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Good looking unis!

I'm a little surprised that the women have no OCC games since the men have 7 scheduled.

It looks like Jake Parsons is a very nice get for the Aggies. He had offers from San Jose State, Idaho State, Utah State, NAU, Cal Poly, Lake Erie College and Lehigh also.

Nice...does this mean that we are definitely going to have basketball this fall? MTE = multi-team event.

That appears to be the case, Obda, if everybody sticks around. I sure hope we get to see some hoops even if it is an abbreviated season.

I just saw this this morning also and, like you said, his athleticism is impressive. Sac has been mining the local area for recruits so it's nice to see us land some local talent too.

That's terrible news. Bob is right up there with Coach Socher in the group of Aggie coaching legends. He's a truly soft-spoken, kind and caring man who exemplifies Aggie Pride. My thoughts are with him and his family.

The following is an excellent and scholarly article that discusses many of the most difficult and often controversial questions that many people have about race and racial issues. I found it very enlightening and well worth the time to read:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/us/racism-questions-answers/?active=2

I was looking forward to seeing her play but I'm not all that surprised with her decision to go home. It must have been tough for her transferring to a new school with the pandemic and shutdown taking place. It's hard enough to make new friends and settle into a new school without any restrictions in place. She must have felt very isolated when you add that to the fact that we won't be playing basketball this fall either. That makes it easy to understand why she would want to return back to her family, friends and UK.

From the Davis Enterprise: QB Brock Johnson has decided not to play football.

Notes: Aggie QB Brock Johnson did not “opt out” of playing football because of the pandemic (as reported last week by The Enterprise). Hawkins said the Mission Viejo native is a senior who wants to take advantage of employment opportunities. “It had nothing to do with the virus,” clarified Hawkins. Every year programs lose a player or three for one reason or another — but this year if anyone leaves a team, fans and media often assume it’s virus related. …

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/hawkins-we-have-to-use-the-time-to-re-invent-ourselves/

I know people hate it when you say ‘it is what it is,’ but that’s
the case,” said Aggie head football coach Dan Hawkins.

“I’m disappointed for the kids, but we’ll adjust and we’ll roll.
Our guys are great. They get it and they want to be safe.”

Hawkins said football staff and school officials have been “very honest and transparent” with the players and have presented them with “all sorts of scenarios. So it was disappointing, but absolutely not a surprise. Medically, it’s the right decision.

“Kevin (Blue) and Gary (May) were great through this whole
process. They were very supportive of everyone and we all
knew what was going on.

Now, the shape of winter/spring football for the Aggies rests with the Big Sky Council of Presidents and the member schools’ athletic directors. Decisions to be made include starting dates, whether the current schedule will simply translate to its new “spring” home, will fans be allowed and whether the conference’s decision will spur a decision about a Football Championship Subdivision playoff, albeit truncated.

“We’re going to work with the NCAA to see if there’s any possibility of an FCS championship playoff in the spring,” May reported. “Short of that, we may be able to have a Big Sky championship game if we split into divisions. That’s all up in the air at this point. I can’t imagine the FCS will go ahead with a fall playoff.”

Read more here: https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/reports-say-big-sky-to-move-remaining-games-to-spring/

No problem!

Joe Davidson has often written very positive articles about Aggie sports and he did a really nice job on this poignant article about the Davis Sport Shop closing.

Lead story in the sports section of the Sac Bee about the Davis Sport Shop closing this Friday.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article244386322.html

Good for Katie.

Grenada is one of my favorite cities in the world and the Alhambra is stunning beyond imagination. My wife and I spent a week there and now talk about possibly going back and staying for several months. Put it on your bucket list if you never been there.

Wow! Go figure!

I retired 10 years ago and time is flying by way too fast now. I'm a retired therapist and I eased into retirement so the change was not too jarring for me. I had a full time, private practice and then, during my final 11 years. I cut my private practice back to 50% and took on a half time contract with Sacramento City College providing mental health services to students. I enjoyed doing both. In my final 2 years I closed my private practice but kept on with my job at SCC.

It was hard for me to leave my work at SCC. I loved working with underprivileged students and all the different cultures, ethnicities and religions that they came from but my wife had retired a year earlier and we wanted to take long trips so I pulled the plug. We immediately left for Peru to travel for 6 weeks with our son who was studying in Lima and that helped me transition nicely into retirement. I still miss doing therapy at times but I also love the freedom we have to travel and enjoy many other things we didn't have time for when we were both working.

My wife and I have settled into what's become a pretty predictable routine each day during the pandemic. We usually have a leisurely, light breakfast and coffee and catch up on email and read the news online. My wife is still devoted to the paper copy of the Bee but I tend to read it online. We also have online subscriptions to the New York Times and the Washington Post. We both read CNN and Politico a lot also. We're both news junkies and, even though all the political stuff and the Covid news can be emotionally draining, we seem to handle it pretty well. We keep ourselves busy with household chores and our hobbies during the day and we watch various series on Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime and Hulu in the evenings. We also take long evening walks after dinner when it isn't too stinking hot!

We have hobbies we enjoy that include reading, gardening and travel for both of us but, of course, travel is out now during the pandemic. She is an excellent pastel artist and a great cook. I have taken up wooden ship modeling, got back into photography, play my guitars at my leisure and started learning to bake bread.

I'm also an avid road cyclist. I took it up 2 years before I retired. Before that I did a lot of rock climbing, backpacking, mountain biking and running. I thought road cycling would be boring compared to mountain biking but I found it has it's own beauty and excitement and it gave me an aerobic activity that was much easier on my knees and back than running was. I bought my dream bike last year and it's a pure joy to ride. I log a ton of miles on the American River Bike Trail but I ride a lot on the road too. I like to ride in the big hills outside of Winters, up in the Amador County foothills and over in the the Napa and Sonoma Valley areas. I have been ticking off some of the big, classic rides in northern California the past couple of years. I figure I need to do them while I can since the clock just keeps on ticking and I enjoy the challenge.

My wife was very regular at going to the gym to workout before everything closed. So I bought some dumbbells and a bench and she works out in the garage now. I need to do weight bearing exercises as well but I'm more motivated to ride my bike. We both miss not having sports to watch or go to and are happy to see the Giants playing even if it is without any fans in the seats.

So for us, enjoying our hobbies and engaging in regular exercise plus keeping in touch with friends and family via texts and zoom calls helps us during these trying times. We try to keep our heads up in the midst of the Covid tragedy and all of the divisive politics by remembering that, although these are tough times, we've got a whole lot to be thankful for...carpe diem...