Chief Caddo is cool, ESPN says

Thursday evening on ESPN's SportsCenter, Chief Caddo got called cool.

The biggest trophy in sports, the prize in the NSU-Stephen F. Austin football rivalry, was featured in a piece spotlighting what ESPN called "the coolest trophies in sports."

Getting into that exclusive club: the green jacket for the Masters' golf champion; the Stanley Cup for the NHL king; the Vince Lombardi Trophy for the Super Bowl winner; and the Heisman Trophy for the top player in college football.

The feature included a significant amount of footage of the Chief in action, which is to say, the Chief standing there not moving and hoping like the dickens the Demons were coming to pick him up and bring him home, which is usually what happens each year.

Former Demon Miles Durham gets hit, RBI against Stephen Strasburg

All of the baseball world's eyes were focused on the pitching debut of last year's No. 1 draft pick by the Washington Nationals in Stephen Strasburg on Sunday as his team, the Harrisburg Senators, a AA club, visited Altoona, whose roster contains former Northwestern State star Miles Durham.

Strasburg, who reported throwing in the upper 90s for most of his five innings of work, gave up four hits and four runs in the game. One of those hits came off the bat of Durham who pasted a line drive single up the middle to score a run.

Durham finished the day 2-for-4 at the plate and is hitting .308 for the Curve, a AA squad affiliated with the Pittsburgh Pirates and a member of the Eastern League.

Durham's Curve lost the game 6-4, but you can bet Miles' confidence jumped a few notches knowing that he can be successful against a future Major League star.