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Cerulean SLUH

By on September 11, 2011 in Game Stories, General

The history teacher — in his 27th year at the Jesuit prep school on Oakland Ave. — doesn’t remember the exact year it began. “Probably about 12, 15 years ago,” Tom McCarthy says. “Students used to paint themselves blue and literally run down Oakland Ave. to the old CBC High School on Clayton — a […]

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Behind the stats

By on September 3, 2011 in Game Stories, The Varsity

Early in the third quarter of SLUH’s second game of the season — an unseasonably hot September night —  senior running back Cameron Stubbs powered through the Ladue line and ran about 32 yards for his second touchdown of the night. It put the Jr. Bills up 20-7 and was the start of what would […]

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Starry, starry night

By on September 1, 2011 in Freshman Football

Jack is a true football freshman, buckling up the pads for the first time and figuring out how to run, scramble and tackle in full football regalia. So expectations regarding playing time are low; we are happy with any snap or play in which No. 15 runs out on the field. So a 42-0 shellacking […]

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The Hit

By on August 28, 2011 in General, The Varsity

I didn’t see it, but I heard it from the last row of the bleachers at the exact opposite end of the field. A hit no mother wants to hear. I was sitting at the far end of the bleachers at Parkway North High School Friday, Aug. 26, near the end of the third quarter […]

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The Opener

By on August 28, 2011 in General, The Varsity

The Season starts perfectly at 6:30 a.m. when two teenaged boys indulge their mom and pause for a picture before leaving for school. It’s gameday, and football players get to wear their jerseys. They hate that kind of thing I’m pretty sure but they do it for me because they know it will make me […]

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Turn on the lights, it’s Friday night

By on August 25, 2011 in General

Our grocery bill went up exponentially this summer, and it had nothing to do with inflation. The food tab rose about the same time Jack returned from his two-week backpacking Boy Scout trip to Philmont, N.M., and began early-morning runs through the neighborhood getting in shape for football. Football? It’s everywhere. From Oakville to Belleville […]

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Opening Kickoff

By on August 12, 2011 in General

“You’re playing football?” That was my reaction four years ago, when our oldest son, Matt, an incoming freshman at Jesuit prep school St. Louis University High School, told us of his intentions to go to football camp and then tryout that August. We are not a football family. Tom, a teacher at SLUH, is also […]

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