Rise and shine kickballers, the season is here. After all the wait and all the time and money spent drinking beer, whiskey, and recruiting, thinking how this season would never get here, it’s now game day. Week 1 is a special week – especially for board members and captains who have put in countless hours [...]
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20 May
2012 Season Prevew, Part 4: William S. Burroughs
1. BARRACUDAS Mascot: Nelson the Wonder Dog (He’s actually a Barracuda dressed up as a dog). Motto: Put your shoes on Following up a championship from a season ago, The Barracudas return a similar cast of characters. Two key losses from a year ago are speedster Matt Riley and heady kickballer Collin Baumchen. With those [...]
19 May
2012 Season Preview, Part 3: Langston Hughes
1. LOVE GARDEN Motto(s): “Squid Nasty” and “Ink ‘em” Tactician and GM Chris Ford has been hard at work this off-season upgrading his squid squad that fell just short of winning the cup last season. This team is a perennial contender, but hasn’t brought home the hardware for several seasons now; a task that is becoming [...]
17 May
2012 Season Preview, Part 2: John Brown
1. PITA PIT Tradition: Blowing Championships. (Andy, I understand high expectations, but that shit cray.) Pita Pit return a core of seven players from the nine years they’ve participated in the KVKL; not too shabby. Not to mention the trophy case full of hardware they’ve acquired. What is there to say about this team other [...]
11 May
2012 Season Preview, Part 1: Carrie A. Nation
With interim assistant water boy/hype-man Brad Everett – aka White Dom King – breathing down my neck to post my rankings, I’m finally ready to unleash my…well, just my opinion. For some reason the interest in predicting who will find glory and who will drink their kickball sorrows away (or not) is a yearly source [...]
1 May
April Showers Make Kickball Ours
It’s that time of year again. The ground has thawed (although it was never really frozen). The birds are chirping away, hard at work building a suitable dojo for the upcoming months. The fresh smell of rain has begun to change the landscape of Kansas from dull and dreary to lush and full of life. [...]
22 Apr
Coach’s Corner. Part 1
Are you short a few players this week? Are you having a hard time finding a team to scrimmage against? Fear not, I have a cure for all of your kickball ills. And it’s as simple as 3 on 3 on 3 on 3 kickball. That sounds weird right? That’s because it is. But it’s [...]
22 Apr
New Season, Same Sweet Song
Hello fellow kickballers! Kris Marshall here. I’m here to deliver the first of what will hopefully be a whole host of insightful kickball related posts for the 2012 season. As some of you may know I am treading the path of those before me and taking over as the primary blogger for the KVKL website [...]
13 Apr
A fallen comrade.
We wish to offer our sincerest condolences to the family of Aimee Zielger, who died on April 2nd in an early morning car/train collision. Her tragic loss has been felt throughout the community as she was a counselor at Free State High School, a co-founder of the Bert Nash and USD 497 collaboration WRAP Program, [...]
8 Apr
What’s in store for 2012? A Marshall plan.
This crazy weather has hatched kickball scrimmages much more rapidly that I am accustomed. Apologies for the belated hand-off… First things first, a HUGE THANKS to one Mick Cottin for taking residual mojo left by Chris Ford and nearly doubling the popularity of this blog in 2011, again. Or, many of you regs simply hit [...]
