Odds, ends, and alibis from the cub

The cub reports:

• Jim Hafdal advised, at the girls basketball game, that the Dziuk Chronicles - 8 mm black and white movies of Cardinal sporting events - apparently were thrown away years ago.
• In the absence of on-site photography by the cub reporter, basketballers Angela Christianson and Katie Brown are shown in the team volleyball picture posted on the blog on November 5. Volleyballer Greta Wood performs the rare double of also being a hockey cheerleader. For purely selfish reasons as Cardinal fans, we all wish Sam Dale (to Angela's left in the volleyball picture) would play basketball too, but she concentrates on volleyball and softball.
• The Diehards much anticipated trip to the National Hockey Center for the girls hockey game against St. Cloud Tech tonight has been de-railed by the second snow storm in the last three days. This weather - two snow storms already, several days below zero, high temps below 20 for the last week and so projected for the next week - has been quite a shock to our niece and nephew, recent new residents of Eden Prairie from the D.C. area. Our telling them that this is rare weather, like late January, for this time of year has somehow not been comforting for them.