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SECTION B s The Week Beginning February 3, 2010 s The Springfield Paper
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Reds Visit Air Force Museum
Features Local Sports Entertainment
Bryant Billing
RIVERSIDE — The
Cincinnati Reds’ Caravan
visited the National Museum of the United States
Air Force last Saturday,
January 30, for the second-straight year. Lines of
over 500 people waited for
an autograph session with
select Reds players and
personalities, which lasted
approximately four hours.
Reds players Jay Bruce
and Todd Frazier took part
in the event, as did Reds
broadcaster Thom Brennaman, General Manager
Walt Jocketty, and Dayton
Dragons Manager Todd
Benzinger.
The Reds visit started
at 3:30 p.m. with a question-and-answer session
from fans. The Reds representatives then signed
autographs for fans from
a variety of ages.
The players spoke
positively about their
hopes for the season,
and all representatives
said they thought the
Reds could break their
nine-year streak of losing seasons this year.
The Reds’ Caravan
program travels the state
of Ohio and surrounding states each
January and early
February before
spring training as
a method of creating interest in the
team. Pitchers and
Catchers report to
The ABOVE Photo: The CincinCincinnati’s new
nati Reds’ Caravan visited the Naspring
training
tional Museum of the United States
facility in GoodAir Force last Saturday, January
year, Arizona on
29. Members of the Reds organization took questions from fans
February 18, and
and signed autographs during the
the Reds start the
visit, which lasted approximately
season at home on
four hours. Staff Photo by Bryant
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Reds sign Orlando
Cabrera to 1 year deal effectively setting their infield for next season. “Old
Coot” Cabrera is entering
his fourteenth year as a
professional athlete. While
not as strong defensively
as Janish at short, he definitely brings more offense.
The Reds, for a change,
will have two experienced
winners on the team with
Rollins at third. Last season, Cabrera was credited
with helping the Twins
second half surge when he
was traded from the Oakland A’s.
The club also resigned
Ramon Hernandez, who
contributed at first base as
well as behind the plate,
until good old Dusty did
his patented “let’s play
him till he drops move.”
Drop he did.
If Reds General Manager Walt Jocketty continues to build a team that
can compete, Dusty Baker
will be the problem not the
solution. If Harang never
returns to form, you can
add him to Baker’s history
of trashing pitchers.
Good news on the
Reds youth front. Yonder
Alonzo and Juan Francisco were named to MLB’s
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Cincinnati Reds General Manager Walt Jocketty (center) watches as Reds outfielder Jay Bruce (left)
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top 50 prospects. Former
first round choice Alonzo
came in at 30 while Francisco barely cracked the
list at 48. Both are infielders, first and third basemen
respectively.
With national signing day happening this
Wednesday, February 3,
as of our press deadline,
Ohio State only had 18
verbal commitments with
a couple blue chippers still
on the board. Keep in mind
the 18 include last year’s
recruit, RB Carlos Hyde.
Fellow recruit Roderick
Smith (both are big backs)
should make for interesting competition for Boom
Herron. Herron’s biggest
fans are his Mom and Bryant Billing; most others
see him as a great MAC
running back.
Any way you try to
sugar coat it, this could
be one of Tressel’s worst
recruiting efforts. Five
star linebacker recruit Jordan Hicks from Lakota
East bolted for Texas last
week as the Buckeyes
lost another blue chip recruit from Ohio. According to recruiting guru Bill
Kurelic, top O-line recruit
Seantrel Henderson is a
50/50 proposition for OSU
and Glenville’s Antwan
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Billing’s Mailbag: Women Is Sports Week? Huh?
Bryant Billing
By BRYANT BILLING
Commentary
SPRINGFIELD
—
Hello from John Detrick’s
warm and cheerful Clark
County, and welcome to
Billing’s Mailbag! Billing’s Mailbag is a monthly
column that comes out in
the first edition of each
month in which I respond
to reader’s emails. If you
have any questions, comments, or concerns, please
feel free to email me at
[email protected]. Let’s get to it!
“Do you think whitewater rafting will go over
in Springfield?” - Tina
It’s not an accident I selected your email to be in
this column, as I’ve often
pondered this as well since
the project began. I really
think it depends what you
mean by “go over.” It will
be used and could create a
revenue, yes, but I doubt
it’s going to draw throbs
of whitewater rafting fanatics.
For those who aren’t
aware of what Tina asked
about, she is talking about
the current ongoing project by the City of Springfield to turn Buck Creek
into a whitewater rafting
attraction. According to a
press release sent to The
Springfield Paper last November, the first phase of
the project was completed
in the fall of 2009, and the
project should be finished
this year.
Now, while I have no
plans of jumping in the
Buck Creek anytime soon
(unless I’m paid to do a
story… huh guys? Good
idea?) I enjoy watching
redevelopment in Springfield get done. Cleaning up
the Buck Creek and making it a potential tourist attraction can only help. So,
yes, in that sense, it goes
over, at least with me.
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Anonymous
What? You mean to tell
me that they have a women’s sports week?
I had to go fact-check
this claim, but low-andbehold, there was the top
search result on Yahoo!:
National Girls and Women In Sports DAY 2010.
I placed the emphasis on
“DAY,” as it was not a
week-long celebration like
Mr. Anonymous asserted.
It takes place this Wednesday, February 3.
To answer your question, I’d rather see blank
space in the newspaper
than something celebrating the most boring types
of sports out there: sports
played by women. I’ve got
nothing against women’s
sports, except, of course,
the mind-numbing boredom. Especially in high
school, women’s sports
are miles behind that of
the male-version counterpart sports.
Girls basketball drags
on and on, as there are a
million and a half basketballs that go out-ofbounds. Girls soccer is,
well… I’ve never actually
witnessed a girls soccer
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game. I can tolerate softball, but I openly admit
to being scared of some
of those softball players
— especially when select
softball players refer to me
as “camera girl.” You’d be
intimidated, too, if someone who is 6’2 with eyeblack on called you a girl,
regardless of their sex. I
just don’t feel comfortable watching volleyball
— if you can’t wear shorts
that small in school, you
shouldn’t be able to wear
them in an athletic event.
And cheerleading isn’t a
sport.
I’ve said it before, and
I’ll say it again: this is
a business. Newspapers
need to go off of the racks.
I’ve been to girls basketball games and covered
them before — most of the
time, the host school will
only pull down one side of
the bleachers for a game.
In my experience, 500
is a big crowd for a girls
basketball game. A Northwestern at Greenon boys
basketball game would
draw more than that.
There is still sports
news on girls’ sports in this
section. In fact, there will
be a feature on a girls basketball player in the February 17 edition! But let’s
get real: can you name one
WNBA team?
“Thanks for posting
the live updates you do on
your twitter page. I can‘t always make it to the games,
and it’s nice to have a way
to get the latest… on the
game” - Johnny
Thanks for the compliment, Johnny! For the
rest of the folks out there,
I believe Johnny is talking specifically about the
live updates I post during Springfield High basketball games, since the
overwhelming
majority of the updates on there
are of Springfield High.
For whatever it’s worth,
I continually set ‘trends’
on twitter for basketball
updates, Springfield High,
ect. While I don’t exactly
now how a trend is set
on twitter, I think it says
something. Or maybe not.
Now to something in
plain English: Johnny is
just one of many people
who thanked me for this in
January. My guess is that
some people don’t like
going out in the cold, so
they stay at home. Just a
thought, but, if this is true,
it’s time to get out and
watch the Wildcats first
hand! Springfield is 113 heading down the final
stretch of the season, and
the Wildcats could potentially grab a high as a third
seed in the Dayton Division I sectionals. They’re
an exciting team to watch,
and they’re worth battling
the elements to go see.
On a side note, updates on all games I cover
at posted on PendaSports.
com and on my twitter
page at www.twitter.com/
BBilling. I also encourage
you to add the new official twitter account of The
Springfield Paper sports
department at www.twitter.com/TSPsports.
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—
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and funds to a Springfield High School basketball game last Friday, January 29, at Springcure children’s field High School. It was the second year in a row that St. Baldrick’s hosted an
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FOSSE TRILOGY ELECTRIFIES
The Thodos Dance Chicago Concert At Clark State
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SPRINGFIELD, OH
– The Clark State Community College Performing Arts Center is pleased
to present Thodos Dance
Chicago’s Fosse Trilogy
on Saturday, February 6,
2010, at 8:00 p.m. in the
Kuss Auditorium. Thodos
will also be in residency
the week of February 2
through February 6 offering a variety of lecture
demonstrations and master
dance classes.
Ann Reinking collabo-
rated with Thodos Dance
Chicago (TDC) in the Fall
of 2009 to reconstruct Bob
Fosse’s Cool Hand Luke,
Mexican Breakfast and
Tijuana Shuffle and set the
works with world premiere
transition choreography.
Founder and Artistic Director Melissa Thodos
said, “We are so honored
to welcome Ann Reinking
back for her third engagement with Thodos Dance
Chicago to set these important works.”
This performance also
boasts Melissa Thodos’
Driven and company premieres of three dances
from TDC’s acclaimed
New Dances 2009 Choreography Performance Series.
Awakening is set to the
music of Philip Glass and
choreographed by Wade
Schaaf.
Architecture:
Splintered and Cracked is created by award winning choreographer Jessica Miller
To m l i n s o n
and Reflect, a
collaborative
work by Mollie Mock and
Jeremy Blair,
is set to an
original score
by TDC’s resident composer
John Nevin.
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The concert also features reprises and the premiere of Con- Springfield’s Gary Geis
of audience favorites Nine tinuum choreographed by Dance Company (www.
by Brock Clawson, Depar- Melissa Thodos and per- garygeisdance.org).
turepoint by Ron De Jesús formed by the dancers of
Cedarville Instructor’s Recital
The recital
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and the Desenclos
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“Love Worth Fighting For”
Tour Featuring Kirk Cameron And Warren Barfield 2010 Dates Announced
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
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Your Faith, a nonprofit
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2010 at Immanuel Baptist
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throughout the Southeast
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These events have two
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and an evening session beginning at 7 p.m. In 2009,
this event was attended
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tickets sold out almost six
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KIRK CAMERON
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his life. Things like faith,
love, marriage, children,
truth, and with his songs,
he challenges us all to do
the same. Martin Luther
King Jr. said, “If a man
hasn’t discovered something that he will die for,
he isn’t fit to live.” Warren
has found those things in
his faith, his wife, and his
belief in love. “These are
the things I would die for;
things I will wake up every morning and spend my
day fighting for.”
Worth Fighting For,
Barfield’s third record, out
May 20, 2008 on Essential Records, expresses a
vulnerability and passion
born out of the realization
of how much life passes
by without intentionally
living, how little we invest
in those we love, and how
often we settle for the status quo.
“My wife is my best
friend, who I love dearly,
and she loves me,” he says.
“But isn’t it fascinating
that two people who love
each other so much can
cut one another so deeply?
When you let issues build
up in a marriage, the smallest thing can trigger a war,
and pretty soon you can
lose sight of your love and
commitment to one another. We had a night where
something as trivial as
spilled pretzels forced into
the open things we had left
unsaid. Once everything
had calmed down, I wrote
this song. In that moment,
I fully realized my duty, as
my wife’s husband, was to
wrap my arms around her,
to love her more than my
pride, more than my desire
to be ‘right,’ and to find a
way to move through life’s
good and bad times together. That will be a struggle
at times, but love is worth
the fight.”
For those who have
lost or feel they’re losing
the battle in relationships
and in life, the poignant
ballad “Drop The World”
is a prayer for comfort
and healing. “We’ve been
taught our whole lives that
God holds the whole world
in His hands,” Barfield
explains. “There’s an epidemic of brokenness in
our world, people hurting
so much, they need someone to drop everything and
hold them. My heart is
broken for people whose
marriages have ended,
people who’ve lost people
they love, and I believe
Christ is broken for them.
He knows our deepest secrets and loves us anyway.
We don’t have to hide our
pain from Him.”
Without an ounce of
judgment, Worth Fighting For strikes a delicate
balance between hope
and hurting, between love
and loss, infused with a
heavy dose of encouragement and grace. Songs like
“God Believes In You,”
“The One Thing” and
“Say It With Your Life”
reinforce Barfield’s confidence in God’s passion for
His children. “We can run
away from our problems,
our fears; we can run out
of money, run out of hope,
but the one thing I can’t
run out of is God’s love,”
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When everyone and everything runs away, God
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These are the lessons
that cannot be imparted
by parents or college professors. These are truths
learned in the trenches,
carved out on the journey,
forged in fires of failure
and forgiveness. Truths
only time and experience can teach. Barfield’s
“Love is not a Fight” song
was a hit single last year
as part of the Fireproof
movie (starring Kirk
Cameron).
FEED YOUR FAITH
A few years ago, Mike
Williams – a Blount County resident with a heart
for people who are struggling – started Feed Your
Faith. Rick Laney joined
him as Feed Your Faith’s
marketing and promotions director three years
ago. The Feed Your Faith
concept was simple; bring
in Christian speakers, authors, singers and music
groups to help Christians
grow in their faith and, at
the same time, raise money for those who are less
fortunate. Unlike some
nonprofit and charity
groups, Feed Your Faith
has virtually no overhead
expenses – so once the
cost of bringing the event
to town is covered, proceeds go directly to local
charities.
To date, Feed Your
Faith has worked with
nationally known writers
and music groups including Lee Strobel (former
legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and author
of The Case for Christ),
author Mark Middleberg,
DecembeRadio, Decyfer
Down and Sanctus Real
(Dove Award winning
Christian Rock and Alternative band), needtobreath and Sarah Reeves.
For more information
about the LOVE WORTH
FIGHTING TOUR featuring Kirk Cameron and
Warren Barfield LIVE
at Mount Pisgah United
Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, April 10, 2010 and
in Lexington, Kentucky
on March 6, 2010 at Immanuel Baptist Church,
or to order your tickets today, visit www.FeedYourFaith.org. More cities and
dates will be announced
in coming weeks.