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What to do about the few high schools who slaughter almost everyone else
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We have an interesting high school football situation here in CA. We are too big to have a state championship tournament. 40M people—more than Canada. . They used to just have regional championships. My son Dan's team won his, North Coast, 40-0 in 1998. He scored 26 points. His QB was Ken Dorsey who went on to win the college national championship at Miami. He is now OC at the Bill's. But Ken could not do much passing in that NCS game. It was raining sideways and freezing. . 12 miles from my house is De La Salle High School,...
Some of my books are bought as gifts this time of year
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Years ago we noticed that there was increased purchase of my SUCCEEDING book before Christmas and during May graduation season. The 3rd edition of that book in now available. I also have 10 COACHING books—8 football and 2 baseball. If you know a coach who was unhappy with his team’s recent performance, the many testimonials I have at my web site prove that his reading one of those books can produce a miraculous improvement in his next season team. INFLATION is the main concern of Americans at present. I have THE gift for that—my How to Protect Your Life Savings...
Time to stop pretending the Army-Navy game is what it was back in the day
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Today is the day they used to play the Army-Navy Game “in my day” (’64-’68) and before. And it was one of the biggest football games of the year then. NCAA was still more popular than NFL then (pre-superbowl). Now, it is sort of a post-season, pre-bowl season exhibition game. . In recent years, they were forced to move the Army-Navy Game back into December because today is important rivalry day and neither Army nor Navy are important anymore in NCAA football. Army will probably be 5-6 after today’s likely win over U Mass (ranked 131 out of 131). I...
Gasparino says home prices will fall. He does not know what he is talking about.
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Charlie Gasparino tonight on Tucker predicted home prices are going to fall. He says it is the same as crypto and meme stocks. He also said the current home situation is something like the 2008-9 subprime crisis..He is full of crap. A. Crypto bears no resemblance to US home prices. Crypto has no use. Not only can homes be used, they can be used by YOU for one of your greatest necessities: shelter. B. Meme stocks were run up in price by a bunch of overaged children on Reddit whose objective was to hurt short sellers whom they seem to...
Foreign countries do not have the fabulous home mortgages Americans can get.
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Today's WSJ gives a strong "You got that right!" to the title of my most recent book The American Principal Residence is the Most Advantaged Investment on earth: Maximize Yours!.Is WSJ reporter Nicole Friedman finally ending her anti-investment in homes crusade? No. It's a James Glynn column about interest rates on home mortgages in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, the three foreign countries where I have bank accounts. I wish I could have bank accounts in Europe too, but it is essentially impossible for an American..Home appreciation has been higher in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand than here..BUT—they do not...