River Sharks Dreams Came Falling Down With No Pay And A Shellacking In Cincinnati Monday, February 1, 2021 - by Joseph Dycus
River Sharks in action
Chris Carter was on his way back to the gym, completely empty handed and preparing himself to face a team that hadn’t been paid in several weeks. As the coach of the Tennessee River Sharks, his guys had traveled up to Cincinnati, got toasted, and came back with the promise of getting a few hundred dollars for their troubles. Team owner Jamie LaMunyon had promised Carter money would come.
“I go to the hotel (in Chattanooga after the game), and they’ve all checked out,” Carter said. “They are gone, and the guy that took me said ‘the guys are going to kill you.’ I could have sunk 30 feet into the ground, since those were guys who had played on my team before, and now they’re following me somewhere that’s not good. When I went back, the look on their face…..it was pretty bad then.”
‘The hardest year of my life’: At high-poverty Garinger High School, a student works to overcome Covid-related hardships
Before the pandemic, Garinger already was a school with big challenges. Now those challenges have multiplied.
By Cristina Bolling, The Charlotte Ledger
December 12, 2020
Anisha Sunuwar is a motivated 18-year-old senior at Garinger High School who’s active in student government and the National Honor Society. She’s taking advanced-level courses and working 20 hours a week at a restaurant to help support her family with whom she immigrated from Nepal 10 years ago.
Covid has pushed her to a breaking point this year.
First, she and her brother got sick with the virus over the summer. Then, her mom came down with a stomach ailment that doctors are still figuring out. Anisha is having to juggle remote learning, work and shuttling her mom to emergency rooms and doctor visits to serve as her translator.