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According to Derrick Goold of the Post-Dispatch, Stan Musial will be awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom. This, of course, comes on the heels of the Cardinals grassroots “Stand for Stan” campaign that was spearheaded earlier this season.  Side note: is it still considered “grassroots” if it was orchestrated by an organization as large [...]

Earlier this week, Jaime Garcia’s impressive rookie season officially gained him the bronze medal in the NL Rookie of the Year voting and placed him amongst some elite company.  Garcia became just the eighth Cardinal player in the last 20 years to finish Top 5 in the Rookie of the Year voting.  Any ranking to [...]

Our friends over at HuggingHaroldReynolds.com posted the following jersey from a Cleveland Browns’ tailgate over the weekend – which poked fun at the (frequently inebriated) trials and tribulations of former Browns WR Braylon Edwards. This jersey, of course, prompted us to dig into our fan hunting archives and surface the infamous Tony La Russa jersey [...]

Happy Birthday to the new Rams Road Curse which was officially born yesterday as the team handed away another winnable road game in the 4th quarter.  Lucky for us, we have a special edition of This Week in STL Sports Birthdays to take our mind off of it – the forgettable former Cardinals edition. November [...]

As most know, Dan Caesar of the Post-Dispatch is essentially the Ryan Seacrest of the St. Louis sports media.  They’re both strapping young bucks and both earn their keep by documenting the what’s what and the who’s who.  If Dan Caesar is not actively mentioning you and/or your network affiliate, you’re probably not very important.  [...]

If there’s one name that may guarantee that a player will make a significant impact for a University of Missouri athletic team, that name would be “Smith”.  Sure there are about 25 pages of Smith’s in the phone book, but somehow the most common of last names became one of the most dynamic for Tigers [...]

As we long for another season of Cardinals baseball, we promise to touch base (+2 blogging points for baseball pun) frequently with two hallmarks in American cinematic history. “Heck of a Year” (1985) and “That’s a Winner“(1987).  Physically and emotionally, both Cardinals videos share a fairly large spot in my heart.  Physically, since they were [...]

It’s officially college basketball season, people.  And given the recent controversy involving two of SLU’s top (now former) players, the highlight of this season from a local perspective may be the annual Braggin’ Rights Game between Illinois and Mizzou. It’s always a holiday treat, but considering both have placed themselves in the AP preseason Top [...]

New Blues goaltender Jaroslav Halak is winning over St. Louis rather quickly.  Is it extremely early in the season?  Of course.  But Bloosiers have no sense of time, really.  It’s all about emotion, baby. And that emotion is predicated on Halak (pronounced “HUH-lock” if you’ve been living under a rock for the past three weeks) [...]

The people celebrating birthdays this week happen to be so significant that they’ve had their numbers retired, altered local elections and mingled with legends such as “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and the Harlem Globetrotters… November 8 Sam Bradford (1987) Who knew that when Sam Bradford was born 23 years ago, that one day he would have [...]