Blondes vs. Brunettes #37 - Sports Update

Thanks for checking out this week’s blog. 

Well another change-up, so to speak.  I thought I’d interrupt the Kansas City Trilogy for a sports update.  Seems that I’ve fallen behind on blondes vs. brunettes football.

Cleveland, Ohio: June 7th.  Blondes beat brunettes 70-52 (huh? wha?) 70-52??? Maybe it was  basketball game.

Louisville, Kentucky: June 7th.  Blondes defeat brunettes, no score available. 
 
Denver, Colorado: June 14^th.  Blondes defeated the brunettes, 40-27.  They also raised over $100,000 for the Alzheimer Association, which I think is nice.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana: June 14^th. Blondes defeated the brunettes, no score given.

Tallahassee, Florida: June 21^st. Blondes defeated the brunettes, although once again, I can’t find the score on any of the web / Facebook pages.

Amarillo, Texas: June 21^st .  Brunettes defeated the blondes ,37-21.

Lubbock, Texas: June 21st. Brunettes defeated the blondes, 20-19. 

 

Columbus, Ohio: June 29^th. Brunettes defeated the blondes in a heart pounding 36-30 victory in triple overtime.  I’d have included pictures, but none of the girls appear to weigh less than 250 pounds, so why bother? Instead, here’s the write up from the Columbus Dispatch,

Divided by hair color but united in their cause, 27 women ran, threw and sometimes tackled yesterday to help end Alzheimer’s disease.  fifth Blondes vs. Brunettes powder-puff football game went down to the wire Downtown at Columbus Commons, with the Brunettes pulling out a 36-30 comeback win in triple overtime in front of about 100 spectators. Blondes vs. Brunettes games are flag football games played by women in more than 35 cities to raise money for Alzheimer’s disease research, care and support. The games have raised more than $3 million nationwide for the Alzheimer’s Association since they started in 2005.  Yesterday’s game raised more than $30,000 for the Central Ohio Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, surpassing the $25,000 goal.  Last year’s game raised $19,006.

Blonde team player Nora Goss, 21, of Worthington, played to support her father, Fritz. His early-onset Alzheimer’s was diagnosed when he was 63 and she was a senior in high school. When people meet my dad, they usually don’t think he has Alzheimer, but it affects every aspect of your life and your family’s life Goss said.

During halftime, Chillicothe country singer Brian Dollison played "Sometimes I Forget" his song about Alzheimer’s disease. His grandmother died of the disease in 2003, and his wife’s grandmother is in the early stages of the disease, he said.

 

A couple of weeks back, there was a comment left by “anonymous” asking me to do some analysis on Roland Garros.  Sorry I haven’t got to that yet.  Maybe now that Wimbledon is over, I can do some comprehensive tennis analysis.

In the meantime, here’s an updated Leader Board, with a new entry at the bottom, just tracking 2014 powder puff football results.