By Ira Schoffel Democrat sports editor -- Against all odds, Leonard Hamilton persevered to improve his life, uplift others and achieve remarkable professional success.

The International Labor Organization last month put out a stark warning about increasingly wretched employment prospects almost everywhere in the world. It wrote: "The world must rise to the urgent challenge of creating 600 million productive jobs over the next decade". The report was all but ignored except by the very serious press and the BBC. Perhaps it is not surprising. How did the ILO ...

Bo Pelini is on a mission. His words, not mine. Pelini's voice was filled with passion when he said it. There was a focus to it. The focus of a man ready to take it to the next level? This was Thursday, the day after signing day.