When folks heard about the possibility of a start-up, homeschool football program, anybody would have understood if it took years to build something special. Well, the Lighthouse Christian Chargers didn’t care to stick to the script. In fact, they’ve collected so much hardware already that there doesn’t seem to be any slowing down. Launched in… Read more »
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Thomas A. Lombardo
Tom’s football career started in 1937 playing for Soldan High School in St. Louis, where he was a four-year starter and selected on the All-Star City Team all four years and All District Teams three years, as well as being voted MVP in his senior year. He also starred both on the basketball court and… Read more »
Scott Loveland
All these years later, it’s easy to look at the stats and the successes and assume that he was destined to play the part. The part being the state’s top small-college quarterback of the mid-1980s. However, Scott Loveland will tell you his career wasn’t designed that way. “Honestly it was after my senior football season… Read more »
Nick Lowery
He came at us with a No. 8 Kansas City Chiefs jersey, old-school mustache and a leg. But not any ordinary leg. No, Nick Lowery had one for the ages as he boomed game-winning field goals, scored points and broke hearts. To understand his success, however, think back to Lowery’s college and early pro years.… Read more »
Dan Lucy
Long before his TV sports broadcasting days, he developed his reporting chops as a free-lance writer the old-fashioned way: A student by day working his way into the University of Missouri School of Journalism. A beat writer at night covering the 1983-1984 Mizzou basketball team, even lugging around a portable typewriter and dictating two stories… Read more »
Marv Luten
He had left his hometown of St. Louis for Waynesville in the early 1980s, having graduated from a broadcasting center, and the plan was what you might assume it was. We’ll let Marv Luten tell the story. After all, he does this for a living. “I hoped to get back to St. Louis, but the… Read more »
Todd Lyght
Todd Lyght was an All-American for Lou Holtz at Notre Dame, and a national champion. In the NFL, Lyght was an All-Pro and Pro-Bowl selection over his 12 seasons. He helped lead the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl XXXIV championship. His football legacy is more than secure. But did we almost have Todd… Read more »
Bill Maas
All athletes have a mentor or two pushing them to be better. To the Kansas City Chiefs’ Bill Maas, the 70,000 fans who packed Arrowhead Stadium for every game have to be counted among his. “About 27 years ago, the Denver Broncos came to Arrowhead,” Maas said, recalling a time when the National Football League… Read more »
Jeremy Maclin
The assumption is that major college football players see their campus only as a springboard into the National Football League. However, Jeremy Maclin proved that he cared deeply about the University of Missouri. When he announced that he would forgo his final two seasons and enter the NFL Draft, Maclin couldn’t hold back emotions at… Read more »
Jerry Mallonee
Don Claxton knew Jerry Mallonee needed something to do. Mallonee had recently started his own business and had gone through a divorce. A way to spend some time outdoors and make some extra money seemed perfect. Claxton had already been officiating high school and college football games for more than a decade and had been… Read more »
Greg Marecek
A pioneer in the field of sports entertainment and broadcasting, Webster Groves native Greg Marecek founded Sports Network Incorporated, where he produced programs for the St. Louis Cardinals, the Big Eight Conference, the PGA TOUR, St. Louis University, among others. In 1993, he founded Spirit Sports and continued the tradition of broadcast excellence by producing… Read more »
Paul Martel
In his 48th year of coaching high school football, Paul Martel has an impressive 285-105-12 record. Martel began his career coaching at Immaculata High School in Leavenworth, Kansas and at St. Agnes/Miege High School in Kansas City, Kansas before beginning a 29 year stint at St. Louis University High School in 1959. During his tenure… Read more »
Mike Martz
In early 1999, with most of pro football assuming the St. Louis Rams wouldn’t be much of anything that fall, Mike Martz took a detour back to the Gateway Arch. “I was coaching at Washington in 1997 and 1998 and got a call from the Rams, who were offering the offensive coordinator job,” said Martz,… Read more »
Tom Mast
He must have had a puzzled look on his face. A year after arriving as Springfield’s newest TV Sports Director, he got sent to Louisiana to cover what was anticipated to be Evangel University football’s first victory. Yet upon arriving to the field, well, we’ll let Tom Mast tell the rest of the story. “What… Read more »
Dr. Matthew Matava
You look at the resume and see all the years he has provided medical care for St. Louis’ premier NCAA Division III athletics department and the city’s National Hockey League and National Football League franchises and come to a conclusion. That is, that Dr. Matthew Matava planned this from the start. Not exactly. “I played… Read more »
Denny Matthews
Over the years, Royals fans have followed the hitting of George Brett, graceful fielding of Frank White and the masterful pitching of Bret Saberhagen. But one aspect of Royals baseball has remained a constant – the voice of Denny Matthews. His broadcasting career started in college, where he worked as an announcer during the basketball… Read more »