My Little Giants are scheduled to play a double header against the depauw tigers today.  Unfortunately current weather conditions look better suited for ark building than baseball.

Loved that conversation with Peter Wilt.  The story about the flamingos was hilarious!

Quote from: Kuiper on April 13, 2025, 07:14:49 PMWabash

One notable omission (at least to me) is Earlham, who they have played 55 times over the years.  They played every single year from 1967 to 2019, but stopped when the streak broke in the pandemic.  I thought the rivalry may have restarted when they played again for the first time in 2024 to an exciting 5-3 Wabash win.  Earlham roared back from 4-0 deficit to score 3 goals in the second half before Wabash got an insurance goal in the 79th minute.  Alas, tradition is dead (or Earlham was worried that Wabash was catching up to them in the all time series).

I keep waiting for my Little Giants to break out and be competitive with the upper tier of the North Coast.  It hasn't happened yet and will only be more difficult with the addition of JCU to the conference.

Middlebury slashes budget by over $10 million, imposes partial hiring freeze

I did not.  I was south of the city engaged in alumni relations.

Saw a Whitworth sweatshirt at the airport in Minneapolis.

That seems a valid reason to me.

Quote from: Dr. Acula on April 03, 2025, 03:24:17 PMIt keeps messing with me each time I look at the NCAC standings page on D3baseball.com and see Allegheny in 1st place!  It's like I went back to the 90's.  Good to see they're doing well in the PAC though.

Wait 'til next year when JCU is in the North Coast and Hiram is in the PAC.

Wabash's left-handed starting pitcher in the win is a freshman and a townie (went to North Montgomery High School).

Wabash split the doubleheader with Denison!

The Little Giants (12-6) find out how good they really are with a double header in Granville today.

I keep hoping that the "fever" will break.  That alumni (especially at the D3level) will finally see that the juice isn't wort the squeeze in terms of paying a kid in an attempt to lure him to come/stay at your alma mater.  The team isn't markedly better.  They didn't win more games or more trophies because of the money you spent.  And your business isn't markedly better because the starting right guard tweeted a picture of himself eating "the gutbuster" at your restaurant. 

He didn't stay on campus, or play any better when he did, because you paid $25 for a basketball that he autographed.

Maybe I'm the naive one, but if you want to see your money open the door of the college to a student, donate the money to the general scholarship fund.

When you consider the quality of the video they had available for last year's final four matches, I'm not sure that issue is top of mind.

Thank you, Greg.

Our current editor-in-chief is an outstanding student.

A report on the proposed expansion of the endowment tax from my college newspaper, "The Bachelor."

https://bachelor.wabash.edu/2025/03/college-endowment-at-risk-from-proposed-tax-hike/