Rachel Crader is the editor of semoball.com. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in May of 2009 before spending the summer covering the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Highlights from Rachel's days in college include having a class down the hall from Chase Daniel and having NCAA wrestling champion Ben Askren hold the door open for her at Brady Commons, Mizzou's student center. She spent time covering Mizzou basketball, softball and baseball while working for the Columbia Missourian and is excited to return home to Southeast Missouri to cover local sports for semoball.com.

Rachel has covered three Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournaments for the Southeast Missourian and semoball.com, and she'll see you courtside again this year.

Football Schedules and Pigskin Pick'em's Return (Fixed and Updated)

Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010, at 10:46 PM

With soap games (Seriously? That much soap is needed? Gatorade games I can get behind...) and jamborees scheduled for this week, it is officially time to launch the 2010 version of Pigskin Pick'em.

For those who didn't play last season, Pigskin Pick'em (Which I type as Pickskin Pick'em without fail. It will be remarkable if I get through this blog without messing it up) is our high school and now NFL contest that allows you to pick who you think will win each week. Pick well and you'll win one of our many prizes.

I already mentioned that we've expanded the contest this season to include both high school games from all 17 semoball.com football teams as well as NFL teams, but we've also added more prizes. This season there are weekly and overall runner-up prizes to go along with the prizes for our winners each week and at the end of the season.

You can get all the details and sign up for both contests here, but I'll tell you that the local grand prize for the NFL contest is a complete home entertainment system from Stereo One valued at $1,300 (We're talking plasma TV and a surround sound system here people.) The prize for being the high school champion is a Super Bowl party for you and 24 of your closest friends courtesy of Domino's.

Please feel free to start claiming victory will be yours in the comments below, although I'm putting my money on Headhunt just on principle. (Apologies to football monkey.)

Hopefully you've noticed that we've been updating the site daily with dozens of schedules for the 2010 season. Every football schedule has been updated on the high schools' individual pages, which you can find by using the "Schools" drop-down menu in the navigation bar above.

Here are all the football schedules in one place for your convenience.

Be sure to check the high school pages for schedules from other sports. Many have been added and many more will be added each day. If your school's schedules have not been added yet, feel free to e-mail them to me at rcrader@semissourian.com. I've sent out requests to all 58 semoball schools asking for their schedules and searched pretty much every school website, but there are still plenty I haven't been able to track down.

OK, I think I'm ready for another high school sports season to start. Are you?

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What if we don't have 24 friends Crader?

-- Posted by drawmules2 on Thu, Aug 19, 2010, at 1:33 AM

Rachel Crader
I guess you'll have a lot of leftover pizza.
I know Headhunt. He cowers before my mighty pigskin prowess. As defending champion, I say: "If you wanna be the man, you gotta beat the man."

-- Posted by Cully Bryant on Thu, Aug 19, 2010, at 8:56 AM
Drawmules,

I guess you'll just have a lot of left over pizza. Even better!

Football monkey,

I'd be very interested to hear what Headhunt has to say about this. However, I readily recognize your prowess and look forward to following your progress this season. :)

-- Posted by Rachel Crader on Thu, Aug 19, 2010, at 6:02 PM
I just realized there is a bit chunk of this blog missing...super weird...

-- Posted by Rachel Crader on Thu, Aug 19, 2010, at 10:31 PM

Rachel Crader
It was an issue with an html link. Amazing that it sort of made sense anyway. Sorry to those who tried to make sense of it. It read fine on my end when I wrote and proofed it because I could see the code.
Well, the Monkey does indeed posses prowess in gridiron knowledge, but as I recall , last year I was not in the hunt for top spot, and even blew a few down the stretch , but , that is all water under the bridge. Since my nerves will be less "frayed" ths season, wiht no dog in the hunt, I am hoping to better my percentage, and have tons of pizza myself...the good news is, I know where the monkey lives, and the ZOU is not far away , I am looking forward to this years action, and since it is officially JAMBOREE FRIDAY, I am headed to Hillsboro, and will put my 2 cents in on all I survey .....safe travels to everyone headed out tonight to cheer on their favorite teams....as I have 2 in college this fall, my Saturdays will be filled with tailgates and even more football, the collge kind, so Rach, lets not forget the college pick em maybe ???? OK, too late for this season, but maybe next year?? ( thanks Rachel)

-- Posted by Headhunt on Fri, Aug 20, 2010, at 12:59 AM
I have a college and pro pickem leagues on yahoo if anyone wants to join. Here's the league info below. The leagues are free and fun..

Group ID#: 4023

Group Password pujols5

Group ID#: 9725

Group Password pujols5

-- Posted by FreyGuys on Fri, Aug 20, 2010, at 2:09 PM
The first password and id is for college pick and the second in for pro football pickem

-- Posted by FreyGuys on Fri, Aug 20, 2010, at 2:09 PM
Hey Rachel,

When does the Semissourian Pigskin preview come out?

-- Posted by FBSEMOfan on Tue, Aug 24, 2010, at 10:38 PM
Tomorrow (Thursday, August 26), FBSEMOfan!

-- Posted by Rachel Crader on Wed, Aug 25, 2010, at 8:54 PM

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