by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC
Brandon Burgette set the bar about as high as possible in his first year as men’s basketball coach at Kansas City Kansas Community College, winning the Blue Devils’ first Jayhawk Conference championship in the 51-year history of the league and earning a berth in the canceled NJCAA national tournament.
Running off a record eight straight wins, the Blue Devils claimed the Jayhawk title with an 8-2 record and then dethroned defending champion Johnson County 75-68 to win the Region VI championship for only the second time over. After starting 2-8, the Blue Devils won 16 of their last 21 games.
Nine Essex oil traders made $660m when prices plunged into the red
Three traders each made more than $100m earlier this year when US crude prices went below zero for first time
11 December 2020 • 7:33pm
Nine independent traders operating from their homes in Essex made $660m (£500m) in a single day of trading oil futures when prices briefly went negative earlier this year.
The traders, all affiliated with the small trading firm Vega Capital London, hit the jackpot by capitalising on complex oil market mechanisms to sell oil contracts on falling prices and buy with prices as low as minus $37.
Aristos Ari Demetriou, 31; Elliot Pickering, 25, and Connor Younger, 22, pocketed more than $100m each, according to reports, even as other investors lost millions as prices fell.