Just a quick note: White Plains senior Odaine Franklin received his second scholarship offer. According to Tigers coach Skip Stevens, the University at Albany offered Franklin on Sunday.

The 6-foot-3, 220-pound Franklin was offered by the University of Akron late last month. He has also been heavily recruited by UConn although he has yet to receive an offer from the Huskies.

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Eagle Business Institute a WI – based business that advances the business skills of the Millennial Generation through an intensive 13 week immersion program. Talent is the number one factor in the success of most corporations and the fierce global competition to acquire, develop and retain that talent is a real danger to their future. EBI helps businesses to effectively compete for, develop, and retain their next generation of young leaders.

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The University of Wisconsin at Madison is losing its chancellor. Carolyn Martin was embroiled in the recent political battles over the budget for higher education in her state. She’s acknowledged the “turmoil” of the past year but wouldn’t say how big a role it played in her departure. She’ll become president of Amherst College in Massachusetts.

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And we learned this week that the University of Wisconsin at Madison is losing its chancellor, Carolyn Martin. She was a central figure in the state’s budget battles.

Martin spoke out against Republican Governor Scott Walker’s plan to limit bargaining rights for public employees. At the same time, she worked with the governor on an unsuccessful plan to split UW-Madison from the rest of the pubic university system. That was a plan to help cut costs. A plan to give school more autonomy from state rules met with resistance from other university administrators, and now Carolyn Martin is going on to become president of Amherst College in Massachusetts.

DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings have signed goaltender Ty Conklin to a one-year contract.

The move Wednesday comes a day after veteran Chris Osgood announced his retirement, leaving the Red Wings needing a backup for starting goalie Jimmy Howard.

Conklin started 20 games for the St. Louis Blues last season, going 8-8-4 with a 3.22 goals-against average.

The 35-year-old Conklin has played eight seasons in the NHL with Edmonton, Columbus, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Detroit and St. Louis. He was with the Red Wings in 2008-09, going 25-11-2 with a 2.51 GAA.

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Minnesota State-Moorhead has called a press conference for 1pm tomorrow afternoon to make an announcement regarding the status of their exploration of starting a Division I hockey team.

This isn’t the first that we’ve heard from Minnesota State-Moorhead. Two years ago, with Bemidji State desperately searching for a dance partner to help them get into the WCHA, Moorhead floated the idea that they’d be interested in starting a hockey program. The idea went nowhere since it was pretty clear the WCHA wouldn’t be that interested in expanding to Moorhead.

But since then, the situation has changed quite a bit. Six of the WCHA’s biggest program have left the conference–and another has joined, and then left–leaving the WCHA looking for teams. Northern Michigan’s impending announcement that they will move to the WCHA brings the conference to six teams, the minimum they need, but getting up to eight teams would be more ideal.

Moorhead reportedly had a donor lined up to help fund the program last time around, so maybe I was a bit too dismissive of them(and of Boondock Saints II, which, minus Sean Patrick Flannery’s horrifying plastic surgery, I’d describe as ‘at least serviceable’) Add in that they’ll have another two years to try and raise funds, and perhaps they could get it done.

The real question will be the long-term sustainability of the program.

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Philadelphia Kids Meet With World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellows

High School Students Learn About Social Innovation From Young Leaders Across the Globe

PHILADELPHIA, July 18, 2011 — When global economic and political leaders gather in Davos for the annual World Economic Forum meeting next January, the agenda may be influenced by the perspectives of Philadelphia’s public school students. In a collaboration between the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellows program and Summer Search Philadelphia, a group of Philadelphia high school students met last week with a group of WEF Fellows to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world today.

In addition to covering issues like global warming, conflict in the Middle East, and public health, the students and the Fellows discussed leadership, a topic that both groups have in common.

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