Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Links to Wake Forest University athletics



NEW
 

 Wake Forest ice hockey page (club)

Deacon Club

 Junior Deacon Club

 Deacon mascot

 Deacon Dining

 Wake Forest Historical Museum

COACHES

 Football coach Dave Clawson bio (WF Sports)

 Football coach Dave Clawson bio (Wikipedia)

 Jim Grobe bio (WF Sports)

 Wake Forest football coaches all-time (Wikipedia)

 Men's basketball coach Danny Manning bio (WF Sports)

 Baseball head coach Tom Walter bio (WF Sports)
 Staff directory

ARTICLES

Deacons on ice (Winston-Salem Monthly magazine)

 Graduating Deacons open up door for early enrollees
(Winston-Salem Journal)

 Record-setting Belk Bowl ends with 55-52 Wake Forest win over Texas A&M (Charlotte Observer)

 Dream come true comes to end for Deacons’ Dawson
(Winston-Salem Journal)

 Wake Forest Completes Football Coaching Staff (WF Sports)

 Who is the Demon Deacon? (Wake Forest magazine)

VIDEOS

 Wake Forest Basketball: Steve Forbes First 48 Hours Review

Wake Forest University athletic director hits the ground running

Developing Champions: A Day in the Life

Wake Forest Athletics Year in Review (2017-18)

MEDIA SITES
Old Gold & Black

 Winston-Salem Journal page

 News & Observer page

 Baltimore Sun page

 Chicago Tribune page

 Daily Press page

 ESPN page

 FOX Sports page

 Sports Illustrated page

 OTHER SITES

 Blogger So Dear page

 Golfweek page

 MSN page

 SB Nation page

 SportSpyder page

 Yahoo! Sports

 MORE WEB SITES




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Monday, December 25, 2017

My favorite Christmas movies (and more)

MY WIFE HOLLY AND I have been watching some of our favorite Christmas movies the last few weeks.

 We started with our favorite, White Christmas, and I watched another of my favorites, Desk Set, the same day. (Both were on Netflix.) I know that Desk Set, with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, isn't a traditional Christmas movie, but it has Christmas trees and presents. And I like it.

 Today, Holly and I watched two more favorites, The Bishop's Wife and Miracle on 34th Street (the one with Edmond Gwenn). We haven't seen It's a Wonderful Life yet, but it'll probably be on TV later today; I don't have a copy of it.

 Holly also broke out our copy of Holiday Inn tonight, but I couldn't watch it. I like White Christmas MUCH better.

 Tomorrow (or later today), we'll watch another of our favorites, It Happened on Fifth Avenue. It's not a traditional favorite, but it's one of MY favorites. I found it at Big Lots, and I've been watching it ever since.

 Oh, I forgot; we watched Trading Places with Dan Ackroyd and Eddie Murphy (plus Jamie Leigh Curtis) recently on Netflix. Yes, it's not a traditional Christmas movie, either, but it has Christmas, Santa and presents, and I love that movie.

 One other thing: I also watched The Santa Clause 2 on Netflix the other day. It's less mean-spirited than the first one and way better than the third one.

 Oh, I don't want to forget A Christmas Visitor, a Hallmark TV movie featuring William Devane, Meredith Baxter and Dean McDermott. I try to watch it every Christmas season.

 P.S.: You're probably wondering about A Christmas Story not being on this list. I'm not a huge fan of that movie.

 Also, I found Small-Town Santa last year. It features former Superman Dean Cain, and Holly and I watched it together this year. I really like the guy who played Santa. (Oddly, I found a YouTube review that panned Small-Town Santa, saying this Santa had a scary face. I didn't think so. He just wasn't your traditional Santa.)

 MORE WHITE CHRISTMAS: I was just watching a portion of White Christmas again (my third time in a month), and I noticed Danny Kaye's character telling the girls that he and Bing could give them pointers on that "Sisters" number. The girls had already gone for the train when Bing and Danny did their version of the "Sisters" number. They wouldn't know what he was talking about.

 For some reason, that had never registered with me before.

 My only explanation is that Kaye told the girls offscreen about their sister act.

 NETFLIX: I used to rent Christmas in Connecticut each year from Netflix DVDs, and there was a bonus movie called Star in the Night. I didn't remember the name of the movie, but I Googled J. Carrol Naish, the star of the movie.

 It popped up immediately, and I just watched it again. It makes me feel good every time I see it.

 I recognized three other faces on the movie. One was Anthony Caruso, who played in the Star Trek episode A Piece of the Action. I have no idea the name of one of the three cowboy-hatted "wise men," but I know that face (it was Richard Erdman). The other was the little man who kept trying to marry Barbara Stanwyck off to the wrong man in Christmas in Connecticut. I looked it up, and Judge Crowthers was played by Dick Elliott.

 UPDATE: A year or two ago, I watched Pottersville, a strange Christmas movie about Bigfoot. The hero of the movie (Maynard Greiger) learns that he's had a wonderful life (or is about to have one). The interesting thing is that the mean old bad man in It's A Wonderful Life was Mr. Potter.

 I won't watch Pottersville again, but I enjoyed it.

 ANOTHER UPDATE: I just watched The Christmas Chronicles with Kurt Russell. There's a lot of Christmas magic (nice FX), and the ending is, naturally, sweet.

 Russell is a cross between Tim Allen's Santa, Mario Andretti, the new Steve McGarrett and Elvis Presley. By the way, Mrs. Claus looks and sounds a lot like Goldie Hawn.

 One other thing: the elves are kinda weird, in a good way.

 I would have loved to live in Tim Allen's North Pole; not so here.

 FINALLY: No, I don't consider Diehard a Christmas movie just because Alan Rickman sings a Christmas song at the end.

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