Tax Payers Say No

There is always  a professionals  sports team looking  to ask the city in which they are in to help pay for stadiums or for repairs.  Yesterday the City Of Wilmington voted down a request to built a minor league stadium on the Cape Fear River by a 70% to 30% vote.

Professional teams  like to use as hostage the threat to leave a city if the local govenments don't finance their  building.  There are rumors floating about that Jerry Richardon would like to do about $30 million dollars worth of improvements to B Of A Stadium in Charlotte.  Remember LA is looking possibly two team to go there and you just might hear rumblings in Charlotte.

Last year Carolina and Michigan played the so called first game of the college basketball season on the Air Craft Carrier Carl Vinson.  This year's game is to be played on the Museum AirCraft carrier Midway which is stationed in San Diego harbour.  The forecast is for rain Friday  night in San Diego and the game has been moved to Sunday.  Syracuse had to change their travel plans in order to shift the game.  The game is suppose to be played inside an arena  in San Diego if rain did occur but not enough tickets were sold in San Diego to see San Diego State and Syracuse play.  I suspect this will be the last year of this event.

Last month Carolina held their fall baseball  series and former Gryphon Hobbs Johnson kept right on pitching like he finished the season last year.  He went seven innings allowed two runs .  Sure does look like when Carolina plays this year  the Friday pitcher will be Kent Emanuel, Saturday Benton Moss and Sunday Hobbs Johnson.  Not many high schools can say they have two starting weekend pitchers on many college rosters.

Finally under WHERE is he now?  I went on the Modest Junior College basketball web page and found TaShawn Mabry is on the roster again this year.  Mabry who sat out last year after blowing out his achilles after the 11th game in 2010 is back in California.