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I'll admit I haven't seen very many Ronald Reagan movies. I mainly remember him as one of the hosts of "Death Valley Days." He was pretty good in "Knute Rockne All American" even though it wasn't much of a part. About all he had to do as George Gipp was die. The best movie I remember seeing him in was "The Winning Team" where he played Grover Cleveland Alexander. He did a good job in that one.

I don't know, Sudo. Somehow I think if Reagan had played Rick we wouldn't still be talking about this movie today.

High school - OK College - maybe Pro - I don't think so

Such language. Has to be Joe Pesci, and if its not Goodfellas it must be Casino.

Yeah, I've heard the Sheboygan Redskins story too. Here's what I know about that: The Sheboygan Redskins began play in 1938 and were members of the National Basketball League, which featured, among others besides the Redskins, the Akron Firestone Non-Skids, the Cleveland White Horses, the Toledo Jeeps and the Indianapolis Kautskys (?). The NBL existed until 1949, when it merged with the Basketball Association of America to form the modern NBA. Sheboygan played one season in the new league before folding their tent permanently in 1950. Now according to the Basketball Hall of Fame and the Association for Professional Basketball Research, nobody by the name of "Wierwille" ever played a game for Sheboygan, the NBL, or any other known professional basketball league going back to the very first one, the National Basket Ball League, which started in 1898. There could be three possibilities for this situation: 1) VP was a member of the Redskins but he never played in a single game so there's no record of him. Possible but highly unlikely. 2) VP's professional basketball career is a crock. Surely not!! 3) VP played for the Redskins under an assumed name, not unusual in those pre-tv days when players sometimes played college basketball under one name and professional basketball under another. I understand he kept his marriage a secret so maybe he kept his basketball a secret at the time too. Personally, I like #3, so, according to the official records, here is a list of every Sheboygan player from their first season, 1938-39, through 1941-42. A website called the Site for Sports Statistics, among others, has this information available. Which one do you think might be VP incognito? Sparky Adams Ralph Amsden George Blacklidge Marv Colen Kiernan Crowley Ed Dancker Charlie Epperson Dick Evans Moose Graf Walter Grauman George Hesik Eddie Kolar Otto Kolar Les Kublic Rube Lautenschlager Slim Lonsdorf Bill McDonald Johnny Posewitz Scoop Posewitz Dave Quabius Carl Roth Pres Slack Paul Sokody Kenny Suesens George Swanson Jack Thornton Stan Zadel Babe Ziegenhorn I'm kind of partial to Babe Ziegenhorn myself.

I'm curious. Has anybody ever seen any actual, concrete evidence VP ever played basketball at any level? Anybody ever seen a picture of him in a basketball uniform or even holding a basketball? I've been curious about this since I first sat through the class back in 1973, and he mentioned that he played professional basketball (or as he called it baska-ball.) Ever since then, I've tried to find any evidence of when and where he might have played, up to and including writing to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, where they have records of everything going back to the day Dr. Naismith nailed up the first peach basket. At the time, I wasn't trying to prove it wasn't true, just trying to find out the details. Now with this modern miracle called the internet, you can research every professional basketball league that ever existed without bothering the Hall of Fame librarians. Now before I spill the beans on what I've learned, I'm curious if anybody else knows any information beyond that one sentence in pfal and the "inventor of the hook shot" fairy tale.

Nah, you don't have to just stick to recent flicks. Some of the best quotes of all time come from movies made over 50 years ago. "Butterfield 8" is a movie I've heard of but I know I've never seen it and I have no idea what it's about. I don't think it shows up very often on the oldies channels.

Blazing Saddles A true classic of the American cinematic arts. From another classic: The time has come for someone to put his foot down, and that foot is me.

Viva la France.

Against All Odds Alex Karras Blazing Saddles

It absolutely amazes me what people will talk about on a cell phone where everybody can hear every freaking word they say. I've learned a lot more than I ever wanted to about the personal problems and bodily functions of complete strangers.

One the greatest movie scenes ever. It's hard to get the true feeling of it just hearing it. You really have to see it to know how powerful it is. I had seen bits of pieces of this movie over the years but I never saw the whole thing until AMC started showing it. A true classic in every sense of the word. Here's looking at you, kid.

In & Out Kevin Kline The Big Chill

If the allegations in a lawsuit filed in Gwinnett County, Georgia recently are true, he just might be the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. A woman named Sonya Elliott has filed a lawsuit against Michael Vick, claiming that he knowingly infected her with the herpes virus. The lawsuit states that Vick sought medical treatment for his herpes using the alias "Ron Mexico." Ron Mexico? John Smith or Steve Jones maybe, but if you really want to be anonymous, why would you choose to be Ron Mexico? Vick may be one heck of an athlete but he's not exactly what you'd call smart. So, as a public service, here's a website where you can get your own alias that's every bit as lame as Michael Vick's, just in case you might need to get some anonymous medical treatment in Atlanta: Ron Mexico Alias Generator Mine is Ricky Gabon. Yeah, that'll work.

Charlton Heston The Ten Commandments Yul Brynner

Sorry, guys. I haven't had much time to post lately. This one is a give-away, but its one of my all-time favorite movie lines: Only one thing in the world could've dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window

I thought he looked more like Lt. Frank Drebin Give the guy a break. It must be hard to take on a new job at the age of 78.

We had the album, Sudo. I think it was called "My Son the Nut."

Rock Hudson Giant Elizabeth Taylor

With a face like Popeye's he probably couldn't do much better than Olive Oyl anyway. My parents had that record and my sister and I practically wore out the grooves playing it. Some of the other cuts were really a lot better than that one, like "Here's to the Crabgrass" or "Hungarian Goulash #5." Allan Sherman. 1963, maybe?

Do they still have Bojangles here? Son, this is the home of Bojangles. The very first one opened at the corner of West Boulevard and South Tryon in the mid-70s. I used to work just a few blocks from there and the cajun-spiced chicken was awesome. So hot it would make your eyes water. I think they had to tone down the spices when they started franchising.

Omigosh, Sudo. I didn't know there was another Mike Cross fan among us. I first heard Mike do "Under the Scotsman's Kilt" at The Pier in Raleigh, NC probably 25 years ago and I've loved it ever since. My wife and I saw him here in Charlotte back in February and he sang it that night and it was just as funny as the first time. If you ever get a chance to see Mike Cross live, check it out. He puts on a great show. Do you have "The Great Strip Poker Massacre?" That's another classic.

Errol could buckle the swash with the best of them, that's for sure. He just had a little problem with underage girls and was charged with statutory rape three or four times. That's supposed to be where the phrase "in like Flynn" came from.

I undertand that Billy was quite the ladies' man in his younger days, before he got "the call" and gave all that up. He also used to drag race on Park Road, a major four-lane highway today, but a dirt farm road in the 1930s.

Before the age of 10 or 11, kid sports should be about learning the game, everybody getting to play and having fun. By the time a kid reaches middle school age, the ones that are really interested still want to play and those who aren't have probably dropped out. There's plenty of time then for tryouts and cuts and only the best players getting to play. The league I was part of, which was associated with Babe Ruth baseball, the 5 & 6-year olds played t-ball, the 7 & 8 year olds played "machine pitch" (no pitcher but a pitching machine throws the ball) and at 9 they started having live pitching. I thought that was a great way to introduce kids to the game. When I was coaching at the 9-10 year old level, I used to rotate players from the infield to the outfield every inning. If you played shortstop one inning, you might play right field the next, then back to shortstop. The kids loved it because at that level, the ball reached the outfield about twice a game and kids got bored standing out there. I had parents complain about that because they thought their kids were getting shortchanged by not learning one position and it hurt our chances to win games. One mother called me at home to tell me her son only wanted to play second base the whole game and asked me not to move him. Ridiculous. We weren't exactly the Boston Red Sox so what difference did it make? That's one reason I quit coaching baseball. I never seemed to have those problems in basketball for some reason.