Week #11 of 18 (06/30) standings for the Monday Al Brinson League are now posted on Bill’s website.  My page here now just has links to his site – the Summer Schedule, Roster and Member List.

Looks like order of standings pretty much stayed the same…

This is from the 1970 John Wayne Salute to America Variety Show. We’ve all probably seen it numerous times but no matter how many times I see it, I still get moved. Thanks to Grover for sending me the YouTube link.

(From 6/5/2019) Van Morrison recorded this song with The Chieftans in 1995. This version appeared on the group’s album The Long Black Veil and earned a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

For many years I thought this was just a typical, nice love song.  Then someone told me to listen closer to the lyrics…

Dan’s team is still out in front but Barney’s team moved up thanks to Bill Canty scoring 16 points, his highest ever.  They’re now one point ahead of Greg’s team so it’s gonna be close as we come down the stretch.  Only 2 weeks to go in this session. Also of note this week, Paul Gagnon earned a special award for his performance last week.  When you see him, make sure you ask about it!

Complete standings can be found here…

The league details and history can be found here…

Larry Berg’s Sunday Mixed Scotch Doubles Leagues at Hibiscus and Canal started on June 1st.  Paul Gagnon and Char Potochar are still in 1st place.  Larry Berg and Pat Moses moved up to 2nd with 17 wins.

The new schedule, teams and standings are now posted on his league’s page here.
Did you know that you can view all the News Posts regarding this league by going to News Posts->Leagues->Sunday Mixed Doubles?  It will take you to this page…

Stan Martin sent in the latest standings from the Divisions of his Sur De 44 league.  They have 6 Divisions that meet every Wednesday at 9 am at Riverbend, Water Lily and Burnsed Rec Centers.

Click here for standings along with details about the league and its format.

Mike Viveros’ team is still out in front but Gary Nankervis and Jerry Keating are on his tail, tied for 2nd place and only 3 points behind Mike.

All of the OBG League stats are now on Bill’s site here.

(From 9/8/2019) Last December I posted a music video of Erroll Garner playing “Where or When” and mentioned his other hit, “Misty”. Well, last night at the SLOTs tournament (NOTE: This is now Ginger’s Billiards Open), I popped in one of my old CD’s that I stashed away from when we played CEO up there.   About halfway thru, I heard Erroll and it reminded me to see if I could find a version of “Misty” out there…

Tommy Vee held his annual Memorial Day Tournament recently and Roger Vigrass was nice enough to send over many pics.  As Tommy said, “everyone who participated was a winner in this Tournament“. Their were 4 players that happened to stand out the most…

Let’s keep this week’s Friday With Frank simple.

Another one of Frank and Ella singing together — it just don’t get much better…

Jerry Tripp sent in the latest 3-6-9 Event stats. Don Simpson, Greg Shearer and Jerry work together to run a 3-6-9 round-robin game at Hibiscus on Wednesday mornings. They have monthly tournaments when enough people are in town.

For details click here to go directly to their page.

Nat King Cole was the first African American man to host an American television series. Cole recorded “Sweet Lorraine” in 1940, and it became his first hit. According to legend, his career as a vocalist started when a drunken bar patron demanded that he sing the song. Cole said that this fabricated story sounded good, so he didn’t argue with it.

(From 11/1/2018) One of my favorite Dylan songs, probably more famously sung by The Byrds.
“Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” CRANK IT UP!!…

UPDATE: Fred Caprio’s Friday morning Advanced Straight pool league will now be starting on July 4th at the Hibiscus Rec Center.  The Rec Center’s re-opening got delayed a week.

The new schedule and info about the league is posted on his page here.

It’s that time again — Friday With Frank!

Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music was a one-hour television special in color, first broadcast by NBC on November 24, 1965, to mark the occasion of Frank Sinatra’s 50th birthday. I got a feeling there’s going to be quite a few sing-alongs here..-:)…

I was watching the Sunday Morning Show this past weekend and they had a segment on the Doobie Brothers being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame this week.  So I thought it was time for some solid, straight-ahead rock and came across this Doobie Brothers live concert.

The results from the Saturday, June 7th,  Silver Lake 9-Ball Handicap Tournament are in.  It was a 32-player, double elimination tournament that ended up with the Final Four – Mike Dunn (undefeated), Steve Luskey, Dave Bowmer and Don Simpson – deciding to call it a tie.  There was also a prize for the 9-Ball on the break that was split between Colton Keene, Mike Kellough and  Bob Pizarro.

Brian Bedford, Grover Henderson and Greg Shearer run this Silver Lake Handicap 9-Ball Classic Tournament, Click here for details about the format, rules, etc. along with the player match-ups.

Another one of the dozens of songs that are in my Top-10 list today.  This video was recorded on June 21, 1969 at The Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and features Les McCann on piano and vocals along with Eddie “Lockjaw” Harris on sax. It’s a little grainy but hang in there for the lyrics…

Ginger had her Billiards Open 9-Ball tournament this past Friday night (06/06) at Silver Lake. Bob Cornell, Bob Huebsch and John Shepard all tied for 1st place.

NOTE: Her next tournament will not be until July 11.

Check out the main page for Ginger’s Friday Nite Billiards Open here for additional info…

INAUGURAL FLORIDA OPEN 9-BALL TOURNAMENT AT THE CARIBE ROYALE, 5-10 AUGUST 2025

It looks like they have opened up the General Admission tickets to this event.  It is being held at the Caribe Royal in Orlando where the Mosconi Cup was held last winter and it is a great venue.  I checked out a few prices and it looks like tickets run from $30-50 depending on the day.  For complete details check out the WNT.TV (formerly Matchroom) site here.