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Happy New Years to the Crew in Ladue & Frontenac

Best wishes to one and all and lots of luck in 2013.

We Hope everyone wants to read the L-F Patch in 2013. Hmmm, I could mail greetings to one and all. Lets see, that would be .38 cents times some 11,000+. I think I will just pass out my wishes for a new years by posting on the Ladue-Frontenac Patch. Here we go: Mayor Anthony Bommarito, City of Ladue--Thank you for serving as mayor and as councilman for an additional 10 years. A lot was accomplished on your watch. Mayor Keith Krieg, City of Frontenac--Here’s hoping that eyesore of the corner at Lindbergh and Clayton roads finally take on a whole new look. Mike Woolridge, Ladue City Manager--A lot of cooperation once more from your staff. Bob Shelton, Frontenac City Administrator--A prosperous development on the old Wright School property and…

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MICDS Tackle Jack Kurzu Named to Team USA Roster for Second Consecutive Year

Both will play in the International Bowl in Austin, TX February 5.

Jack Kurzu, 285 pound tackle from MICDS has been again given the honor of being named to the 45-man roster of Team USA (an NFL Organization). This honor is reserved for the country's most promising football players. Last week, the organization made the announcement that another local player Chase Abbington of Ft. Zumwalt South was announced to have made the team as well - http://usafootball.com/news/high-school/eight-defensive-backs-named-us-under-19-national-team Both Kurzu and Abbington will participate in the 2013 US Under-19 National Team program. Selection of players are based on outstanding football skill, leadership and character. Team USA will compete on February 5 in Austin, TX at the 4th International Bowl where he will compete …

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MICDS Rams Looking For All Kinds of New Talent

The Rams went 14-1 and to the Show Me Bowl title game a year ago.

Someone might ask MICDS football coach Josh Smith to walk on a bed of hot coals. That might be easier than trying to replace the two-dozen seniors who took his team to a 14-1 record and a shot at the Class 4 Show Me Bowl state title. MICDS had three division 1 players: Michael Scherer (Mizzou), Thomas Militello (Dartmouth) and Jack Howell (Brown University). That’s a lot for a school with a moderate enrollment. "The Rams graduated a deep and talented senior class and watching players move on to the next level, there will probably be some growing pains," said Smith. Scherer rushed for 1324 yards and 24 touchdowns on the ground and led the defense as an all star middle linebacker. He’s taken his ample talents to play for Mizzou’s Tigers in …

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Jack Kurzu, MICDS to Play For Team USA Football this Summer

Several Mizzou recruits join Kurzu who has committed to Oklahoma State.

Jack Kurzu (MICDS) and four other local guys were honored to be selected to play on the 45 man roster for Team USA this summer. Team USA is managed by the NFL and is the governing body for American-style football. Criteria for selection included athletic excellence but also academic achievement, character and leadership as well. The team reports to practice on June 20 at University of Texas in Austin. The International Federation of American Football tournament will play June 30 - July 7 against American Samoa, Austria, Canada, France, Japan, Panama and Sweden. The first opponent for Team USA is American Samoa. The local players who were selected are:Chase Abbington (LB) Ft. Zumwalt South (Mizzou Commit);Alec Abein (OL) SLUH (Mizzou Commit…

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Call It Official: MICDS' Jack Kurzu Will Become an Oklahoma State Cowboy

Giant junior tackle decides early after reviewing more than 20 schools.

Bob Kurzu played tackle for the University of Florida team in the Charlie Pell era of the 1980s. But that wasn’t enough to convince his son Jack, 6-foot-4, 305 pound tackle from MICDS to head to the swamp. After looking over some 20 college choices, Jack Kurzu donned the orange baseball cap of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, much to the delight of his friends and teammates. Kurzu made it official on Wednesday before a gathering of teammates from the Rams football program. Kurzu is considering plans to enrolling at Stillwater for spring football and those issues remain to be settled. The offers were wide ranging. His shopping list included Harvard, Yale, Hawaii, Troy, Indiana, Mizzou, Illinois, Miami of Florida, Ball State and many others. “I …

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Signing of Dorial Green-Beckham Sends Mizzou Fans Into Delirium

Tigers ink the top receiver prospect in America and the third best player in the land.

In full disclosure, I’m a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, and an over-the-top Mizzou Tiger Fan. I do bleed black and gold. So when Dorial Green-Beckham, wonder-kid from Hillcrest High School in Springfield doffed the Tiger ball cap and declared himself a future Tiger before his school mates and a national audience on ESPNU Wednesday morning, I was ecstatic to say the least. Mizzou’s coach Gary Pinkel has been building towards this day for more than a decade. Green-Beckham can rest comfortably, knowing that Pinkel and assistant coaches will be around just as long as he is as a student/athlete in Columbia. It would have been easy to pick the Razorback hat. Fayetteville, AR is closer by miles than his 170 mile jaunt to …

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James Baer

6:48 pm on Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Stand corrected. It was Blaine Gabbert who engineered the big upset of the Sooners in Columbia, not Chase Daniel.   more ›