Early July Sports Notes
KU Hoops It would be nice to say a dizzying three months of roster flux at Kansas came to an end Tuesday when Ochai Agbaji and Remy Martin both announced they were pulling their names from the NBA draft list and would be playing as Jayhawks in the coming season. But given how crazy college hoops is at the moment,…
On Packed Weekends and Golf
Decent weekend in our house. I watched a lot of golf, thanks to the US Open being played on the West Coast. Which is always the best. The girls were even moderately interested since we stayed right off the course during our visit to San Diego two years ago. I watched some Euro championship soccer. I watched some F1. L…
Weekend Kid Sports Notes
The pace is winding down but still kid sports notes to share from the past few days. Track Yesterday was CYO track meet #3. This one was a little different: kids were free to make their own schedules. They picked a race, show up when it was called, and then scanned their wristband at the finish line to “register” themselves…
Mid-Week Kid Sports Notes
I mentioned that this would be a very busy kid sports week. That has proven to be true. As there were a couple big developments, I’m going to go ahead and get you caught up on what’s gone down the past two days. Tennis Monday M played her second tennis match. We never heard why, but they mixed up the…
Mother Nature’s Fury
It was some 24 hours we experienced from roughly 5:00 pm Tuesday to 5:00 pm Wednesday. On Tuesday we got hit by that freak, spring snowstorm that blew through the Midwest. Both C and L had kickball games scheduled, and both games were cancelled. C’s was actually cancelled on Monday night when their opponents all went into quarantine. With kickball…
Spring Sports, Pt. 1
We are about 10 days into the spring CYO sports schedules, which means we are at roughly the halfway point of those compact seasons. Here’s a quick look at how the family has done so far. Both C and L are two games into their kickball seasons, with a third game rained out for each team. L’s team is 2–0.…
Weekend Notes
As has become routine, a quick-ish rundown of what went down over the weekend. Halloween OK, not technically the weekend, but worth a few words about how the girls spent Halloween. M went to a friend’s house to hang out and watch movies. C, along with most of the girls in her grade, dressed as Dalmatians. They didn’t quite make…
Fall Sports: The Wind Down
We are one step closer to being done with fall sports. L played her final soccer game of the season on Saturday. They won 3–1 to push their record to 4–1–1, including four-straight wins. It was kind of a bummer day, though. Early in the second half she was standing near a defender who was trying to clear a ball…
Kid Sports Notes
First off, obviously there are some changes here. I finally got everything moved over to my new site host and, hopefully, functioning properly. There’s still work to do: I need to pick a new theme that I like, I’m having some trouble getting footnotes to work, and the Markdown text language I’ve been writing in for years doesn’t seem to…
Weekend Notes
Some belated weekend notes. HS Football Friday was M’s first football rivalry game, as Cathedral took on Bishop Chatard. St. P’s is usually evenly split between those high schools, so it is always an emotional matchup. CHS was ranked #4 in 5A, BCHS #1 in 3A. CHS won by 10 thanks to a big fourth quarter. They were down 21-17…