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This Final 4 business of the collegiate hoops...I did say 'Business', right?...it comes at a cost...something most don't know about, or choose to look the other way...some hoop schools do NOT have a football team, too...why?...the COST $$$!...for example, Gonzaga...where they can offer up to 13 scholarships...in basketball...if they had a football team, the number would be around 113!...to be competitive...and that's just the two main guy's sports...these are incentives to lure the best athletes they can, to 'their' school...free tuition, board, room, and books (if needed)...I laugh at the transfer portal nowadays...as the athletes can move about freely, from one school to another...well, the colleges and universities, have to be very creative in their usage of the scholarships...one can just imagine there are shenanigans going on, 'under the table' so to speak...

Just gander at the makeup of the 4 teams left in the guys hoops...many are transfers...we cheer, for the school, not so much for the makeup of the team...shoot, the colleges are worse than the pros now, for player stability...who are these dudes?...oh well, we are winning, and that's the main thing...I guess...

I ventured out of the cost factor...imagine the hoops AND football schools...they survive not only by the scholarships thang, but by ALUMNI donations...yup, think Oregon is not the athletic school it is without, Phil Knight..ah, Mr Nike!...there are blokes like that all over the map...the big and talented teams, have HUGE donations coming in from people and BUSINESSES as strong as Knight...don't kid yourself...think that Alabama and Ohio St don't have humongous donations coming in?...takes a lot of cash to be fan worthy...

Think that only happens in college?...try your local high school teams...is there a school that miraculously comes up with star players, that just happen to transfer there?...sure...

OK, made my point...

The 130th mass murder...and the Republicans are trying the silence gig in Congress...stay quiet, and in time, this will go away...why oh why, the banning of the assault rifle is so dear to them?...just that one vehicle of slaughter...have they NO SHAME!..it is beyond me...

The killer in Nashville...the police team that went in to handle that situation...'Let's Go!'...brought chills to my skin...they have been trained to deal with this...bypassing all those children huddling up in fear of getting blown to bits...you REPUBLICAN Congressionals, you are the worst of all!...did YOU watch the film from the cameras?...

So, when and where is number 131?...

And...

The PDX Blazers are shutting down Dame for the season...oh my...how much are your ticket prices?...as so are the Nets are doing the same on Ben Simmons...what?...he is always shut down...

So I bought this genuine Maui wood watch in ah, Maui...years back...took in to my fav watch dude...to change up the battery...he informed me that...the watch was actually made by a Canadian company...via China...well, is the wood Maui?...what you think?...did I get hornswoggled?...

My blogging will be spotty for a few days...as the desert is calling our names...the sun wins out...and we shall see ya'll soon...

PEACE!



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