Colonials Postponed

Colonials game vs Dinwiddie has been postponed until 7:00 PM Monday Night.

"old"timer flagman at southside speedway

checkout the pictures at http://www.southside-speedway.com/ for sept 30, 2005. gary fox is flagging the charger race!! was that a normal thing or did you just do that because it was old timer night? did chris pick up any pointers? did you get to use chris's custom handled flags?

Keith's High School "Picks of the Week"

Last weeks record was 3-2 and overall 11-8

Thomas Dale Knights 20 Meadowbrook Monarchs 12
Colonial Heights Colonials 26 Dinwiddie Generals 20
Matoaca Warriors 35 Prince George 0
Hopewell Blue Devils 20 Bopper's Crimson Wave 13 (The Game)
Jackson Red Devils 28 Crawford Co Eagles 6

That's how I see'em this week, but the weather could big a major factor on the scores. Remember the "rule" the games are not played at Mickey's Place, they are played on the field.

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1918-the georgia tech football team defeated cumberland college 222-0. georgia tech carried the ball 978 yards and never threw a pass. JUST THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.

CHHS Homecoming

It looks like tonights CHHS homecoming game could be in jeopardy because of all of the heavy rain they are calling for today. My understanding is the game will be played saturday afternoon if it is not played tonight. Other games in the CD tonight has Thomas Dale at Meadowbrook, Hopewell at Petersburg and Prince George at Mataoca. In NC Pasquotank is at Firts Flight and Manteo plays at Northside. The Crawford County Eagles are at home against undefeated Jackson GA. The Braves played a pretty good game last night, they hit the ball very well John Smoltz did the job on the mound as well. The Nextel Cup Series is in Kansas City this weekend with practice today and qualifying saturday morning. I did start my Christmas shopping yesterday and I might get a little more done the next few days, I just don't want fall to far behind in my shopping. The Riverdogs will start camp saturday with players reporting, they are suppose to have 30-35 players in camp. MICKEY

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

HOMECOMING

here are a few pics of scottie in the c.c. middle school homecoming parade and festivities. scottie got first runner up for homecoming king and the eagles lost the game 14-0

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1880-the national league kicked the cincinnati reds out for selling beer. JUST THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.

Wednesday Was A Bad Day

All I can say about wednesday is that it wa a pretty bad day. The first thing that went bad is the place where I work caught on fire and wa totally destroyed. I am going to work today but I don't know exactly what we are going to do. Dad was able to get my pickup truck out of the area of the fire and he said it some soot on it so he too and ran thru the car wash, so Al won't need my truck washed for a few weeks now. Then the A-Braves lost the first game of there NL Series, they just walked to many batters that came around to score. The White Sox now have 2-0 lead over the Red Sox and Yankees and Angels are tied 1-1, the Cards and Padres were of yesterday. Then last night the ICU softball team lost a DH 13-10 and 21-11, we just didn't hit or field the ball the way we can, The Sluggers by far are the best team that we have played all season and they hit the ball ver well. Brin Holt had 2HR's in ICU losses. The only piece of good news that I have is that the NY Rangers beat the Broad Street Bullies 5-3 in NHL action, also the Caps picked up a 3-2 victory also. There is one college football game of interest tonight that has NC State at Ga Tech-4. It does look like we are going to get some much needed rain starting later today and friday which could cause some problems for CH homecoming. MICKEY

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright

Southern Food Goes Up In Smoke

The place where I work a caught fire this afternoon and was totally destroyed. I will post some links to the story as they come available. MICKEY

http://www.wwbt.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WWBT/MGArticle/WBT_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031785466730

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1902- on this day ray kroc founder of mcdonalds was born. JUST THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.

Braves Play Today

Well the MLB playoffs got started yesterday with the White Sox, Cards and Yankees all winning game 1 of there series. The Braves start ther series at 4pm today against the Astros, I guess I will have to root for the Braves since the Reds didn't make it the playoffs again this year. The NHL starts tonight with 15 games on tap with the NY Rangers at Philadelphia and Columbus at Washington as couple games of interest. The ICU softball team has a big two game series tonight with The Sluggers who currently are just two games behind the ICU, game time is 6:30pm at Lakeview#2. The Colonials JV football team will try to bounce back tonight with a win as they travel to Dinwiddie. It is homecoming this friday at CHHS as the Colonials will host Dinwiddie, and believe or not there 60% chance of rain friday so it could be a rather messy homecoming. Go Braves and Rangers. MICKEY

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

CLARIFICATION ON TODAYS HISTORY:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/history/fire_service.shtml

NHL Starts Wed Night

In honor of the NHL opening it's season wed night I thought I would post this photo from a few years ago of Andrew dropping the puck at the Riverdogs game. I hope the Rangers and the Capitals have good year. MICKEY

"All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity."
Gordie Howe quotes

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."
Wayne Gretzky quotes

"Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds."
Don Cherry quotes

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1648-the first volunteer fire department was established in new york by peter stuyvesant. JUST THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.

Pack Come Up Short

Well the GB Packers are now 0-4 after falling to the Carolina Panthers last night 32-29, they made a comeback but came up short in the end. It is going to be a very long year for the Packers. The MLB playoffs start today with the Padres at Cards, Red Sox at White Sox, Yankees at Angels and the Astros at Braves start on wed. The ICU softball team will be back in action wed night at 6:30pm on Lakeview#2 field in the battle for first place in the league against The Sluggers of Dinwiddie. I have enclosed a photo of how the Pack season has been going. MICKEY

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.William James

GO KARTING IN NAGSHEAD!!!

I feel it necessary to post the true accounts of my racing career at Nagshead from 1984-1995. I have taken a beating from being a clean and reputable racer.Kindalike Mark Martin but a little bit more aggressive. In that way Earnhardt-like. I was wrecked by Mickey,Al, Scott and too many others to mention. I did take out my fair share of others in retaliation only. I never instigated. I believe Bobby was there as a witness and can surely recall my unjust tossing at Rodanthe Superspeedway. I was robbed of my $5 ride fee and parked early. Im still waiting for the $5 Mick owes me for the head-on collision that resulted in an early parking of our karts. So in closing I feel that my true hard chargin style has "rubbed" a few people the wrong way. No pun intended. Feel free to comment on your accounts racing the True Value hard charger of Rodanthe, Nagshead and Hampton Speedways. I will be posting Mickeys great adventure from Hampton at a later post. Hint..It invloves tires and a great white shark..

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

today is another big day in t.v. history with the debut of several great shows. starting with the andy griffith show which began airing on cbs in-1960, father knows best-1954,captain kangaroo-1955, the mickey mouse club-1955, the dick van dyke show-1961. JUST THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.

A Couple Of Old Photos

Mark in wiffle ball action

Mickey throwing a snowball

Skins Now 3-0, DJ Wins Race

How about those Washington Redskins they are now 3-0 and could very easily be 0-3, every game they have played has been close but good teams win those close wons. I just hope Green Bay can get the victory monday night, but I have to be realistic the Pack is not very good. How about Dale Jarrett winning todays cup race, he come from about 7th or 8th place on th last lap to win it. Jimmy Johnson took out E Sadler and a few others in the 1st big one of the day, it seems he triggers allot of the big ones. The NHL starts wed night not friday and former Richmond Renegade Peter Vandermeer has made the show with the Montreal Canadiens, go NY Rangers. MICKEY

ALL PHOTOS ARE FROM AP

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1920-the cincinnati reds and the pittsburgh pirates played the only triple header in major league history. the reds won 2 of the 3 games. JUST THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.

It Was A Rough Saturday For My Teams

Well it was a rough saturday for teams that I pull for, first UVA goes down and then ECU goes down while Va Tech continues to win. In the UVA game it looked like they left the defense at home and in the ECU game they would drive down the field and then fumble. The ECU offense looked good in 1st half but struggled in the 2nd half and it seemed every time Southern Miss needed a big play the got it. Also in the ACC Clemson got beat again by Wake Forest, they will be calling for Bowden's head soon. It looked like USC might pull a upset but then the turned it up a notch to pull out another victory, I think they just toy with with ther opponent before they decide to put them away. I am going to see if the Redskins can go 3-0 today, it looks like the Pack might be 0-4 after today. I will have to have my tv remote in my hand today trying to keep up with the NFL, MLB and the Nascar race all at once. MICKEY

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
Vince Lombardi

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1924-jimmy (james earl) carter was born. he became the 39th president of the united states. editors note- possibly the worst president of all time. JUST THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.

Heading To ECU

I will be heading down to ECU today with Ricky to see the Pirates play at 6pm tonight against Southern Miss, the Golden Eagles are favored by 7.5. In the ACC today UVA-3 at Maryland, Va Tech-9.5 at West Virginia, Ball State at BC-38.5, Navy-6 at Duke, Utah at UNC-4, Clemson-6.5 at Wake Forest, Syracuse at Fla ST-21 and South Florida at Miami-21. Georgia is off today and #1 USC-15.5 at Arizona ST. In Nascar Va own E Sadler is on the pole at Talledega and I just realized its the OCT 1 and I have not started my Christmas shopping yet. MICKEY

You have no choice about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Pat Riley

Mickey's Place

Well Southside Speedway has been my playground for 31 years now and it's always good to see an old friend there. Tonight I saw my buddy Almo. I nicknamed him that years ago when I asked him to drive the pace car for me. Those were some fun times weren't they Almo? Of course it was really nice to see one the nicest person I went to high school with, Donna. I'm not out of control and I'm not asking any questions. They are good friends that I know no matter how long it is before I see them again I know they are there. See you all soon. It's hockey season! Hey Almo one question- Do you still have those Gary Fox signature skis?