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Post by alum on Mar 14, 2024 12:29:08 GMT -5
Is there an old mission statement that includes the words "duty, honor, and country"? If there is, it seems silly to me to remove those three words and replace them with "army values" If there never was a mission statement (do they really need one?) and this is an answer to a minority report that thought the words should have been included, then not a big deal to meOn a minor tangent, duty, honor, and country seem like laudable values not only for the cadets but for society in general Here is the document which is hard to read on the WP web site. To the Long Gray Line and all USMA Supporters: Duty, Honor, Country is foundational to the United States Military Academy's culture and will always remain our motto. It defines who we are as an institution and as graduates of West Point. These three hallowed words are the hallmark of the cadet experience and bind the Long Gray Line together across our great history. Our responsibility to produce leaders to fight and win our nation's wars requires us to assess ourselves regularly. Thus, over the past year and a half, working with leaders from across West Point and external stakeholders, we reviewed our vision, mission, and strategy to serve this purpose. We believe our mission binds the Academy to the Army - the Army in which our cadets will serve. As a result of this assessment, we recommended the following mission statement to our senior Army leadership: To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for a lifetime of service to the Army and Nation. Both the Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of Staff approved this recommendation. Our updated mission statement focuses on the mission essential tasks of Build, Educate, Train, and Inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character, with the explicit purpose of being committed to the Army Values and Ready for a lifetime of service. The Army Values include Duty and Honor, and Country is reflected in Loyalty, bearing true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit, and other Soldiers. In the past century, West Point's mission has changed nine times. Many graduates will recall the mission statement they learned as new cadets did not include the motto, as Duty, Honor, Country was first added to the mission statement in 1998. Our absolute focus on developing leaders of character ready to lead our Army's Soldiers on increasingly lethal battlefields remains unchanged. Go Army! Duty Honor Country!Here is a link to "Army Values." www.army.mil/values/Tom--To your question about an old mission statement, the posted document said that there have been nine in a century and that Duty, Honor, Country has only appeared in it for 25 years. This would seem to be a bit of a tempest and is certainly much ado about nothing. Measure for measure, I don't think anything has really changed here, but you can certainly take it as you like it.
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Post by alum on Mar 14, 2024 5:06:54 GMT -5
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Post by alum on Mar 13, 2024 7:23:38 GMT -5
Thanks for helping me to get up to date on correct speech. I guess anyone who "owned" an enslaved person was an enslaver as well as those who made the institution possible (sailors on ships that carried slaves, for one example). Would that also apply to those Africans who captured members of rival tribes and sold them into slavery to start the process? What would be the obligations of those African tribes today? Regarding obligations...there are both legal and ethical obligations. Do the people of this country, many of whom are descended from families that were not in North America at any time during the period of slavery, owe for something they never did? Of course not. However, there is IMHO an ethical obligation to offer something to descendants of these people that can be a symbolically important way to start acknowledging what was done to innocent people. I've always wondered if there is some sort of ethical obligation owed by families descended from enslaved persons to the descendants of Union soldiers killed or grievously injured in the war to end slavery. While slavery (still ongoing in parts of the world) has been around for thousands of years (if not more) it is highly unusual in human history for mass numbers of free men to die in an effort to stamp it out. You mean soldiers want more than to be recognized at ball games and have people say, "Thank you for your service?" It might have been easier for the descendents of slaves to have been appreciative of the efforts of Union soldiers had the country not abandoned Reconstruction in order to resolve the 1876 presidential election thereby bringing on the Jim Crow era. It is hard to think that some of those descendents of slaves were in the mood to be appreciative when,for close to one hundred years, they were completely denied the franchise, could not serve on a jury, couldn't eat at the same lunch counter as whites, had to attend segregated schools, had to sit in the back of the bus (and give up a seat for a white person) and weren't allowed to buy property in Levittown because the federal loans which supported that project strictly prohibited it. www.npr.org/transcripts/526655831Reparations are, of course, an entirely ethical matter. Any claim anyone would have against anyone is barred by the statute of limitations and, in the case of claims against government, sovereign immunity. Private parties are entitled to try to do what they think is the right thing at any time. Query whether a legislatively enacted government program which requires that recipients be the direct desecendents of enslaved people would be found to be constitutionally infirm?
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Post by alum on Mar 13, 2024 5:54:00 GMT -5
I’ve always thought that Louth was a big man project. Maybe Hare is expected to play that role next year. Best of luck to Louth. I hope he can end up in a good spot and get another degree
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Post by alum on Mar 13, 2024 5:40:33 GMT -5
Back when most of us went to college, it was often difficult to put our hands on primary sources which might help us investigate the facts around a debate over the causes of the Civil War. Now, I can find those documents while enjoying Irish soda bread and Costco brand coffee at my kitchen table. See this link to documents from several of the Confederate states as to why they seceded. It was about slavery. Sure, there is plenty of language about how they had the right to own people in the Constitution but it was still about getting to own people and ensuring that the government enforce that ownership. I’ll look for the other states later. www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states#MississippiWhen people tell you who they are, believe them.
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Post by alum on Mar 12, 2024 13:45:33 GMT -5
The Swarns book is excellent as is another one which I read a couple of years ago which addresses the Jesuit ownership of enslaved persons and also tells the fascinating story of actual court trials by which some of these people were able to secure their freedom. The author, William Thomas of the Univ. of Nebraska, had ancestors in Price George's County and his research led him to realize that they too enslaved people. He put his money where his mouth (or pen or keyboard) was and donated his royalties in reparations. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300261509/a-question-of-freedom/
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Post by alum on Mar 11, 2024 12:26:49 GMT -5
1996 has expressed in the past his belief that Ivy athletes pay less (and as little as nothing at all) than similarly financially situated non athletes. Many of us think that this is simply untrue. On the other hand, I don't think anyone disagrees with the statement that there are reasonably bright athletes who are admited to the Ivies who would have a much tougher time getting in if they were just smart kids in the Math club whose parents had never donated a building.
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Post by alum on Mar 7, 2024 11:33:09 GMT -5
I understand the arguments regarding making test scores optional. I also understand the arguments about high schools not having class ranks. I also know that, at least when my kids were applying, that admissions staffs did not consider actual AP test scores in making decisions although they considered the rigor of the classes as a factor. I also know that a larger number of kids get A's in high school classes than did once upon a time. What I don't get is how an admissions office at a highly selective school sorts the applicants when it doesn't have any information on which to base its decisions.
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Post by alum on Mar 5, 2024 9:34:22 GMT -5
That’s likely true, but the teams using the 6 PM start all switched to that time because they did a survey of their women’s ticket holders and found that the majority wanted 6 PM. Everything (games, stores, restaurants etc) seems to start and end earlier today than back in the day. My varsity games as a player in HS in the early '80s didn't tip off until 7:30....and I remember going to restaurants with friends and/or families after those games and not leaving the restaurant etc until almost 11....can't do that as much today outside of the major cities. When did we become such an "early-bird" society as opposed to a "night-owl" one?I think that the answer is work life.. With apologies to Dolly Parton, do you know anyone who works 9-5 anymore? I am happy to see clients as early as they want to come to the office. I had blood work this morning at 7:00 am and there were people who were already walking out when I arrived. On the other hand, I went to PC at UConn at Gampel several weeks ago. It was a weekday 8:30 start with 46 fouls and 62 free throws. It didn't end until after 11 pm. Get out, get out of the lot, drive home and it was way past my bed time when I have to get up at 5:30 to walk the dog. Oh, and you don't have to stay up til 11 to watch your favorite television show anymore. Watch it whenever you want, now.
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Post by alum on Mar 4, 2024 10:40:59 GMT -5
How much do former players get involved in recruiting at their alma maters? Will our current NFL players and future NFL players assist with recruiting at all? Ever see the 30 for 30 on Marcus Dupree? Barry Switzer sent Billy Sims to Dupree's high school. Happens all the time. It was (maybe still is, technically) an NCAA violation for a booster to be involved in off campus recruiting. Boosters were defined broadly to include former players, those who made donations, etc. I agree that it happened all the time. I think based upon the latest court cases, to which the NCAA seems to be acquiescing, NIL groups can be involved in recruiting prospective athletes so I think those rules are all out the window.
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Post by alum on Mar 4, 2024 9:39:47 GMT -5
The Globe's Brian McGrory details Dan's effort to get a final column done before surgery www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/04/metro/columnist-dan-shaughnessy-heart-surgery/To see Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy on his morning “jog” through Newton is to know why he writes about sports rather than plays them. Slow is not exactly the word. Parents pushing triplets in strollers, a guy walking an elderly St. Bernard with orthopedic issues, they breeze by him like the winter wind.
It was during these jogs when Shaughnessy started feeling numbness in his elbows and pain in his chest. He called his doctor, who ordered tests, which led to something called an angiogram at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. When the cardiologist saw the results, he scheduled an emergency quadruple bypass surgery for the next morning and forbade Dan from leaving the hospital that night.
Spoiler alert: Dan, as many people have undoubtedly read, is recovering at home and slowly regaining his strength. That’s not what this is about.
What this is about is the 16 or so hours between when he was told he needed heart surgery and when he was wheeled into the OR. It was Tuesday, Feb. 6, and that stretch of time pretty much captures Dan to perfection, journalists in general, and the Globe more specifically. There’s nothing normal about it.
Keep in mind, Dan Shaughnessy has been covering sports for the Globe for more than 50 years. He wrote about the Red Sox when Carl Yastrzemski was playing left field. He was the Celtics beat reporter when Larry Bird was in his prime. Bobby Orr, Steve Grogan, Bill Buckner, Roger Clemens, he was there for them all. Ted Williams, when he was still with us, returned his calls, and Bob Cousy still does.
There’s an excellent argument to make that Shaughnessy is the closest thing to a household name as any columnist in the business, a status he’s achieved by combining his encyclopedic knowledge of Boston sports with a fearless need to speak for a truly rabid base of unusually knowledgeable fans. He is the most consistently read columnist at the Globe, often by people who have never agreed with a word he’s written. Full disclosure: As much as I like the guy, there have been more than a couple of times when I’ve dreamt in technicolor about my hands wrapped around his neck — but that’s an issue for another day, or never a day.
So someone might be forgiven for thinking that a 70-year-old columnist with 50 years behind him, a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame, who is indisputably the most read person in the city, might feel secure enough to take the afternoon off when he’s been told his heart is basically functioning with the efficiency of the Red Line and he’s about to go into a multi-hour surgery that will determine the course and length of the rest of his life.
Think again. Dan hadn’t finished his “picked-up pieces” column for the coming weekend. He had it half-written, which almost made it worse, because no writer, especially no columnist, ever wants to have their words go unread. Plus, he hates missing a column — any column, for any reason.
So he reached out to his son with a pair of requests. Would he please bring his old man a meatball sub, and while he’s at it, bring his laptop from home as well.
The column was to begin with Theo Epstein’s recently announced return to the Red Sox organization as a minority owner of Fenway Sports Group and a senior adviser. Dan’s plan was to unravel Epstein’s goals and assess whether they met the vast expectations of so many Red Sox fans.
From his hospital bed, Dan texted Epstein to see if he would engage. Epstein responded to the effect of, maybe later, off the record.
Dan then gave him an excuse for the ages. He’d be undergoing quadruple bypass surgery in the morning, he wrote, and he didn’t know when he’d be able to talk.
That got Epstein’s attention. There was then a conversation between the patient and minority owner. There were email follow-ups into the night as Epstein sent some clarifying points.
“Dan,” Epstein began one email, “Let’s hope this isn’t the last thing you ever read. (If someone at the Globe is reading this email after Dan’s unfortunate demise, delete it.)”
Shaughnessy filed the column at 9:37 p.m. that night with a simple note attached: “Medical stuff the next few days so I am leaving this behind.”
The response from a sports editor at 9:04 the following morning, while Dan was in the throes of surgery, was as exquisitely brief: “In. Thanks, Dan.”
The column was published two days later, on Friday morning, under the headline, “Theo Epstein has been away a while but he knows how the Red Sox work, and other thoughts.” Dan was still in the intensive care unit of the hospital, barely conscious. No reader had any idea, even as the column was one of the most-read pieces on the site for days.
Welcome to our world. Welcome to our lives. The business model for journalism is in shambles, even as the Globe proves the exception to so much that has gone wrong. A former president and so many of his acolytes try mightily and constantly to undermine our work. And yet there’s a newsroom filled with committed writers and editors and so many others who see their work more as a mission than a job. Again, admittedly, it’s not all that normal, but it is typical.
There’s a phrase we have in this business that says you’re only as good as your last story. And Dan Shaughnessy, week after week, takes that to a bit of an extreme.
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Post by alum on Mar 2, 2024 15:08:55 GMT -5
Put on Creighton v Marquette. It’s 37-31 Creighton leading with about 4 minutes left in first half. Both teams shooting the lights out
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Post by alum on Mar 2, 2024 14:49:52 GMT -5
I didn’t watch any of it, but the team stats show a reasonably close game. Bucknell did get 2 man up goals to none for HC.
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Post by alum on Mar 1, 2024 15:24:03 GMT -5
Looks like Dobbs and Purdy are both pursuing graduate education in cyber intelligence at JMU. Smart move by two great Crusaders. Here is the webpage for the program. www.jmu.edu/pce/programs/all/cyber-intelligence/what-is-the-curriculum.shtmlIt is a six course fully online aysnchronus program which they have likely started and will finish in December. It would seem ideal for a football player who wants to work out half the day. They get a graduate certificate; not a degree, which is probably not uncommon in these type of programs. I looked up the NCAA rules on this and learned that graduate students really just have to take classes offered in a degree program although they don't actually have to be enrolled in a degree program. Learn something new every day. It would cost an out of state student $12,780 to attend-only $180 more than an instate student.
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Post by alum on Feb 27, 2024 7:59:20 GMT -5
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Post by alum on Feb 26, 2024 9:06:54 GMT -5
This is what the HC website says about graduation requirements from HC. I am sure that exceptions can be made.
General Requirements Holy Cross offers a curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) degree, which some students earn with College honors. To meet the requirements for graduation, all students must both successfully complete a minimum course count of 32 semester courses and record a minimum of eight semesters of full-time study. Full-time study requires enrollment in a minimum of three courses with a course count of one each. Each Holy Cross course normally carries a course count of one (see College Credit). Each course also carries a GPA unit count, which can vary from zero to 1.5 and is used in the calculations of the student's grade point average (see Grading System).
To qualify for a degree from the College, at least one half of a student’s courses, including the two full semesters of the fourth year, must be completed at the College of the Holy Cross or at one of its approved programs. Students are permitted, however, to participate in Holy Cross programs, such as the Washington Semester, Semester Away and Study Abroad, in the first semester of their fourth year and may petition to participate in these programs during their final semester after consulting with their Class Dean.
Each student’s curriculum consists of common requirements, a major, and freely elected courses. In designing their curriculum, students are limited to a total of three programs combining majors, minors, and concentrations, only two of which can be majors.
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Post by alum on Feb 26, 2024 8:29:33 GMT -5
Some decent results for the Crusaders individually, and as rgs notes above, on a team basis. I thought the most interesting race of the day was the men's one mile run. Soph Liam Lyons finished second behind BU's 3:55 miler, FOster Malleck. Here are Lyons' splits in a race which went out quite slowly. The race is on a 200 meter track and the mile is 1609 meters so the first split is a bit long: 409 68.78 809 2:17.88 (69.1) 1209 3:17.23 (59.4) 1409 3:44.79 (27.55 for 200 m) Mile 4:12.69 (27.91 for last 200m) That is a 1:55 last half and a 55 second final quarter. That is serious talent.for a kid who came into college as a 4:18 1600 meter runner. He also anchored the distance medley relay running a 4:13 which, including the mile trials on Saturday, has him running three separate mile races under 4:14 in a period of about 26 hours. Here are the complete results results.leonetiming.com/?mid=7062Here is the HC writeup. : BOSTON, Mass.— The Holy Cross track and field teams completed the final day of competition at the Patriot League Championships hosted by Boston University on Sunday, Feb. 25. The Crusaders finished strong in the finals with the men earning the highest indoor finish ever coming in fifth place and the women coming in sixth place.
MEN'S MEET HIGHLIGHTS:
Senior Mike Mazzocca claimed second in the 60m hurdles finals with a time of 7.93, a personal best. He broke his own school record again within the two day meet breaking his school record on day one with a time of 7.96 in the prelim. Juniors Brian Fennelly and Josh Exantus also competed in the event with Fennelly finishing in sixth with a time of 8.25 and Exantus placed eighth with a time of 8.37. Fennelly broke his own school record in the heptathlon to take home fourth overall in the event with a record breaking 4,903 points. He set the record earlier this season at the UConn Husky Challenge (4,789 pts.). Freshman Ryan Hatem also competed in the event and finished in seventh with 4,572 points. Sophomore Liam Lyons came in second place in the mile run finals with a time of 4:12.68. Senior Chris Barone finished in 7th place in the 60m dash finals with a time of 7.04. The men's 4x400 relay team consisting of freshman Tristan Miller, senior Matthew Conway, freshman Luke Boothroyd and junior Stephen Joseph came in third with a time of 3:21.53. The men's Distance Medley Relay (DMR) relay team consisting of freshman Joseph Mahon, junior Andrew Van De Mark, senior Rigoberto Alfonso, Lyons came in eighth with a time of 10:04.97. WOMEN'S MEET HIGHLIGHTS:
Junior Ella Grey took third in the 60m hurdles finals with time of 8.63, a season best. Sophomore Celia Kulis also competed in the event and came in sixth with a time of 8.87. Senior Kiley Ronan took seventh in the 400m dash finals with a time of 56.64. Sophomore Alex Lusby claimed sixth in the 800m run finals with a 2:13.06. Senior Lindsay Marjanski came in a shared seventh place in the high jump with a 1.60m mark. The women's 4x400 relay team including Ronan, sophomore Haley Murphy, junior Helene Cummings, and junior Molly O'Connor claimed seventh place with a time of 3:55.47. The women's Distance Medley Relay (DMR) team including Lusby, freshman Maeve O'Sullivan, sophomore Fiona Doherty and junior Abby Hughes claimed sixth place with a time of 12:04.83.
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Post by alum on Feb 25, 2024 6:53:22 GMT -5
Crusaders has some decent performances on Day 1 of the PL championships including a school record by hurdler Mike Mazzocca (7.96) Teammates Brian Fennelly and Josh Exantus will join him in the final. Fennelly and frosh Ryan Hatem are fourth and fifth thus far in the hepathalon with the next event being the hurdles which should help Fennelly. Liam Lyons won his heat to advance to the mile final in a race which saw BU 3:56 miler Parker Schneider fail to advance. Chandler Dicks PR’d in the long jump to place 6th at 22’ 81/2”. Ella Grey and Celia Kulis advanced in the hurdles and Kulis got 7th in the pentathlon. Kiley Ronan ran a quick 56.56 in the 400 to make the final as did Alex Lusby with a 2:12 in the 800. Maura Switzer was 5th in the pole vault at 12’ 5 1/2”. More details goholycross.com/news/2024/2/24/mens-track-field-crusaders-have-strong-start-in-day-one-at-patriot-league-championships.aspxOfficial results results.leonetiming.com/?mid=7062The meet is on ESPN + starting at noon. They don’t really cover the field events at all.
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Post by alum on Feb 24, 2024 14:17:35 GMT -5
Dartmouth up 9-4 early 3rd. Face offs are close but Dartmouth has twice as many shots.
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Post by alum on Feb 23, 2024 7:56:27 GMT -5
as i noted in my previous posts on the topic, the intolerance mind virus has infected medicine and medical training. here are our future physicians disrespectfully interrupting/yelling over a presentation by the president of the american medical association (ironically on the topic of lgbtq+, which is still not enough to appease them)... because his group had not released an official statement in support of palestine. http://instagram.com/p/C3mQrznMrID it is appalling to think that folks this immature and one-sided in their view of the world will be providing clinical care to patients someday. i am simply astonished at how much politics has infiltrated medical training today, from the "social justice" track at our medical school to the extraordinarily disrespectful interruption of any topic with which there is even mild disagreement. again, i commend pvr for taking a stand against this toxicity in favor of respectful dialog and encouragement of diversity of opinions. I assume that you have no free speech objection to the students criticizing the AMA for failing to speak on behalf of providers in Gaza (assuming they haven’t as I have no idea.) Your objection, I take it is to the time, manner, and place of speech and not the content. The students should have waited until a comment portion of the session.
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Post by alum on Feb 22, 2024 15:12:30 GMT -5
This is a good idea. It was New Britain Day when HC played at CCSU in basketball last November. There were New Britain High cheerleaders and band members who participated in the game day entertainment. The kids are there. Presumably, most of the parents but tickets and attend as well.
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Post by alum on Feb 22, 2024 8:45:53 GMT -5
Interestingly, the NCAA runs the mile as opposed to the 1500 at the indoor national championships. The PL has followed suit. HC soph Liam Lyons is ranked 9th in the conference going into the meet with a 4:07. Slightly off the topic but I’d like to see a sub-4:00 in our record books. Me, too. If Lyons drops a couple more seconds this year, it will give me hope he is the one. Of course, Dulong, who we have discussed on this board previously, ran 4:04 in high school but never got below 4:00 in college and then gave up competing within a couple of years after that.
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Post by alum on Feb 22, 2024 6:32:49 GMT -5
They run a mile on 400 meter tracks just by changing the finish line or starting line. I have never seen an 800 meter track at a school in all my years as a coach and/or official. Interestingly, the NCAA runs the mile as opposed to the 1500 at the indoor national championships. The PL has followed suit. HC soph Liam Lyons is ranked 9th in the conference going into the meet with a 4:07.
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Post by alum on Feb 21, 2024 20:50:00 GMT -5
Good win. Congrats to DP
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Post by alum on Feb 21, 2024 14:48:58 GMT -5
Nova has far better facilities, inc a new on campus arena It took a great coach a few years Pitino may not have the time His negatives may also be a hindrance that Wright did not have Ask most parents whether they'd rather have their son play in a new campus arena or MSG, I think the latter wins.
MSG? I think that Dan Hurley counts that place as another arena where he has home court advantage.
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