Art Hains Rocks Supreme

In case you didn't know, the best radio play-by-play caller in America is living and working in Springfield, MO.

Art Hains, the radio voice of Missouri State basketball, proved once again the other night that there is nobody in the world better at yelling.

The voice of the Bears most recently lost it when Kyle Weems sank a 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds left to sink the Jayhawk-dream-killing Northern Iowa Panthers 58-57 in Cedar Falls.

Listen to the last 30 seconds of the game by clicking this link to www.radiospringfield.com and pressing play on the 12-29 radiocast. It only takes a few seconds download, and then you can click in the middle of the white to pick a spot in the game. You can hear the end call in the 2:14 minute, but I suggest going back to a couple of minutes to get the full effect.

If you can't feel what this guy is doing, you have no soul. Go Bears!

Ask and/or tell

Ding dong the witch is dead. 


I don't know if I feel the way I do because I love to root for the underdog, or if it's because I have known family members who are gay, or if it's because I have worked with homosexuals I respected and considered to be my friends or if it's because I have a distaste for injustice in general, but the news that Don't Ask Don't Tell is soon to be repealed made me feel proud. 


I'm proud of our country, and I'm proud of our legislators for doing the right thing by standing up for the rights of homosexual citizens. 


I can't say it any better than Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregonian democrat, said it on the floor of the Senate before the 65-31 vote on Saturday (according to the NY Times): “I don’t care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn’t have to hide who you are.”


Well done, gang.