Holiday Grades

We have reached the holiday break in High School Basketball.  Only South Sioux City will play any games this week — the boys and the girls are in the Waverly Tournament.  It is still early in the season but here are my evaluations of each team right now.
Girls
North — The Stars have only one blemish [...]

Random Thoughts

There’s a lot of negative vibes coming from Iowa Hawkeye fans over the last couple of days.  It looks like Ricky Stanzi’s injury has caused a ton of people to jump off the Hawk bandwagon.  Maybe we can blame a national magazine — it looks like Sports Illustrated has struck again.
Come on, Hawk fans!  You [...]

Volleyball Tourney gets Major Sponsor

Recently, Wells Blue Bunny decided to back out of the major sponsor of the NAIA Volleyball Tournament.  So, the tourney got a big boost when it announced on Wednesday that CNOS and Siouxland Surgery Center has stepped in as the presenting sponsor.
Sioux City had a successful debut of the volleyball tourney that they got an [...]

2008-09 was a banner year

This past Saturday, the North Stars celebrated a baseball title and it completed an unbelievable season for Sioux City athletics in the 2008-09 sports season.  Think about it.  Can you name a sports season that featured so many achievements, so many outstanding athletes and outstanding teams that was better than this past one?
I have been [...]

The Elite Conference of the NAIA

Talked with Corey Westra today.  He’s the commissioner of the Great Plains Athletic Conference.  They had conference meetings today.
The GPAC is in fine shape right now.  As a matter of fact, they have teams looking to join even though the GPAC is not actively seeking new members.  York College has applied for membership in the [...]