Now two weeks from opening day and the first pitch of the Ohio State baseball season I found a box this week with a stack of yellow legal pads – notes and some old photos from my experience as a college baseball player and Buckeye from 1971 through 1975 In it I found a copy of the letter written by my American Legion coach in Troy Ohio – Frosty Brown – written in the summer of 1970 to then Buckeye pitching coach Dick Finn urging Finn to see me pitch when I got on campus in the fall and winter of 1970 Publisher Sonny Fulks writes OHSAA sports and the Buckeyes for Press Pros Magazine I found some old clippings from my hometown paper detailing how as a freshman I participated in the Rose Bowl that year with the Ohio State Marching band and…”he plans to try out for baseball.” I’m pretty sure that a hand-written letter from Frosty Brown wouldn’t cut it No one shows up sight-unseen nowadays and makes a Division I college baseball team No chance to play college baseball at this level after the 1970 football season and a trip to the Rose Bowl I showed up in Finn’s office at St John Arena and asked him if I could throw for him at French Field House where the Buckeyes worked out indoors during the winter buried deep in a pile of correspondence in his file cabinet and then passed it across the room to head coach Marty Karow Dick Finn was the pitching coach when I walked on in 1971 He later replaced Marty Karow as head coach when Karow retired in 1975 we might need someone to play the fight song.” “Be at French at 3 this afternoon,”  said Finn “They’ll give you some gear downstairs.” I threw on the sidelines three times the first week before Finn put me in during a live-bat scrimmage at French against varsity hitters As a senior in high school I might have hit 82-84 on a radar gun and I could throw the breaking ball for strikes Instead of throwing batting practice fastballs I threw an assortment of curveballs for strikes and quickly learned that college hitters are no different than high school Throw strike one with a breaking ball and they’re going to take it But if you can get ahead with the breaking ball now they have to swing…and they might swing at a fastball out of the strike zone who played with my high school coach Jim Hardman in Springfield Ohio – and coached in the big leagues forever – once described it as hitters getting themselves out “Just get ahead,”  he would say “And see if it doesn’t go your way.” It went my way well enough that by the end of winter workouts Finn came to me and told me that I would be making the spring break trip to Coral Gables I did well enough to get some varsity innings when we got home contact Weedman USA at 614-733-3747 or go online to Weedman.com and I quickly got more opportunity against Division III varsity teams that would schedule Ohio State’s JVs one of the best Division III teams in the Ohio Athletic Conference and finished with about 25 innings that first year I would never have gotten such an opportunity today there are no players in the Big Ten who play in the marching band unknown walk-ons are unheard of in modern college baseball If there’s no record of you on PBR (Prep Baseball Report) you might not get into the baseball office if you are on one of those websites you’d better throw better than 85 miles per hour a fact that haunted Dick Finn and Marty Karow but I never threw the ball harder than maybe 86 or 87 Karow once told me that the Big Ten was a fastball league and that it was embarrassing to get people out throwing “soft” “I don’t need cunny-thumbers,”  he insisted “You have to throw more to get stronger,”  he said “You need to throw every day.” because I loved baseball and the challenge of pitching and would have tried anything and tried so many things that I eventually had arm trouble and barely pitched my senior season Huffer Chiropractic can help your athlete perform at their best – with offices in Osgood I marvel at the young pitchers who show up at Bill Davis – their velocity and their dream of conquering the next level of baseball It’s also why I don’t doubt anyone who wants to pitch and works to find a way…even if he doesn’t throw it 90 miles per hour there comes a time when you realize that regardless of how hard you throw hitters at this level are going to time you and make hard contact I’m always enthusiastic to see the next arm I always acknowledge that every pitcher on the roster has more talent than I had in 1971 that what I threw to Dave Winfield and Paul Molitor (Minnesota and the Cubs) works the same now as it worked back then I think I ended up winning nine games over four years a stat that still amazes me as much as Mindy staying married to me for 43 years – a baseball widow proudly sponsors your favorite sport events on Press Pros Magazine.com © PressProsMagazine.com, All Rights Reserved. | Site Map | Terms of Use | Website Designed by Marketing Essentials. 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need to enable or disable cookies again ROCHESTER — After almost a decade of owning and managing the Northern Nineteen Bar and Grill on the Northern Hills Golf Course Erik Karow has stepped away to focus his attention on Huxden Syrups Huxden Syrups was a business that was formed organically by Erik Karow at the Northern Nineteen Bar and Grill From almost a decade of owning the bar and restaurant on the course he became aware of the time it took to produce one of his favorite drinks An old fashioned is a classic cocktail made with whiskey A true old fashioned can take a bartender anywhere from a minute or two to make Karow decided the bar needed a faster way to create the beloved classic cocktail He developed a syrup just before the pandemic that supplements the need to muddle bitters and sugar together with the orange allowing his bartenders to just add the appropriate amount of bourbon or whiskey The name comes from a combination of Karow’s two children Family is important to Karow and he’s had a lot of help from his family to create and make Huxden successful and then you have the orange like the sunset and I never would have thought of any of that stuff,” Karow said While using the syrup at the bar at the golf course a regular came in and asked if he would sell it who used to own Woody’s Liquor before selling his license to Total Wine recommended the syrup as a sellable product and wanted to sell it at his store “A guy from the liquor store came in and said I'd really like to carry this on my shelf,’ and then Hy-Vee reached out and a couple other liquor stores,” Karow said Now the old fashioned syrup can be purchased in 12 local stores with more to come in 2025 Karow is working on a deal that could potentially put his syrup in around 130 stores in the near future Karow is also working with local bars and restaurants He would love to see his product being utilized by the industry that inspired it One place where Karow has found success was the Chateau Winter Market He thought he had overprepared for the four-hour event but was shocked when he sold out in half the time but people are looking for simplicity,” Karow said “People always wonder how you can make that drink they make at the bar or even food that they make at a restaurant tastes the same at home cocktail connoisseurs can ensure the drink tastes the same every single time unlike when ordering at a restaurant or bar Karow rarely orders old fashioneds anymore since every bar and bartender has their own way of making them The Huxden Syrup comes in a 16-ounce bottle and will make around 32 old fashioneds Karow went off of his own personal preference for the syrup but it is still customizable based on the amount and what liquor it's paired with “I made it as an introductory old fashioned,” Karow said the recipe calls for half an ounce of syrup to 2 ounces of bourbon or whiskey If you really want to taste your bourbon or whiskey Karow makes the syrup in-house with natural ingredients He knows in the future he will need to bring on more employees “It’s selling a lot better than I had anticipated where I'm just making more and more batches,” Karow said huxdensyrups.com This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Tanner Wanish and Michael Vaill climbed the Triple in 17 hours and 55 minutes The objective is a link-up of routes on El 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VELVA – Keela Karow and Kaylee Tomlinson are the top two students of the graduating class at Velva High School The graduation ceremony will be held at 2 p.m daughter of Amanda Weidler and Keith Karow is the valedictorian of the 2024 graduating class This fall she plans to attend the University of North Dakota to study nursing Throughout her high school career she has been involved in golf softball and volleyball and said her favorite memories were made with her classmates at sporting events even if you don’t feel like it and always know that at the end of the day everything’s going to be okay,” Karow said is heading to North Dakota State College of Science to pursue a career in dental hygiene She said she had always wanted to go into a health-related field but knew she didn’t want to be a nurse I thought it would take forever but it eventually made its way and now that I look back it went by pretty fast,” Tomlinson said Tomlinson’s favorite memories were made during extracurriculars like FFA she said the senior boys winning the annual muscle volleyball match was among the top When asked what advice she would give younger students ‘I can’t wait to get to different stages.’ In elementary it was ‘I can’t wait to be in high school.’ Just take it all in and don’t stress about the things that won’t matter later on.” BISMARCK – North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong signed House Bill 1199 into law on May 1 The City of Minot invites public input on Community Development Block Grant dollars the city will be receiving .. will host the 15th Annual Independent Living Fair today from 12:30-4 p.m A full-scale emergency exercise will be conducted at Minot International Airport on June 13 to satisfy Federal .. Copyright © 2025 Ogden Newspapers of North Dakota | https://www.minotdailynews.com | 301 4th St SE American Hockey League affiliate of the NHL’s Dallas Stars announced Tuesday that defenseman Michael Karow signed a two-year AHL contract extension through the 2024-25 season posted nine points (1-8—9) and had a +8 rating in 36 regular season games during his first full professional season in 2022-23 and added two assists in eight playoff games He also tallied two assists in three ECHL games with the Idaho Steelheads The left shot defenseman turned pro toward the end of the 2021-22 season and scored the game-winning goal in his professional debut Apr before finishing the season with five points (1-4=5) and a +3 rating where he helped the Eagles to three Hockey East Conference Championships He then spent a fifth season of college eligibility at Michigan Tech in 2021-22 and finished his NCAA career with 25 points (3-22=25) and a +27 rating in 168 games Case & Company Funeral Directors - Mackinaw Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text announced Tuesday the club signed defenseman Michael Karow to a one-year AHL contract through the 2022-23 season appeared in 13 regular season games and two playoff games for Texas on an amateur tryout in 2021-22 after finishing his final college season at Michigan Tech He scored the game-winning goal and added an assist in his professional debut April 1 at Grand Rapids finishing the season with five points (1-4=5) and a +3 rating Prior to attending Michigan Tech for a fifth college season He finished his NCAA career with 25 points (3-22=25) and a +27 rating in 168 games When light rail trains finally roll into Eden Prairie’s transit station for the first time along the Metro Green Line Extension, it will be due in no small part to an Eden Prairie-based electrical contractor, Gunnar Electric Gunnar Electric is a family-owned company established in 1969 by Clay Gunnarson Siblings Laura Karow and Terry Walters have worked at the company since 2004 their parents purchased the business after Gunnarson passed away Karow and Walters bought out their parents the company employs 40 skilled full-time workers Karow emphasized the importance of maintaining separate areas of focus with a business partner but coming together on significant decisions Her responsibilities include project management while Walters is responsible for overseeing sites and managing the truck fleet and heavy equipment “Because we’re both electricians,” Karow says “it’s easier to come together on big decisions because we both understand electrical work.” We are both very open to change and finding better practices so that open mindedness tends to lead the path to the decision.” about 90% of Gunnar’s business currently comes from the commercial sector A case in point is the Metro Green Line Extension which Gunnar Electric has been involved with for the past five years Their work on the line has been to install all of the traction power and wiring for all communications and other vital systems required to operate the trains In addition to electrical work on the trains Having been officially recognized as a “woman owned minority business,” Karow explained that this has opened many doors to major infrastructure jobs in Minnesota the company has become an officially approved electrical contractor on all Metro Transit system projects including work on professional sports facilities “We’ve worked on every major sports stadium in Minnesota,” said Laura including the recently completed Minnesota United sports facility Thanks to the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act by Congress the next projects on the drawing board will involve building a network of charging stations to support the growing number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the roads in the Twin Cities and throughout Minnesota Karow was honored by Finance & Commerce for “outstanding industry leadership” at their annual Top Women In Construction event “what we’re most proud of is the things we’re able to do in the community,” most notably mentoring other small minority-owned businesses “and provide our employees with good livelihoods.” The company has a mission statement that Karow summarizes as “true grit.” This means staying close to their customers and workers When asked about the most challenging aspect of running the business Laura stated that it’s letting go or laying off workers “It’s tough,” she acknowledged and we place a strong emphasis on family values.” Karow said the most enjoyable aspect of her work is interacting with customers and finding solutions to their problems Since Karow and her brother Walters took over Gunnar Electric has experienced dramatic growth and ensuring everyone at the company works as a team “The best part about this job,” Karow says close to our customers and solving their problems.” I love the sense of fulfillment and purpose that it gives me.” Being in the desert with the baseball Buckeyes will bring back memories to everyone who ever wore red and gray…but especially those who played for the venerable coach the only Buckeye coach to ever win the College World Series title I cannot pack for the trip to Arizona to cover the opening of the NCAA baseball season next week without it rekindling some old memories I was one of those freshmen on the Ohio State baseball team…like Zach Brown learning how to exist at the next higher level of baseball I can’t observe it now – hear the crack of the bat and the enthusiastic banter among teammates – without remembering then and considering…just how different it’s become Proudly sponsoring the Buckeyes and OHSAA events on Press Pros Magazine.com Back then we took a university bus from Columbus to Coral Gables Florida to play for a week against Miami of Florida was a killer…about 18 hours with a couple of stops to eat at Denny’s and when you got off in Miami you could barely walk It was not unusual to get your brains beat out by the Florida schools because it took two days for your body to recover;  and of course Our coach then was a guy named Marty Karow about which a thousand stories circulate amongst those who played for him during his quarter century as coach Equipment manager John Bozick once told me during my freshman year “Stay away from the ‘old man’ as he appeared as a Buckeye infielder in 1926 He was also an All-American fullback in football and frankly spent a lot of his time in Florida playing golf with friends at Doral Country Club while assistant coach Dick Finn ran things But when Marty was around we all stepped lively His personality was a not-so-delicate balance between charming and Attila the Hun hopelessly stuck in the year 1966 (the year the Buckeyes won the NCAA title behind pitcher Steve Arlin) and believed that anyone – everyone – could pitch like Arlin if they just willed themselves to do it Arlin was known for his ability to pitch every day and Marty believed if you pitched as much as Arlin did…you could do it And he literally threw the arms off a lot of young pitchers who took him at his word We once had an early spring game in Deland and when we arrived on the bus there were a bunch of Ohio State fans to greet us this very sweet lady walked up to him and introduced herself as a member of the local alumni club you’re sure a sight for sore eyes…to see Buckeyes down here in Florida,”  she said We had nothing to do with your eyes being sore.” Aptus Wealth Management proudly sponsors the Buckeyes and Central Ohio sports on Press Pros just days removed from snow and French Field House and his favorite post-game speech usually centered around a lack of focus And of course in Florida there were girls everywhere – spring break – and Marty despised the distraction of interaction “You guys gotta’ get your mind off that other stuff,”  he would start out All you gotta’ do is throw the ball across the plate bongo…and we’re outta’ there.” none of us had ever heard the term “that other stuff” “You know what I mean,” Marty said with a shrug but in my first Big Ten appearance against Minnesota I pitched in relief up in Minneapolis on a cold trying to preserve a 5-4 lead in the bottom of the sixth inning We had lost the first game of the double-header to the Gophers and Karow was desperately trying to get out of there with a split With a double-header the next day in Iowa City there were just two available pitchers left on the bench “Throw your best curveball and get us a double play.” I looked in the dugout where Karow was vigorously signalling for another curve Everyone in Hennepin County knew it was coming and the hitter got way out in front and hit it high and far down the left field line…but foul But it was close enough to being fair that the gusting wind blew it back and into the foul pole for a home run When he got there he demanded the ball for the next pitcher already halfway to the mound Columnist Sonny Fulks writes Buckeye and Big Ten baseball for Press Pros Magazine.com “You’re sorry?”  Karow roared On the trip to Iowa City that night I thought about what Bozick had said stay away from the ‘old man’.” Except the next day we ran into a hot Iowa team and then fell behind 6-0 in the second inning of the second I entered the game in the top of the third I pitched three scoreless innings before being taken out as we walked across the outfield to shower and dress in the football stadium smiling like he had just won the trifecta at Beulah Park Throw the ball across the plate with a little something on it bongo…and we’re outta’ here.” We stopped for dinner at Denny’s and Marty would walk from table to table checking on how much each player spent on his meal Park National brings you the best Buckeyes stories on Press Pros Magazine.com In the Roaring Twenties a new breed of coed sprouted on college campuses across the nation and danced the night away at fraternity parties and was a gleeful participant in panty raids and could be persuaded to engage in pranks the likes of which have never been seen in the college ranks before or since One such outrageous prank occurred in 1926 on the campus of Ohio State University a vaunted member of the Big Ten Conference Prior to the Buckeyes’ Homecoming Game on November 13 Rosalind Morrison’s sorority sisters conspired for her to be selected the queen only to have to blushingly watch her surrender her crown when egregious ballot stuffing was uncovered; although the school had just 9,300 students a mysterious female sponsored by the College of Agriculture When the moment came to present Maudine with her award it developed that she was a purebred Holstein cow the university had little choice but to submit to the hijinks and allow Maudine to take part in the Homecoming parade although she was prudently relegated to the barn during the postgame dance the game itself would have been anticlimactic after a week of unparalleled shenanigans –Maudine will almost certainly forever hold the honor of being the only cow ever to reign as a college homecoming queen and Morrison would joke for the rest of her life that her epitaph should read here lies a queen.” But the circumstances surrounding this particular game were far from normal The contest pitted the undefeated Buckeyes against arch-nemesis Michigan with the Big Ten title at stake and drew a then record crowd at a football game when 90,411 fans packed like sardines into Ohio State’s four-year-old stadium which had a seating capacity of 66,210 at the time and was still years away from being known as “The Shoe.” It more than lived up to its advance billing when Michigan narrowly escaped a taut seesaw thriller with a 17-16 victory after a dropkicked extra-point attempt by Ohio State sailed a mere few inches under the crossbar spoiling the Buckeyes’ dreams for both an undefeated season and the Big Ten championship Prior to the 42-41 classic at Ann Arbor in 2013 that game remained the only one between Ohio State and Michigan two of the most storied rivals in college football Captaining each team that day was a future Hall of Famer Michigan’s leader was quarterback Benny Friedman who had carried Cleveland Glenville to the 1922 mythical high school national championship over Chicago Oak Park and is now enshrined in the pro football Hall of Fame in Canton Calling the coin toss for Ohio State was fellow Clevelander Marty Karow one of the finest all-around athletes in Buckeye history and a future member of several sports halls of fame but unhappily never a victor in five attempts against Friedman-led gridiron squads twice in high school and three times in college Martin Gregory Karow and his fraternal twin brother the youngest of six children of German immigrants Pauline Swatzke Karowsky Both left Germany for New York in 1888 as teenagers but it is not known whether they were married at the time What induced the Karowskys to settle first in Elmira in the 1890s and then in Braddock around the turn of the century was probably Paul’s work on bridges spanning the Chemung and the Monongahela Rivers It is unclear how long after the birth of their twin sons the Karowskys left Pennsylvania for Cleveland but the likelihood is that the move was prompted by an opportunity for Paul to work on the Detroit-Superior Bridge (The first fixed high level bridge in Cleveland crosses the Cuyahoga River and links Detroit Avenue and Superior Avenue.) Six years later the family was prosperous enough to own their own home at 1295 West 80th Street in Cleveland and Lena and Paul had become naturalized citizens and shortened their name to Karow It was as Marty and Joe Karow that the twins played on the Cleveland West Tech High varsity teams Marty was the school’s leading light not only on the gridiron but also on the baseball field and the basketball court already had designs on making dentistry his career Soon after Marty Karow matriculated at Ohio State in the fall of 1922 he was elected captain of the incoming freshman football team and was also a key asset on both the freshman basketball and baseball squads Eligible for varsity play in his sophomore year hard-nosed 172-pound Karow won the starting fullback slot and played as a linebacker on defense That winter he was a substitute forward on the varsity basketball team and in the spring he anchored the Buckeyes’ infield and immediately established himself as a future All-Conference shortstop By the time Karow graduated from Ohio State in 1927 he had collected seven varsity letters –three in football and baseball and one in basketball – earned the Big Ten’s coveted Potter Run-Maker’s baseball cup in the spring of his junior year and was being avidly pursued by teams in two major pro leagues one in his hometown and the other in Boston But while fellow Cleveland high-school whiz Benny Friedman signed with the Cleveland Bulldogs of the unproven National Football League Karow shunned the Bulldogs for a potentially more secure career in major-league baseball In June 1927 both Karow and a Buckeye teammate accepted contract offers from a baseball owner with deep roots in Columbus the lead man for a Columbus syndicate that had bought the Boston Red Sox from Harry Frazee on August 1 Joining Karow and Tarbert on the Red Sox squad that June was Holy Cross star John Freeman rather than being farmed out as would typically be expected with inexperienced collegians no doubt to the chagrin of manager Bill Carrigan Since the Red Sox were perennial tailenders during that period the decision had little impact on the team’s fortunes but a decisive one on the major-league futures of the three newcomers after sitting idle for long periods between four widely spaced games as a late-inning outfield replacement was eventually shipped to Atlanta of the Southern Association and left pro ball after the 1927 season probably the most promising of the new recruits saw spot duty in the Red Sox outfield for all of 1927 and despite batting just .188 stayed with the parent club in 1928 long enough to hit .176 before being farmed to the Pacific Coast League where he lasted just six games with Hollywood and abandoned pro ball after going hitless in 12 at-bats in the first game of a twin bill at Fenway Park when he replaced regular shortstop Buddy Myer in the sixth inning with Boston trailing the first-place Murderers’ Row New York Yankees and went 0-for-2 in an eventual 7-3 loss to Herb Pennock Not about to dislodge future American League batting champ Myer at short Karow was also tried in two games at third base a trouble spot for Carrigan until Billy Rogell finally captured the job in midseason Some 30 years later the author spoke with Karow about the details of his brief six-game sojourn with the 1927 Red Sox before he was farmed in July to Class A Waterbury Karow made no mention of an unconfirmed story that the Red Sox had jettisoned him after he started a wild on-field fracas in reaction to a spiking at second base but while he contended that his glove was at least the equal of that of every other Red Sox infielder that year he admitted that college – even Big Ten competition – had not prepared him for top-level pitching His experience with Waterbury bore out his claim 16 points below his average with the Red Sox and was demoted to Lewiston of the Class B New England League after Waterbury manager Bobby Gill allowed him to sample Eastern League pitching for scarcely two weeks Released by the Red Sox late that November Karow was not yet ready to surrender his baseball ambitions even though he had already embarked on the career that would sustain him for the better part of the next half-century: college coaching Earlier that fall the University of Texas had hired him as its varsity backfield coach Karow would hold that post and also serve as the Longhorns’ freshman baseball and basketball coach and later as their head basketball coach through the spring of 1936 when he left the Lone Star State temporarily to put in a two-year stint as the head baseball coach and an assistant basketball and football coach at the U.S by now his adopted home (he married Texas native and Baylor graduate Ethel Lucille “Cille” Hodges in 1929 respectively) and became the head baseball coach and an assistant football coach at Texas A&M That year he also became the Aggies’ head basketball coach A year later he entered the Navy and served as an athletic officer throughout World War II putting in one season as the head football coach at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station Thus Karow had coached all three major college sports before his 40th birthday but he never returned to major-league baseball After the 1927 season he played three more years of minor-league ball Ensconced in Texas in the offseason as a college coach Karow spent 1928 with Waco of the Texas League splitting the second-base job with player-manager Del Pratt He switched to Des Moines of the Western League in 1929 later joined Pueblo of the same league and ended his playing career there in 1930 with his best season in Organized Baseball Previously handicapped by a conspicuous lack of power Karow hiked his slugging average to .446 with the fifth-place Pueblo Braves but nonetheless realistically foresaw little future for himself in pro ball when his .299 batting average was good for only 40th place in the offensive-minded Western League His baseball career voluntarily ended at the age of 26 Karow turned his full attention to what had always been his favorite sport – football – and to his overriding goal of landing a job as a gridiron coach at his alma mater No matter at what other school he was coaching he always had one eye on the situation at Ohio State and several times made his aspirations known to the Buckeyes’ athletic director But Karow was not the most diplomatic of men and became increasingly contentious when St John repeatedly passed him over to hire coaches and assistants who Karow felt were his inferiors former Ohio State pitcher Sonny Fulks (1970-74) said that “Marty apparently burned a lot of bridges over the years when he wanted to come back to Columbus to coach football and was not given the opportunity.” Consequently after World War II Karow returned to Texas A&M and continued to coach there until after St John had retired and Dick Larkins succeeded him as athletic director Aware of the disputatious relations between Karow and his predecessor Larkins too was chary about hiring Karow until the fall of 1950 when he named him head baseball coach and an assistant football coach under Wes Fesler We can reasonably speculate that Karow’s hopes to mentor the Buckeye eleven rose again when Fesler left a year later to coach Minnesota but the top job went instead to a younger man from Miami University at Oxford Indeed Fulks confirmed that during the search for Fesler’s replacement Karow was told he was in the running for the position and that Hayes enamored of his competitor’s lengthy coaching experience and Buckeye ties asked Larkins to retain Karow as an assistant only to fire Karow himself after he was late to fall practice in 1951 because he had been with a traveling college all-star baseball team that summer Karow’s abrupt dismissal sparked a lasting enmity between the two and not until 1955 would Hayes allow one of his football players with eligibility remaining After Hayes’s hiring Karow seems to have finally capitulated and accepted the inevitable that his contribution as a coach at his alma mater would have to come in baseball Ohio State finished 10-2 in the Big Ten to win the first of five conference championships in his 25 years at its helm and made its first trip to the College World Series only to be eliminated in the first round after one-run losses to Oklahoma and The Buckeyes won the Big Ten again in 1955 with a club that featured Heisman Trophy winner Howard “Hopalong” Cassidy and Cisco but were eliminated in the preliminary rounds of the NCAA tournament and then suffered a ten-year drought despite having a host of future big leaguers wear scarlet and gray threads but all signed professional contracts while they were still undergraduates Howard inked a gigantic $108,000 bonus deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers after his junior year in 1957 star catcher Edwards spent only his sophomore year in Buckeye garb in 1958 before taking a generous offer from Cincinnati and Nischwitz was just emerging as Karow’s hill ace when Detroit snared him for a sizeable bonus prior to the 1958 season Saddled with a cast of decent college players at best to serve as his regulars and backups like the author (1958-59) who provided barely adequate bench strength Karow brought the Buckeyes home second in the Big Ten in 1956 but then usually languished in the bottom half of the conference until the early 1960s Ohio State began a three-year reign as the Big Ten titlist highlighted by the last NCAA baseball championship (as of 2023) won by a team east of the Mississippi and north of the Mason-Dixon line when Karow’s 1966 squad parlayed a bizarre regular-season crown which featured five fewer conference wins than second-place Minnesota but an undefeated 6-0 mark attributable to a plethora of rained-out contests into an 8-2 victory over Oklahoma State in the title match (The previous year Ohio State had been the NCAA runner-up when right-hander Steve Arlin lost a 2-1 decision to Bobby Winkles’s top-ranked Arizona State powerhouse in the series finale.) After receiving the MVP award for his effort in helping pitch Ohio State to the 1966 college championship Arlin passed up his senior season to sign with the Philadelphia Phillies who selected him in the first round of the amateur draft Karow built a strong-enough club around senior Bo Rein – perhaps the most prominent Buckeye since Karow’s own heyday to star on both the gridiron and the ballfield – to repeat as the Big Ten champion in 1967 but lost in the preliminary round of the College World Series after Rein was declared ineligible on the eve of postseason play Named college Coach of the Year after winning the 1966 NCAA title Karow was honored again in 1967 when he coached the US team in the Pan American Games The remaining years of his tenure as the Bucks’ pilot were filled for the most part with disappointments on the diamond and personal losses But after Karow was remarried to Martha “Jane” Brockman shortly before his retirement two years later Despite a lackluster 17-22 overall record in 1975 and only his fourth losing campaign in his 25-year stay at his alma mater Karow’s spirits rose when his charges topped Indiana in the season finale after he had earlier had been presented by the Bucks with a victory over Michigan in his last home game Before the introduction of aluminum bats in 1974 Karow coached in an era when pitching and sound fundamentals dominated the college game His teams were always especially strong in the latter and in fact he wrote numerous books in conjunction with ex-minor leaguer and Frostburg University athletic director Loyal K Park that were directed at helping fledgling coaches teach their pupils the proper techniques in playing each position the author learned up close and personal from Karow what skills he sought above all others when Karow pulled him aside one February afternoon after a preseason indoor practice and informed him in his customary gruff straight-from-the-hip fashion that even though he was a good hitter his arm was not strong enough to play the outfield and despite having adequate speed and a keen knowledge of the game he had insufficient smarts on the bases and consequently could expect to spend most of his days at Ohio State on the junior varsity unless there was a dramatic improvement that caliber of improvement never occurred and while his playing experience at Ohio State was negligible as a result he received a first-class education in coaching Karow’s clubs were renowned for executing the hit-and-run forcing an opponent to make an extra throw and he trained all his players including power hitters like Frank Howard to bunt with their bats held about eight inches up the handle and both hands merged contrary to the traditional method of bunting in which the batter’s hands are spread widely apart Rather than square around as the pitch was delivered Buckeye hitters would maintain their regular stance and extend the bat as if a bunt was in the offing Depending on the signal from the third-base coach either a bunt attempt would be executed or the bat would be yanked back at the last instant and the batter would mandatorily take a full swing if a hit-and-run play was on or slash away if the pitch was in the strike zone Trainers of teams that had not previously faced Karow-coached squads frequently had to attend to an infielder when he was flattened by a hot shot after creeping toward the plate anticipating a bunt often gave opponents enough pause that Buckeye hitters were freed to lay a pitch down much more easily if a bunt was needed at a later juncture Four years after his retirement Karow was part of the third class to be inducted into the Ohio State Sports Hall of Fame Three years earlier he and his old rival Benny Friedman had been among the first group of athletes to be selected for the newly created Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame Karow was enshrined in the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame His most recent honor came in 2008 when his jersey number 13 was retired exactly 33 years after his last home game as the Buckeyes’ head baseball coach Karow died of a heart attack in College Station the reigning authority on the 1927 Boston Red Sox currently working on a full-length biography of Karow If you can help us improve this player’s biography, contact us Famous Outside Baseball · Meet the Staff Board of Directors Annual Reports Inclusivity Statement Contact SABR announced today that defenseman Michael Karow has been loaned to the ECHL’s Idaho Steelheads 16 after appearing in 13 regular season games and two playoff games for Texas on an amateur tryout in 2021-22 He originally joined the Stars after finishing his final college season at Michigan Tech in April Karow scored the game-winning goal and added an assist in his professional debut April 1 at Grand Rapids Be one of the first to try our new activity feed “It’s cool doing an older route that doesn’t get climbed Yosemite big-wall climbers Lance Colley and Tyler Karow cut three hours off the obscure and striking Sunkist on El Cap SuperTopo rates the 2,900-foot line 5.8 A3 Colley and Karow called it more challenging than the A4 Native Son on El Cap’s Southeast Face I thought the route was harder than we thought it would be,” said Colley “We thought it was a sandbag,” Karow said  Sunkist appears on the cover of Yosemite Climbs: Big Walls (1998) in a Greg Epperson photo of Pete Takeda ascending the route’s incredible headwall seam That iconic photo has inspired big wall climbers for generations says that Sunkist ascends “some of the most beautiful and steep sections of the Southwest Face.”  Despite the route’s jaw-dropping exposure and clean nailing it receives less attention than its neighboring climbs The previous record on Sunkist was set by Hans Florine The record has remained in place since 1999  Bill Price and Dale Bard established Sunkist in October 1978 “I wanted to do this for a long time but needed a raging free climber I recruited Tyler,” Colley told Climbing from El Cap meadow the day after their climb  What sealed the deal was when Brandon Adams—who Colley called his aid climbing mentor—told them  And everything did go fine until Colley took a 45-footer He was a move away from the security of a machine-head rivet (like a mini bolt) when a fixed copperhead blew sending him down the wall like an elevator from pitch 25 and Colley blazed past the anchor before Karow caught him on the Grigri crawled back on lead and slowly regained his high point With shaken nerves and praying he wouldn’t fall again he began pasting copperheads up the micro seam that moments ago put the fear of God in him Though he’s climbed El Cap 21 times over the past two years He promised himself that he would offer up the lead to his partner if he fell this time I’m not taking the giant whipper three times.”  Sunkist was Tyler’s fifth El Cap route in the past 30 days. Three days before the climb, he did El Cap and Half Dome in a day. In that same week, he did the long and scary 5.11+ on Half Dome called Autobahn This marks his ninth overall El Cap route and 11th ascent  Earlier this season, Colley partnered with Adams to smash the record on the demanding aid line Aurora (A4) That was Colley’s first big-wall speed climb which ascend the Freeblast portion of Freerider at 5.10 A1 and follow several back-to-back traversing pitches across Magic Mushroom to connect with the start of Sunkist then slowing down as he eked his way through the next few leads They also packed an emergency copper-heading kit  While descending by headlamp down El Cap’s East Ledges they moved quickly to meet their friend “our hero,” park wildlife biologist Heather Mackey Colley and Karow reached the Valley floor at 11:30 p.m  The two chose to climb in a day with no pre-hauling of loads and no pre-inspection “We were psyched to do it in the best style we could,” Colley said Karow said he’s mentally and physically exhausted from the route and previous climbs last week He said he’d climbed over 10,000 vertical feet in the seven days culminating with Sunkist and wants to hang in El Cap meadow for the foreseeable future who suffered a strained back during his huge whipper plans to climb New Dawn on El Cap this week People gathered at the entrance to the Kenosha County Veterans Memorial Park Monday morning to witness the naming of the roadway into the park from CTH KD as Porter Parkway It is named for former Assemblyman Cloyd Porter Porter was elected to the Assembly in 1972 and served for 28 years which approved a grant of $303,500 toward to purchase of the 234 acre abandoned gravel pit That was some of the early money to start the park in 2000 The group then moved to the park’s other entrance that leads to the Honor Plaza They were represented by current Twin Lakes Village Board Member and new County Board Supervisor Aaron Karow Mark served three terms before he chose not to run again Other members of the Karow family have been involved in public service and a founding member of Randall Fire Department Phil Karow has also served on Randall Fire The park building for equipment is from Powers Lake Construction but went out of business in the 2008 downturn of the economy Mark said the land was originally the Fosdick farm © 2025 West of the I | Powered by WordPress A WordPress theme by Ravi Varma A Silver Alert has been issued in Waukesha County for missing Ronald Karow He was last seen wearing a blue plaid shirt and blue jeans Anyone with information is asked to call the City of Brookfield Police Department at (262)787-3702 « Back Seattle is home to a lot of restaurants, and among them are hidden gems some Seattleites just aren't unearthing. To help guide us to these potential discoveries, we've enlisted some of our city's many food luminaries to share with us their under the radar recommendations for a weekly feature dubbed Dining Confidential Branden Karow has learned Ethan Stowell Restaurants from the bottom up Karow was previously a line cook at Stowell's now-closed Union He worked his way up to chef at Staple & Fancy before a promotion to Culinary Director Karow occasionally embarks on a culinary adventure in the International District when he has free time and wants a cheap meal: My favorite hole-in-the-wall place is Sun-Ya in the ID than the other dim sum places and not nearly as busy The live tanks are often full of king crab I love getting salt and pepper prawns when they have live ones bring the plate of flopping prawns to the table for approval and minutes later return with them cooked to perfection and that weird thing wrapped in the bean curd Sun Ya is the only place in town where a friend and I can get a 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special editions I got a text from a former Ohio State baseball teammate Tuesday morning informing me that our assistant coach back then (1971-’74) and I knew he had been in poor health for some time Ohio area and was an outstanding high school pitcher for St He came to Ohio State to pitch for Marty Karow in 1954 as Karow sought to make the Buckeyes relevant in something besides football Having built Texas A&M into a perennial Southwest Conference champion Karow left A&M in 1950 to return to Ohio State where he had played baseball and football in the 20s wiry guy who had a reputation back then for being a hard thrower…and one that could throw hard all day long He once told me he was taken out of a college baseball game just once for a relief pitcher…and was embarrassed that it happened Dick Finn coached at Ohio State from 1970 through 1987 But by the late 60s he had risen as a coach at Toledo University and came back to Ohio State in 1969 as Karow’s assistant And when I arrived in the winter of 1970 all Finn knew about me was what he had read in a letter of recommendation from my American Legion coach in Troy “Frosty says you can throw strikes and get people out,”  said Finn during our first meeting “If you can we’ll take a look we have enough people like you already.” This was just five years after the Buckeyes had won the 1966 NCAA national championship but the program was a far cry from that group that included Steve Arlin So I showed up at French Field House to throw during indoor scrimmages But Finn and Karow were both concerned that I didn’t throw ‘Big Ten’ hard they gave me a roster spot in the spring of 1971 and took me on the pre-season trip to Coral Gables There I got a real education on the difference in pitching to high school and Legion hitters and those at the next level trying to make an impression on major league scouts and pitched well enough for OSU to keep me around I made three varsity appearances that season and got this assessment from Finn at the end of the year “We think you’re going to grow and get stronger And when you do I hope you come back with a better fastball.” By the following year I did get bigger and stronger but I didn’t throw significantly harder Finn gave me a chance to pitch as a sophomore and I led the team in wins But I couldn’t do it in the manner expected It was then that I went to him for a fateful meeting “We just think the new kids we’re recruiting give us a better chance of winning,”  he said “You need to become more competitive.” but I wanted to play and I was determined to impress him I tried a lot of things – everything But I never got to the point where I threw ‘Big Ten’ hard Twice during my final two seasons I pitched the second game of doubleheaders with this directive from Finn:  “Go as long as you can because we don’t have anyone to pitch in relief.” It was just Finn’s way of telling me he expected me to find a way to compete Years later I brought that up to him and he remembered as if it had happened the day before “Those two games were an education for me,”  he said “I realized you were good with what you had And I’m sorry I didn’t see it before.” It’s not as cut and dry now as it was back then I think contemporary college baseball is more receptive to different styles and types of athletes now But the one thing that hasn’t changed is that which defined Dick Finn You have to compete in life;  and not just give it lip service You have to earn the respect of both teammates and opponents and it doesn’t matter if it’s a baseball team or the workplace That’s what I learned from him – that sometimes you have to hear some hard things We all learn later than we should about life and I made sure he understood that I knew that the last time we talked He nodded with that smile of his that meant he appreciated it as a compliment because it happens to almost everyone in life The Buckeye Diamond club is proud to support Buckeye baseball on Press Pros Magazine.com GREEN BAY – It didn’t take Michael Karow long to adjust to life in the USHL That’s why the Green Bay native’s stay in the Tier I junior league will likely be a rather short one Karow’s strong play out of the gate with the Youngstown Phantoms garnered the attention of several NCAA Division I men’s hockey programs and led him to signing a national letter of intent with Boston College last week “They actually came into the process really late for me,” Karow said about receiving a scholarship offer from the Eagles earlier this month “But it was too good of an opportunity to pass up Karow is on pace to join the Boston College roster next season following only one year in the USHL It’s an impressive jump for the 17-year-old defenseman to make after deciding to forego his senior season at Green Bay Notre Dame this year to play on a full-time basis in the USHL with Youngstown it was just pure development,” Notre Dame coach Cory McCracken said “The USHL does a great job of exposing their players in that situation Michael had a great two-game set in Pittsburgh (at a fall classic) and drove a ton of interest at the college level as one of the few guys in that league that weren’t committed at the defenseman position that is going to play a solid two-way game and has a pro-style body.” 206-pounder is the top-scoring defenseman for Youngstown through 16 games with five assists The Fox River Classic Conference player of the year totaled four goals and 16 assists in 25 games as a junior at Notre Dame before making the decision to transition to the USHL Karow is listed as a C-ranked skater by NHL Central Scouting which translates to being selected between the fourth and sixth rounds in next year’s draft he would be the fourth local player selected in the NHL Draft since Notre Dame alum Max McCormick was chosen by the Ottawa Senators in 2011 The other local players selected since then are Ashwaubenon alum Matt Berkovitz (2014) and Notre Dame alum Mason Appleton (2015) “Hockey is still growing in the area,” Karow said Just to be able to continue that is really important to me.” Related: Last week's NLI signing roundup Coleman pair sign NLI: Coleman senior Josh Pillath signed a national letter of intent with the University of North Dakota men’s track and field team on Tuesday the Wisconsin Track Coaches Association male athlete of the year produced top three finishes in four events at the WIAA state meet in June including Division 3 titles in the 110-meter hurdles and high jump a runner-up finish in the 300 hurdles and a third-place medal for the discus The 6-foot-6 standout was one of two individuals at the state meet to medal in four individual events and was the only one competing in a running His performance helped the Cougars win a share of the D3 state title Coleman senior Matt Osterberg also signed a national letter of intent with the St The left-handed pitcher earned M&O Conference player of the year honors as a junior in leading the Cougars to conference and WIAA Division 3 regional titles More NLI signings: Pulaski senior Olivia Ghormley signed a national letter of intent Wednesday with the Michigan Tech volleyball team 53 aces and 43 blocks as a senior to earn FRCC co-player of the year honors The outside hitter led the FRCC in kills (140) and aces (39) in conference play to earn first-team accolades for a third time De Pere senior Lindsey Mirkes signed a letter of intent Monday with the Marquette women’s track and field team Mirkes finished as the D1 state runner-up in the high jump as a junior and was one of three girls in the state last season to clear 5 feet She was also a leg on the 1,600 relay team Oconto senior Becky Berth signed a letter of intent Wednesday with the Minnesota-Moorhead softball team a DII program in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference the Packerland Conference player of the year last season totaled 240 strikeouts to 50 walks with a 1.34 ERA over 172 innings in going 22-5 as a pitcher apekarek@greenbaypressgazette.com and follow him on Twitter @andrewpekarek Tyler Karow and Miles Fullman climbed Yosemite’s Triple Crown in 21 hours and 33 minutes and Mount Watkins — 2,133m of climbing over 71 pitches Theirs was just the eighth ascent of the Triple Crown they improved on the time of Danfoord Jooste and Nick Ehman who climbed the three peaks last year in 21 hours and 35 minutes Alex Honnold made the first solo ascent of the Yosemite Triple Crown in 19 hours back in 2012 we both wanted it to feel a certain way,” Fullman wrote on social media “Like we belonged up there and knew exactly what to do and to have fun while doing it We must have succeeded because neither of us even feels very wrecked.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CyyYr8WRtc-/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=1 KrisAnnapurna is a writer with ExplorersWeb Kris has been writing about history and tales in alpinism Sign up to receive ExplorersWeb content direct to your inbox once a week The Green Bay native made the USHL rookie team was one of two recipients for the USHL scholar-athlete award and nearly cracked the top 100 on the NHL Central Scouting rankings last week Karow’s season with the Youngstown Phantoms warranted the recognition The 18-year-old defenseman totaled 21 points (four goals 21 assists) in helping the Phantoms make the postseason The Boston College recruit ranked in the top 25 in scoring by USHL defensemen and was third among rookie blueliners earning him second-team honors on the league’s all-rookie team 206-pounder will graduate from Ursuline High School in Youngstown He’s ranked 10th in his class with a 3.9 GPA and was recognized by the USHL for his community service efforts who played two years for Green Bay Notre Dame before deciding to enter the USHL 109 among North American skaters by NHL Central Scouting and has strong chance of being selected in June’s NHL draft Gustafson top goal scorer: Clay Gustafson became the all-time goals scorer for the Milwaukee School of Engineering men’s lacrosse team earlier this month The Suamico native set the mark with a five-goal performance on April 5 against Concordia Chicago The Bay Port alum has since extended his scoring streak to 28 games and has 94 career goals also became MSOE’s all-time leader for assists (51) and points (145) this season Blahnik hammering out honor: Zach Blahnik was named the Sun Belt Conference field athlete of the week on March 22 The Algoma native received the honor after posting a victory in the men’s hammer throw (203 feet 11½ inches) at the Jaguar Classic on March 17-18 in Mobile and recording two second-place finishes in the shot put (50-8½) and discus (161-2¼) currently ranks in the top 10 in the Sun Belt for each throwing event His personal-best marks for the shot put and discus rank eighth and seventh Norbert freshman Carson Jacques was named MWC pitcher of the week The De Pere native pitched 6⅔ innings of relief scattering seven hits with one walk and five strikeouts to help the Green Knights rally for an 11-10 victory over Ripon College after they had been trailing 8-0 in the first inning Norbert College sophomore Kristina Herman was named Midwest Conference women’s field athlete of the week on April 11 The Seymour alumna received the honor again this season after winning the shot put and placing third in the discus to help the Green Knights win the team title at the Wisconsin Private College Track and Field Championships at Ripon College on April 8 Herman’s shot put throw of 40-11¾ leads the MWC not only do you get to play an enjoyable sport which is the trickiest part of the whole game we paired off into teams and took to the courts so I assumed I would also dislike pickleball Having not played an active sport in years but soon I was running around the court as in my more youthful volleyball-playing years and breaking a sweat It was fun and easy to play for both us young adults and our older parents I was curious to know why Minneapolis Cider Company added pickleball courts to its taproom “Wasn’t pickleball a sport for senior citizens?” I naively thought “We were looking for a way to create more of an engaging taproom experience,” Fisk says “We think cider and spirits can be more than just a passive drinking occasion but something that brings people together in an active way Pickleball is a great way to be social and have fun easy to learn and really pretty enjoyable for all skill levels We thought it was a perfect fit for our culture in the Twin Cities.” but don’t be surprised if you’re hooked after one game Pickleball courts are the same size as badminton courts Each side of the court is comprised of a left service area and non-volley zone (known as the kitchen) Serving: Players serve behind the baseline and must serve underhand that player is done serving and it moves to the next player The first serve of the game is made from the right-hand side of the court and alternates after every point alternating sides until their team commits a fault the player’s partner gets the opportunity to serve before allowing the opposing team to serve The first team to serve only gets one serve to start the game Only the team that is serving can score points the player that is serving calls out the score 2 for that team while the other player is server No the first server of the receiving team is No that player must allow the ball to bounce once before hitting it back The serving team then must also allow the ball to bounce once before hitting it back on this return the ball can be hit in the air before it bounces or after one bounce Remember the non-volley zone known as the kitchen Players cannot hit the ball while standing in this zone unless the ball first bounces in the non-volley zone Minneapolis Cider Company offers more than great cider The taproom hosts countless events every month—Yoga + Cider Its next upcoming special event is a pop-up indoor dog park 1-5 p.m For more active entertainment, check out our outdoor winter to-do list 1950 to the late Carl and Emma Karow in Athens Lynn was united in marriage to Ray Steen Jr Lynn had various jobs and was a homemaker raising her family She enjoyed her trips with her daughter also her sister and friends She also enjoyed her shopping trips to Appleton Lynn enjoyed her flower gardens and liked watching the birds with her morning cup of coffee Ray of Medford; daughter Lisa (Mike) Radtke of Rothschild; son Cheryl “Bubbles” (Tony) Eckert of Medford; brother-in-law Vic Nowak of Milwaukee; sisters-in-law Mary Tessmer and Moony Tessmer Lynn was preceded in death by her parents; sisters A Funeral Service will take place at Immanuel Lutheran Church on December 29 Friends and family may call at the church from 9:00 AM until the time of service at 11:00 AM In lieu of flowers memorials would be appreciated to: Aspirus Medford Kidney Care fought a courageous battle with cancer for seven months and passed away on Tuesday 2013 at home with her loved ones around her 1966 to Ronald Karow and Maxine Kimball in Milwaukee She worked at Evergreen Retirement Community as an OTA and loved working there Gale was a free spirit and loved riding her Harley and spending time with her family and friends and those time will be treasured and missed Gale is survived by her two loving daughters; Alexandra Smith of Oshkosh and Josie Smith of Madison who she adored and made her smile on her worst days who was with her every day through her battle with cancer A funeral service for Gale will be held on Saturday 2013 at 4:00 PM at the WICHMANN FUNERAL HOME TRI COUNTY CHAPEL A time of visitation will be held on Saturday from 12:00 PM until the time of the service at the funeral home Online condolences may be expressed at www.wichmannfargo.com The family would like to extend their sincere thanks to the nurses at St and the staff at Evergreen for all they have done — The owner of a massage parlor just three blocks from City Hall voluntarily gave up its licenses Monday after the police and city councilors accused him of deceptive practices "It wasn't my intention to be deceitful," said Michael Karow moments before the council voted unanimously to revoke its licenses "It is absolutely disrespectful for you to come into this community to subject women and other individuals to this type of work," scolded Ward 4 Councilwoman Stephanie Gonzalez and I hope that this isn't a green light for you to take this establishment to another community The Palm Tree Day Spa had opened a year ago at 753 Broad St. in the same spot as the notorious Simple Pleasures Spa which the city had fought for years to close told the council in March 2014 that he'd never owned a business and he was vague about how he'd run the spa The give-aways were the ads of scantily clad young Asian women that were posted on adult entertainment websites and discreet," and the graphic reviews on sex customer forums The spa was open earlier than the City Council had allowed A licensed massage therapist never seemed to be around — though other unlicensed women were These incidents and others violated the city's ordinance governing massage parlors And the actions also violated the terms that Karow had agreed to when the City Council "When they come to you and lie about the business the appropriate action is revocation," urged assistant city solicitor Nick Hemon and what you've heard here — this gives us an opportunity to put an end to this." Karow said he'd closed the massage parlor after the police visited the business three weeks ago and asked to see the licensed massage therapist who is supposed to be there the council president and license board chairman "I don't think it was fair to our Police Department or to our residents in the city of Central Falls to have that establishment there," Ferri added we gave you an opportunity and you took advantage of that opportunity I was against it from day one but at the time we had no grounds to deny you the license It seemed like you were going to do the right thing five months after Simple Pleasures was closed for code violations The City Council members were leery and set strict hours The neon Open sign lit up at the spa and the ads went up — in the adult entertainment sections on Backpage.com and Spahunters.com John Carroll said that a "mamasan" at Palm Tree had worked at spas in Providence and Cranston that were raided for prostitution "I'm concerned about it based on other investigations in other massage parlors where investigations went into prostitution and human trafficking," he told the council Mayor James Diossa signed a strict ordinance to govern massage parlors and prevent illegal activity He applauded the council's actions Monday night "I'm outraged at the wanton disrespect for the rule of law that this massage parlor has shown our city," Diossa said in a statement "Repeatedly breaking the law and all behavior that exploits and dehumanizes the women in our community will not be tolerated in Central Falls."