http://bhanks.encblogs.com Sanitized for your protection Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:33:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en That's right -- I've procured THREE more tickets to tomorrow's ECU-UAB game; if you'd like them, I'll draw for them at 4:45 p.m. (about an hour from now). You can either come by the paper by 5:30 p.m. or if you're going to the Kinston-East Duplin game, I'll bring the ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3828 Make your own picks by going here... Prep playoffs Kinston 23, East Duplin 21 Pender 48, Ayden-Grifton 8 Jones Senior 24, Weldon 20 Southern Pines Pinecrest 34, Fuquay-Varina 31 Lumberton 28, Wilmington Hoggard 27 College East Carolina  Boston College Penn State Mississippi Purdue NFL Detroit Baltimore N.Y. Giants San Diego Philadelphia P.S.: I'll be giving live updates from Beulaville at my Twitter account, located at BCHanks. Feel free to ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3827 Welcome to today’s cheerleader of the day feature. Every day, we’ll celebrate our favorite sports seasons, teams and school spirit with tasteful views of those student cheerleaders or professional cheerleaders who represent their respective teams. Today, the nation's leading cheerleader expert, Darren Becton, presents us with these nuggets (OK, literally one of them is a ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3824 From ECU Director of Media Relations Tom McClellan (who, incidentally, is a hell of a guy): GODWIN EARNS CONTRACT EXTENSION THROUGH 2014 GREENVILLE, N.C. - East Carolina University has announced an extension of head baseball coach Billy Godwin's contract, which will secure his position through the 2014 season. The new agreement, approved ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3823 Getting a lot of buzz in my e-mail about tonight's big game, so here's your very own thread to talk about it. I'll kick it off: I've seen Kinston twice (vs. Southern Wayne, 48-16 win; vs. Greene Central, 33-7 win) and East Duplin twice (vs. North Lenoir, 70-13 win; vs. South ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3822 Congrats to Christie Rouse (RouseHouse) for winning two tickets to tomorrow's ECU-UAB football game at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium! Christie, you will need to come by The Free Press office by 5 p.m. today or be at the Kinston-East Duplin game tonight to pick up your tickets. There were 19 entrants for the ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3821 OPRAH ENDING SHOW, BEGINNING NETWORK Talk show giant Oprah Winfrey will end her show at the end of the 2011 season, her 25th on the air. She'll be focusing her attention on starting her own cable network, which ironically will be called the OWN -- Oprah Winfrey Network. My take: Say what ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3820 Several nuggets that don't need their own blog entry; call this a blog mishmash: Our good friend and self-declared goat fetishist Jon Dawson has a funny YouTube link up over at his blog; check it out by clicking here. Of course, it's a little PG-13, so if you're going to call ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3819 Welcome to today’s cheerleader of the day feature. Every day, we’ll celebrate our favorite sports seasons, teams and school spirit with tasteful views of those student cheerleaders or professional cheerleaders who represent their respective teams. With No. 4 North Carolina (how can they they be ranked THAT high?) taking on No. 15 Ohio State ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3816 DAD ARRESTED FOR KILLING SON FOR HAVING SEX WITH 3-YEAR-OLD In a story that seems like it comes straight out of the Old Testament, a Michigan father took his 15-year-old son to a vacant parking lot, made the teenager strip and shot him to death after the son told his mother ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3815 Yeppers, I have two UAB-East Carolina football tickets valued at $80 for the pair ... and they can be yours. Send me an e-mail to bhanks@freedomenc.com with ECU TICKETS in the subject line; include a daytime phone number that I can use to contact you if you win. I will ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3814 Thanks to our good friend and frequent contributor John Johnson for this nugget: the photographer who snapped the photo of Sarah Palin in her running shorts breached his contract with Runner's World when he sold this photo to Newsweek: (Sorry, just needed an excuse to run it again.) My take: Well, well; ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3811 Welcome to today’s cheerleader of the day feature. Every day, we’ll celebrate our favorite sports seasons, teams and school spirit with tasteful views of those student cheerleaders or professional cheerleaders who represent their respective teams. With the San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks facing off in a big NBA matchup tonight, our expert ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3809 OBAMA WON'T READ PALIN'S NEW BOOK; MIGHT NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION President Obama, while in Asia, told CNN he won't be reading Sarah Palin's new book (he doesn't have the time) and that he is not committed to running for re-election in 2012, among other topics. My take: I'm sure he won't ... http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3807 Prep playoffs Kinston at East Duplin Ayden-Grifton at Pender Jones Senior at Weldon Fuquay-Varina at Southern Pines Pinecrest Lumberton at Wilmington Hoggard College UAB at East Carolina  North Carolina at Boston College Penn State at Michigan State LSU at Mississippi Purdue at Indiana NFL Cleveland at Detroit Indianapolis at Baltimore Atlanta at N.Y. Giants San Diego at Denver Philadelphia at Chicago http://bhanks.encblogs.com/?p=3806