I recently got to play in the Glory Days hoops tournament for the 2nd straight year.  This is a basketball tournament where old highschool teammates get together and play a game.  There were 16 teams in the tournament.  It is run by PORTA highschool in Petersburg, IL.  Basically, you had to have graduated from the [...]

Posted on February 12th, 2010 by knup
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It’s no secret that I have always admired Michael Jordan.  MJ was the greatest basketball player of all time.  His will and desire to win were like none other.  Guys like Kobe and Lebron in today’s game try to emulate Michael, but always fall a bit short.  Michael Jordan was recently inducted into the NBA [...]

Posted on September 17th, 2009 by knup
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Fun to see my alma mater, Elmhurst College, make the NCAA tournament in D3 once again.  Brings back some great memories from 2001   They hosted UW Whitewater tonight and couldn’t pull out the win.  My boy from Manito, Ryan Burks, had a great season.  Congrats!  Brent Ruch, another central illinois guy was named [...]

Posted on March 6th, 2009 by knup
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My dad, brother (Rodney), son (Drew), and I all went to the Cardinal Caravan held in East Peoria the other night.  It was fairly uneventful with Brendan Ryan and Chris Perez being the biggest name current Cardinals there.  Al Hrobowski, Danny Cox and John Tudor were some of the old timers in attendance.  The highlight [...]

Posted on January 20th, 2009 by knup
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Back a few months ago a bunch from our small group decided we were going to run the Morton Pumpkin Festival 2 mile run. Yeah, I know… 2 miles is kinda weak. But hey, it’s not as easy as you think for someone who doesn’t run much anymore
So for the last few weeks [...]

Posted on July 27th, 2008 by knup
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So as most of you know, I spent 4 years playing college ball at Elmhurst College.  Michael Jordan also ran his camp at Elmhurst College.  I got the opportunity to be a counselor at this camp all 4 years of my career.  The coolest part about this was that the other counselors were bigtime D1 [...]

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by knup
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I’m way behind on this, but I have to talk about it. Rodney and I hit STL for the first Cardinal/Cub game of the season a few weeks back – and it didn’t disappoint. We left around noon and got there before anyone else I think. We always do that! Gates [...]

Posted on May 15th, 2008 by knup
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My brother and I are heading to “Baseball Heaven” tonight to watch the first game of the year between the Cardinals and Cubs. We are typically bad luck as I can’t remember a Cardinals win in our recent Card/Cub outings. This is the year Wainwright on the hill against [...]

Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by knup
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I’ve been going into the Pekin Highschool open gyms lately and playing some basketball. My old highschool coach, Coach Mott, is the head coach there now. It’s been great to “help out” by playing with some of his kids. They only have a handful of highschoolers right now since everyone is in [...]

Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by knup
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So our Cardinal all-inclusive trip was fun.  My brothers, dad and I took off bright and early Sunday morning for STL.  We got there just before the gates opened, picked up our tickets from will-call, and got right in.  Rodney, Randy and I watched a little batting practice but due to nobody having any power [...]

Posted on April 21st, 2008 by knup
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