Could the Yankees make a free-agent run at Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina? Sure. Yanks catcher Gary Sanchez, 28, had a terrible 2020, and the New York front office isn’t convinced he’ll bounce back in 2021. In a late-November interview with Laura...
St. Louis native Javonte Perkins has become the new rising star of the college basketball world. A simple search across social media sees Perkins’s name coming up as the newest “Breakout star” or “Rising star.” After his clutch performance in the Billikens win over...
BERNIE BITS Let’s get started with some C-Notes: 1. In the short-track 2020 season the Cardinals batted .235 against right-handed pitching, with an abysmal .366 slugging percentage that ranked 27th in the majors. Their .690 OPS, 25th, wasn’t much better. So to...
Half-Court Defense has been a calling card of Travis Ford’s Billikens since he arrived at SLU in 2017. While the outcomes haven’t always been rich, the team always led with defensive efficiency over offensive prowess. Even dating back to his time at Oklahoma State,...
Scott Highmark talks about SLU basketball this season so far. A deep bench has been the key and, he says, it’s as good of a team as he’s seen in 25 years. He also talks about the recruiting process that many players are going through now and how it differs...
It usually takes me a while to warm up to college basketball. Get me to conference play, get me to January, and I start to pay closer attention. But that’s changing this season. All because the locals are off to entertaining, exciting starts. Yeah, I know. It’s a long...
Saturday evening at Chaifetz Arena was a record-setting night. The Billikens set a Chaifetz Arena record for points scored in a half, putting up 65 points in the opening twenty minutes. They eventually scored 107 points, breaking the century mark for the first time...
The recruitment of Marten Linssen came from, essentially out of nowhere. There was very little lead up or hype to the transfer announcement or any prior speculation. It felt very much like, simply out of nowhere the 6’8 big man was posting about his commitment to SLU....
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | MoreA big win last weekend over LSU for the Billikens. Scott Highmark will be my broadcast partner tomorrow so we ask him about that and the upcoming match...
