In the most generous of terms, that made us contemporaries, as I coached the Womens Hockey Club all of four games, before we ran out of bodies. He was also the guy who years later suggested scoring every point in volleyball to appropriate collegiate icons, because time-wise, long side-out games weren’t “TV friendly” like all the other NCAA championships.īecause of Ivan, I have the BEST hockey story, involving EJ McGuire – who became VP of NHL Souting, and died in 2011 of a cancer so rare, they don’t even have a slogan – but I knew as the cool as hell coach of the men’s team at Brockport State (NY). Ivan’s analysis stuck with me: Unless there was a LOT of $$$ (which proved not a problem) going into beach volleyball, whether the stars of the California lifestyle would travel well was the question. Yes, Karch Kiray was there, and won the Jose Cuervo-sponsored event. I’ve kept the typewritten original for ITS SPORTS! since 1982, think of it as a historical document, at least for that new sportswriter. We got included in the judging for best bikini at one point, but there were a *bunch* of people sitting in on that. Ivan and I went to the first pro beach volleyball tournament outside of the Southern Cal scene, held in Clearwater, FL. Louis Blues win the Stanley Cup, Christian Laettner still made “The Shot” in that classic 104-103 game against Kentucky, and I’m sure to see Flutie make that incredible throw again soon, but since there’s no new sports happening, I’ll offer a couple personal athletic considerations in place of TV. My recently turned 86-year old Mom in a nearby senior living community in Charlotte – locked down two weeks ago, and no Sundays in packed churches in any near future – is definitely safe, my best bud from college and forever, I don’t know. My claim to fame was disabusing him, by raining my good jump shot on him time after time, of the idea he could fit back into his old ways of league basketball in Santurce, PR, because he recognized, “If I can’t stop THIS guy from getting to the hole or shooting 3s, that’s not an option.” I’ll mix sports and some piece of the tale about making Ivan Marquez, former commisioner of the EIVA (Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) and Concordia College Athletic Director-legend the coach-person he became, because he DIDN’T go back to Puerto Rico when we both had to retreat to New York from Tampa in 1983. Younger then of course, stupid but physically capable of recovery, maybe a little like those Spring Breakers… It would be 94+ degrees, we could have stroked out. We never even brought Power Ade with us back then, maybe a water bottle, then game to 100 – you could make up to three free throws after a basket. He’s like ninety-odd pills a day a medical marvel, but when you hear “underlying causes” with COVID-19, he’s definitely in that category. This isn’t a eulogy, but yes, I’m thinking about him being vulnerable and, as far as I know, unless he’s at the Mayo Clinic again because he’s lived with prostate cancer a dozen years now, he’s right at Ground Zero. Eighty-eight on Saturday was plenty hot, getting out to shoot for forty minutes or so brought back hoops memories from Tampa, those times mi amigo Ivan and I beat each other to death in Tampa, FL humidity and blazing heat. Going into a statewide lockdown on Monday didn’t stop it from being a glorious spring weekend in Charlotte. gold futures fell 0.90% to $1,737.40 an ounce.Its never a bad time to notice stylish local artwork, sunny or not. Spot gold dropped 0.7% to $1,738.41 an ounce, while U.S. Federal Reserve's November meeting minutes due this week. Gold prices slipped to their lowest in over a week as the dollar extended gains, while the market's attention turned to the U.S. The yields on long-duration 30-year bonds were still lower at 3.9066%. The yield curve remained deeply inverted on concerns the central bank's tightening will weigh on economic growth.īenchmark 10-year notes rebounded from earlier losses and was at 3.8419%, while the yield on 2-year notes was up at 4.5651%. The start of a Thanksgiving holiday-shortened week on concern about further Federal Reserve interest rate hikes. Treasury yields across most maturities inched higher at The dollar index rose 0.851%, with the euro down 0.82% to $1.0239. dollar advanced against most major currencies, recouping recent losses, as traders shunned riskier currencies over concerns about the global economic outlook from the COVID curbs in China. "Typically oil demand will plummet going into a slowdown or global recession especially this year, which we think is going to be somewhat exacerbated by China," Hodge added.
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