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 [...]
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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 – [...]
Cardinals get rocked, I get full!
April 21st, 2008 knup 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 [...]
Pumped for all-inclusive Cardinals trip
April 19th, 2008 knup Tomorrow, my dad, Rodney and Randy are all heading to St. Louis to watch the Cardinals pound on the Giants. We are taking advantage of an April special that gives us an “all-inclusive” ticket for just $65. Not too shabby considering they are normally over $100 per ticket. So we are sitting in the Coca [...]
Domination in fantasy basketball
April 17th, 2008 knup So as some of you know, I play in a fantasy sports league with 9 of my buddies. Most are friends from college mixed in with some family, etc… We have a unique setup where we all compete in Fantasy NBA, Fantasy MLB and Fantasy NFL every year. Then we have an “overall champion”. There [...]
Our run is done
April 9th, 2008 knup Our run of Cat basketball league championships is over. We lost last night in dramatic fashion. It was very eerily similar to the National Championship game actually. We were down 12 points with just over 3 minutes to go. We easily could have folded it in but decided to pressure them a bit and force [...]
