Had a great idea this afternoon while browsing through the countless articles I read everyday. I realized that there are a lot of stories that hit the wire that shouldn’t. They aren’t newsworthy to America. In fact, they aren’t newsworthy […]
Category: Nick Lilja
Round the ‘Block: 3/3/11
Great show last night. After short technical difficulties and two hiccups on the automation the show sailed smoothly. I especially liked when a fellow Z89 DJ called in to lambaste me for technical problems, telling me that I’m “f*****g terrible” […]
Utah State Superfan – Wild Bill
This popped onto my radar about a month ago and I never got to tell anyone about it. Utah State Super Fan, Bill Sproat, is gaining popularity recently. He was profiled on LostLetterman.com and then he as posted to one […]
The 200th post – wow
On a night of countless awards (read: Oscars), I never thought The [Five] would reach a point where we would throw up 200 articles, posts, podcasts, vodcasts, updates, etc. in a single month. Boy, we’ve come a long way. I’d […]
Round The ‘Block: 2/27/11
Dear Readers, Pardon the phrase, but, holy crap. This past week has been a roller coaster of emotions. A lot of good, some bad. All-in-all a ton of fun. Props to Mike Lederer, Jurassic Paque, Terry Horstman, Matthew Harris, Casey […]
::cough:: sorry about that…
Apparently, Mike Lederer has made it a habit to break news that crashes our servers. I don’t think I’ve ever been this happy and this ticked at the same time. At 2:58 this afternoon when Mike broke the Perkins trade […]
The [Five]: Breakin records like a 3-year old in a pawn shop
The [Five] has set a new record. First we hit the 1,000 post in the history of the site. Then a few days ago we hit 50,000 hits (web traffic) this week and today, roughly 20 minutes ago, we hit […]
Round The ‘Block: 2/22/11
Holy Cow! Yesterday was one heck of a day around The [Five] and on The NickelBlock. Top Contributor, Mike Lederer, spent the entire day yesterday following the Carmelo Anthony trade here on The [Five] and then broke the story at […]
38 degrees is officially “Warm”
Syracuse, New York will do strange things to a person. I’m currently sitting in my Jeep on Fayette Street in downtown Syracuse. That’s not the strange thing. The strange thing is I’m sitting in my soft-top Jeep in jeans and […]
Top 3 Wiz Khalifa parodies
Okay, by now, I assume everyone has heard Wiz Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow” that debuted September 14, 2010. The song was written by Wiz Khalifa and Stargate and it references the colors of the city of Pittsburgh and the Steelers. […]