BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Summer time and reading just seem to go together, don’t they? Grab a lemonade, kick back and relax!
-- Archie Miller is the highest paid Head Basketball Coach in the Atlantic 10. Let’s keep it that way!
http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/new.../nrdhc/?pxIOb7
-- Archie and staff will have a visitor this weekend -- highly touted 2017 PG McKinley Wright from Minnesota, according to this Tweet from Julius Kim of Phenom Hoops:
2017 @D1Minnesota PG McKinley Wright tells @Phenom Hoops he will visit #Dayton this weekend.
-- As if Kendall Pollard doesn’t already have enuf on his mind with the death of Steve McElvene and his recovery from surgery, he also recently lost a teammate from Simeon HS:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...609-story.html
Ivey managed to get out of inner city Chicago and was enrolled at a college in LA and this happens? Dang.
-- You can forget about Sam Miller’s Gonzaga Prep HS teammate Chris Lykes coming to UD -- he recently verballed to The U:
http://www.scout.com/college/basketb...-commits-miami
-- June 15th is the first day that college coaches can call 2018 HS prospects, so expect to see some fresh names pop up on Archie’s recruiting radar screen at
http://verbalcommits.com/schools/dayton
-- Four reasons why the City of Dayton should continue to host the First Four. Hershey, PA? I don’t think so.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/...-first-/nrcdX/
-- Nice profile on Brian Roberts from the Portland Trailblazers website:
http://www.nba.com/blazers/player-profile-brian-roberts
My old WXYT “The Ticket” Sports Radio buddy TJ Ansley is now working in Digital Media for the Blazers. I wonder if he helped put this online?
-- The college basketball transfer list has topped 600 players:
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bask...-transfer-list
-- Dunking from the FT line? It’s not just for Michael Jordan anymore:
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-bas...01s3ghul2k3i16
-- Another great story from Tom Archdeacon at
The DDN. This one is about Dayton area auctioneer Doug Sorrell and his relationship with the great Muhammed Ali:
http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/new...=ddn_skip_stub
Prior to becoming an auctioneer, Doug sold advertising for WTUE and he is an old friend from my WVUD radio days in Dayton.
-- The great Joe Posnanski writes about the smash Broadway hit “Hamilton” and its impact on his daughter Elizabeth:
http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/ham...d&utm_tags=srm[article]
-- A multimedia look at a day in the life of the world’s busiest airport, ATL:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/...l24/?hpt=hp_t1
-- Moe’s has supposedly passed Chipotle as America’s favorite Mexican chain? You will never convince my taste buds that:
http://www.eater.com/2016/6/9/118953...-mexican-chain
-- Speaking of food, here is an interview with CNN’s Anthony Bourdain:
http://www.adweek.com/news/televisio...m_content=link
-- Don Henley discusses the complete Eagles discography with
Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...-back-20160610
-- Look I understand that there are always going to be “truthers” out there. JFK assassination truthers; Apollo moon landing truthers; Obama birth certificate truthers. But Jeebus is there any lower life form in the universe than Sandy Hook truthers?
http://www.cracked.com/personal-expe...-im-lying.html
Do they really think the murder of 27 innocent people was a government conspiracy? Get a life. Stop calling the victims’ parents already.
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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