Click on the link below to read about the Tigers' first two wins of the season, over ACGC and Benson. This post is on my companion website, "Morris of Course." Thanks for reading. - B.W.
Tigers 62, WC Area 34
Maddie Carrington continued making an impression with her three-point shooting. Carrington made three long-rangers. The other MACA "3" was made by Liz Dietz.
Malory Anderson had the team-best point total of 20. Carrington put in 13 points and Carly Wohlers had eleven. Dietz added five points to the mix and Jenna Howden had four. Several Tigers each scored two points: Jordann Baier, Riley Decker, Jen Solvie and Jaden Ross. The list wraps up with Kendra Wevley and her one point.
The Tigers had totally asserted themselves by halftime as they owned a 34-10 lead.
Anderson was the pacesetter in rebounds with eleven while Riley Decker collected six. Decker produced four assists and Carrington had three. Howden and Carrington each had two steals. The orange and black cruised in the second half with a 28-24 scoring advantage. Anderson's contributions in scoring and rebounds suggest she'll be a key contributor as the 2017-18 schedule proceeds. And don't overlook Carrington's sharp long-range shooting eye! All in all, the team has lots of nice attributes to put a smile on coach Dale Henrich's face with Christmas nearing.
Now it's Garrison Keillor
I recently wrote a headline for a post recalling how Al Franken came to UMM in a triumphant way to speak at graduation. It now appears that Franken has engaged in some unacceptable behavior toward women. In the current climate, such untoward behavior can bring the equivalent of the death penalty as far as your career is concerned.
No one should get a pass regarding such behavior. Unless you're Donald Trump, I guess.
More recently we've seen iconic Minnesotan Garrison Keillor get dragged into the dubious spotlight. I wonder if these men will have their entire careers wiped out as if they accomplished nothing, as if their eventual obituaries will berate them with the untoward stuff and overlook everything else. What will Charlie Rose's obit look like? That journalist is having past awards taken away. These people did work that actually had a positive impact, that reflected considerable talent. Can't we acknowledge that, and still see to it these men will have consequences for their untoward behavior?
Our culture really has undergone a change. We're somewhat in denial now but there really was a time when the Dean Martin Variety Hour on TV projected our values. Lecherous men were given a pass much of the time. I guess that was a reflection of the "cocktail culture."
A scantily clad woman would come up to Dean and say "I'm having my whole body tatooed with a map of the United States." Then Dean would sing something like "California Here I Come." The audience laughed uproariously. That really was our culture. We tolerated cigarette smoke everywhere. Seat belt use was not mandatory.
Of course it was a cockeyed world because the public mostly sat quiet and acquiescent as the government escalated the Vietnam War. I suppose we have created a better world today. Vietnam couldn't happen again because the media have expanded exponentially from what it was in the 1960s, those days of the Big 3 TV networks.
On the dark side, the new media have been harnessed so effectively by the regressive voices of the extreme right wing of politics. So maybe we won't end up with a better world after all. Maybe the U.S. is sliding toward something like 1930s Germany. It's not far-fetched to think this way. Get prepared. We may be seeing a pedophile going to Washington D.C. as a senator. Is this a bad dream?
We remember both Franken and Keillor coming to our University of Minnesota-Morris. I covered one of Keillor's appearances for the local commercial media. The UMM choir performed my father's "UMM Hymn" for a Keillor appearance at the P.E. Center. I have warm thoughts about Keillor and about Franken. I remember Keillor stepping forward and starting his applause before the choir even let go of its last note of the "Hymn." That song was tailor-made for his show, given its sentimentality.
I guess Keillor and Franken both wear a scarlet letter of sorts now. Let's be careful how harsh we are in our judgments. Man is an inherently sinful creature.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwillyh73@yahoo.com
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