BATTLE OF DAYTONA

Only in America, in a small town by the sea, in a ball park built almost 100 years ago. Only in America can the Eagles battle the Cubs in a baseball stadium that Jackie Robinson played in. It's the Rumble by the Sea. It's going to be epic - 9 innings strong. Be there. Tickets for students are $3. If you want the full blown experience buy a Dustin's BBQ pass for $15 to get dinner with the ball game. It all goes down April 8th.

RON HOWARD SIGHTING

This is a little late in the breaking news department, but two weekends ago our Embry-Riddle University golf team hosted a tournament at beautiful Pelican Bay in Daytona Beach. Representing the University of South Carolina Beauford was Reed Howard (who played a heck of a tournament and wound up finishing second overall to his teammate). Reed is the son of Hollywood trifecta extraordinaire (actor, director, producer) Ron Howard. You know Ron. Trust me on this one.

Perhaps you remember Opie from the Andy Griffith television show. Or Richie Cunningham on Happy Days - you know - the Fonz's main man. He was in the George Lucas film, no not Star Wars, the one that didn't have prequels or sequels: American Graffiti. He's kind of a big deal when it comes to directing, too. Maybe you've heard of Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind (it kinda sorta won some Oscars), Tom Hank's bad haircut in The DaVinci Code, Frost/Nixon (in my opinion one of the more overlooked films at the Oscars this year along with Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler). You don't have to be super old to know about Cocoon, though it might help, or remember that other film he did with Russel Crowe - something about a Cinderella?

Well, we got to talk to this living legend for a few seconds. He's got a new film that's coming out in April, bringing him back to work with Dan Brown's novels and his character Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks again). Angel and Demons looks phenomenal if you take the couple of minutes it takes to view the trailer.

Mr. Howard had said that he was going to donate an autographed movie poster of Angels and Demons to Embry-Riddle for our annual Blue & Gold Gala (unfortunately we haven't heard anything from him since the tournament, but we know he's probably a pretty busy guy). The Gala will be held on Saturday June 6th at the ICI Center. It will hold both a silent and live auction, and the money raised is used to help provide scholarship opportunities for the student-athletes at Embry-Riddle. Call John-Mark Adkison for more details at 386.323.5033.

NORTHWOOD GAMES

All along I-95 the bravado of the Northwood Sea Hawks could be heard as they drove up on Friday for baseball and tennis. The racket didn't help them out as they got swept in Daytona. Tennis - both men's and women's - dominated, and the baseball team earned themselves first place in the conference by sweeping NU. Northwood even tried changing jerseys in between games on the double header on Saturday, but alas the drive down to West Palm must have been even longer knowing they just doubled the amount of laundry they had to do.

The Men's Tennis Team now ranks 3rd nationally and has the best doubles team in the land. Baseball continues it's climb up the top 10 of the NAIA polls. Keep on keeping on spring sports.