Thursday, May 17, 2012
The St. Louis Rams have outlined a renovation plan for the Edward Jones Dome that is estimated to cost $700 million.
The Rams want us to buy them a new house. Just fixing up its current home—the Edward Jones Dome—won't do. Instead, the St. Louis football franchise expects an extreme makeover, to the tune of $700 million, as it is estimated by a company hired by the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission (CVC) to analyze the team's counter proposal to a the CVC's own plan to upgrade the Edward Jones Dome with a $124 million facelift. If someone doesn't cough up the $700 mil to redo the Dome, it is feared the team will take its football and go home to Los Angeles, where it came from before it was the St. Louis franchise. All of this wrangling was set in motion in 1995 when the team negotiated a 30-year lease with the CVC. It was stipulated that the …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Patriots erase memories of nightmare loss in last year’s semifinals to claim their second district title in the last three years.
For an entire year, Parkway South baseball team players had to sit around and think about what could’ve been last year, when despite being one of the top-ranked teams in the area, they were bounced from the district playoffs early in an upset loss to rival Eureka. Through all those workouts, practices, and weight-training sessions, the Patriots concentrated on one collective goal—getting back to the district championship game, and this time winning it. And that year-long dream finally became a reality for Parkway South High on Tuesday, as the Patriots outhit, outpitched, and thoroughly outplayed pesky league rival Lafayette High, for an 8-4 victory, that gave South its second district title in the last three years. "We’re a tough team to …
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Jenny Weiss was a very important part of our team not only because she had a great statistical season, but also because of her desire and will to be successful as an individual and as a team, said Coach Mark Mosley.
Softball has always been a way of life for Jenny Weiss, according to her mother. Being the youngest of six children, Jenny has been at the ballpark ever since she was 4 months old. All three of her older sisters were heavily involved in the sport. Sister Kim, 6 years Jenny’s senior, played on select/travel softball teams throughout high school, in addition to playing on the Lafayette High School’s Varsity squad. Sister Bonnie, 12 years older than Jenny, played on select/travel softball teams through middle school and then opted to play volleyball in high school. Sister Jill, 13 years Jenny’s senior, played select/travel team softball, Lafayette High School Varsity softball (including the 1997 State championship team), St. Louis Community …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Beer disributor and Burroughs parent Tom Stillman leads local ownership group.
When local business man Tom Stillman took to the microphone at the Scottrade Center Thursday, this marks the first time the St. Louis Blues are in local hands since Kiel Center Partners (under the watchful eyes of Mark Sauer and Jerry Ritter) ran the show in 1991-1999. The St. Louis Blues have battled the tides of changing economies and different places in the standings since the days when insurance magnate Sidney Salomon brought professional hockey to St. Louis for the 1966-67 season. An array of different owners with varying personalities ran the show first at the old Arena on Oakland Avenue (named changed to the Checker Dome in the Ralston-Purina Hal Dean era of (1977-83) and then onto the Savvis (now Scottrade Center) downtown. Don’t …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Lafayette High School striker Danielle Tolmais is a maestro on the field, according to an ESPN(HS) video blog posted Wednesday.
Danielle Tolmais plans to play college soccer at the University of Memphis, according to an ESPN video story just posted at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. The Lafayette High School junior in Wildwood currently plays for the Scott Gallagher Soccer Club. To view the ESPN video, CLICK HERE. The piece showcases Tolmais' soccer juggling skills. Apparently she has set some new records, even including those previously held by local, older male soccer players. Her coaches called her a "playmaker."
Friday, May 4, 2012
A Eureka High School senior signed with a college east of St. Louis. Coach says it's a just reward for the player's commitment to the sport.
Matt Miklas, a senior at Eureka High School, will be attending the University of Illinois-Springfield. Eureka Coach Craig Kennedy, said prior to this year, Miklas achieved the following: Miklas also won the trophy for lowest stroke average in the Gateway Junior PGA in the summer of 2011. This year, Miklas won a medal at the Mehlville invitational, and is a Sectional Qualifier by finishing T10 in probably the deepest district in the metro area. "The opportunity to continue to play college golf is a just reward for the commitment Matt has made to golf," said Kennedy. "It is gratifying to see a young man succeed simply on hard work and dedication. Matt is completely self-taught, and because of that, he has an incredible instinct for actually…
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
PHOTOS AND VIDEO: A different sort of local interview with David Freese just went viral, and this Eureka-Wildwood Patch editor wondered at the time what the giggling hoopla was about. Now I know, thanks to the Internet!
An interesting development occurred to David Freese, and apparently I witnessed it Thursday without realizing it at the time. LOOK CLOSELY at the featured photo that accompanies this article: Doesn't Freese look like he's saying to me, the photographer of the photo: "Get help, plezzzz!" as he peered into my Nikon camera? Now, I see. To be honest, I sensed something different was happening between him and KSDK-TV reporter Julie Tristan as I took photos of her interviewing him at Six Flags St. Louis Thursday for the launch of the renovated roller coaster ride "Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast." But Tristan does the Show Me St. Louis Show, which is upbeat in general, so I shrugged and thought she must have interviewed him before and that they knew…
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Look who is Rookie of the Year. The University of Alabama hockey player was selected for the SEC All-Star team and may be heading to Europe this summer.
Since graduating from Eureka High School in 2011, Clay Link has become an integral part of the hockey program at the University of Alabama. In addition to qualifying for hockey Nationals, the team won the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Championship for the first time in its history. Link’s performance earned him a place on the roster for the All-Star game at Nationals, and he was selected as a member of the SEC All-Star team, giving him the opportunity to try-out for a team that will represent the league in Europe this summer, according to a Rockwood School District announcement. At the end of the season, Link received the Rookie of the Year Award and was selected to serve as Co-President of the Club for the upcoming season. Eureka …
Thursday, April 26, 2012
When David Freese helped Six Flags St. Louis inaugurate the renovated roller coaster "Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast" on Thursday, Patch also asked him about lessons learned from baseball at Lafayette High School.
Being happy at what you're doing is key to succeeding, said David Freese, a Lafayette High School graduate turned St. Louis Cardinals MVP World Series baseball player. Freese took part in Six Flags St. Louis' launch of the park's newly renovated ride "Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast" on Thursday in Eureka. See related Eureka-Wildwood Patch article: David Freese Highlights Six Flags' Media Day "Going through high school is a special time of life. You come to forks in the road," said Freese. "The coaches at Lafayette taught me to respect the game, respect my opponents as well as to respect the desire to win. They taught me how to 'get after it.'" Freese was aware of the first-ever home run hit over the fence by a high school player, Eureka High …
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The team has the sixth overall pick in the first round of the NFL Draft.
The St. Louis Rams already have made one of the biggest draft-related moves of the offseason, trading the second overall selection in this year's draft to the Washington Redskins, who are widely expected to take Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III after the Indianapolis Colts pick Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. Round 1 will be held Thursday evening, rounds 2-3 on Friday night and the remainder of the draft will take place Saturday. The Rams are holding an official draft night party Thursday at Dave & Busters in Maryland Heights, featuring appearances by players and cheerleaders and the team's Mascot, Rampage. At the moment, the Rams have the sixth pick, and have needs at a variety of positions, including wide receiver, cornerback, …
Michael Rhodes
7:04 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
That amendment prevents an increase in state residents percentage of taxes from income. I do not believe it would cover a hotel tax or tourism tax. The two articles I saw said that there are many loop holes in the amendment. I could be wrong. more ›