2021 Day 4 excerpt

Temple are the Owls.  I’ve been to Temple’s North Philly campus and I can tell you there aren’t many woodland creatures up there.  Crack dealers, yes.  Owls, no.  My Temple friends tell me that at first it’s annoying to park up there because your hubcaps keep getting stolen, but then you figure out where to go to buy them back.  Temple was the first school to adopt the owl mascot, in the 1880s.  Evidently there weren’t any owls on campus back then either as the mascot was a reference to the fact that Temple was a night school.  Temple’s founder, Russell Conwell, advised students that “the owl of the night makes the eagle of the day.”

Andy Enfield: the Most Interesting Man in the World?  We covered his marriage to a swimsuit model, Johns Hopkins degree and free throw shooting prowess.  We missed the graduate degree from Maryland in finance, which he used to build a coaching clinic and video business.  He invested the profits in a start-up health care software company called Tracked Manager, which is now valued at over 100 million dollars.  Did the fact that he’s acquired more wealth than Guatemala contribute to his marriage prospects?  I’m going with maybe so.