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  • Special Announcement: The Loveland Magazine Sports Desk!

    Special Announcement: The Loveland Magazine Sports Desk!

    by Chris Ball

    Loveland, Ohio – Loveland Magazine is very excited to announce that we are expanding our sports social media experience to encompass Facebook, X, and even Instagram.

    After you are done browsing our hard-hitting sports articles at Loveland Magazine, head on over to The Loveland Magazine Sports Desk. There, across all three platforms, we will be bringing you some more concise and up-to-the-minute updates on all of the sports teams you follow every day. Whether you’re watching a Reds or Bengals game in real-time and want to weigh in, or if you drop by the day after the game to check in on what happened and give your thoughts, you now have three more ways to get into the game and get the discussion going! We also look forward to bringing you local Loveland sports stories about all your hometown teams, including Loveland football and more.

    We appreciate your ongoing support and comments, so look forward to seeing you across the social media universe!

    To follow The Loveland Magazine Sports Desk on Facebook, click here.

    To get into the game on X, give us a follow by clicking here.

    Instagram is also a great way to post pictures of local Loveland sports, and we hope to have more content there very soon, but for now feel free to check in on our progress and give us a follow at this link.

    However you get in contact with us, we are happy to have you and look forward to a lot of fun together this summer and onward.

    Hey readers… have an opinion about sports? How about a topic you’d like to see written about in Loveland Magazine or a thought about one of our articles?

    Just need to vent and get out your frustration about the Reds, Bengals, or any other sports issues?

    Feel free to share with an email to lovelandmagazinesports@gmail.com!

    Christopher Ball is a longtime Loveland resident and an attorney. He graduated from Loveland High School in 2003 and was a member of the football team before going on to become a coach’s assistant at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He has been following and rooting for the Reds and Bengals since the early 1990s and has been through the many ups and downs that fandom has wrought over the years.

  • Did you know: Whites used to pay to throw balls at blacks at the circus

    Did you know: Whites used to pay to throw balls at blacks at the circus

    by Barbara Kyles

    Do you know?

    Below is a question posed in an exhibit at the Jim Crow Museum of racist artifacts in Big Rapids, Michigan.

    Question

    Somebody told me that whites used to pay to throw balls at blacks at the circus. Is this true?
    –Stephanie S. – Columbia, Missouri

    Answer

    African Dodger Ball

    At the end, thirty feet or so from the counter that closed the entrance, a grinning Negro face bobbed and grimaced through a hole in the back curtain painted to represent a jungle river. The Negro’s head came right out of the spread terrific jaws of a crocodile. “Hit the nigger in the head, get a good ten cent seegar,” the barker said. “Three balls for a dime, folks. Try your skill and accuracy. Hit the nigger baby on the head get a handsome cane and pennant” (Stegner, 1957, p. 47).

    The exhibit goes on to explain:

    This was a common chant at numerous carnivals, fairs, and circuses across the United States throughout the late 19th century until the mid 1940s, as Americans took part in one of their favorite pastimes, “African Dodger.” 

    The African Dodger, also known as “Hit the Nigger Baby” or “Hit the Coon” was as commonplace in local fairs, carnivals, and circuses as Ferris wheels and roller coasters are today.

    Please read and learn more about Americans and one of their favorite pastimes, “African Dodger and the complexities of relationships during the Jim Crow era…

    Take a look and welcome to Black history…

  • Comet Neowise photo by Joe Timmerman – a million miles long moving at 17,500 miles per hour

    Comet Neowise photo by Joe Timmerman – a million miles long moving at 17,500 miles per hour

    “With all that’s going on in the world and in each of our vastly different lives, taking some time to look up and ponder at space always shows you how small we really are.”

    On a recent week-long family vacation to a house along Lake Leelanau, Michigan, Loveland photographer, Joe Timmerman said that most nights were spent by the fire, watching the smoke burn towards the summer stars. “One night my parents were at the end of the backyard’s dock when they noticed a golden streak in the sky.”

    Their guesses on what it was were confirmed with a news update the next morning: a new comet was passing Earth.

    Comet Neowise!

    Listen Neowise pronunciation

     

    Timmerman said, “Within a few days, all my favorite photographers I follow were posting about Neowise. I found out it’s a three-mile wide ball of methane and ammonia, filled with rock and ice, with a tail that’s nearly a million miles long, and it is moving at 17,500 miles per hour. The last time this comet passed Earth was around 5,000 BC, and it won’t come back for another 7,000 years.”

    “With all that’s going on in the world and in each of our vastly different lives, taking some time to look up and ponder at space always shows you how small we really are,” Timmerman said when he said.

    Joe took the photo on July 17 around 11 PM.

    How to See Comet NEOWISE

    Graphic courtesy of NASASpacePlace via Wikimedia Commons.

    How to spot Comet NEOWISE before it disappears for thousands of years

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