Two days in a row of me blogging. What is going on? Don’t call it a streak Time for a new mower First of all I want to talk about my darn mower. It is now working correctly. This was a hand me down mower given to us when we moved from Pekin to Morton. [...]
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Lakers win the 2010 championship
June 18th, 2010 
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Posted in Home Improvement, Sports 
Tags: basketball, Kobe Bryant, Lakers, mower, Mowing, NBA 
No Comments »Glory Days 2010
February 12th, 2010 knup 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 [...]
Michael Jordan Retirement Tribute
September 17th, 2009 knup 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 [...]
Congrats to Elmhurst basketball
March 6th, 2009 knup 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 1st [...]
Cardinal caravan
January 20th, 2009 knup 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 [...]
Running Quest: push for 15 minute 2 mile
July 27th, 2008 knup 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 I’ve [...]
Knup played ball against Michael Jordan
July 2nd, 2008 knup 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 [...]
Cardinal game recap
May 15th, 2008 knup 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 opened 2 hours early [...]
Cardinals vs. Cubs – Round 1
May 2nd, 2008 knup 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 Hill. No sweat! I’ll have some [...]
Feeling old playing some hoops
April 23rd, 2008 knup 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 spring sports – [...]
