Monday news

Nice story from Marquette talking about their draft picks and also showing off their home jersey. They'll also have a copper third jersey which should look nice. Interesting article a few weeks ago from Canada, which begs the question: "why on earth would anyone prevent players from an advancement opportunity?" A self-imposed glass ceiling sounds like a sure way to slowly (or rapidly even) kill your minor association. Here's an optimistic op-ed from Texarkana on recent events. Clearly there remains the expectation that the Minton Sportsplex will be built and hockey will return. I admittedly don't follow the day-to-day affairs of the Minton project and for the sake of Texarkana fans hope I'm wrong, but I'm just not sure it's going to happen. In addition, it's rather ironic that the Bandits simultaneously made a semi-regular feature in the Gazette, coming in 54th in things to love about Texarakana and the region. My guess is the team would actually rank higher, but editors figured they' better rank them now before everyone forgets who they were. Looks like there's another non-traditional market on the horizon. Here's a team that has to fly to all their games... but after looking at their jerseys I didn't know that there were any Zia expatriates in Dubai.