Previous Champions (Winners of the Darth Vadar Trophy)
                                                                                                                                                                              2013- Lou Reed (Tony) over 4-Rilo Kiley(Mark)  "Transformer" 1972
  2012- 1-Graham Parker(Mark) over 2-The Shins (Mark) "Master Hits" 1999
2011- 8-Radiohead -Tony over 3-Bob Seger (Mark) "King of Limbs"? 2011
2010- 1-Norah Jones-Tony over 5-Alejandro Escovedo (Mark) "The Fall" 2009
2009- 1-Niko Case-Tony over 2-She & Him (Mark) "Fox Confessor bring the Flood" 2006
2008- 1-Regina Spektor-Mark over 1-Dandy Warhols(Mark)   "Begin to Hope" 2006
•2007- Buck Cherry-Mark (CD never awarded to Mark)
  •2006- The Killers-Sandy
  •2005- Red Hot Chili Peppers-Sandy
  •2004- The Wallflowers-Sandy (CD withheld ....in lieu of Mark not getting Led Zeppelin)
  •2003- Train-Sandy (first CD officially awarded)
  •2002- Led Zeppelin -Mark(CD never awarded)
  •2001- The Eagles (Sandy requested CD by another group, CD never awarded)
  •1979- Elton John- Ed
  •1978- Lobo- Ed
  •1977- KC & The Sunshine Band-Ed
  •1976- Chicago-Ed Kruska

 

Storm Trooper Award (To lowest-ranking teams to make Sweet 16)
2013- 15-Sir Peter Frampton
2012- 13-Sir Tom Petty
2011- Tie, 11-Sir George Harrison, 11-Dame Nora Jones
2010- 12-Sir Pink Floyd
2009- 12-Sir Roy Wiley Hubbard
 2008- Tie, 12-Sir Alejandro Escovedo, 12-SirJohn Lennon

 

Kirby Kile Award (Highest finishing 'Dead' performer)
The following winter another accident cost Kirby Kyle an arm -- fortunately not his pitching arm. He had one leg and one arm, but more than that, he had heart.

2013- 1-George Harrison went 2-1. He lost to 4-Hayes Carl in an upset. Harrison beat Graham Parker and The Avett Brothers. The quest for "All Things Must Pass" is elusive.

2012- 2-Roy Orbison went 4-1 (lost to The Shins in Final Four). Defeated The Cars, Boston, Whitney Houston, 1-George Harrison.

2011- Jeff Healey 3-1 (lost to Radiohead in Final Four, but beat: WHancock, Decemberists, 1-RollingStones. ...................................................................................................................................

 

Star Wars Wins By Coach through 2013.

05-Sandy Ewing

04-Ed Kruska

04-Mark Ewing

04-Tony Signore

 

 

Jim Casey Prays for Tippecanoe

I got thinkin’ how Tippecanoe division was  holy when we it was one thing, an’ mankin’ was holy when it was one thing. An’ it on’y got unholy when one mis’able little fella got the bit in his teeth an’ run off his own way, kickin’ an’ draggin’ an’ fightin’, jes like Horton Heat. Fella like that bust the holi-ness. But when they’re all workin’ together, not one fella for another fella, but one fella kind of harnessed to the whole shebang—that’s right, that’s holy, like yer Wilco or yer Lou Reed.

 Now I ain't a say'n that all ye critters should look toward this division for light and holiness, but if all man kind and all dem famblies want to feel like, well... Remember when we all et those pan bones, and crispy parts of the hog we slaughtered afore we set out? It's like that see. Sometimes ya gotta slip Grandpa a little dark medicine to get him a-goin' and sometimes he jes shows up.   I aint really a preacher no more, but by God, let's all pray for Tippecanoe, and pass me some mo that pan a bones, extra crispy. 

Sandy Out: 

7-Cage the Elephant falls to 10-Niko Case.  Sandy got a high 7-seed in the Star Wars and promptly fell to former Champion Niko Case.   I even warned her that Niko Case plays hard in Star Wars.  Some teams do that.  Sandy took the loss in usual fashion.

"Im sad that Cage the Elephant didn't stomp on Niko's Case's face"-----Sandy Ewing.

TV's Frank rides Elephant in mockery while Sandy was no where near Oakland.  "I said what I mean, and I mean what I said...and Niko Case won and the elephant's dead."

Star Wars Opening Ceremonies:  Tony Signore Takes Stage With Dark Vader

Ewing Angered at Ween, Zevon for early exits

   How many times has this happened to you?  You painstakingly get your good teams into some good spots only to see them fall to a bunch of commie morons?  "Lots", said Ewing.  "Zevon lost to the ^&%$ little pixies cups and Ween went out to the upstart Civil Wars.  "I don't really cotton to teams that I want to win show up and go through the motions.

  In other news, guest groups have been popping off publicly causing embarrassment to league officials.  Ruth Blauaw has been labeled as a 'trouble-maker', supposedly flipping off Tony Signore when she learned that her goofy boy band Backstreet Direction, was not allowed in due to really poor musical songs.  She quickly went on Mr Facebook and spouted off really bad vocally.  We are preparing punishment at press time and things do not look good at all.  She may get points.  She may be kicked out for a year.   I'm hearing rumours of Abe leaving his team too.  In a few hours I'll meet with Tony and go over some supposed violations. 

Ruth did something like this, I guess....



  Captain & Tennille out again.  I'd like to look it up, but I don't know if they have ever won a single game in Star Wars history. 

 Ewing hangs on to the fact that George Harrison and Chris Rhea seem to have produced good squads beating lots of teams like the lotus flower in a china shop, said The Chinaman. 

 

Billy Jack:  "Oh I can't believe the Civil Wars took out Ween."  I feel like kicking the Civil Wars in the face with my boot."

Fries and Whispers - Confessions of a member of Murder, Inc.

Out of the fog...into the smog.  Lalonde's Squad of E-Streeters, led by Center Bruce "Set-Shot" Springsteen, rode into Old Hickory and sent Tony "Mphff" Signore's Dwight Yoakam team back to the woodshed with an 81-72 victory.  "We smoked them like a ham," Lalonde told the SWI network following the whupping.  "Man eating cottage fries, like horse with no name adrift on lotus blossom," said CM, SWI regional television color-man.  Signore was no where to be found, until a janitor opened an unused broom closet, profusely apologizing for bothering him as Tony stuffed his face with massive quantities of fried potatoes, or, as Signore calls them:  "Life essence."

Tom Joad Spouts Off!

If there was a law, they was workin' with maybe we could take it, but it ain't the law. They're workin' away our spirits, tryin' to make us cringe and crawl, takin' away our decency. Ya hear me DeFranco Fambly,  Ma baking 'em Sunday mornin' biscuits right nice, like a fella can taste it clear to his bones. I been knowin' sumpin strong about the Lou Reed pret' near a year now. White light? Yeah white heat boy. I jes wanna walk around with a fist full o' dem California grapes. i knowed them Lou Reed fellas be always talkin bout being on the wil' side, but ain't nobody close in the "Ol Hickory. Hell, even if the REO Speedbuggy feelin the pinch. 
That Casy. He might have been a preacher but he seen things clear. He was like a lantern. He helped me to see things clear. That Wilco bunch been comin around these parts since I was young enough to eat a toad. Ain't got no sense, no how. Preacher say Wilco walk through Stonewall like a hot knife through lard, well, he knows it, boy. 
Rest of them brackets? Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too.