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This week in history as reported by The Summit County Journal the week of June 3, 1922.

1stherd of cattle crosses range Thursday

A herd of about 230 head of cattle crossed Hoosier Pass Thursday. They came in from South Park country and were on their way to Yampa in Routt County. The cattle made the trip over the pass in good shape and experienced no difficulty in crossing the divide.

The large herd from the Hanks brothers, consisting of about 2,000 head of cattle, is due to cross Hoosier Pass sometime today and should arrive in Breckenridge by evening. They left Villa Grove on last Sunday morning and have been on the way ever since.

Thomas case in district court

The case of the People v. J.W. Thomas in an alleged cattle rustling and killing affair was in district court this week. The people were represented by District Attorney W.H. Luby and Thomas was defended by John T. Bottom of Denver.

Guy Dowling, a son-in-law of Thomas, was the main witness for the state, having implicated himself in the cutting and preserving of the meat and giving it away. He stated that he knew the time that the steer was killed and that the brand, which was Guy Henrys, was cut from the hide.

He took other witnesses to the place where the removed hide was buried and uncovered it. The hide was not in any condition to present as evidence, so the jury had to draw conclusions from verbal evidence.

The cross examination lasted three or four hours, calling for many ranchmen from the lower Blue River Valley as witnesses, some even coming from Kremmling. The prosecution was carried on by the Blue Valley Stockgrowers Association in interest of the cattle industry.

All attorneys presented good arguments, with Bottom evidently making the strongest argument. The jury returned a verdict in less than one hour and Thomas was acquitted. It was not the aim to convict this one man, but to prove that the cattlemen are willing and ready to defend their interests.

Hoosier Pass now easily travelled

Several cars have crossed the range via Hoosier pass this week from both sides, and each day brings in reports of an improved condition in the road. The Park County side has been worked with a grader and is rather soft, but no trouble is experienced getting over the road.

On this side of the range, the snow and ice has entirely disappeared from the road and the shoveled-out drifts have been greatly widened by the quickly melting snow. With only a couple of exceptions, the road is drying up rapidly to the top.

Word of the opening of the pass has spread rapidly and many are now taking advantage of the fact by coming this way. People anxious to get into Grand and Routt counties have been coming through and others who are going to Denver from the Western Slope are now being routed over this way.

Berthoud pass still remains closed and the latest reports are that it will not be opened until sometime the latter part of next week. Efforts will be made to get a team across Sunday, which, if successful, will mean that it may be opened earlier in the week.

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Jefferson Geiger is the arts and entertainment editor for the Summit Daily News and managing editor for Explore Summit. Email him at jgeiger@summitdaily.com.

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BAY CITY, MI -- A look at the 2022 high school baseball regionals involving teams in the MLive Bay City coverage area. Follow along here for the pairings, schedules and results as they update throughout the tournament. Below is a historical list of past regional champions from the Bay City area.

DIVISION 2

Wednesday, June 8

Regional Semifinals

4:30 p.m. Clare vs. John Glenn at Gladwin

4:30 p.m. Fruitport vs. Howard City Tri-County at Whitehall

5 p.m. Allendale vs. Forest Hills Eastern at Ionia

5 p.m. Cheboygan at Petoskey

Saturday, June 11

Regional Finals at Clare

10 a.m. Allendale/Forest Hills Eastern vs. Cheboygan/Petoskey

12:30 p.m. John Glenn/Clare vs. Fruitport/Tri-County

3 p.m. Quarterfinal

Winner advances to state semifinals at MSU

DIVISION 3

Wednesday, June 8

Regional Semifinals

4 p.m. Beaverton at Standish-Sterling

4 p.m. Houghton at Gladstone

4:30 p.m. LeRoy Pine River vs. Reed City at Mason County Central

4 p.m. Boyne City at Traverse City St. Francis

Saturday, June 11

Regional Finals at Harbor Springs

10 a.m. Houghton/Gladstone vs. Beaverton/Standish-Sterling

12:30 p.m. Pine River/Reed City vs. Boyne City/St. Francis

3 p.m. Quarterfinal

Winner advances to state semifinals at MSU

DIVISION 4

Wednesday, June 8

Regional Semifinals

4 p.m. Bay City All Saints vs. Harbor Beach at USA

4 p.m. Plymouth Christian at Riverview Gabriel Richard

4 p.m. Marine City Cardinal Mooney vs. Kingston at Mayville

4:30 p.m. Royal Oak Shrine vs. Waterford Our Lady at Parkway

Saturday, June 11

Regional Finals at Uticas Jimmy Johns Stadium

9:30 a.m. All Saints/Harbor Beach vs. Plymouth Christian/Gabriel Richard

Noon Cardinal Mooney/Kingston vs. Shrine/Our Lady

2:30 p.m. Quarterfinal

Winner advances to state semifinals at MSU

Regional titles won by the 26 schools in the current MLive Bay City coverage area and consolidated schools

All Saints 78-81-91-99-00-02-03-04-05-08-09-14

Au Gres 86

Bangor John Glenn 12-17

Bay City Handy 75-82-87

Bay City Western 06-09-13-14

Beaverton 07-08-19

Clare 79-94-00-02-13

Essexville Garber 93-02-19

Gladwin 14-21

Laker 15

Mio 90

Ogemaw 90

Pinconning 71-73-79-98-99-03-05-07-09-10-14

Reese 97-01-14

Roscommon 89-05

Sebewaing 72

Standish-Sterling 76-07-16-18

Tawas 86

Unionville-Sebewaing 02-06-07-16-17-18

Whittemore-Prescott -- 13

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Ranking the top-ten teams in the 127-year history of the Oklahoma football is no easy task, especially considering that the program has won seven national titles and delivered seven Heisman Trophy winners as one of college footballs elite blue bloods.

And you also have to consider that there have been many other great Sooner teams that didnt win it all.

Lets start with a couple of disclaimers. Championships take the cake. This means that all of the Oklahoma teams that captured college footballs most coveted prize will be ranked ahead of those who didnt. Secondly, the sport of football has changed so much over 127 years that its impossible to know if the Wishbone offenses of the previous century would be able to hang with the spread offenses of the last decade and a half.

So, without further ado, here are the top-ten teams in OU Football history.

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When was MLBs last perfect game? A look at the history of perfectos originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington

Two New York Yankees pitchers came oh so close to perfection this week.

Jameson Taillon retired the first 21 Los Angeles Angels hitters he faced on Thursday night. But Jared Walsh ended the former No. 2 overall picks bid at history when he led off the eighth inning with a double up the middle that shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa couldnt come up with.

The following night, ace Gerrit Cole nearly matched Taillons feat. Cole sat down the first 20 Detroit Tigers batters he faced before Jonathan Schoop singled up the middle past a diving DJ LeMahieu with two outs in the seventh.

The Yankees became the first team in the expansion era (since 1961) to carry a perfecto beyond the sixth inning in back-to-back games. But, while they made some history, Cole and Taillon failed to end a near-decade-long drought in Major League Baseball

King Felix last pitched in 2019, but he still owns MLBs most recent perfect game. On Aug. 15, 2012, Felix Hernandez tossed a perfecto against the Tampa Bay Rays. The 2010 AL Cy Young winner struck out 12, including the final batter, to record the first perfect game in Seattle Mariners history.

Hernandezs outing was actually the last of three perfect games in the 2012 season. Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants (vs. Houston on June 13) and Philip Humber of the Chicago White Sox (vs. Seattle on April 21) also threw perfectos that season. Hernandez, Cain and Humber combined for the most perfect games ever in the same season, topping the previous record of two.

There have been 23 perfect games in MLB history, with the first two coming just days apart all the way back in 1880 courtesy of Lee Richmond and John Ward. Twenty-one perfect games have occurred in the modern era (since 1900) and 17 have come within the last 60 years.

For context, Angels rookie Reid Detmers no-hitter last month was the 316th no-no in MLB history, showing just how difficult perfection is to achieve for a pitcher.

MLB is currently in the midst of the longest perfecto-less droughts in the modern era. There have been just three other times over that span where at least nine years went by without one happening.

MLBs 23 perfect games were thrown by 23 different pitchers, meaning no player has ever recorded more than one and there has never been a combined perfecto.

The Yankees and White Sox are tied for the most perfect games with three apiece. Meanwhile, the Rays, who were founded in 1998, and Dodgers have each been on the wrong side of a perfect game three times, the most of any team.

Heres a look at all the perfect games in MLB history:

Felix Hernandez, Mariners: 2012: vs. Rays

Matt Cain, Giants: 2012 vs. Astros

Philip Humber, White Sox: 2012 vs. Mariners

Roy Halladay, Phillies: 2010 vs. Marlins

Dallas Braden, As: 2010 vs. Rays

Mark Buehrle, White Sox: 2009 vs. Rays

Randy Johnson, Diamondbacks: 2004 vs. Braves

David Cone, Yankees: 1999 vs. Montreal Expos

David Wells, Yankees: 1998 vs. Twins

Kenny Rogers, Rangers: 1994 vs. Angels

Dennis Martinez, Montreal Expos: 1991 vs. Dodgers

Tom Browning, Reds: 1988 vs. Dodgers

Mike Witt, Angels: 1984 vs. Rangers

Len Baker, Cleveland: 1981 vs. Blue Jays

Catfish Hunter, As: 1968 vs. Twins

Sandy Koufax, Dodgers: 1965 vs. Cubs

Jim Bunning, Phillies: 1964 vs. Mets

Don Larsen, Yankees: 1956 World Series vs. Dodgers

Charlie Roberston, White Sox: 1922 vs. Tigers

Addie Joss, Cleveland: 1908 vs. White Sox

Cy Young, Boston: 1904 vs. As

John Ward, Providence Grays: 1880 vs. Buffalo Bisons

Lee Richmond, Worcester Ruby Legs: 1880 vs. Cleveland Blues

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Todays Highlight in History:

On June 4, 1942, the World War II Battle of Midway began, resulting in a decisive American victory against Japan and marking the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

On this date:

In 1812, the U.S. House of Representatives approved, 79-49, a declaration of war against Britain.

In 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which said that the right to vote could not be denied or abridged based on gender. The amendment was sent to the states for ratification.

In 1939, the German ocean liner MS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, was turned away from the Florida coast by U.S. officials.

In 1940, during World War II, the Allied military evacuation of some 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ended. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared: We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

In 1944, U-505, a German submarine, was captured by a U.S. Navy task group in the south Atlantic; it was the first such capture of an enemy vessel at sea by the U.S. Navy since the War of 1812. The U.S. Fifth Army began liberating Rome.

In 1967, Mission: Impossible won outstanding dramatic series, The Monkees outstanding comedy series at the 19th Primetime Emmy Awards.

In 1984, Bruce Springsteen released the album, Born In The USA, which became the best-selling album of 1985 in the United States (and also Springsteens most successful album ever). The album produced a record-tying string of seven Top 10 singles (tied with Michael Jacksons Thriller and Janet Jacksons Rhythm Nation 1814).

In 1985, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law providing for a daily minute of silence in public schools.

In 1986, Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty in Washington to conspiring to deliver information related to the national defense to Israel. (Pollard, sentenced to life in prison, was released on parole on Nov. 20, 2015; he moved to Israel after completing parole in December 2020.)

In 1989, a gas explosion in the Soviet Union engulfed two passing trains, killing 575.

In 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian carried out his first publicly assisted suicide, helping Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Alzheimers patient from Portland, Oregon, end her life in Oakland County, Michigan.

In 1998, a federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

In 2020, in the first of a series of memorials set for three cities over six days, celebrities, musicians and political leaders gathered in front of George Floyds golden casket in Minneapolis.

Ten years ago: With President Barack Obama standing off to the side, former President Bill Clinton warned during a fundraiser in New York that a Mitt Romney presidency would be calamitous for the nation and the world. Al-Qaidas second-in-command, Abu Yahya al-Libi (ah-BOO yah-HEE-ah ahl LIH-bee), was killed in a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan.

Five years ago: Alfredo del Mazo of the governing PRI (pree) party was elected governor of the state of Mexico in a hotly disputed contest marred by charges of irregularities. Elite rock climber Alex Honnold became the first to climb alone to the top of the massive granite wall known as El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without ropes or safety gear.

One year ago: A federal judge overturned Californias three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, calling it a failed experiment that violated peoples constitutional right to bear arms. Facebook said former President Donald Trumps accounts would be suspended for two years, following a finding that Trump stoked violence ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Prince Harry and Meghan welcomed their second child, a girl born in California and named Lilibet Diana in a tribute both to Queen Elizabeth II and to the princes late mother, Princess Diana. Actor Clarence Williams III, who played undercover cop Linc Hayes on the TV series The Mod Squad, died in Los Angeles at 81.

Todays Birthdays: Sex therapist and media personality Dr. Ruth Westheimer is 94. Actor Bruce Dern is 86. Musician Roger Ball is 78. Actor-singer Michelle Phillips is 78. Jazz musician Anthony Braxton is 77. Rock musician Danny Brown (The Fixx) is 71. Actor Parker Stevenson is 70. Actor Keith David is 66.

Blues singer-musician Tinsley Ellis is 65. Actor Eddie Velez is 64. Singer-musician El DeBarge is 61. Actor Julie White is 61. Actor Lindsay Frost is 60. Actor Sean Pertwee is 58. Former tennis player Andrea Jaeger is 57. Opera singer Cecilia Bartoli is 56. R&B singer Al B. Sure! is 54. Actor Scott Wolf is 54. Actor-comedian Rob Huebel is 53. Comedian Horatio Sanz is 53. Actor James Callis is 51. Actor Noah Wyle is 51. Rock musician Stefan Lessard (The Dave Matthews Band) is 48. Actor-comedian Russell Brand is 47. Actor Angelina Jolie is 47. Actor Theo Rossi is 47. Alt-country singer Kasey Chambers is 46. Actor Robin Lord Taylor is 44. Rock musician JoJo Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is 42. Model Bar Refaeli (ruh-FEHL-lee) is 37. Olympic gold medal figure skater Evan Lysacek is 37. Americana singer Shakey Graves is 35. Rock musician Zac Farro is 32.

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Today in History: Today is Saturday, June 4, the 155th day of 2022. - wausaupilotandreview.com

Sue Wasserman| Word from the Smokies

This spring, I finally began my stint as the 2022 Steve Kemp Writer-In-Residence. Coordinated and funded by Great Smoky Mountains Association, the residency allows writers to live near, work in, and draw inspiration from the Great Smoky Mountains for a period of six weeks.

Beginning this residency, at least for me, is like being a kid in the proverbial candy store. My eyes pop, thinking of all the delicious possibilities. The only challenge, given the brief time frame, is choosing what to focus on.

That thought was behind my request to use the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage, a park event held every year at the end of April, as a jumping off point. Given the diverse offerings, Id be able to dabble not only in nature, but in the parks history as well. I thought if I could get a quick taste, I could hone in on places and topics that resonated most.

Thanks to Ranger Brad Free, Elkmont has become one of those places. Prior to the pilgrimage, I knew absolutely nothing about what existed beyond the turn here sign.

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But the avid history buff, who loves wearing his cool ranger hat, immediately piqued my curiosity when he told our group, Elkmont is not lost, nor is it the ghost town you might have read about on the internet. As we walked, he proceeded to tell the story of William Bailey Townsend, who amassed close to 80,000 acres for his Little River Lumber Company and the town that sprung up around it.

Elkmont came to life through Frees stories of the loggers who worked six days a week for meager pay, of railroad engineer Rooster Williams who bought one of the earliest airplanes and crashed it while showing off for the community, of the professional ringers brought in to win company baseball games, of the exclusive Daisy Town community, which emerged as a getaway for Knoxvilles elite and whose structures the park is currently bringing back to life.

It was with a more powerful sense of place that I arrived back a few mornings later for a wildflower walk along the Cucumber Gap Trail. As much as I thought I wanted to learn more about each plant, I realized we would never see much of the trail at the rate our group leaders were botanizing. A new pilgrimage friend named Lisa and I sensed it was time to set out on our own.

Since neither of us had intended to wander off, we hadnt looked at a trail map. When we came to a fork in the trail, we invoked eeny-meeny-miny-mo, and turned left up the hill.

It worked. Thanks to two gents who passed us, we discovered Cucumber Gap was a loop. And, oh, what a loop it was.

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Clearly, the trail earned its name for the abundance of Indian cucumber root blossoming everywhere we looked. Having sampled the root over the years in other locations, I knew it was not only edible, but delicious. I wondered if the loggers had stumbled on them and added them to their diets. Given their meager pay and excessive cost of living, I imagined foraging and hunting must have played a role in their lives.

Did they, I wondered, have the opportunity Lisa and I had to ooh and ahh over patches of umbrella leaf or large flowered trillium? Were they blown away by the excess of showy orchis that blossomed in clusters, the likes of which Ive never seen along the Little River? Or was the ooh-ing and ahh-ing, if it indeed even happened, left to the wealthier Daisy Town residents who had nothing but free time when they arrived at their vacation homes?

When we reached the Little River turnoff, I was curious about how flat the trail now seemed. It dawned on me that the train tracks were probably housed here along the river. This was just an educated guess, however, until a passerby ranger confirmed it.

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Despite being whipped as we closed in on our fifth mile, my step felt lighter for having made that connection. Having a little sense of history helped me to better appreciate the bits and pieces of old structures we encountered on this last section of trail. Lisa and I wondered who had lived here. Were these vacation properties or lumber company structures? Were the wildflowers scattered across the grounds now, scattered across the grounds then?

The only thing of which Im certain is theres so much more to learn, both about the flowers currently thriving on the trail and the people who once thrived in the community. I have a strong hunch I will be richer for understanding both.

Sue Wasserman is the 2022 Steve Kemp Writer-in-Residence in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the author ofA Moments NoticeandWalk with Me: Exploring Natures Wisdom.She has also written for theNew York TimesandSouthern Living. She currently lives in Bakersville.

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This weekend, listen to a collection of narrated articles from around The New York Times, read aloud by the reporters who wrote them.

Written and narrated by Mark Yarm

In spring 2015, the documentary filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart came across a short profile of June Millington, the singer and lead guitarist for the pioneering 1970s all-female rock group, Fanny. Despite growing up in a hippie household in California, Hart had never heard of them or that Fanny was the first all-female rock band to release an album on a major label.

When she first learned about Fanny online, she had a visceral reaction: It really pissed me off, she said. It was just another example of amazing women that we dont know about. Hart reached out to former band members about the possibility of a documentary but determined at the time that the Fanny story didnt have the forward-momentum narrative she was looking for.

Then, in January 2017, Hart spotted June Millington at the Womens March on Washington. The sighting spurred Hart to call Millington, who had some news: Three members of Fanny were about to make a new album on an indie label. The moment for a film had arrived.

Top Gun: Maverick turns and burns its way into theaters this week, landing 36 years after the 1986 original.

Thats a lot of time to form a lot of questions about the new film and its relationship to its predecessor: How similar are the stories? Whos back? Do we hear Danger Zone?

Here are the answers.

Written and narrated by Molly Young

The culture has an enduring fascination with sharks: Jaws and its sequels; the Discovery Channels Shark Week; the movie where Samuel L. Jackson gets eaten by a shark; the movie where Blake Lively almost gets eaten by a shark; the movie where Ian Ziering dives into a sharks mouth with a chain saw and then chainsaws his way out.

I have shielded myself from shark information under the logic of What I dont know might be able to hurt me, and thats precisely why I dont want to know it, Molly Young writes.

Molly waded into unwanted territory thanks to the gentle guidance of David Shiffman, a marine conservation biologist at Arizona State University, whose new book is called Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive With the Worlds Most Misunderstood Predator.

Written and narrated by Jesse McKinley

He is a postdoctoral fellow from Pittsburgh, a bartender turned political mapmaker. Now, Jonathan Cervas is suddenly New Yorks most unforeseen power broker.

Last month, a New York State judge chose Mr. Cervas to create new district maps in New York for the House and State Senate after maps approved by state Democratic leaders were declared unconstitutional.

Mr. Cervass new maps radically reshaped several districts, scrambling the future of the states political establishment for the next decade.

Written by Dan Barry and Karen Zraick | Narrated by Dan Barry

In 2018, Marco Martnez, a teenager newly arrived from Ecuador, died after being crushed against a ceiling by a mechanical lift. A year later, Michael Daves, who was living in a mens shelter and struggling with substance abuse, died after falling through a hole.

And now Yonin Pineda, a 29-year-old from Guatemala, lies unconscious and gravely injured. His diligent Mexican foreman, Mauricio Snchez, 41, is sprawled dead beside him, his face mangled, his chest torn open, his blood staining broken concrete.

The men were transforming a century-old Bronx ice house into a charter school.

No other construction site in New York City has had this many separate fatal incidents since at least 2003, when the Department of Buildings began keeping electronic records. But despite the pattern of deaths, the consequences have been negligible.

The Timess narrated articles are made by Tally Abecassis, Parin Behrooz, Anna Diamond, Sarah Diamond, Jack DIsidoro, Aaron Esposito, Dan Farrell, Elena Hecht, Adrienne Hurst, Elisheba Ittoop, Emma Kehlbeck, Marion Lozano, Tanya Prez, Krish Seenivasan, Margaret H. Willison, Kate Winslett, John Woo and Tiana Young. Special thanks to Sam Dolnick, Ryan Wegner, Julia Simon and Desiree Ibekwe.

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Baxters Where Everybody Knows You Name

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) Let Me Be Frank Productions show troupe based in Green Bay will present the new comedy musical, Baxters Where Everybody Knows Your Name, starting next week at the Meyer Theatre in downtown Green Bay. Info: meyertheatre.org.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. June 10, 11, 17, 18; 1 and 7:30 p.m. June 23; 7:30 p.m. June 24; and 1 and 7:30 p.m. June 25.

The show is a takeoff on a real place that operated in the 1970s and 80s at the corner of Dousman Street and Broadway in Green Bay.

The press release says, Welcome to Baxters restaurant, where everybody knows your name! Mr. Broberg manages the establishment with the assistance of the cooks, Pat and Tom. Waitresses Amy, Lisa and Sarah, keep customers happy with their innovative team serving strategy. With this crew of characters, Baxters is definitely the place to be in the 1980s. The restaurant features new dishes never seen in Wisconsin, like cheese and bacon skins, zucchini sticks and even margaritas. Are they original recipes or rip-offs of another establishment perhaps TGI Fridays? Like everything else in the world, the best ideas are the ones that are stolen. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, right? It may only be a matter of time until Baxters is called out for corporate espionage.

One fateful evening, Paul and Kasey Friday enter the doors of Baxters. The couple snoops in undercover, posing as customers, to research Baxters. Where are they from, what do they want, and when will their cover be blown?

The June 10 performance is a benefit for Discover Green Bays new visitors center.

In the cast are Frank Hermans, Pat Hibbard, Tom Verbrick, Paul Evansen, Amy Riemer, Lisa Borley, Sarah Hibbard and Kasey Schumacher,

The band consists of Dennis Panneck (guitar), Pat Hibbard (bass), Tony Pilz (keyboards), Andrew Klaus (drums), with Ross Loining on lights and Kelly Klaus on sound.

Song selections include Where Everybody Knows Your Name (Cheers Theme), No Time, You Really Got Me, Call Me, Its a Heartache, Jack & Diane and a Lady medley.

This show was first scheduled before the COVID-19 pandemic gained a grip.

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Just 89 days from now, West Virginia will kick off the 2022 college football season against its biggest rival.

The revitalization of the Backyard Brawl 11 years after the last time the two programs met on the gridiron is one of the most highly anticipated games of the Neal Brown era.

With that in mind, it gives us a good opportunity to look back on some of the best, or most-anticipated, season-opening games in program history.

Editors Note: This list features games played from 1950 to the present, as prior to that West Virginia largely began its season against regional opponents that are now Division-II schools.

The second year of the Will Grier era at quarterback got off to a fantastic start.

West Virginia and Tennessee fans engaged in plenty of back-and-forth chatter leading up to the game, which only heightened the anticipation for the first contest of the season.

Grier and company were up 10-0 after the first quarter and outscored the Volunteers by 20 after halftime to secure a 40-14 season-opening victory.

Grier completed 25-of-34 passes for 429 yards and five touchdowns. David Sills V and Gary Jennings each eclipsed 100 receiving yards and caught at least one touchdown.

This is one of those games where a couple of plays made a world of difference.

Coming off a 4-8 season, expectations varied for the Mountaineers entering the 2014 campaign, which started against an Alabama program that had won three of the previous five national championships.

The Crimson Tide held just a three-point lead heading into halftime, but the Alabama defense limited the Mountaineers to just six points in the second half. Nick Sabans squad earned a 33-23 win.

A dropped pass near the goal line on WVUs first drive cost the Mountaineers some points, and wound up leading to one of the bigger What if? games for the program in this century.

It did begin a dominant season for wideout Kevin White, who hauled in 13 passes for 216 yards and a touchdown against Alabama.

To date, its the most recent playing of the Friends of Coal Bowl.

It also was the first game played following the 70-33 shellacking of Clemson in the 2012 Orange Bowl.

Behind the programs all-time leading passer in Geno Smith, West Virginia dismantled the Thundering Herd defense in the 2012 season opener.

Smith completed all but four of his 36 pass attempts, threw for 323 yards, and added five total touchdowns. Shawne Alston led the WVU rushing attack with 123 yards and a pair of scores.

The Mountaineers just missed hitting the states interstate speed limit, winning 69-34.

From the most recent playing, to the return of the Friends of Coal Boal.

The 2006 playing of the WVU-Marshall rivalry game marked the first meeting between the two in-state programs since 1997.

Rich Rodriguezs Mountaineers started the season as the No. 7 team in the country, and his starting quarterback, running back, and full back were on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Steve Slaton, part of that famed trio, ran for 203 yards and scored two touchdowns. Pat White completed 10-of-14 passes for 168 yards. Defensively, West Virginia limited Marshall to just two scores in the 42-10 victory.

It was a dominant start to a dominant season, during which WVU rose to as high as third in the national polls, and finished the year ranked No. 10 in the country.

Its not often that the No. 1 team in the country comes to Morgantown. But that was the scenario to kick off the 1998 season.

A total of 68,409 fans the third-largest crowd in Milan Puskar Stadium history crowded around Mountaineer Field to watch the 11th-ranked Mountaineers host the top-ranked Buckeyes.

Despite a high-powered home offense that included Marc Bulger, Amos Zereoue, and Anthony Bect, it was Ohio State that flexed its abilities on offense. The Buckeyes scored 17 points in the second quarter, which propelled them to a 37-17 victory over Don Nehlens group.

Of note, Zereoue became WVUs all-time leading rusher in this game.

Some fans will remember this as the first football game between West Virginia and Marshall since 1923, ending a 74-year drought of gridiron matchups between the two in-state programs.

Others will remember it for one man, and he wasnt wearing the home uniform.

That man is Randy Moss.

Despite recording just 85 receiving yards in the game, Moss continued to show why he was one of the premier talents in the country. His second of two third-quarter touchdown grabs gave Marshall a 31-28 lead.

Zereoue, however, rushed for 180 yards and three touchdowns, including the game-sealing score as part of the Mountaineers 42-31 win.

On November 24, 1995, West Virginia shutout rival Pittsburgh, winning by a final score of 21-0.

Just over nine months later, the Mountaineers blanked the Panthers again. This time, it happened in Pittsburgh.

Zereoue got the scoring started, as he took his first-ever carry against Pittsburgh 69 yards down the field for a touchdown. The Mountaineers led 17-0 at halftime and went on to win by a final score of 34-0.

That was 54 unanswered points scored by the Mountaineers between the 95 and 96 editions of the Backyard Brawl.

It is also the last time that WVU and Pitt played in any season before mid-November.

That is, until September 1, 2022.

1988 is arguably the most famous season in WVU football history. It marked the first of two undefeated regular seasons under Nehlen and it led to West Virginias only appearance in college footballs national championship game.

None of that happens, though, if the Mountaineers stumble out of the gates against Bowling Green.

The 16th-ranked Mountaineers started by scoring 24 points in the games opening quarter. There was no looking back from there, as West Virginia cruised to a 62-14 victory on a nearly perfect day in Morgantown.

While the game itself may not have been all that highly anticipated, especially with games against Maryland, Pittsburgh, and Virginia Tech on the horizon, it did get WVU off to a good start to what became a historic season.

Don Nehlen versus Barry Switzer.

West Virginia at Number 9 Oklahoma, playing in front of 75,008 Sooner fans.

Advantage Mountaineers.

Oklahoma was the overwhelming favorite heading into the game, but Jeff Hostetler and WVU had other plans.

Hostetler tossed for 321 yards and four touchdowns in his first start for the Mountaineers. After trailing 14-0, West Virginia ripped off 20 straight points, including 10 in the final 15 seconds of the first half.

The Mountaineers used a big fourth quarter to earn its first-ever win over the Sooners by a final of 41-27. Nehlen later said that the victory over Oklahoma that day, pretty much put West Virginia on the map as a major college football team.

The 1969 WVU football team had a pair of players Bob Gresham and Jim Braxton who went on to play in the National Football League on its roster.

It was a roster that had the makeup for putting together the best season of the Jim Carlen era. And it delivered.

Starting with the season-opener against Cincinnati, the 1969 Mountaineer team scored 30 or more points in seven of the 11 games it played that season. WVU scored a season-best 57 in a lopsided, 46-point win over the visiting Bearcats.

West Virginias lead was 34 points by the time Cincinnati finally got on the board in the third quarter.

WVU went on to complete its first 10-win season since 1922.

There was no way of knowing then the type of a football career Navys quarterback would ultimately have, but fans on hand at Old Mountaineer Field on Sept. 21, 1963, would soon believe it.

West Virginia welcomed the ninth-ranked Midshipmen to Morgantown to begin the 63 campaign. Leading the way for Navy was that seasons Heisman Trophy winner, Roger Staubach.

WVU didnt have much of an answer for Navy that day, as Staubach completed 17-of-22 passes, and handed the ball off to a bevy of skilled tailbacks.

No. 9 Navy won easily 51-7 to kickstart a 4-6 season for WVU.

Another season that got underway against the Panthers. For the second year in a row, the Mountaineers would face a nationally ranked Pittsburgh team.

Statistically, West Virginia out-played Pitt in every way that afternoon, except for one. Quarterback Mickey Trimarki threw four interceptions.

WVUs defense held the Panthers to just 96 yards of total offense, but couldnt keep Pitt out of the end zone in the third quarter.

Four interceptions and a missed PAT in the second quarter were the difference.

Pittsburgh 14, West Virginia 13. A near-capacity crowd at Old Mountaineer Field filed out disappointed.

That was not the case in the season-opener two years prior. This time, the Mountaineers were on the road against a ranked foe.

South Carolina held the No. 15 spot in the preseason rankings that year. But Art Lewis group was coming off an 8-2 season, and was keen on repeating that success.

Weston, West Virginia native Fred Wyant led the Mountaineers on scoring drives in each of the first three quarters. Wyants one-yard scoring run gave WVU a 13-0 lead at halftime, and an identical scoring run in the third quarter put West Virginia ahead by 20.

The unranked Mountaineers defeated the Gamecocks by a final of 26-6 in the first of two road victories over ranked teams in the first three weeks of the season.

It also avenged a loss from November of the previous season, which was the only blip in an otherwise perfect regular season.

West Virginia was Number 16. Pittsburgh was Number 17.

This marked the first time in the history of the Backyard Brawl that both teams were ranked on the date they squared off.

Wyant scored from one yard out to put WVU ahead, but Pitt evened up the score at seven points apiece before halftime. A short field goal gave West Virginia the lead in the third quarter, and another rushing touchdown in the fourth quarter put the game away.

WVU went on to win each of its first seven games of the year and fell just seven points shy of going 9-0 in the 1953 campaign.

West Virginias victory in the 53 playing of the Backyard Brawl also marked the first time in 30 years that WVU had beaten its archrival in back-to-back seasons.

WVU begins the 2022 regular season versus Pittsburgh at Heinz Field on September 1.

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