It's time to clean out the inbox and a few things have caught my eye recently.
The Athletic writes about Division II basketball coach Jim Crutchfield and his innovations at Nova Southeastern, resulting in a phenomenal record at the Florida school.
Crutchfield's system looks on the surface similar to the analytics-driven systems used by many programs but in actuality is far different.
I found the article very intriguing and hope to have time to watch a Nova game on the conference website soon to gain a better understanding.
LinkedIn isn't usually a site where I find items for the inbox but this article written by James Bafaro is worth the addition as Bafaro writes of himself and his best friend in grade school's experience at free ABA basketball night in St.Louis.
Bafaro goes through the giveaway, the basketball (he still has his), the stolen basketball from his friend, and how the story had a happy ending!
ESPN writes of the behind-the-scenes decisions and problems that led to the Cleveland Browns putrid 3-14 season.
Obviously, the quarterback chaos is the main focus but it also discusses the decision to replace Alex Van Pelt before the season with Ken Dorsey, the decisions that need to be made in this off-season, and of course, Jimmy Haslam.
Yes, there is a chance of Earth being struck by an asteroid in 2032 and the latest calculations by NASA have doubled those chances.
Before you start panicking too much, the chances of a hit have moved from 1.2 percent to 2.3 percent, so the chances have doubled but still unlikely.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 will tracked by the James Webb Telescope in March but contact will be lost as the asteroid's trajectory moves it out of visual range until June 2028 when it will begin its trip towards Earth.
The European Space Agency stated, " An object this size (likely larger than 50 kilometers wide) hits Earth once every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region".
The chances of an impact are likely to increase by the 2028 approach and even a doubling of the current chance to be between 4.5 and five percent isn't likely but possible.
NBA lotteries have been won by teams with smaller percentages and imagine if you knew there was a five percent chance you could be hit crossing the street at a particular time, you would likely wait until a better chance of crossing the street came along.
Pay attention to this over the next months and then sock it away for a few years but this could be the story of our time if that few percentile chance connects and if it is projected to land in a major population area.
With this look at Bertman's Ballpark Mustard, Cleveland Magazine writes of the initial year of one of the two combatants in the Cleveland Mustard Wars.
The Bertman's (Indians/Guardians) and Stadium (Browns) battle has been referenced often here at TRS with both products having their place in my pantry!
