By Brian Rexroth
As much as the signs of spring are beginning to show their face, we here at least in the north are not feeling much spring in our step instead having to un-bury ourselves from a mountain of snow.
Here are a few things I am looking forward to in the upcoming weeks and months [...]
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By Brian Rexroth
Not since the likes of Bo Jackson and “Neon” Deon Sanders have we seen too many two sport athletes in sports. Understandable given the money the teams have invested in the athletes and the multiple clauses in contracts that stipulate that the athletes are not allowed to partake in dangerous sports activities such [...]
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By Matt Pelc
Each of us knows someone who has been affected by breast cancer whether it was our mom, sister, wife, aunt, grandma or friend.
My cousin Courtney is pledging her efforts to helping the cause of eradicating Breast Cancer within our lifetime by taking part in a 39.3 mile walk in Washington D.C. on May [...]
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By Matt Pelc
More than seven months ago, I stated that this blog would be mostly sports, but occasionally would delve into non-sports issues. That really has not happened much, until now.
Trying like mad to avoid the two-week Super Bowl hype machine (that will come later this week on here), there is not a whole lot [...]
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By Brian Rexroth
With the recent announcement by Electronic Arts that they are remaking NBA JAM for the Wii console. This was one of the games from my childhood that I dumped countless quarters into and spent many hours playing on my Sega Genesis into the late hours of the night with the volume turned down so [...]
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We have a new affiliate for JLABANNERS.com, tmony.com.
Please head over and check it out, and check back often as it is not listed in the blog roll on the right side of this site.
For his inaugural post today, Tmony–or Travis if you would prefer, talks about the new movie, The Book of Eli.
Enjoy!
Posted 3:02 p.m. [...]
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By Brian Rexroth
Ford Field has been the site of many attendance records in recent years and in the recent trend of utilizing NFL stadiums for sporting events other than NFL Football (In the Lions case if you can call it that). It has been the site of record attendance at an NCAA Basketball Championship game during the 2009 Final [...]
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JLABANNERS.com wishes everyone a happy and safe New Years and we look forward to getting back to the grind next week.
Like many of you, we have taken a sabbatical over the Holidays and have been busy playing with our new Christmas presents (cough, cough) WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!
All of us here at JLABANNERS.com hope your end of 2009 [...]
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We at JLABANNERS.com wanted to take a moment out of our Christmas celebration to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
We hope Santa is good to you and yours and you have a great holiday with your loved ones.
Also, a special Happy Anniversary to our loyal readers.
It will be officially six months since [...]
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Brian, Matt and all of us at JLABANNERS.com hope that you and yours have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
We have a lot to be thankful for on this site.
A special thanks goes out to our devoted readers for these five months! The amount of traffic this site gets is amazing and more than we ever imagined. Thank [...]
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