The Advocate's Sheldon Mickles has spent four-plus decades covering the LSU Tigers and New Orleans Saints, while also being involved in the Louisiana Sports Writers Association. Mickles will be enshrined Aug. 28 in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame as a 2021 recipient of the LSWA’s Distingu .
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image captionA skier watches the slow moving avalanche
A group of extreme skiers have had an unusual encounter with a slow motion avalanche in a gully on Ben Nevis.
Avalanches are usually explosive events involving a mass of snow sliding suddenly and rapidly down a mountainside.
The group was on Ben Nevis north face on Saturday to ski its steep descents.
They were surprised to find the avalanche moving slowly down Observatory Gully from the summit of Britain s highest mountain.
Al Todd, who was part of the group, said late spring was usually the safest time of year for tackling the north face due to the snow conditions, and reduced chance of avalanche activity.
Cubs short starts, then scoreless relief By JohnW53 on May 3, 2021, 4:15am CDT +
After Saturday s game at Cincinnati, the Cubs bullpen was roundly praised and deservedly so.
Five relievers combined to shut out the Reds for 5 innings, during which the Cubs turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 victory.
Davies has pitched no more than 4 innings in 5 of his 6 starts this year. Kyle Hendricks has done so 3 times; Jake Arrieta, Alec Mills and Trevor Williams once each, leaving the Cubs total at 11 such games.
They have had
25 per season.
434 of those games
14.2 percent, or 1 of every 7 Cubs relievers did not allow a run the rest of the way.
Cubs oldest position players, pitchers By JohnW53 on Apr 12, 2021, 6:22am CDT +
Who was the oldest in the Modern Era?
Who was their oldest pitcher?
Who was their oldest pitcher in his final season?
Each of those questions has a different answer.
....
Nearly 125 years after his final game,
Cap Anson remains the oldest player in franchise history to appear anywhere other than on the mound.
The last game of his remarkable, 27-season career No. 2,524 overall and No. 2,277 for Chicago came on Oct. 3, 1897. That day, Anson was
45 years, 169 days old.
He had been 19 days past his 19th birthday when he played his first game, for the Rockford Forest Citys, on May 6, 1871.