good talk

Congrats to France, with Paul Pogba playing so-well, last year I saw Manchester United play Crystal Palace at Old Trafford, winning 2-0, with Paul scoring a goal.  I saw a day of the NBA Summer League, with 8 games, 4 in the Thomas & Mack, 4 in Cox, staggered-times, and just going across the hall, one can, I did, see more or less, a half of 16 teams.  The Cox, seating 5 thou, is the real-treat, you can cadge a seat down-low, you're on top of them., it's great. Saw Donte DiVincenzo from Villanova, for the Bucks, in the NCAA Championship Game, he played like a man-possessed (blocked a shot with 2 hands).  In the "Encyclopedia of Pro Basketball Players", you'll find Ed's Old Man, Bob Preusse.  Why he's in there is beyond-me, he starred for Akron U, and played 2 years for the Goodyear Wingfoots, and this last was the highest-rung in Basketball at that time, him playing pro-ball, I've never heard.  And it wasn't much of a career, at least he scored a basket, ha, at Goodyear he maybe 6th Man, and started at times.  And he, unlike most of the Goodyears, had a job where he actually had to produce, as a mechanical-engineer, probably why he only played 2 years for them, as they traveled-far on the train, this took him away from his bread and butter.  Also, he was a Reserve Army Officer, Akron U., like many Universities at that time, made Reserve Officers Training Corps, compulsory for able-bodied Students, and this was a good part-time job.  During the Great Depression, guys were eager for remunerative-activity, and my Father had his, how he wound-up playing 3 games, sitting-on-the-bench, for some pro team, is a mystery, for sure, he never mentioned it.  Donte is listed as bigger than my Father (they shorted him an inch), at 205 lbs. to 195 lbs., no, ha, in those days they didn't lift weights, in modern-times he would have been 230, maybe 240, he was a really-big man, and his movements were graceful.  Some of you women are thinking, I bet that was something good, you shouldn't