Feel Good Friday

“There was not much to offer the candidates. The pay: $38,000 per year but no recruiting budget or staff. The facilities: a gym whose court is seven feet short of regulation, whose showers don’t have running water and whose men’s locker room doesn’t have a toilet. And another thing: there were no players.” Billy Witz in the NYT (Gift Article): This Man Turned the Worst Job in College Basketball Into a Slam Dunk. “South Carolina Salkehatchie had no budget, players or running water in the locker room when Matt Lynch arrived. One season in, the first publicly gay head coach is figuring out how to win, on the court and off.”

+ Black couple rented to a Chinese American family when nobody would. Now, they’re donating $5M to Black community.

+ Places across the U.S. are testing no-strings cash as part of the social safety net.

+ This recycling robot is saving millions of bottles from the landfill.

+ A 1980s female band whose single was discovered by chance in a second-hand shop have signed a new record deal.

+ Donor gives $40 million for Yellowstone National Park employee housing.

+ Sailor Cole Brauer makes history as the first American woman to race solo around the world.

+ California community comes together to find beloved cat.