We were glued to the TV.

We on the coaching staff have told our players this is the time to play our best ball if we want to repeat last year. We have been getting better and I am excited for them.

For a coach, this is always a tough time as we realize we are not going to have these guys around much longer. It is also tough for the parents as well. It is just a special time.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money until the colonial government of Massachusetts emitted a fiat paper issue in 1690.

War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a mass of depreciated fiat paper, worthless Continentals, a huge public debt, and the beginnings of central banking in the Bank of North America.