No golfer in our town has a better resume than 51-year-old Ellen Port. No one. Port has won 12 Metropolitans, seven Missouri Amateurs and five national tourneys, including four U.S. Mid Amateurs. Not bad for a woman who played exactly one year of high school golf and no golf at all in college.
FRIDAY, FEB. 3
George Suggs eats like a horse. But, much to his chagrin, burns it off like a marathon runner. Suggs, the 6-foot-10, 205-pound center for the Vianney basketball team, is constantly noshing on something. He eats five meals a day and that’s just to maintain his current weight. “I try to eat constantly,” Suggs, 17, says. “It’s hard to keep weight on during the season.”
Cameron Biedscheid will put you on a poster. He’ll rise up and dunk on your head. He’s done it before, he’ll do it again. Biedscheid will drop a three-pointer in your grill. He’ll jab step in your direction, step back, pull up and knock down that triple. If he’s done it once, he’s done it a thousand times.
Maddie Stock doesn’t think about it. It never crosses her mind. When she’s burying jump shots, dribbling by defenders, swooping in for steals, blocking shots or hauling in rebounds, she’s focused on the only thing that matters—the end result. “I don’t think about that stuff,” the 6-foot-1, 18-year-old St. Joseph’s Academy’s senior says. “I think of the end result, whether we win or lose.”
Bailey’s Range, restaurateur David Bailey’s foray into the world of gourmet burgers, opened downtown last fall and quickly gained a reputation as the place for burgerphiles to indulge their meaty cravings.
**Spoiler Alert: May contain spoilers about the outcome of this film**
I love a good heist movie. The Italian Job, Inside Man, heck, I even liked Tower Heist. Sadly this is not one of them. The premise is genius. The casting is perfect and the acting is spot-on. If only someone had given them an intelligent script, they might have had something here.
It’s an exciting year for Oscar: Lots of firsttime nominees and incredible performances and as always, lots of snubs. Here are the nominees in the six big categories:
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