IT'S OPENING DAY, NEW PUPPY ARRIVES TOMOOROW

The Colonial Heights Colonial baseball team will open up it's season tonight at 6pm on the road at Varina. After three weeks of practice and a couple of scrimmages it's time to play for real, the weather looks like it is going to be pretty nice so you should come on out to the ballgame. The Virginia baseball team will be at home this weekend against Boston College, BC is 1-2 in ACC action. In NCAA basketball tournament action yesterday Old Dominion upset Notre Dame 51-50 while Richmond was upset by St. Mary's 80-71. Well our new puppy Mozart will arrive tomorrow, Mozart is about 9 weeks old. The internet service here at the has been very poor the last 4 days which has made it very hard to post a blog entry, some of the normal features on Mickey's Place may be missing until the situation is corrected. MICKEY

CD BASEBALL SCORES
Lee-Davis 10 Prince George 9
Dinwiddie 7 J.R. Tucker 1

Pomegranates
The juice from the biblical fruit of many seeds can reduce your risk of most cancers, thanks to polyphenols called ellagitannins, which give the fruit its color. In fact, a recent study at UCLA found that pomegranate juice slows the growth of prostate cancer cells by a factor of six. "Drink a cup a day."

“Running away will never make you free.”
~ Kenny Loggins

Today's Birthdays: Former White House national security adviser Brent Scowcroft is 85. Theologian Hans Kung is 82. Jazz musician Ornette Coleman is 80. Author Philip Roth is 77. Actress Renee Taylor is 77. Actress-singer Phyllis Newman is 77. Actress Ursula Andress is 74. Singer Clarence "Frogman" Henry is 73. Singer Ruth Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) is 64. Actress Glenn Close is 63. Film producer Harvey Weinstein is 58. Actor Bruce Willis is 55. Playwright Neil LaBute is 47. Actress Abby Brammell is 31. Actor Craig Lamar Traylor is 21. Actor Philip Bolden is 15.