Deadlines and Headlines – July 5

Upcoming Deadlines

• International Basketball League – today @ 7:00 pm CDT
• Foxtel Cup (Australian Rules Football) – tomorrow @ 8:35 pm CDT
• American Professional Football League – Saturday @ 7:00 pm CDT

Headlines

• The IBL This Week
  • This edition of the league’s weekly newsletter takes you deep inside the 2012 IBL Playoffs
• IBL League Leaders
  • Take a look at the regular season stats leaders for the 2012 season
• IFL Conference Finals Players of the Week
  • To everyone’s shock, Sioux Falls QB Chris Dixon wins another award
• Tri-Cities QB Houston Lillard is the brother of Blazers lottery pick Damon Lillard
• Foxtel Cup Semifinal #1 Preview
  • Not a ton of info regarding the Morningside – Werribee game tomorrow night (Saturday in Australia), but a little bit to peruse
• APFL Playoffs  – Fan Bus for the Council Bluffs – Oklahoma Semifinal
  • If you’ve ever wanted to ride a bus from Tulsa to Council Bluffs to watch a minor league indoor football playoff game, I’ve got great news for you
• APFL – Council Bluffs Express News
  • Two great nuggets here:
    • 1) the Oklahoma Defenders’ bus broke down on the way from Tulsa last weekend and they were going to forfeit unless the Express paid their expenses. Council Bluffs paid up and won the game, earning a home game this weekend. Had the game ended in a forfeit, Oklahoma would have hosted this weekend instead as Council Bluffs needed to win by at least 16 to win the tiebreaker for home field advantage.
    • 2) Council Bluffs signed 4 players from the neighboring Omaha Beef (in the IFL, although they were run by that league this season due to ownership issues) prior to the final regular season game. The new players, including QB James McNear who was instantly installed as the Express starter, led the team to victory and are on the roster for the playoffs.
• New Family Zone Attraction at this year’s John Deere Classic
• LSFL’s Texas Shoot Out
  • Further information released regarding the Lone Star Football League’s championship game and surrounding activities (Yin Yang Twins!)
• The British Open Website
  • It’s two weeks away, but never too early to start thinking about the British Open
  • Sorry, Great Britain, I know you just call it the Open Championship, but I’m going to stick with the British Open. Maybe if you had won the Revolutionary War, I’d let you have this one. But if we have to call our championship the U.S. Open, you have to call yours the British Open.