Saturday Quickies: Complete Roster? Edition
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Good morning, BBN. It’s a dreary start to our Memorial Day Weekend as record low temperatures swept across the area yesterday evening. The good news is Sunday and Monday are going to be much more pleasant.
John Calipari talked to the media yesterday for about thirty minutes or so and he covered a myriad of topics. He confirmed that Keion Brooks will return for his junior year, which is a huge development especially considering that Isaiah Jackson announced his intentions to stay in the draft about an hour after Cal’s press conference.
People eat at Dilworth Neighborhood Grille in Charlotte in September 2020.
Restaurants across the Carolinas are struggling to find workers even as demand rebounds from a pandemic slowdown. The labor shortage has been persisting despite many restaurants boosting pay and offering financial incentives to potential workers.
In North Carolina, restaurants are down about 70,000 workers or about 17% of the industry s workforce compared with before the pandemic, according to the North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association.
The association s president, Lynn Mingus, said many restaurant workers left the industry after they were laid off during the pandemic. Others have declined to return to work because of health concerns, or because they ve been helping children with remote learning.
Tuesday afternoon Cardinal news and notes
Share this story Awful news for U of L legend Angel McCoughtry, who will miss the 2021 WNBA season after tearing the ACL and meniscus in her right knee during a preseason game on Saturday. Just a day after telling everyone in America dozens of times that there was no way Medina Spirit had been treated with anything containing betamethasone, Bob Baffert was forced to tell everyone in America that Medina Spirit was treated with an ointment containing betamethasone. The horse will be allowed to run in this Saturday’s Preakness Stakes (with conditions), but his Derby win is now in serious jeopardy.