Athletic Conference's all-time leading scorer (2,535 points from 1981-84) and Ronnie McCollum led the nation in scoring in 2000-01 with 29.1 ppg.

  • The University of Chicago won four consecutive Western Conference (predecessor to Big Ten) championships from 1907 through 1910. The school had three all-league first-team selections in 1909.

  • City College of New York had three Jewish All-Americans - Moe Goldman (1934), Red Holzman (1942) and Irwin Dambrot (1950). In 1950, the Beavers became the only school to win the NCAA playoffs and NIT in the same year. CCNY's Lionel Malamed finished sixth in the nation in free-throw shooting in 1947-48 (83.3%) and Ed Roman ranked 22nd in scoring in 1950-51 (18.6 ppg).

  • Ron Warner of Gettysburg (PA) finished among the nation's top 15 scorers in back-to-back seasons (1960-61 and 1961-62). Gettysburg ranked third in the nation in team defense in 1963-64 (56.8 ppg) after finishing fifth in team offense in 1950-51 (73.8 ppg).

  • Grinnell (IA) posted only one losing record in Missouri Valley Conference competition in its last six years in the league from 1933-34 through 1938-39.

  • Six different Hamline (MN) products played in the NBA in the early 1950s when the league had far fewer franchises.

  • Hardin-Simmons (TX) averaged 18.5 victories annually from 1963-64 through 1966-67, finished runner-up to Purdue in team offense in 1968-69 with 91.9 ppg and had four straight non-losing records in Trans America Athletic Conference competition from 1984-85 through 1987-88. Hardin-Simmons had eight different players rank among the nation's top 10 in a variety of statistical categories - Eric Adams (9th in FT% in 1986-87), Lee Dixon (6th in scoring in 1975-76), Tommy French (8th in FG% in 1989-90), Cliff Harris (9th in rebounding in 1970-71), Buddy Matthews (7th in FT% in 1950-51), Bill Preston (10th in FG% in 1951-52), Ronnie Ryan (6th in FT% in 1954-55) and Ray Williams (10th in FG% in 1970-71). Nate Madkins scored a school-record 52 points against West Texas State in 1963-64.

  • Center George Dalton of John Carroll (OH) ranked among the nation's major-college scoring leaders four straight seasons in 1952 (20th), 1953 (8th), 1954 (14th) and 1955 (21st).

  • Norm Hankins of Lawrence Tech (MI) led the nation in scoring with 22.5 ppg in 1947-48.

  • In 1973-74, Los Angeles State finished in second place in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association standings behind Lute Olson-coached Long Beach State (24-2 record). The previous year, Los Angeles State's Raymond Lewis established the PCAA single-season standard for scoring average (32.9 ppg as a sophomore before leaving early for the NBA draft as a hardship case).

  • Loyola (LA) participated in back-to-back NCAA playoffs in 1957 and 1958 when the tourney field was comprised of no more than 24 entrants. In 1970-71, the school finished fourth in the nation in field-goal shooting (50.9%) and fifth in scoring (92.1 ppg). In Loyola's final season at the major-college level, Charles Jones finished sixth in the nation in rebounding in 1971-72 with 15.8 rpg (ahead of UCLA's Bill Walton). Loyola's Charley Powell finished seventh in the country in free-throw shooting in 1968-69 (87.6%) after ranking 13th in scoring the previous year (26 ppg). Loyola had three of the nation's top 25 field-goal shooters in 1952-53

  • Muhlenberg (PA), in the midst of 21 consecutive seasons with double digits in wins from 1939 through 1959, led major colleges in field-goal percentage in 1948-49 after finishing national runner-up the previous year. Muhlenberg had three different players rank among the nation's top three in field-goal shooting - Daniel Mackin (2nd in 1947-48), Denny Roth (3rd in 1956-57) and Mel Kessler (3rd in 1958-59). The Mules appeared in the NIT three consecutive years from 1944 through 1946.

  • NYU participated in national postseason competition seven times in an eight-year span from 1959 through 1966. The Violets had three different All-Americans in an eight-year span in the 1960s - Tom "Satch" Sanders (1960), Barry Kramer (1963 and 1964) and Mal Graham (1967).

  • Northeastern Illinois led the nation in steals per game with 12.8 in 1991-92 when one of its players (Victor Snipes) paced the country in that category with 3.4 spg.

  • Oklahoma City ranked among the nation's top five in team defense four consecutive years from 1951 through 1954 and appeared in six straight NCAA Tournaments from 1952 through 1957. On the other end of the court, OCU led the nation in scoring in 1966-67 before ranking fourth the next year and third in 1980-81. OCU's Ernie Hill holds the Trans America Athletic Conference's single-season record for scoring average (26.6 points per game as a junior in 1978-79). OCU's Arnold Short led the nation in free-throw shooting in 1951-52 (86.1%). Short (1953 and 1954), Hub Reed (1957 and 1958), Bud Koper (1963 and 1964) and Rich Travis (1968 and 1969) are OCU players who ranked among the nation's top 20 scorers in back-to-back years. Hill (1979) was among the following OCU players who each ranked once among the country's top 13 scorers: Jerry Lee Wells (1966), Gary Gray (1967), Ozie Edwards (1973), Marvin Rich (1973) and Rubin Jackson (1981).

  • Regis (CO) finished fifth in the nation in rebounding in 1962-63.

  • Scranton (PA) hired Buck Freeman as coach just before the start of the 1937-38 campaign after he won more than 85% of his games with St. John's in nine seasons from 1927-28 through 1935-36.

  • Sewanee (TN), also known as the University of the South, competed against Alabama (1933) and Louisiana State (1939) in the SEC Tournament after defeating defending champion North Carolina State in the first round of the 1930 Southern Conference Tournament.

  • Felix Thruston of Trinity (TX) finished 18th in the nation in scoring in 1970-71 with a Southland Conference-leading 25 ppg.

  • U.S. International (CA) led NCAA Division I in points per game in 1985-86 with 90.8. USIU's Kevin Bradshaw paced the nation in scoring in 1990-91 with 37.6 ppg.

  • Keith Walker of Utica (NY) led the nation in field-goal shooting in 1984-85 (71.3%).

  • Washburn (KS) finished ahead of eventual NIT champions Saint Louis and/or Tulsa in the Missouri Valley Conference standings five times in a seven-year span from 1935 through 1941.

  • Washington (MO) won three consecutive Missouri Valley Conference championships from 1928 through 1930. The Bears finished fourth in the nation in team defense in 1949-50 (46.3 ppg).

  • Washington & Lee (VA) captured back-to-back Southern Conference regular-season titles in 1936 and 1937 ahead of eventual ACC members Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, Virginia and Virginia Tech. Washington & Lee opposed North Carolina or Duke in four straight southern Conference Tournament finals. Washington & Lee's Jay Handlan led the nation in free-throw shooting in 1950-51 (86%) when he was runner-up in scoring (26.2 ppg). Handlan finished 11th in scoring the next year. Washington & Lee had at least one all-league selection all but one season (1952-53) in an eight-year span from 1950-51 through 1957-58.

  • West Chester State's Joe Senser led the nation in field-goal shooting in 1976-77 and 1977-78, finishing his career at 66.2%.

  • West Texas State finished among the top three in the Missouri Valley Conference standings three times in a five-year span from 1975-76 through 1979-80. West Texas State's Jim Scott led the nation in free-throw shooting in 1954-55 (89.5%) and Steve Davidson finished third in rebounding in 1971-72 (17.5 rpg ahead of Providence's Marvin Barnes and UCLA's Bill Walton). WTSU paced the country in free-throw shooting in 1966-67; ranked among the top three in field-goal shooting in 1963-64 and 1976-77; finished runner-up in rebounding average in back-to-back seasons (1970-71 and 1971-72), and placed runner-up in scoring in 1980-81 (85.5 ppg).

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 8

Extra! Extra! Rather than deriding bloodthirsty abortion advocates encircling homes of Conservative Supreme Court justices, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements and moments involving former college basketball players. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Nonetheless, numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games, transactions and dates in MLB history.

Former Duke basketball All-Americans Dick Groat and Billy Werber supplied significant performances as MLB infielders on this date. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 8 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 8

  • Jerry Adair (one of Oklahoma State's three leading basketball scorers in 1956-57 and 1957-58 under coach Hank Iba while ranking among the nation's top 12 free-throw shooters each season) committed an eighth-inning miscue for the Baltimore Orioles against the Detroit Tigers in 1965, ending his MLB-record streaks for consecutive errorless games by a 2B (89) and consecutive chances handled without an error (458).

  • San Diego Padres RHP Mike Adams (Texas A&M-Kingsville hooper in 1996-97) notched his fourth hold in nine days but was scored upon for the first time in last 16 relief appearances in 2011.

  • Philadelphia Phillies CF Ethan Allen (Cincinnati hoops letterman in 1924-25 and 1925-26) supplied five RBI in a 13-6 triumph against the Chicago Cubs in 1934.

  • Brooklyn Dodgers C Ferrell Anderson (Kansas hoops letterman in 1936-37 and 1937-38) furnished four hits in an 8-5 win against the Cincinnati Reds in 1946.

  • Washington Senators 1B Zeke Bonura (best basketball forward for Loyola LA in late 1920s and early 1930s) banged out three hits for third time in four-game span in 1938.

  • LF Bob Cerv (ranked fourth on Nebraska's career scoring list in 1949-50 at conclusion of career) acquired from the Los Angeles Angels by the New York Yankees in 1961 for his third tour of duty in pinstripes.

  • Philadelphia Athletics C Mickey Cochrane (five-sport athlete with Boston University) collected three doubles against the Cleveland Indians in a 1932 game.

  • Cincinnati Reds 1B George Crowe (four-year letterman from 1939-40 through 1942-43 for Indiana Central after becoming first high school player named state's Mr. Basketball) clobbered two homers in a 7-6 victory against the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1957.

  • In 1948, Cleveland Indians RF Larry Doby (reserve guard for Virginia Union's 1943 CIAA titlist) whacked the longest home run at Washington's Griffith Stadium since Babe Ruth in 1922.

  • St. Louis Cardinals CF Taylor Douthit (California hoops letterman from 1922 through 1924) contributed four hits against the Boston Braves in the first of six straight outings with multiple safeties in 1929.

  • Pittsburgh Pirates SS Dick Groat (two-time All-American with Duke in 1950-51 and 1951-52 when finishing among nation's top five scorers each season) provided three hits in each game of a 1955 doubleheader split against the New York Giants.

  • After dismal debut in 1976, California Angels rookie RHP Paul Hartzell (averaged 5.9 ppg and 3.4 rpg for Lehigh in 1972-73) yielded only one earned run in seven-game span covering 23 1/3 innings.

  • Philadelphia Phillies 1B Harvey Hendrick (Vanderbilt hoops letterman in 1918) went 4-for-4 against the Chicago Cubs in a 1934 contest.

  • RHP Jay Hook (Northwestern's third-leading scorer with 10.7 ppg as a sophomore in 1955-56) traded by the New York Mets to the Milwaukee Braves in 1964.

  • Atlanta Braves 2B Davey Johnson (averaged 1.7 ppg for Texas A&M in 1961-62) delivered two homers and five RBI against the New York Mets in a 1973 outing.

  • LF "Sweet" Lou Johnson (Kentucky State hoops teammate of legendary HBCU coach Davey Whitney averaged 5.7 ppg and 2 rpg in 1951-52) traded by the Milwaukee Braves with cash to the Detroit Tigers in 1963.

  • Chicago White Sox RHP Bob Keegan (Bucknell hoops letterman in 1941-42 and 1942-43) yielded three homers to Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame OF Ted Williams in a 4-1 defeat in 1957.

  • Detroit Tigers SS Harvey Kuenn (played briefly for Wisconsin in 1951-52 after competing on JV hoops squad previous season) registered his second four-hit outing in a six-game span in 1956.

  • Chicago Cubs 3B Vance Law (averaged 6.8 ppg for Brigham Young from 1974-75 through 1976-77) went 3-for-3 with six RBI against the San Francisco Giants in a 1988 game.

  • Pittsburgh Pirates SS Johnny Logan (Binghamton hooper in 1948-49) hit safely as a pinch-hitter for the third straight time in 1963.

  • Chicago Cubs CF Jerry Martin (1971 Southern Conference MVP after he was Furman's runner-up in scoring previous season) stroked four hits against the Cincinnati Reds in a 1979 contest.

  • Baltimore Orioles RHP Ben McDonald (started six times as freshman forward for Louisiana State in 1986-87 under coach Dale Brown) won his first seven starts in 1994.

  • New York Giants LF Red Murray (played hoops for Lock Haven PA in early 1900s) stole three bases in a 1911 game against the Boston Rustlers.

  • Philadelphia Phillies RF Bill Nicholson (Washington College MD hoops guard for two years in mid-1930s) provided five RBI against the Cincinnati Reds in the nightcap of a 1949 twinbill.

  • Boston Red Sox 2B Marv Olson (All-Iowa Conference hoops selection in 1929-30 with Luther IA) manufactured four hits in a 7-5 win against the St. Louis Browns in 1932.

  • Brooklyn Dodgers C-OF Don Padgett (freshman in 1934 excelled in multiple sports for Lenoir-Rhyne NC) smacked a decisive three-run pinch homer in an 8-5 triumph against the Cincinnati Reds in 1946.

  • Philadelphia Athletics 3B Billy Werber (first Duke hoops All-American in 1929-30) supplied five RBI in a 7-6 victory against the Detroit Tigers in 1938.

  • New York Giants rookie 1B Babe Young (Fordham hoops letterman in 1935-36) collected four hits and four RBI against the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 1940 game.

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 7

Extra! Extra! Rather than cursing Plagiarist Biledumb for his porous border as cartel corrupt as hideous Hunter, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements, moments and transactions involving former college basketball players. Numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games and dates in MLB history.

Three former hoopers from PA universities - Cal Emery (Penn State), Red Murray (Lock Haven) and Jack Ogden (Swarthmore) - generated MLB news on this date. Two former Michigan small-college hoopers - Freddy Spurgeon (Kalamazoo) and Matt Thornton (Grand Valley State) - manufactured significant MLB performances on this date, joining ex-University of Michigan hooper Leon Roberts. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 7 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 7

  • Baltimore Orioles DH Al Bumbry (Virginia State's runner-up in basketball scoring with 16.7 ppg as freshman in 1964-65) provided four hits for the second time in a four-game span in 1975.

  • Minnesota Twins 3B John Castino (medical redshirt for Rollins FL in 1973-74 under coach Ed Jucker) hit safely in all eight games of his final MLB season in 1984 before retiring because of chronic spine issues.

  • 1B Cal Emery (scored four points in three Penn State basketball games in 1957-58) purchased from the California Angels by Arkansas (Pacific Coast) in 1965.

  • INF-OF Harvey Hendrick (Vanderbilt hoops letterman in 1918) traded by the Brooklyn Robins to the Cincinnati Reds in 1931.

  • Boston Red Sox LHP Bill Henry (hoops letterman for Houston's 1947 NAIA Tournament team featuring co-captain Guy Lewis) won his first four MLB starts, hurling complete games in last three of outings. Henry hit safely in all four contests.

  • LF David Justice (Thomas More KY assists leader in 1984-85 while averaging 9.3 ppg and 3.5 rpg) jacked two homers while going 4-for-4 to help the Cleveland Indians erase a 9-1 deficit and defeat the Tampa Devil Rays, 20-11, in 1999. The next year, Justice provided three extra-base hits and five RBI against the Toronto Blue Jays in a 2000 contest.

  • In 1946, Philadelphia Athletics 1B Bruce Konopka (Southern California hoops letterman in 1940-41) collected his third extra-base pinch-hit the first week of the month.

  • Detroit Tigers SS Harvey Kuenn (played briefly for Wisconsin in 1951-52 after competing on JV hoops squad previous season) contributed four hits against the Chicago White Sox in a 1955 outing.

  • Boston Braves LF Les Mann (Springfield MA hooper in 1913 and 1914) notched multiple-hit games in his first five outings of the month in 1920.

  • 1B Ed Morgan (Tulane hoops letterman from 1923-24 through 1925-26) hit safely in first 14 starts of the 1934 campaign with the Boston Red Sox before he was blanked by the Detroit Tigers.

  • New York Giants RF Red Murray (played hoops for Lock Haven PA in early 1900s) banged out four hits in a 1910 game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

  • RHP Jack Ogden (Swarthmore PA hooper in 1918) traded by the Cincinnati Reds with Leo Durocher to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1933.

  • Seattle Mariners RF Leon Roberts (grabbed one rebound in four basketball games for Michigan in 1970-71 under coach Johnny Orr) collected six RBI in 9-7 win against the Toronto Blue Jays in 1978. The next year, Roberts contributed three extra-base hits in a 12-4 victory against the New York Yankees in 1979.

  • Brooklyn Dodgers 2B Jackie Robinson (highest scoring average in Pacific Coast Conference both of his seasons with UCLA in 1939-40 and 1940-41) amassed multiple-hit outings in 13 of first 19 games in 1951.

  • RHP Hal Schumacher (St. Lawrence NY hooper) combined with New York Giants teammate Carl Hubbell to toss back-to-back shutouts in a 1932 doubleheader against the Cincinnati Reds.

  • Cleveland Indians rookie 3B Freddy Spurgeon (Kalamazoo MI hooper in 1921-22) went 4-for-4 against the Chicago White Sox in a 1925 game.

  • Chicago White Sox LHP Matt Thornton (averaged 5.8 ppg and 2.4 rpg for Grand Valley State MI from 1995-96 through 1997-98) fanned five Toronto Blue Jays in two innings as he went unscored upon in 10 relief appearances during the month in 2010.

  • 1B-OF Preston Ward (second-leading hoops scorer for Southwest Missouri State in 1946-47 and 1948-49) tripled after three teammates walked to spur the Brooklyn Dodgers to a 9-5 victory at Chicago in 1948.

  • New York Giants 1B Bill White (two-year hooper with Hiram OH in early 1950s) homered in his first MLB at-bat in 1956 (against St. Louis Cardinals).

On This Date: Former College Hoopers Providing MLB Headlines on May 6

Extra! Extra! Rather than listening to #MessMedia coverage of King Charles coronation with royalty has-been Harry sitting a few rows back or Senate Majority Moron Schmucky Schumer threaten Supreme Court justices again, you can read news about memorable major league baseball achievements, moments and transactions involving former college basketball players. Numerous ex-college hoopers had front-row seats to many of the most notable games and dates in MLB history.

Former college hoopers Mike Hargrove (Northwestern Oklahoma State) and Graig Nettles (San Diego State) each delivered three doubles as lefthanded hitters for the Cleveland Indians in a MLB game on this date. Ex-NYU hoopers Hank Greenberg and Eddie Yost provided outstanding offensive outputs in the American League on this date. Baseball is portrayed as a thinking man's game but only 4% of active MLB players earned college diplomas. Unless you habitually pore over the content at baseballlibrary.com, baseballreference.com and nationalpastime.com, following is a May 6 calendar focusing on such versatile MLB athletes:

MAY 6

  • Hall of Fame C Mickey Cochrane (Boston University basketball player in early 1920s) clobbered his first MLB homer with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1925.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers LHP Al Downing (attended Muhlenberg PA on hoops scholarship but left before ever playing) tossed a two-hit shutout against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1973.

  • Boston Red Sox rookie RHP Boo Ferriss (Mississippi State hoops letterman in 1941) hurled his second straight shutout in 1945, whitewashing the New York Yankees, 5-0.

  • New York Giants 2B Frankie Frisch (Fordham hoops captain) furnished four hits against the Philadelphia Phillies in a 1924 game.

  • RF Jim Gleeson (NAIA Hall of Famer was all-league hoops pick for Rockhurst MO in early 1930s) traded by the Cincinnati Reds to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1942.

  • Detroit Tigers LF Hank Greenberg (enrolled at NYU on hoop scholarship in 1929 but attended college only one semester) contributed three extra-base hits in a 6-4 victory against the New York Yankees in 1940. Safeties came on seventh anniversary of his first MLB homer in 1933. Tigers C Billy Sullivan Jr. (Portland hoops letterman in 1927-28) chipped in with a two-run, pinch-hit homer to knot the score with two outs in top of eighth inning.

  • Cleveland Indians 1B Mike Hargrove (Northwestern Oklahoma State hoops letterman) collected three doubles against the Chicago White Sox in a 1983 outing.

  • In 1970, Washington Senators LF Frank Howard (two-time All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection when leading Ohio State in scoring and rebounding in 1956-57 and 1957-58) launched his milestone 300th of 382 MLB career homers.

  • Milwaukee Braves SS Johnny Logan (Binghamton hooper in 1948-49) supplied at least three hits for the third consecutive contest in 1959.

  • In 1968, San Francisco Giants RHP Lindy McDaniel (Oklahoma's 1954-55 freshman squad) established a N.L. record with his 225th consecutive errorless game.

  • New York Yankees LF Bud Metheny (William & Mary hoops letterman from 1935-36 through 1937-38) stroked four hits in a 4-3 win against the Boston Red Sox in 1944.

  • In 1967, 1B Cotton Nash (three-time All-American averaged 22.7 ppg and 12.3 rpg for Kentucky from 1961-62 through 1963-64) traded by the California Angels with cash to the Chicago White Sox for 1B Bill "Moose" Skowron (scored 18 points in eight games for Purdue in 1949-50).

  • Cleveland Indians 3B Graig Nettles (shot 87.8% from free-throw line for San Diego State in 1963-64) stroked three doubles against the Chicago White Sox in a 1972 game.

  • A two-out, seventh-inning single by CF Jim Northrup (second-leading scorer and third-leading rebounder for Alma MI in 1958-59) was the Detroit Tigers' lone safety when they were blanked, 4-0, by Dave Leonard of the Baltimore Orioles in 1968.

  • Chicago White Sox rookie LHP Gary Peters (Grove City PA hooper in mid-1950s) won his first MLB start in 1963, limiting the Kansas City Athletics to four hits and one run over eight innings.

  • Oakland Athletics 3B Tony Phillips (New Mexico Military juco hooper in 1977-78 as teammate of eventual Drake All-American Lewis Lloyd) banged out four hits, scored three runs and chipped in with three RBI in a 1986 game against the Toronto Blue Jays.

  • LF Rip Repulski (started handful of hoops games for St. Cloud State MN) traded by the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Boston Red Sox in 1960.

  • Los Angeles Angels RHP Jack Spring (freshman hooper for Washington State in 1951-52) hurled 4 2/3 innings of hitless relief in posting victory against the Baltimore Orioles in 1962.

  • Cincinnati Reds 1B Champ Summers (led SIUE in scoring in 1969-70 after doing same with Nicholls State in 1964-65) went 4-for-4 and chipped in with five RBI against the Houston Astros in the opener of a 1979 doubleheader.

  • Boston Red Sox C Birdie Tebbetts (Providence hooper in 1932) blasted two homers against the Chicago White Sox in a 1950 game.

  • Cleveland Indians 1B Jim Thome (played junior-college hoops for Illinois Central in 1988-89) provided three extra-base hits (two doubles/one homer) and five RBI in a 1998 game against the Baltimore Orioles. Five years later with the Philadelphia Phillies, he hammered a pair of round-trippers in 2003 game against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

  • Philadelphia Phillies CF Cy Williams (Notre Dame forward in 1909-10) homered twice in a 5-4 win against the New York Giants in 1924.

  • Washington Senators 3B Eddie Yost (NYU freshman hooper in 1943-44 under coach Howard Cann) knocked in four runs in opener of a 1951 twinbill against the Cleveland Indians, igniting a career-long 16-game hitting streak.

English Coarse: Overseas Entertainment Linked More to Hoops Than King

Unless an American (Meghan Markle) stole the show by having another self-indulgent episode, it was difficult to understand why American news outlets focused so much on the pomp and circumstance of King Charles' coronation. It may be time to call a timeout to break away temporarily from overdosing on royalty. Compared to many European countries, England is more mediocre than hardwood haughty. The increasingly global NBA has showcased its talent across the pond for an extensive period but where were the Brits on NBA rosters? The nation's hoop monarch probably is Michael Olowokandi, a center from Pacific who was Big West Conference player of the year in 1998 before becoming first pick overall in NBA draft. Supplementing the obsessive focus on England's monarchy, following is an alphabetical list of prominent NCAA Division I players over the years from that nation:

English Native Pos. College Summary of NCAA Division I Playing Career
Amin Adamu G Montana State Averaged 12.4 ppg and 5 rpg from 2019-20 through 2021-22.
Ogo Adegboye G St. Bonaventure Averaged 8.4 ppg, 2.1 rpg and 2.9 apg in 2009-10 and 2010-11.
Daniel Akin F Maryland-Baltimore County/California Baptist/Utah State Averaged 5.3 ppg and 4.8 rpg while shooting 58.2% from the floor from 2017-18 through 2020-21 with UMBC before averaging 10.8 ppg and team-high 8.1 rpg with Cal Baptist in 2021-22 and 12 ppg and 6.8 rpg with USU in 2022-23.
Sam Alajiki F California Averaged 4.5 ppg and 2.7 rpg in 2021-22 and 2022-23.
Fahro Alihodzic F-C Fordham Averaged 4.5 ppg and 4 rpg as freshman in 2009-10.
David Aliu F Morehead State Averaged 4.2 ppg and 2.8 rpg from 2000-01 through 2003-04.
Ben Allison F Davidson Averaged 4.4 ppg and 3 rpg from 2008-09 to 2010-11.
John Amaechi C Penn State Vanderbilt transfer averaged 15.6 ppg and 8.9 rpg in three years with PSU from 1992-93 through 1994-95. All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection as senior after earning third-team status the previous two seasons.
Michael Anumba G Winthrop Averaged 6.9 ppg and 3.9 rpg from 2018-19 to 2022-23.
Olu Babaloa F Clemson Averaged 7.6 ppg and 3.7 rpg as sophomore in 2002-03, 9 ppg and 4.6 rpg as junior in 2003-04 and 6.8 ppg and 3.7 rpg as senior in 2004-05.
Tariq Balogun F Eastern Kentucky/Binghamton Averaged 3.2 ppg and 2 rpg from 2019-20 through 2021-22 with EKU before averaging 6.6 ppg and 2.8 rpg with BU in 2022-23.
Alan Bannister C Oklahoma State/Arkansas State Led the Big Eight Conference in blocked shots per league game with OSU in 1985-86 before transferring to Arkansas State.
Jubrile Belo F Montana State Averaged 13.1 ppg and 6.3 rpg while shooting 59.6% from the floor from 2019-20 through 2022-23.
Mike Bernard C South Florida J.C. recruit averaged 4 ppg and 1.8 rpg in 2000-01 and 2001-02.
Andrew Betts C Long Beach State C.W. Post transfer erupted for 31 points and nine rebounds in an 81-71 upset win over USC in just his second-ever Division I game. He finished his only season with the 49ers in 1997-98 with team-high averages of 18.7 ppg and 10.1 rpg as All-Big West Conference first-team selection.
Kavell Bigby-Williams F-C Oregon/LSU J.C. recruit averaged 5.4 ppg, 4.7 rpg and 1.3 bpg for two different NCAA playoff participants in 2017 and 2019.
Eric Boateng C Arizona State Duke transfer averaged 3.9 ppg and 2.6 rpg with team-high 61.5% field-goal shooting as sophomore in 2007-08 before his averages fell to 1.8 ppg and 2 rpg as junior in 2008-09. Rebounded with 8.8 ppg and team highs of 7.2 rpg, 26 blocked shots and 66.5% field-goal shooting as senior in 2009-10.
Matthew Bryan-Amaning F Washington Averaged 4.2 ppg and 3.2 rpg with team-high 18 blocked shots as freshman in 2007-08, 6 ppg and 4 rpg as sophomore in 2008-09 and 8.8 ppg, 5.9 rpg with team highs of 1.5 bpg and 54% field-goal shooting as junior in 2009-10.
Steve Bucknall G North Carolina Averaged 13.1 ppg as senior in 1988-89 when he was All-ACC second-team selection, finishing his four-year career with 7.5 ppg, 3 rpg and 2.9 apg.
Mantia Callender C Middle Tennessee State J.C. recruit averaged 4.7 ppg and 4.7 rpg in 1996-97 and 1997-98. He had team-high 1.5 bpg as senior.
Danny Carter F-C Stony Brook Averaged 3.4 ppg and 2.4 rpg from 2008-09 to 2010-11.
Silas Cheung G Mount St. Mary's One of the top 10 three-point shooters in school history averaged 9.4 ppg as junior in 1995-96 after averaging 6.1 ppg as sophomore.
Martin Clark F Boston College Selected to the Big East Conference's All-Freshman Team in 1980-81. He led the Eagles in rebounding his freshman and sophomore seasons.
Jason Crump C-F Towson State Bowling Green transfer averaged 9 ppg and 6 rpg for Towson as senior in 1994-95.
Robert Dalley C The Citadel Averaged 8.5 ppg and 6.5 rpg for the Bulldogs in 1989-90 and 11 ppg and 5.6 rpg in 1991-92. Missed 1990-91 season because of broken leg.
Luol Deng F Duke Born in Sudan, he averaged 15.1 ppg and 6.9 rpg as All-ACC third-team selection in 2003-04.
Spencer Dunkley C Delaware Finished fifth in the nation with 3.2 bpg in 1992-93 when becoming an All-North Atlantic Conference first-team selection by leading the league in rebounding (12.2 rpg). Paced the Blue Hens in scoring as senior (19.2 ppg) and led them in rebounding three consecutive seasons.
Shaun Durant C Lipscomb Averaged 7.5 ppg and 6.5 rpg in 2004-05 and 2005-06. He led the Bison with 7.2 rpg in 2005-06.
Ben Eaves F Rhode Island UConn transfer averaged 3.4 ppg with URI as sophomore in 2008-09, 3.1 ppg as junior in 2009-10 and 3.5 ppg and 3.1 rpg as senior in 2010-11.
AJ Edu F Toledo Averaged 3.6 ppg, 3.9 rpg and 1.7 bpg in 2018-19.
Tosan Evbuomwan F Princeton Averaged 12 ppg, 5.1 rpg and 3.7 apg from 2019-20 through 2022-23.
R.J. Eytle-Rock G Maryland-Baltimore County/Utah State Averaged 9.5 ppg, 3.8 rpg and 2.5 apg for UMBC from 2018-19 through 2020-21 before averaging 5.4 ppg and 1.6 rpg with USU in 2021-22 and 2022-23.
Ekechi Ezugwu C-F Eastern Michigan Averaged 7.7 ppg and 6.1 rpg as senior starter for EMU's NCAA playoff team in 1998.
Oladapo Fagbenle C Campbell Led team with 30 blocked shots as freshman in 2005-06 and 24 in 2007-08.
Neil Fingleton C Holy Cross Redshirt with North Carolina in 2000-01 before transferring. Averaged 2.9 ppg with the Crusaders in 2002-03.
Tom Frederick F Morgan State Averaged 3.5 ppg and 2.2 rpg in 1999-00 and 2000-01.
Caleb Fuller G UC Davis/Montana State Averaged 7.8 ppg and 3.1 rpg with UCD from 2018-19 through 2021-22 before averaging 6.6 rpg and 3.3 rpg for MSU's NCAA tourney team in 2022-23.
Nick George F Virginia Commonwealth CAA Rookie of the Year in 2002-03 when averaging 8.7 ppg and 6.7 rpg. Contributed 9.2 ppg and 5.9 rpg the next season before becoming an all-league first-team choice in 2004-05 (team highs of 16.8 ppg and 5.8 rpg) and 2005-06 (team-high 16.9 ppg and 5.1 rpg).
Paul Guede G-F Portland Averaged 4.5 ppg and 3.3 rpg from 2008-09 to 2010-11.
Ashley Hamilton F Loyola Marymount Averaged 8.3 ppg and 4.6 rpg in 2008-09 and 2009-10.
Martin Henlan C Virginia Commonwealth Led the Rams in rebounding in 1988-89 (9 rpg) and 1989-90 (7.7 rpg).
Kayne Henry G-F Jacksonville State Averaged 9.4 ppg and 5.9 rpg from 2019-20 through 2021-22.
Delme Herriman F Wright State Averaged 9.9 ppg and 5.4 rpg in 1994-95 and 9.3 ppg and 6.1 rpg in 1995-96.
Cameron Hildreth G Wake Forest Averaged 8.2 ppg, 4.1 rpg and 2 apg in 2021-22 and 2022-23.
Boban Jacdonmi F Southern Mississippi Averaged 4.4 ppg and 2.9 rpg in 2018-19 and 2019-20.
Shaun James F Canisius J.C. recruit averaged 3.1 ppg and 3.6 rpg in 2006-07 and 2007-08.
Gedi Juozapaitis G Georgia Southern/Maine Flagler (Fla.) transfer averaged 7.7 ppg for GSU in 2020-21 and 2021-22 before averaging team-high 15.4 ppg with Maine in 2022-23.
Jonathan Komagum F Sacramento State Williston State ND and Toledo transfer averaged 5.9 ppg, 6.8 rpg and 1.5 bpg in 2021-22.
Dazflo Larkai F La Salle Averaged 4.4 ppg and 4 rpg as freshman in 2002-03 and started eight games as sophomore in 2003-04.
Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye G-F Bradley Averaged 8.1 ppg, 4.3 rpg and 2.4 apg from 2015-16 through 2018-19.
Andrew Lawrence G College of Charleston Averaged 9.1 ppg, 2.2 rpg, 2.9 apg and 1.2 spg from 2009-10 through 2012-13. All-Southern Conference second-team selection each of his last two seasons.
Josh McSwiggan F Portland Averaged 10 ppg and 3.7 rpg in 2017-18 and 2018-19.
Matt Meakin C Mount St. Mary's Averaged 2.9 ppg and 3.2 rpg from 1991-92 through 1994-95. Member of school's first NCAA Division I team as senior.
Kojo Mensah-Bonsu F Washington State J.C. recruit averaged 9.2 ppg and 4.5 rpg with team-high 51.5% shooting from the floor as junior in 1997-98 before averaging 13.1 ppg and team-high 6 rpg in 1998-99.
Pops Mensah-Bonsu F George Washington Averaged 10.1 ppg and 5.7 rpg while shooting team-high 58.5% from the floor as a freshman in 2002-03 and 11.6 ppg, 5.4 rpg and team-high 61.6% field-goal shooting as a sophomore in 2003-04. Became an All-Atlantic 10 Conference second-team selection as junior in 2004-05 when he averaged 12.6 ppg and 6.6 while shooting team-high 57.1% from the floor and first-team choice as senior in 2005-06 with 12.6 ppg and 6.7 rpg plus team highs of 1.7 bpg and 56.4 FG%.
Aaron Menzies C Seattle/Saint Mary's Averaged 8.7 ppg, 6.8 rpg and 1.4 bpg with Seattle from 2015-16 through 2017-18 before averaging 2.5 ppg and 1.7 rpg with the Gaels in 2019-20.
Alan Metcalfe F Vanderbilt Averaged 3.2 ppg and 1.8 rpg from 2004-05 through 2007-08.
Richard Midgley G California Averaged 10.2 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 2.5 apg and 1 spg from 2002-03 through 2005-06.
Will Ohuaregbe F UNC Wilmington Averaged 4 ppg and 4.8 rpg as freshman in 2009-10.
Mate Okros F Drexel Averaged 5.6 ppg and 3.3 rpg from 2019-20 through 2022-23.
Michael Olowokandi C Pacific Averaged 10.9 ppg and 6.6 rpg with 57% field-goal shooting in 1996-97 before becoming Big West Conference player of the year the next season as senior when posting team highs of 22.2 ppg, 11.2 rpg, 2.8 bpg and 60.8% from the floor. First pick overall in 1998 NBA draft.
Ugonna Onyekwe F Penn Averaged 14.9 ppg and 6.4 rpg while hitting 50.6% of his field-goal attempts from 1999-00 through 2002-03. Ivy League player of the year as junior (17.5 ppg, 6 rpg) and senior (16.5 ppg, 6.4 rpg). Led the Quakers in rebounding (7.5 rpg) as sophomore.
Great Osobor F Montana State Averaged 8 ppg and 4.4 rpg while shooting 64.5% from the floor in 2021-22 and 2022-23.
Chris Pearson F Davidson Averaged 7.8 ppg and team-high 6.8 rpg as sophomore in 2000-01. All-Southern Conference second-team selection the next year when averaging 11.7 ppg and 8.4 rpg, finishing his career with 7.7 ppg, 6.1 rpg and 1.2 bpg.
Liam Potter C Sacred Heart Averaged 4.7 ppg and 3.9 rpg from 2005-06 through 2009-10. Shot team-high 65.9% from the floor as sophomore in 2006-07 and paced the Pioneers in rebounding (8.3 rpg) and blocks (2 bpg) as senior. Named Most Improved Player in the Northeast Conference in 2009-10 after redshirting the previous season.
Ethan Price F Eastern Washington Big Sky Conference Freshman of the Year averaged 9.7 ppg, 4.6 rpg and 1.8 apg in 2021-22 and 2022-23.
Marc Pratt F Towson Averaged 3.7 ppg and 2.2 rpg in 2005-06 and 2006-07.
Robert Reed F-C Rider Averaged 4.5 ppg and 4.4 rpg from 1999-00 through 2002-03. Posted career-high 7.8 ppg and team-high 6.8 rpg as senior.
Justin Robinson G Rider Averaged 11.2 ppg, 2.9 rpg and 3 apg from 2007-08 to 2010-11. Led the Broncs with 2.8 apg, 1.5 spg, 64 three-pointers and 88.3% free-throw shooting as junior.
Sam Robson C UC Santa Barbara UNC Charlotte transfer was senior starter in 1991-92 when averaging 4.2 ppg and 3.2 rpg.
Jeremy Sochan F Baylor Averaged 9.2 ppg and 6.4 rpg as a freshman in 2021-22 before becoming ninth pick overall in NBA draft.
Ovie Soko F UAB/Duquesne Averaged 6.4 ppg and 4.9 rpg with UAB from 2009-10 through 2011-12 before averaging 18.4 ppg and 8 rpg with Duquesne in 2013-14.
Andrew Sullivan F Villanova Averaged 3.9 ppg and 3.4 rpg from 1999-00 through 2002-03.
Chris Timms C Denver J.C. recruit averaged 2.6 ppg and shot team-high 59.1% from the floor in 2006-07.
Zion Tordoff F Marist/Houston Baptist Averaged 3 ppg and 2.4 rpg with Marist in 2019-20 and 7 ppg and 4.3 rpg with HBU in 2021-22.
Josh Uduje G Coastal Carolina Averaged 9.9 ppg and 3.3 rpg in 2021-22 and 2022-23.
Shane Walker F Loyola (Md.) Played sparingly with Maryland in 2007-08 before transferring to Loyola (Md.), where he averaged 8.7 ppg with team highs of 6.6 rpg and 1.5 bpg as sophomore in 2009-10 before contributing 11 ppg, 7.6 rpg and 1.9 bpg as junior in 2010-11.
Shaquille Walters G-F Santa Clara/Northeastern Averaged 3.8 ppg for Santa Clara in 2017-18 before averaging 8.6 ppg and 4.3 rpg with Northeastern from 2018-19 through 2021-22.
Amari Williams F Drexel Averaged 9.5 ppg, 6.6 rpg and 1.8 bpg from 2020-21 through 2022-23.
Akwasi Yeboah F Stony Brook/Rutgers Averaged 13.9 ppg and 6 rpg with SBU from 2016-17 through 2018-19 before averaging 9.8 ppg and 4.8 rpg for the Scarlet Knights in 2019-20.

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