BERNIE BITS Hey, settle in, take your time and read your way through a massive serving of the year-end Bernie Bits. New Year’s weekend has to feature some excess, so I’ve done my part, and what I have to offer is harmless. So let’s get started. FIRST...
BERNIE BITS 1. Let’s begin with the Blues, who pulled themselves out of the sewage-disposal tank to begin a cleanup process that produced consecutive wins over San Jose and Las Vegas over a 48-hour period. After losing eight straight in extreme, non-competitive...
In the 2019 NFL Draft, the Denver Broncos invested a second-round pick, No. 42 overall, to select Missouri quarterback Drew Lock. Broncos GM John Elway was wowed by Lock’s big gun of a right arm and had visions of a franchise quarterback. Elway’s search for the new...
BERNIE BITS THE QUICKIE EDITION! * Man, it’s good to see Saint Louis U running around on the hardwood, starting to look like the lively and entertaining team we watched before COVID shut the Billikens down. Wednesday night’s 67-60 win against Rhode Island followed an...
The Billikens Basketball #ChatwithChaps Mailbag: Jan 11/21 I hope everyone is having a happy New Year and staying busy with the Billikens on their shut down. It’s hard to know when exactly they will be back, considering how quiet everyone around the program is....
The Billikens have been locked down since December 23rd due to a positive COVID result in the program. But apparently, that does not mean the national media, or the NCAA for that matter, have forgotten about the Billikens. For the first time since the 2013-2014...
BERNIE BITS It would be crazily premature to declare that we’re safe and free from the deadly virus that plagued the world this year. We’re not there yet; the availability of the vaccines is extremely limited by the predictable but incomprehensible lack of...
Going into the 2020-21 College Basketball season, the Saint Louis University Billikens made a choice about how they were going to go do things throughout the season. They decided not to take risks, limit their interactions outside of the program, and (most...
Two seasons ago, Fred Thatch was one of the only bench players the Billikens had going into the NCAA Tournament. A team that carried a minimal rotation of players, essentially asking its starting five to play 35+ minutes every single night and there was Fred Thatch...
