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After it was twice denied permission to store carbon dioxide under U.S. Forest Service lands, a company looking to store millions of tons of the greenhouse gas in the Southeast made a strategic decision: Keep pushing.

The company, CapturePoint Solutions, leased property adjacent to forest service land in Mississippi for a project there. It started a program teaching carbon management at a school system near Forest Service land in Louisiana. And then, more than a year after it received its first denial, CapturePoint invited federal officials on an informational tour to discuss storing carbon under forest service land.

USFS officials are now considering a draft rule to allow carbon capture under U.S-owned land. The agency insists the company’s requests did not influence its decision to draft the rule — and that no one from the Forest Service attended the informational tour.

“We always felt and believed that the Forest Service was not following (Federal Land Policy and Management Act), and therefore continued our efforts,” said a CapturePoint spokesperson who asked not to be named.

That law allows some federal lands to be used for energy, including gas. Environmental groups argue the 1976 law does not cover carbon dioxide storage. They are concerned that CO2 could leak from the ground, injuring or killing people and animals and damaging the forest. Injecting the carbon underground, they say, amounts to an industrialization of federal land.

While it is technically possible for such a leak to occur, the chances of a leak from storage areas more than a mile underground are “extremely remote,” CapturePoint CEO Tracy Evans told Floodlight.

Agency records reveal various requests

CapturePoint’s efforts were detailed in public records obtained from the Forest Service by CURE, a Minnesota-based nonprofit, and shared with Floodlight. CURE is opposed to carbon pipelines in Minnesota and is concerned about carbon storage under Forest Service land in its state. The records also reveal inquiries in 2022 by ExxonMobil to stash carbon under the Sam Houston National Forest in Texas.

The Carbon Capture Coalition says the United States won’t be able to meet 2050 greenhouse gas reduction targets unless it allows federal land to be used for carbon storage. The pro-carbon capture coalition of more than 100 companies, unions, conservation and environmental policy organizations estimates about 130 million acres of federal lands overlay suitable geology for the secure storage of captured carbon dioxide. The Forest Service manages 21% of that land.

CapturePoint applied to inject carbon under the Kisatchie National Forest in central Louisiana in 2021 under its previous corporate name, Authentic Reductions. CapturePoint also applied to inject carbon under the Delta National Forest in Mississippi in 2022.

The applications were rejected for the same reason — such a permit would allow a permanent use of Forest Service land, something the agency has historically not allowed.

New carbon capture rule on tap

Now, more than three years after the company began its push, the Forest Service is in the middle of changes that could allow the storage of the greenhouse gas under millions of acres of Forest Service land indefinitely.

The comment period for the draft rule ended in January. The Forest Service is currently reviewing the comments, agency spokesperson Catherine McRae said.

Both CapturePoint and the Forest Service agree: No agency employees ended up attending the tour the company held of the Kisatchie and Delta forests in 2022. CapturePoint said it had no direct input on the creation of the draft rules. And McRae said the company’s requests did not prompt the Forest Service to propose the draft rule.

The email correspondence in the records obtained by CURE included draft applications from CapturePoint to inject carbon under the two forests. In both, CapturePoint offered $1 per ton of injected carbon. In the Kisatchie National Forest, CapturePoint proposed injecting up to 50 million tons over a 12- to 20-year period — which it said is equivalent to removing the emissions from 10 million cars a year. In the Delta forest, the company said it wanted to inject 6-12 million tons over 12 years.

The Inflation Reduction Act offers companies that capture and store carbon dioxide from $60 to $180 per ton in tax credits. Evans told Floodlight $1 per ton was offered when subsidies were lower, but there are mechanisms in place to increase the payments if subdies increased.

“Some of the lobbying was sort of surprising,” said Hudson Kingston, legal director of CURE. He said the company “sucked up to” federal employees by offering to take them on the tour. “It’s how regulatory capture works.”

Victoria Bogdan Tejeda, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, had a similar reaction.

“One could really infer that there was a lot of industry pressure or influence to try to get access to this pore (underground) space,” Bogdan Tejeda said. “And that, so far, they were successful, at least with getting a rule out there that would make their applications possible.”

CapturePoint doesn’t see it that way. Evans argued that storing carbon under Forest Service and other federal lands makes sense given the federal government’s “desire to have CCS move forward.”

Feds already allow some carbon storage

In addition to approaching the Forest Service, CapturePoint also inquired about storing carbon under a U.S. Army base in central Louisiana, he said.

Some federal agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management, already allow carbon to be stored under their lands under the federal land management law. In 2022, the BLM granted its first approval to ExxonMobil to permanently store carbon under land in Wyoming, a project that remains controversial.

While CapturePoint says the law should also apply to the Forest Service, Bogdan Tejeda said it’s not that straightforward. The law does not mention carbon dioxide or permanent storage, and historically, the Forest Service has interpreted its own authority as barring any permanent use, she said.

November’s draft rule by the Forest Service surprised many agency observers, who say it bucks precedent. While there are leases on Forest Service for oil and gas drilling, for instance, those leases are for a set number of years, not for a permanent use, Bogdan Tejeda said.

“I’m not seeing anything in the rule that they (USFS) issued, showing why that would change,” she said.

Among the concerns over storing carbon under forest service land is the potential to endanger tribes’ access to fish and other food, which the federal government agreed to protect in exchange for seizing vast tracts of Native American land, according to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.

Bogdan Tejeda still has a lot of questions, including who will monitor the stored carbon after CapturePoint is gone — and who will be liable if something goes wrong.

“It gives industry essentially a place to dump their carbon dioxide waste, benefit from the tax credits, and they don’t have to deal with the messiness of trying to get permission from property owners and eminent domain.”

The federal government says, ‘Hey, just come on over here,’ ” she said, “and that’s a form of a subsidy.”

Floodlight is a nonprofit newsroom that partners with local and national outlets to investigate the powerful interests stalling climate action.

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The opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics are tonight in Paris, and my thoughts immediately go back to the only time I covered the Olympic Games, 1996 in Atlanta.

My first thought: Has it really been 28 years?

Yes, it has, but in so many ways it seems as if it were only last week. It remains one of the highlights of my more than half century writing about sports. The memories are vivid, poignant and many. There was Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic flame with trembling hands. There was then-Hattiesburg resident Angel Martino, a swimmer, winning the first American medal and then three more. There was the bomb that went off in Centennial Park, adjacent to Olympic headquarters, putting a 24-hour hold on the Olympics and causing this sports writer to work a 36-hour shift. There were Skip Bertman and Ron Polk coaching Team USA baseball, puffing on huge Honduran cigars all the while. There was a human blur named Michael Johnson who shattered records in the 200- and 400-meter sprints. There was all that and so much more.

Most memorable of all, there was Ruthie Bolton and, by extension, the Rev. Linwood Bolton, Ruthie’s daddy. For me, they became the best story of those Olympic Games and gave this Mississippi reporter more than he ever dreamed he could write home about. You could not make their story up.

Ruthie, from the tiny south Mississippi town of McLain, was the point guard for the gold medal-winning USA women’s basketball team that pretty much stole the Olympic spotlight from Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and the USA men’s Dream Team. The American women also included such stars as Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes and Rebecca Lobo, but little Ruthie Bolton was the team’s engine. She made them go, both offensively and defensively. Her story was fascinating and as Mississippi as it gets.

Start with this: Ruthie was the smallest of the 20 children born to the Rev. Linwood Bolton and his wife, Leola, who lived on a farm near McLain in Greene County, 34 miles south of Hattiesburg. Leola Bolton had died of cancer the year before the Olympics. Linwood, who at the age of 73 still pastored four south Mississippi churches, watched the first week or so at home on TV, then came to Atlanta for the last week of the games. Meeting and interviewing him was a highlight. He had lost the love of his life and much of his hearing, but his handshake was firm and he still possessed the sunny, effervescent personality of a much younger man.

“Yes,” he answered, he was “mighty, mighty proud of Ruthie. The rest of them are bigger, but little Ruthie was a little different from the rest,” Rev. Bolton said. “She was the quiet one, but she had a fire inside. Ruthie was the fighter. She was always so determined. When she had a goal, nothing was going to stand in the way.”

On the Bolton farm, the family grew corn, peas, beens, greens, okra and tomatoes. They raised cattle, hogs and chickens. Everyone pitched in with the chores, and, said Linwood, Ruthie always chose the most difficult work of all.

All that hard work on the farm somehow translated to the basketball court. For Team USA, Ruthie always got the most difficult defensive assignment. She nearly always defended the other team’s best player and she led the team in steals. Offensively, she ran the show, scoring 13 points a game and leading the team in assists.

In the championship game against Brazil, played before 33,000 in the Georgia Dome, Ruthie scored 15 points, passed out five assists and made five steals. On Team USA’s first offensive possession, she swished a 3-pointer from four steps beyond the 3-point line. More importantly, she was given the assignment of covering “Magic Paula” Silva, Brazil’s legendary star, who scored only seven points and made her only field goal when Ruthie was taking a breather.

Afterward, I asked Ruthie how she did it. Her answer: “I was in her pants, that’s how. I was all over her. If she had gone to the bathroom, I was going with her.”

It reached the point where a Mississippi sports writer – covering a Mississippi woman in the biggest sporting event in the world – felt sorry for the star player from Brazil.

The medal presentation afterward was one never to be forgotten. There was Rev. Linwood Bolton, holding up a photo of his deceased wife, while his daughter, watching, smiled through tears, a gold medal draped around her neck while the Star Spangled Banner played. Again, you couldn’t make this up.

Over the next couple weeks, many compelling Olympic stories will unfold on the courts, fields and in the pools of Gay Paree. None will be more compelling than what happened 28 years ago when Ruthie Bolton, the 16th of 20 born to Linwood and Leola Bolton, displayed more grit and will than imaginable.

The rest of the story? Rev. Bolton died in 1998. Ruthie went on to play the first seven seasons of the WNBA’s existence, was a two-time all-star and has been inducted into both the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. She has long since retired and recently has moved back to McLain where her daughter, Hope, will play basketball as a ninth grader this next season.

And Ruthie’s best memories of those Atlanta Olympics?

“On the floor, it had to be guarding that girl from Brazil in the gold medal game,” Ruthie told me. “Off the floor, just being supported by my family, all of them. I mean, have you ever gone into an Atlanta restaurant and asked for a table for 28?”

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OXFORD — The case against a former Ole Miss student accused of killing Jimmie “Jay” Lee will remain open after a Lafayette County Circuit Court judge denied a joint motion to seal the entirety of the filings.

In a quick hearing Thursday, Judge Kelly Luther said he would consider sealing some filings on a case-by-case basis if asked to do so by the defense for Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. But Luther added he did not think that would be necessary, since it was unlikely any motions before trial would contain evidence that could prejudice a jury.

“The way discovery is done in today’s age, I don’t anticipate getting any of those items,” Luther said before denying the motion.

Kevin Horan, Herrington’s attorney and a representative from his hometown of Grenada, said he would draft the order and circulate it among the parties. Horan had hoped the motion, which was unusually supported by District Attorney Ben Creekmore, would be successful in order to reduce further pretrial publicity, including social media. The case has attracted national media attention, particularly when Herrington was arrested shortly after Lee went missing two years ago.

“We just move forward,” Horan said.

Luther’s ruling came after Mississippi Today filed a motion to intervene in the effort to close any filings before Herrington’s case goes to trial later this year. The news organization’s motion was supported by WMC-TV, a television station based in Memphis, Tennessee and WTVA, a station based in the Tupelo-Columbus area. The Mississippi Press Association had also issued a press release urging transparency and opposing the order.

Mississippi Today’s attorney, Henry Laird, commended Luther for following the process established by the Mississippi Supreme Court for closing cases.

“This is an example to other judges that this is how you work with the people, and this is how you work with the press,” Laird said.

Creekmore said there had been “some misconception” about the extent of the sealing requested by himself and Horan. Creekmore added his goal was not to seal the whole case file but to protect any motions entered before a jury.

“It wouldn’t have been a complete sealing,” he said.

On Monday, the day Luther had originally intended to rule on the motion to seal the file, he also issued an order from the bench to keep the trial in Lafayette County but pull jurors from another area, then sequester them in a hotel for its duration.

Creekmore was chiefly concerned about a motion confirming which county jurors will be pulled from leading to a flurry of media coverage in that area. He told Mississippi Today he thought the judge’s Thursday order will protect the integrity of the jury.

“I think you have to accept that Lafayette County is already aware of a lot of the facts of the case, and it would be difficult to find somebody who isn’t aware of the case,” Creekmore said.

In his 20 years in the courtroom, Creekmore said this case has drawn more scrutiny than many others he’s worked on, but he wasn’t able to say why.

“I don’t have an answer to that,” he said. “I can answer that question once the case is resolved. I’ve got feelings on it, but I think it would be speculative on my part to try to answer for an entire community.”

Lee was a well-known member of Oxford’s LGBTQ+ community. His disappearance and death two years ago has led to protests outside the courthouse and efforts to memorialize him at local drag shows and pride events.

Herrington’s arrest also drew scrutiny in part because his family is connected in north Mississippi. A preliminary hearing setting bond detailed some of the evidence against him, including Google searches on his computer, text messages he exchanged with Lee the night Lee went missing, and K-9s that identified the smell of a dead body in his car.

But Herrington, through his attorney and family members, has maintained his innocence. As he walked down the Lafayette County Courthouse steps, Horan stated the case will go to trial.

“Certainly,” he said.

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Nearly five years after officials first named his company in the “largest public embezzlement case in state history,” Florida neuroscientist Jacob Vanlandingham has pleaded guilty to one federal charge of wire fraud.

Vanlandingham is the latest defendant to admit to some role in the Mississippi welfare scandal, which ensnared his former business partner, retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre. The two worked together, a civil lawsuit by the Mississippi Department of Human Services alleges, to channel funds from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to their pharmaceutical startup project called Prevacus.

But acquiring $1.9 million in federal welfare funds from the poorest state in the nation to develop a drug to treat concussions — an allegedly illegal use of the funds — was not Vanlandingham’s crime. Instead, he pleaded guilty to using some of the funds for himself, including for “gambling and paying off personal debts,” according to a federal court file.

Reached Wednesday, Vanlandingham said he didn’t want his narrow guilty plea to be misconstrued as an admission of stealing welfare money.

“The case was very complicated but it really boiled down to one count of wire fraud, not any finding of welfare fraud,” said Vanlandingham’s Florida attorney Thomas Findley.

Both Favre and Vanlandingham have denied the allegations in the ongoing civil suit and Favre has not been charged with a crime. Vanlandingham founded Prevacus in 2012 and Favre was one of its largest investors and promoters. The startup is defunct today after selling the idea of its concussion drug to another company.

In January of 2019, Prevacus entered a $1.7 million contract with Mississippi Community Education Center, a nonprofit that the state welfare agency, Mississippi Department of Human Services, had entrusted to spend millions of federal grant funds.

“The purpose of the scheme … was for Vanlandingham to unlawfully enrich himself by making materially false and fraudulent representations that he would use certain funds, including funds obtained from MDHS through MCEC, to develop a pharmaceutical treatment for concussions,” reads the charge.

Vanlandingham pleaded guilty to a bill of information, a charging document that the government uses when a defendant agrees to waive a formal indictment, and was released on a $10,000 bond on Wednesday. The charge related to a $400,000 wire transfer from Mississippi Community Education Center to Prevacus on July 16, 2019, which occurred about a month after the state auditor’s investigation began.

The single count of wire fraud carries a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Vanlandingham’s sentencing, along with the sentencings of six others who have pleaded guilty, has not been scheduled as each defendant continues to cooperate with federal investigators as part of their pleas.

The federal case against Vanlandingham stems from the government’s probe, beginning in 2020, into the misspending or theft of federal public assistance funds. The federal investigation did not begin until State Auditor Shad White, who originally investigated a tip brought forward by an agency employee to then-Gov. Phil Bryant, made six arrests and then turned the case over to federal authorities in February of 2020. Auditors have estimated between $77 million and $98 million was misspent or not properly documented.

“I applaud federal prosecutors for their continued work on this case,” White said in a press release Wednesday. “I’m grateful for my team at the Auditor’s office and the FBI for digging up the facts related to this case. We will continue to assist federal prosecutors as needed going forward.”

The welfare agency director John Davis and nonprofit founder Nancy New both pleaded guilty within the scheme in 2022 but have not been sentenced. An additional four defendants who pleaded to state or federal charges between 2020 and 2023. Each defendant has agreed to aid federal authorities in their ongoing investigation. The trial for an eighth defendant, former professional wrestler Ted “Teddy” DiBiase Jr., is scheduled for January.

The bill of information against Vanlandingham was signed by Todd Gee, the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Mississippi who left the U.S. Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section to fill the Jackson-based appointment.

But Vanlandingham’s bill of information was signed by two other senior officials from the U.S. Department of Justice — Glenn S. Leon, the chief of the DOJ’s Fraud Section, and Margaret A. Moeser, the chief of the DOJ’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section — signaling Washington’s role in the ongoing investigation.

Many of the crimes associated with the welfare scandal come with a five year statute of limitations.

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ROLLING FORK — For years, the fate of a project known as the Yazoo Pumps has bounced back and forth in a game of political ping pong. Now, with a retooled pumps proposal, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is inching closer to a new flood control plan for the South Delta.

Partnering agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, which vetoed the Yazoo Pumps in 2008 under President George W. Bush, are still studying the draft environmental impact statement that the Corps released in June. The EPA vetoed the project in part because of its impact on the area’s ecologically significant wetlands, a point that conservationists around the country have continued to argue amid attempts to resurrect the pumps project.

The June draft EIS, which the Corps says it collaborated on with the EPA, proposes slightly less aggressive pumping than in the 2008 version in addition to buyouts for property owners in the floodplain. The proposal also limits the pumps’ operation to a certain stretch of the year, aiming to balance the needs of the wetlands with those of local farmers.

The agency held its first in-person public meetings for the report on Monday in Rolling Fork. The public has until Aug. 12 to submit comments (click here for the report and instructions for submitting comments). The Corps’ timeline suggests it will have a final EIS by November, and then a final decision in December from the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Michael Connor.

Most of those who came to give their thoughts on Monday supported what the Corps laid out despite the added restrictions on the pumps’ operation.

“You’ve heard a lot of people say turn the pumps on at a lower elevation, turn them on earlier,” said Peter Nimrod, chief engineer for the Mississippi Levee Board and a supporter of the Yazoo Pumps for years. “We completely agree, but if this is all we’ve got, we’ll take it. It’s a great project.”

The June study proposes turning the pumps on when the backwater reaches 90 feet of elevation (from sea level), as opposed to the 87-foot starting point the 2008 version had. The new study also suggests two options for when to allow the pumps to run: One is from March 15 until Oct. 15, and the other from March 25 until Oct. 15. Those windows are meant to give the wetlands enough time to absorb rain during the winter while also allowing farmers time to plant their crops.

The report details that about 1,800 structures, about half of which are homes, would see some flooding if there were a repeat of the 2019 events.

In the proposal, the 101 structures, including 55 homes, that are in the 90-foot flood level zone would have mandatory buyouts. The Corps estimates that those buildings flood about every two years. There would also be a voluntary buyout or floodproofing option for 231 more structures, 95 of which are homes, that are between the 90-foot and 93-foot levels, or the five-year floodplain. There are another 1,500 or so structures, including 759 homes, that would have flooded in 2019 and would see some flood risk benefits from the pumps, the report says.

Most of the structures that would be affected, either through buyouts or flood reduction, are between Eagle Bend and Rolling Fork, as seen in the map below:

In addition to the pumps proposal, the June report also lays out a “non-structural” alternative, which wouldn’t include the pumps and extend the option of voluntary buyouts to the roughly 1,500 structures beyond the 93-foot level.

Of the dozen or so people who gave comments on Monday night, just one talked about the merits of that option.

“There are people who lost their homes, there are people who are still living in the flood areas who don’t have the resources to move, so I think (the non-structural) option lends itself to those individuals,” said Anthony White, a teacher in Sharkey County, adding that the job opportunities in agriculture aren’t what they used to be because of growing farm technology.

While the agency is expecting a final decision on the project in December, the June report left out crucial details, namely how much the different proposals would cost. Critics have long said the cost of building the pumps far exceeds that of non-structural, less ecologically-invasive options, such as buying out or floodproofing homes, or paying landowners through conservation easement programs. But the June study is entirely missing a cost-benefit analysis, a common tool the agency uses to evaluate potential projects.

“We’re still working on the benefits and costs,” said Robyn Colosimo, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Project Planning and Review, adding that the final EIS in November will include some of those details.

The 2008 version came with a $220 million price tag, but that number appears to be far below what the project would cost today. Rep. Bennie Thompson, who represents the South Delta and who has come around on the pumps idea after previously not supporting the idea, has estimated in recent years that the number is around half a billion dollars. American Rivers, an advocacy and conservation group opposing the pumps, estimates the price is actually more than double that.

The South Delta’s flooding issues trace back to the flood control work the Corps has done over the last century along the Mississippi River. In the 1960s and 70s, the agency built the Steele Bayou control structure as well as the Yazoo Backwater levee along the Yazoo River. When the Mississippi River reaches a certain flood stage, the Corps closes the control structure, which is a set of gates, to prevent river water from backing up into the South Delta.

The problem, which was most pronounced in the record-setting flood of 2019, comes when flooding from the river happens at the same time as flooding from rainfall north of the gates. With the gates closed, the rainfall landing in between the levees along the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers has nowhere to go.

After the 2019 flood, Delta residents, farmers, and statewide elected officials have amplified their calls for the federal government to carry the pumps project across the finish line. The astonishing inundation hit over 500,000 acres, and for some areas lasted about half the year. In some parts, the flooding forced locals in some parts to commute via boat just to get from their house to their car. State officials estimated that the catastrophe cost the Mississippi agricultural industry half a billion dollars.

In the years since, the EPA has repeatedly switched its stance on the Yazoo Pumps. During the end of the Trump administration, the EPA decided to exempt the project from the 2008 veto, citing a slightly different project design. The new proposal also introduced data suggesting that the wetlands were more reliant on rainfall during the winter months than the floodwater that the pumps would be used for.

The agency changed courses yet again in 2021 under the Biden administration, restoring the 2008 veto. But last year, after pressure from top Mississippi officials like Sens. Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Corps and EPA came together to draft a new pumps proposal, which is what appears in the June report.

Of the two pump options presented (one from March 15 to Oct. 15, and the other from March 25 to Oct. 15), farmers in attendance Monday night preferred the March 15 option because it would allow them to plant crops earlier.

Reid Carter, a farmer in Rolling Fork, explained that even the earlier option could leave farmers struggling during the start of the season.

“March (15th) is early to middle corn planting season,” Carter said. “And with the pumps being turned on on that date, they said it’d take three to six weeks (for the pumps to drain the floodwater), which is still a lot of time.”

While not at Monday night’s event, conservation groups have remained vocal against any pumps project. Earlier this year, American Rivers again listed the Big Sunflower and Yazoo rivers on its “Most Endangered Rivers,” writing that the pumps would result in “an astounding loss of critical habitat that cannot be reasonably mitigated.”

After the news last year that the EPA and Corps were taking another look at the Yazoo Pumps, several groups blasted the decision in a press release.

“We are stunned that the Biden administration would choose to advance a plan that abdicates its conservation, climate, and environmental justice commitments by willfully putting the vetoed Yazoo Pumps back on the table,” Jill Mastrototaro, Mississippi Policy director for Audubon Delta, said in a press release last year.

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If you think it’s a slow time in the world of sports, don’t tell that to Xander Schauffele, the Summer Olympics, the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame or the Atlanta Braves who now use ambulances instead of a team bus. Today’s discussion involves The Open Championship, the Atlanta Braves hospital ward, next week’s big Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame celebration and the Paris Olympics.

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