The CIFL has recently announced an expansion into Mid-Michigan. The Saginaw Sting and yet to be named Flint fran
chise will play the 7-on-7 game on a 50 yard by 25 yard field. The Sting is having a tryout on December 16th in Grand Blanc. Tryout, as defined by American Heritage Dictionary, is a test to ascertain the qualifications of applicants, as for an athletic teamor theatrical role. After reading that definition again, I came to the conclusion that it did not contain anything about making a monetary donation to tryout. The Sting take it a touch farther. They are making all interested participants pay a $50 fee to tryout. Why does the team just call the tryout what it really is: a fundraiser. If the ream is that hard up for money, they are doomed for failure before their inagural season begins in March 2008.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Continental Indoor Football League
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Sean Taylor
I had written a piece of what I thought about the murder of Sean Taylor, and the troubles for what seems like many other athletes from the University of Miami. I then read the article from Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star and threw my article away. It is much bigger than the University of Miami. I will repost his article here. All I can say, I completely agree with Whitlock.
"There's a reason I call them the Black KKK. The pain, the fear and the destruction are all the same.
Someone who loved Sean Taylor is crying right now. The life they knew has been destroyed, an 18-month-old baby lost her father, and, if you're a black man living in America, you've been reminded once again that your life is in constant jeopardy of violent death.
The Black KKK claimed another victim, a high-profile professional football player with a checkered past this time.
No, we don't know for certain the circumstances surrounding Taylor's death. I could very well be proven wrong for engaging in this sort of aggressive speculation. But it's no different than if you saw a fat man fall to the ground clutching his chest. You'd assume a heart attack, and you'd know, no matter the cause, the man needed to lose weight.
Well, when shots are fired and a black man hits the pavement, there's every statistical reason to believe another black man pulled the trigger. That's not some negative, unfair stereotype. It's a reality we've been living with, tolerating and rationalizing for far too long.
When the traditional, white KKK lynched, terrorized and intimidated black folks at a slower rate than its modern-day dark-skinned replacement, at least we had the good sense to be outraged and in no mood to contemplate rationalizations or be fooled by distractions.
Our new millennium strategy is to pray the Black KKK goes away or ignores us. How's that working?
About as well as the attempt to shift attention away from this uniquely African-American crisis by focusing on an alleged injustice the white media allegedly perpetrated against Sean Taylor.
Within hours of his death, there was a story circulating that members of the black press were complaining that news outlets were disrespecting Taylor's victimhood by reporting on his troubled past
No disrespect to Taylor, but he controlled the way he would be remembered by the way he lived. His immature, undisciplined behavior with his employer, his run-ins with law enforcement, which included allegedly threatening a man with a loaded gun, and the fact a vehicle he owned was once sprayed with bullets are all pertinent details when you've been murdered.
Marcellus Wiley, a former NFL player, made the radio circuit Wednesday, singing the tune that athletes are targets. That was his explanation for the murders of Taylor and Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams and the armed robberies of NBA players Antoine Walker and Eddy Curry.
Really?
Let's cut through the bull(manure) and deal with reality. Black men are targets of black men. Period. Go check the coroner's office and talk with a police detective. These bullets aren't checking W-2s.
Rather than whine about white folks' insensitivity or reserve a special place of sorrow for rich athletes, we'd be better served mustering the kind of outrage and courage it took in the 1950s and 1960s to stop the white KKK from hanging black men from trees.
But we don't want to deal with ourselves. We take great joy in prescribing medicine to cure the hate in other people's hearts. Meanwhile, our self-hatred, on full display for the world to see, remains untreated, undiagnosed and unrepentant.
Our self-hatred has been set to music and reinforced by a pervasive culture that promotes a crab-in-barrel mentality.
You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration.
Of course there are other catalysts, but until we recapture the minds of black youth, convince them that it's not OK to "super man dat ho" and end any and every dispute by "cocking on your bitch," nothing will change.
Does a Soulja Boy want an education?
HBO did a fascinating documentary on Little Rock Central High School, the Arkansas school that required the National Guard so that nine black kids could attend in the 1950s. Fifty years later, the school is one of the nation's best in terms of funding and educational opportunities. It's 60 percent black and located in a poor black community.
Watch the documentary and ask yourself why nine poor kids in the '50s risked their lives to get a good education and a thousand poor black kids today ignore the opportunity that is served to them on a platter.
Blame drugs, blame Ronald Reagan, blame George Bush, blame it on the rain or whatever. There's only one group of people who can change the rotten, anti-education, pro-violence culture our kids have adopted. We have to do it.
According to reports, Sean Taylor had difficulty breaking free from the unsavory characters he associated with during his youth.
The "keepin' it real" mantra of hip hop is in direct defiance to evolution. There's always someone ready to tell you you're selling out if you move away from the immature and dangerous activities you used to do, you're selling out if you speak proper English, embrace education, dress like a grown man, do anything mainstream.
The Black KKK is enforcing the same crippling standards as its parent organization. It wants to keep black men in their place — uneducated, outside the mainstream and six feet deep.
In all likelihood, the Black Klan and its mentality buried Sean Taylor, and any black man or boy reading this could be next. "
Sean Taylor I hope you made peace with God before you passed. RIP.
"There's a reason I call them the Black KKK. The pain, the fear and the destruction are all the same.
Someone who loved Sean Taylor is crying right now. The life they knew has been destroyed, an 18-month-old baby lost her father, and, if you're a black man living in America, you've been reminded once again that your life is in constant jeopardy of violent death.
The Black KKK claimed another victim, a high-profile professional football player with a checkered past this time.
No, we don't know for certain the circumstances surrounding Taylor's death. I could very well be proven wrong for engaging in this sort of aggressive speculation. But it's no different than if you saw a fat man fall to the ground clutching his chest. You'd assume a heart attack, and you'd know, no matter the cause, the man needed to lose weight.
Well, when shots are fired and a black man hits the pavement, there's every statistical reason to believe another black man pulled the trigger. That's not some negative, unfair stereotype. It's a reality we've been living with, tolerating and rationalizing for far too long.
When the traditional, white KKK lynched, terrorized and intimidated black folks at a slower rate than its modern-day dark-skinned replacement, at least we had the good sense to be outraged and in no mood to contemplate rationalizations or be fooled by distractions.
Our new millennium strategy is to pray the Black KKK goes away or ignores us. How's that working?
About as well as the attempt to shift attention away from this uniquely African-American crisis by focusing on an alleged injustice the white media allegedly perpetrated against Sean Taylor.
Within hours of his death, there was a story circulating that members of the black press were complaining that news outlets were disrespecting Taylor's victimhood by reporting on his troubled past
No disrespect to Taylor, but he controlled the way he would be remembered by the way he lived. His immature, undisciplined behavior with his employer, his run-ins with law enforcement, which included allegedly threatening a man with a loaded gun, and the fact a vehicle he owned was once sprayed with bullets are all pertinent details when you've been murdered.
Marcellus Wiley, a former NFL player, made the radio circuit Wednesday, singing the tune that athletes are targets. That was his explanation for the murders of Taylor and Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams and the armed robberies of NBA players Antoine Walker and Eddy Curry.
Really?
Let's cut through the bull(manure) and deal with reality. Black men are targets of black men. Period. Go check the coroner's office and talk with a police detective. These bullets aren't checking W-2s.
Rather than whine about white folks' insensitivity or reserve a special place of sorrow for rich athletes, we'd be better served mustering the kind of outrage and courage it took in the 1950s and 1960s to stop the white KKK from hanging black men from trees.
But we don't want to deal with ourselves. We take great joy in prescribing medicine to cure the hate in other people's hearts. Meanwhile, our self-hatred, on full display for the world to see, remains untreated, undiagnosed and unrepentant.
Our self-hatred has been set to music and reinforced by a pervasive culture that promotes a crab-in-barrel mentality.
You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration.
Of course there are other catalysts, but until we recapture the minds of black youth, convince them that it's not OK to "super man dat ho" and end any and every dispute by "cocking on your bitch," nothing will change.
Does a Soulja Boy want an education?
HBO did a fascinating documentary on Little Rock Central High School, the Arkansas school that required the National Guard so that nine black kids could attend in the 1950s. Fifty years later, the school is one of the nation's best in terms of funding and educational opportunities. It's 60 percent black and located in a poor black community.
Watch the documentary and ask yourself why nine poor kids in the '50s risked their lives to get a good education and a thousand poor black kids today ignore the opportunity that is served to them on a platter.
Blame drugs, blame Ronald Reagan, blame George Bush, blame it on the rain or whatever. There's only one group of people who can change the rotten, anti-education, pro-violence culture our kids have adopted. We have to do it.
According to reports, Sean Taylor had difficulty breaking free from the unsavory characters he associated with during his youth.
The "keepin' it real" mantra of hip hop is in direct defiance to evolution. There's always someone ready to tell you you're selling out if you move away from the immature and dangerous activities you used to do, you're selling out if you speak proper English, embrace education, dress like a grown man, do anything mainstream.
The Black KKK is enforcing the same crippling standards as its parent organization. It wants to keep black men in their place — uneducated, outside the mainstream and six feet deep.
In all likelihood, the Black Klan and its mentality buried Sean Taylor, and any black man or boy reading this could be next. "
Sean Taylor I hope you made peace with God before you passed. RIP.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
High School Basketball
High school basketball in the state of Michigan gets under way the evening of November 26th. WIDL (92.1 on your FM dial) will have its first broadcast on Friday, November 30th in Mayville. The Lady Patriots of USA will be taking on the Lady Wildcats of Mayville. Jon Sicotte and myself (Christian Selich) will be on the air at 7:30 p.m. On December 7th, we will be in Reese for the boys game against Marlette. The following Friday night, December 14th, we will have a double-header in Caro. The Bridgeport girls and boys teams will be playing the Tigers. The last game of the year will also be a double-header. The Frankenmuth Eagles will travel to Vassar. The double-header broadcasts will begin at 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
First Annual Selich Bowl
Selich Cardinals win! It was a day of firsts on Thanksgiving Day at Christian's house.
In what we hope will become a new family tradition, the Selich Cardinals, led by three touchdowns from game-MVP Elizabeth Selich, defeated the Selich Falcons, 42-28, in the First Annual Selich Bowl Thanksgiving Day football game.
"It was a hard-fought game," Andrew said. "The snow and winds made us run the ball more than we wanted, but in the end, it worked out for us.
"Elizabeth ran the ball really well."
The Selich Cardinals, clad in red and black and captained by Andrew Selich, consisted of Erica Selich, Elizabeth Selich, Dwayne and Jamie Rose along with their son, Gavin.
Captain Christian Selich led the Selich Falcons, who chose to wear blue and black for their team colors.
Other team members were Heather Selich, Jakob Selich, Lukas Selich, Curt Hadd, Devyn Hadd, Brian Bentley and Tyler Bentley.
"We had a good time," Christian said. "We are looking forward to next year."
The Falcons struck first in this year's Selich Bowl.
After a Jamie Rose interception gave the Cardinals the ball, the Falcons Curt Hadd picked off an Andrew Selich pass and returned the ball to the endzone for the 7-0 lead.
Elizabeth Selich went to work on the Cardinals next possession. Selich took the handoff from her dad, Andrew, and after a few moves ran 25-yards for the score, tying the game up.
The Falcons moved the ball downfield on their possession before Jakob Selich found the endzone from eight yards out to give his team the 14-7 lead.
On the Cardinals next possession, the team in red twice converted on fourth downs. Elizabeth found the endzone for the second time on the eighth play of the series, tying the score 14-14.
The Falcons drove the length of the field on their next turn, before the Cardinals' Dwayne Rose knocked down a Christian Selich pass on fourth down to stop the Falcons drive and to bring an end to the first half.
"At this point, we thought we could win," Andrew said. "We had stopped them, and now we had the ball first.
"All we had to do was score first."
Which the Cardinals did.
While eluding a blitzing Heather Selich on third down, the Cardinals' QB Andrew Selich found a wide open Dwayne Rose in the corner of the endzone to take the 21-14 lead.
A trick play backfired on the Falcons' next series. A double pass from Christian to Curt Hadd ended up in the hands of Andrew Selich, who hustled and spun his way to the Cardinals' endzone to give his team a 28-14 lead.
"At that point, we just wanted to hold on," Andrew said. "We knew we had it. We just had to avoid a turnover."
Touchdowns were then traded between the two teams. The Falcons' Curt Hadd hooked up with teammate Brian Bentley for a touchdown pass before the Cardinals' Elizabeth Selich found paydirt for the third time to give her team a 35-21 lead with just two minutes left to play.
Jakob Selich plowed his way into the Falcons endzone with just under a minute left to play to cut the score to 35-28 before the Cardinals added one more touchdown to finish the game.
Andrew Selich, under pressure from two Falcon defenders, ran the ball the entire length of the field, cutting behind a key block from Dwayne Rose at midfield before continuing into the endzone to account for the final score.
"The weather was cold, but we played through it," Andrew said. "Our team played great defense and made the plays when we needed to.
"We will be ready next year to defend our title."
In what we hope will become a new family tradition, the Selich Cardinals, led by three touchdowns from game-MVP Elizabeth Selich, defeated the Selich Falcons, 42-28, in the First Annual Selich Bowl Thanksgiving Day football game.
"It was a hard-fought game," Andrew said. "The snow and winds made us run the ball more than we wanted, but in the end, it worked out for us.
"Elizabeth ran the ball really well."
The Selich Cardinals, clad in red and black and captained by Andrew Selich, consisted of Erica Selich, Elizabeth Selich, Dwayne and Jamie Rose along with their son, Gavin.
Captain Christian Selich led the Selich Falcons, who chose to wear blue and black for their team colors.
Other team members were Heather Selich, Jakob Selich, Lukas Selich, Curt Hadd, Devyn Hadd, Brian Bentley and Tyler Bentley.
"We had a good time," Christian said. "We are looking forward to next year."
The Falcons struck first in this year's Selich Bowl.
After a Jamie Rose interception gave the Cardinals the ball, the Falcons Curt Hadd picked off an Andrew Selich pass and returned the ball to the endzone for the 7-0 lead.
Elizabeth Selich went to work on the Cardinals next possession. Selich took the handoff from her dad, Andrew, and after a few moves ran 25-yards for the score, tying the game up.
The Falcons moved the ball downfield on their possession before Jakob Selich found the endzone from eight yards out to give his team the 14-7 lead.
On the Cardinals next possession, the team in red twice converted on fourth downs. Elizabeth found the endzone for the second time on the eighth play of the series, tying the score 14-14.
The Falcons drove the length of the field on their next turn, before the Cardinals' Dwayne Rose knocked down a Christian Selich pass on fourth down to stop the Falcons drive and to bring an end to the first half.
"At this point, we thought we could win," Andrew said. "We had stopped them, and now we had the ball first.
"All we had to do was score first."
Which the Cardinals did.
While eluding a blitzing Heather Selich on third down, the Cardinals' QB Andrew Selich found a wide open Dwayne Rose in the corner of the endzone to take the 21-14 lead.
A trick play backfired on the Falcons' next series. A double pass from Christian to Curt Hadd ended up in the hands of Andrew Selich, who hustled and spun his way to the Cardinals' endzone to give his team a 28-14 lead.
"At that point, we just wanted to hold on," Andrew said. "We knew we had it. We just had to avoid a turnover."
Touchdowns were then traded between the two teams. The Falcons' Curt Hadd hooked up with teammate Brian Bentley for a touchdown pass before the Cardinals' Elizabeth Selich found paydirt for the third time to give her team a 35-21 lead with just two minutes left to play.
Jakob Selich plowed his way into the Falcons endzone with just under a minute left to play to cut the score to 35-28 before the Cardinals added one more touchdown to finish the game.
Andrew Selich, under pressure from two Falcon defenders, ran the ball the entire length of the field, cutting behind a key block from Dwayne Rose at midfield before continuing into the endzone to account for the final score.
"The weather was cold, but we played through it," Andrew said. "Our team played great defense and made the plays when we needed to.
"We will be ready next year to defend our title."
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