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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

National Signing Day: Ezekiel Elliott Signs Letter Of Intent With Ohio State Buckeyes

February 6 is the first day high school seniors can confirm their college choices. The University of Missouri, Ohio State and Oklahoma State are among the NCAA schools looking to St. Louis for recruits.

College coaches are getting their money's worth out of fax machines today. This is the first day high school seniors playing Football, Baseball Field Hockey, Soccer, Track and Field, Cross Country, Men's Water Polo can submit a signed letter of intent to play at the college level. Ezekiel Elliott, the John Burroughs running back who gave a verbal pledge to the Ohio State Buckeyes last spring, confirmed that decision late Wednesday afternoon in an announcement that was also carried on live local television. Ladue-Frontenac Patch was there for what was an emotional decision for the entire Elliott family Patch editors have been at schools throughout the St. Louis area as athletes celebrated the next step in their careers: We'll update this …

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Republican Caucus Hits St. Louis Area This Weekend

Process will decide how Republican presidential delegates are dispersed.

After weeks of explanations and prognostications, caucus time is only days away for most Republicans in the St. Louis metro area. In most years, caucuses are simply a mechanism to approve delegates of whoever prevailed in the Republican primary. But due to the Missouri legislature not moving the primary date, the Missouri Republican Party decided to utilize caucuses as the mechanism to allocate delegates. A previous column explained the process. And the Missouri Republican Party put information about the event on its website. St. Louis County is selecting delegates by township, so here's the complete list of locations based off the MRP's web site: As noted several times before, St. Charles County is having its caucus at St. Francis Howell …

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