PREDICTORS PICTURES
Below are pictures of some of our sports predictors:
 
Nov 1994  John Blanda, John Baker, Phil Hensley and Nelson Slagle Nov 1994  Phil Hensley, Rick Higgins and Dave Evans
May 1996  Gail Engel, Phil Hensley and Jim Slagle Nov 1998  Dick Hammerstrom and Nelson Slagle
Nov 1998  Front:  Al Manzey, Jerry Slagle and John Slagle.  Standing:  Will Sides, Brett Carman and Nelson Slagle Nov 1998  Deb Cummings and Scott Brandenburg
Aug 1999 Bob Scholl, Mary Scholl and Nelson Slagle Aug 1999  Jim, John, Jim, Nelson and Jerry Slagle
Nov 1999 Ignacio Esteban and Doug Schoon Nov 1999 Dick Hammerstrom and Doug Schoon
March 2000 Nelson Slagle, Will Sides, Blake Vasquez and Nolie Carman Aug 2000 Nelson Slagle, Hal Berger and Gerry Hamilton
Oct 1965 Nelson Slagle computing final baseball predictions Sept  2000 Dick Hammerstrom, Steve Waul, Nelson Slagle and Scott Brandenburg at Denny's in Madison, Wisconsin
Sept 2000 Dick Hammerstrom, Steve Waul and Scott Brandenburg Oct 2000 Nelson Slagle, Shawn Dunaway and Phil Hensley at tailgate party in Columbus prior to Ohio State - Minnesota game
Nov 2000 Phil Hensley, Rick Higgins and Nelson Slagle at tailgate party in Columbus  prior to Ohio State - Michigan State game Nov 2000 Nelson Slagle and Rick Higgins at High St and Lane Ave in Columbus, Ohio
Nov 2001 Nelson Slagle, Bob Scholl and Dick Hammerstrom at Sams Town Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada Sept  2002 Andrew Coates and Bob Koller at Cypress, Calif facility of Rockwell Collins
Feb 2004 Rotating Trophy for winner of annual Slag's Football Predictions.   The names of the 38 winners are listed on both sides of the card attached to the back of the trophy.
Feb 2004 Nelson Slagle (right) presents Mark Johnson as the first recipient of the rotating football trophy.  Mark has predicted football for 15 years and  won the predicts in 2003, 2000 and 1995.  He is the all time leader in the football predicts finishing at an average of 11% thus beating 89% of the predictors in an average year.  Congrats Mark
Feb 2004 Mark Johnson with rotating Football prediction trophy
Aug 2004 Nelson Slagle with 2004 Basketball regular season rotating trophy and Blake Vasquez with 2004 NCAA/NBA Basketball Playoff rotating trophy.  Nelson won basketball a record 8th time and Blake won the NCAA/NBA by a record 49 points.
Nov 2004 Nolie Carman, Nelson Slagle, Jim Slagle and Al Manzey during presentation of Tiger Woods Majors Prediction trophy to Jim Slagle for his 2004 win.
Mar 2005 Nelson presents 2004 Baseball Playoffs trophy to the winner, Dick Hammerstrom
Mar 2005 Dick Hammerstrom presents  trophy for winning the 2005 Basketball regular season predictions
Mar 2005 Nelson Slagle presents the rotating NCAA/NBA Playoffs basketball  prediction trophy to Dick Hammerstrom. Dick won the NCAA and NBA portions to easily win the combined title
 November 2005 Dick Beeuwsaert and Nelson Slagle at Westminster stadium, Westminster, Calif to watch Dick's grandson, Bryan Shrock, QB Edison to a 31-7 victory over Marina.  Bryan was named All County QB.
  Dec 2005 Nelson Slagle presenting rotating football prediction trophy to Bob Koller for winning the 2005 football predictions.
 January 2006 Nelson Slagle presents Tim Moore with the Dow Jones Predicting Trophy.  Tim won the 2004 and 2005 contest.
  July 2006  Nelson Slagle, Deb Cummings, Bob Stanley and Jim Henning at Denny's in Madison, Wisconsin
  July 2006  Dick Hammerstrom and Nelson Slagle at IHOP in Chicago, Illinois   Frank Pekovich, Jim Henning, Dick Hammerstrom and Bob Stanley at Denny's in Madison, Wisconsin.  Jim Henning has rotating trophy for winning the 2006 football predictions.  Bob Stanley has a rotating trophy for winning the 2007 basketball predictions.  Dick Hammerstrom has the NCAA/NBA rotating trophy for finishing 2nd in the 2007 predicts as the number 1 predictor (Bob Scholl) declined the picture opportunity.
  Jim Slagle with rotating trophy for winning 2005 Tiger Woods Major predictions at his home in Marion, Ohio   Nelson Slagle, Kristen Stoub and John Slagle get together at John's home in Irvine, California to discuss strategy for extending their 7 year reign of winning the Academy Awards Predictions
  January 2010 Eight current baseball predictors including 6 of the top 18 predictors based on years predicting.  Seated: Nelson Slagle (50), Bob Thomas (28) and Andrew Hazlewood.  Standing:  John Slagle (28), Bob Scholl (35), Dick Hammerstrom, Al Manzey (29) and Hal Berger (31).
  January 2010 Bob Thomas with rotating trophy for winning Baseball Predictions in 1982
  January 2010 Mark Johnson with football predictions rotating trophy for winning the 2009 title.   January 2010 Six football predictors that predicted in 2009.  Bob Thomas, Al Manzey, Nelson Slagle, Dick Hammerstrom, Mark Johnson and Bob Scholl.
  January 2010  Prior winners of Football Predictions:  John Wilford (1978), Nelson Slagle, Mark Johnson and Bob Scholl   January 2010 Nelson Slagle, Mark Johnson and Bob Scholl.  These three have won football predictions 21 times including 10 of last 15 years and have finished 2nd a collective 15 times in 44 years of predictions.
  January 2010 Prior basketball prediction winners:  Dick Hammerstrom (1995), Cap Scholl, John Slagle (1983) and Nelson Slagle. Cap and Nelson have won the title 8 of last 9 years and have 17 first place finishes and 13 second place finishes between them in 42 years of predictions.   January 2010 NCAA/Pro Playoff prediction winners:  Dick Hammerstrom, Bob Scholl, Nelson Slagle and Hal Berger.
  January 2010 Nelson Slagle, Bob Thomas and Bob Scholl.  Bob Thomas won Prediction of the Year honors in 2009.  Bob and Nelson are prior winners