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Good evening,
Happy three-day weekend — for those of you who work banker’s hours. And welcome to the college football season, unless you don’t care about that.
Question, though: What could a football team want when it already has about everything Phil Knight can buy? (scratching chin emoji here, if I knew how to insert an emoji) Oh, you know, silly! That one thing. The big, shiny thing. Elusive and hard to get. The thing you probably shouldn’t even say out loud if you are a Ducks fan.
Our sports correspondent Tyson Alger ponders this a bit, with some discussion of Phil Knight’s age, the 1995 Dallas Cowboys, and the question: Is Dan Lanning the guy to pull this off?
In other news:
- Schools reporter Lilly St. Angelo digs deeper into an ongoing dispute between the top administrators at Springfield Public Schools and a couple members of the school board, especially the chair, Jonathan Light. Administrators say Light was misuing his authority and breaching his oath. Light says he was trying to do “what’s right for kids.”
- A wrong way chase on the Beltline at 2 a.m. involving a stolen vehicle ended with police dragging a suspect from a burning vehicle. The suspect and an officer were injured.
- Vanessa Salvia rounds up some business musical chairs at 5th Street Market and the Market Alley. A few shops have close, some new ones are opening and a couple are moving.
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DAILY DIGEST
The window is open. Can Dan Lanning lead Phil Knight and the Ducks through?
By Tyson Alger
Sometimes the pieces fall perfectly into place — as with Jerry Jones’ Cowboys after Phil Knight helped bankroll their 1995 comeback. Now it’s Lanning’s turn to take a program that has just about everything, thanks to Knight helped build and take it over the goal line.
Springfield school administrators’ complaint against board chair alleges ‘misuse of authority’
By Lilly St. Angelo
The district superintendent contends Jonathan Light interfered in an ongoing investigation. Two other complaints filed by administrators accuse board members of wrongly leaking information to the public.
Springfield police pursuit ends as officers pull suspect from burning vehicle
By Mike McInally
A Springfield Police Department pursuit of a stolen vehicle in the early morning hours of Friday, Aug. 29, ended with officers pulling the suspect out of a burning vehicle, police say.
New businesses opening at 5th Street Public Market and Market Alley
By Vanessa Salvia
A wave of openings, closures and expansions is bringing new food and retail businesses to the 5th Street Public Market.
Enjoy the Labor Day weekend. I’ll talk to you next week,
Bob
