You Can Say that Again

"If you want to play, prepare your body. If you want to win, prepare your mind."

-Jeff Ramsey,

Head Football Coach

Referring to the continual progress made by first-year linebacker Mike McClendon.

Senior day is coming! Don't forget that Saturday is the final home game for our beloved Crimson Thunder.

(photo by Pauline Shapiro

What's the deal with this woodchuck?
NA: I run from the woodchuck because it lives under Medora's porchsteps.

ML: I had the premonition, but all three of us saw it.

Is there a nickname for the team?
BG: Hot Sexy Women

ML: The Squabbling Deities

NA: Whores in Hot Pants

What are your inspirations for running?
ML: I run because rage is the only true drug.

NA: My coach in high school was like a dad to me.

BG: I started running in middle school. I had a gym teacher who pushed me hard in middle school. I also had a really good high school coach, who was like a second father to me.

What's your theme song?
ML: It's a White Zombie song.

NA: It's called Dracula, it's a techno version. It's very upbeat.

Is there any hidden competition between the men and women's teams?
NA: No, because we're inherently better.

ML: They realize it and worship us, as they should.

BG: There's no competition, I love Colin.

What has contributed to your success this year?
NA: We have more depth this year.

ML: We have a lot of talented freshman and upperclassmen that came back and turned it on.

BG: We are less injured then we usually are; Roger doesn't kill us.

If you could be any inanimate object, what inanimate object would you be?
ML: Mandorla - a sacred space in paintings in medieval art usually shaped like an almond whereby a representation of a higher religious power is located.

NA: A piece of cobalt glass. It's all intense and different shades. That or a well-worn G-string

BG: I'd like to be a part of the ocean, because it's free-flowing and you get to go wherever you want.

If there were a movie made about the cross-country team, who would play you?
BG: Demi Moore - she was bad ass in G.I. Jane, she's also sexy and strong. ML: I would be either the girl who played Trinity in The Matrix because she ripped shit up or Linda Hamilton in T2 when she's doing the pull-ups, yea that's me. NA: Sharon Stone would play me from her Basic Instinct days - which would be me. It's all about sex; that's why we are the Whores in Hot Pants.

Talk about Roger a little.
NA: He likes produce a whole lot.

BG: He really caring and interested with what you have to say.

ML: Roger's the bomb-diggity, he's always there for you whatever you have to talk about. He's a real down-to-earth kind of guy.

This Week's Events

Football

Saturday at Ohio Wesleyan 1 p.m.

Saturday, November 13 vs. Alfred 1 p.m.

Men's Soccer

Saturday at Denison 2 p.m.

What are they talking about?

This week...

Balk

Sport: Baseball

What it means: An illegal motion by the pitcher committed if one or more runners are on base for which each base runner is advanced one base. A balk may be called for the following actions (among others): Pitching from the stretch without first coming to a set position; failure to pitch after making a body movement habitually associated with the delivery; feining a throw to home plate or to first base; throwing to a base in an attempt to pick off a base runner without first stepping toward that base; assuming the pitching position on or near the pitcher's rubber when holding the ball. If a balk is committed with no runners on base, a ball is called by the umpire.