Sunday, March 16, 2025

The Last Straw

      Ben Johnson, the University of Minnesota Basketball coach was fired after three years. Several of his players transferred last year. Reportedly they would make 80K at Minnesota for NIL, (Name Image Likeness) and by transferring that would increase to 800K. Was that Johnson's fault?  An already weak link to men's collegiate basketball for me just severed. The entire question of why universities are the locus of such sports is an open one. For years schools exploited their athletes, but where will this end? And, no, I will not turn to football for entertainment.

Takk for alt,

Al

 

See the group of Marines toward the end of the flight deck?  What do you suppose they are doing? If you guessed exercise.......😀 One of the best uses for the flight deck, in my experience, was for Easter Sunrise Service, 1962. With the chairs facing east the service was held as the sun rose over the East China Sea on a cloudless, windless day. Yes, of course, we sang The Navy Hymn along with Easter songs.  USS Princeton LPH-5

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