Git Along Little Doggies---I Mean Dogies!

Time for a 1937 movie from Republic Pictures, "Git Along Little Dogies."  This film stars Gene Autry with Smiley Burnette and The Maple City Four, along with Judith Allen, Weldon Heyburn, and William Farnum.  With original screen play by Dorrell and Stuart McGowan and photography by Gus Peterson, this motion picture was produced by Armand Schaefer and directed by Joseph Kane.  Yes, Gene's horse Champion's in this one, too!

Enjoy!

Anthony Calvillo Ties CFL TD Pass Record As Als Top 'RIders In Regina

At Regina, Saskatchewan:


Quarterback Anthony Calvillo threw for five touchdowns to increase his Canadian Football League-career total to 394, tying Damon Allen's CFL record on Saturday as the Montreal Alouettes (2-0) ruined the Saskatchewan Roughriders' (0-2) home opener with a 39-25 win in a battle of the entrants in the last two Grey Cup title games.

CONGRATS, DEREK!

Here'a a fellow who certainly got his 3,000th career hit in style.

Time For Chapter 13, Boys and Girls

Here now is the thirteen chapter of Riders of Death Valley, our 1941 Universal Pictures serial.

Curses: VooDoo Goes Winless At Home

At New Orleans:


The Milwaukee Mustangs (5-11) , helped along by three fumble recoveries and an interception, all of which led to scores, as they defeated the New Orleans VooDoo (3-13) 76-55 on the road in Friday Arena Football League action.  The VooDoo lost all nine home games this season.  Fullback-defensive lineman Justin Lawrence ran for four touchdowns for the Mustangs.

Hall of Fame Manager Dick Williams, R. I. P.

Hall of Fame baseball manager Dick Williams, who skippered the Oakland Athletics to the 1972 and 1973 World Series titles, passed away from a brain aneurysm at Las Vegas, Nevada at age 82.

Mr. Williams also managed theBoston Red Sox (American, 1967) and San Diego Padres (National, 1984) to league pennants.

John Mackey, Hall of Fame Tight End, R. I. P.

John Mackey, the Baltimore Colts' Hall of Fame Tight End who helped define the modern version of the  position as an offensive weapon, and who was also president of the NFL's Players Association following the NFL-AFL merger, passed away on Wednesday at age 69 from frontotemporal dementia.

Mr. Mackey was the second pure tight end elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992.

A five-time Pro Bowl and three-time All-Pro selection, Big John caught 331 passes for 5, 236 yards and 38 touchdowns in a ten-year career, nine of them with the Colts (he finished his career with the San Diego Chargers in 1972).

In his later years, John suffered from frontotemporal demenia and be believed that it may have been caused by all that contact associated with playing football.  His wife Sylvia, last year, pledged to donate John's brain to a Boston University School of Medicine study of brain damage in athletes upon his passing.