A Googling public has spoken. Lots of people seem interested in the soon-to-be-viral video of Detroit Lakes senior forward Alex Mason scoring a ridiculous shorthanded breakaway goal. That’s a fantastic play, and something I’ve never really seen before. That goal was one of two goals scored by Mason in Detroit Lakes 5-1 win over Bagley/Fosston on February 10th. He followed that up with 2 goals and 3 assists the following night in a 5-1 win over Northern Lakes.

Mason is an interesting story. He’s a Native American from the White Earth Indian Reservation, but chose to go to school at Detroit Lakes to help his hockey career. Mason currently leads Detroit Lakes’ team with 14 goals and 23 assists for 37 points in 24 games.

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is hitting the road to promote his education reform proposal.

The Democratic governor is scheduled to visit the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Meriden on Thursday, the day after he unveiled his revised $20 billion budget proposal for next fiscal year and his plans to revamp public schools in Connecticut.

Malloy is expected to tour the school and then discuss his package of initiatives with the city’s education administrators, local and state officials.

Malloy wants to spend an additional $128 million on various education proposals, such as funding 500 new early childhood education seats, targeting additional funding to troubled schools and revamping teacher tenure practices. 

By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International

Before the Christmas break, I wrote a piece called “Higher Education for Free” . This week I am providing a “Part Deux” due to emerging news and conversations on the topic.

This week, Apple announced two important announcements. First, an expansion of their iTunes U, which provides not only courses from higher education institutions around the world, but full courses. Second, the expansion of iBooks for textbooks.

These two innovations build upon our prior news of MIT opening its course content to the masses, giving people who complete MIT online courses an option of getting full course credit for their effort.

In the past few days, critics have crawled out of the woodwork to complain how Apple will be bad for higher education. As one

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  When she scored 25 points in one half earlier this season that was remarkable. Then when she capped a string of 20-point performances with a buzzer beater on New Year’s Eve she started to seem unstoppable.

But what Makenzie Brandon (Seattle) did Saturday night topped all of that.

The 5-foot-10 junior forward who’s already been named the SCIAC Female Student-Athlete of the Week twice this season, scored a career-high 36 points, leading the Occidental College women’s basketball team to a comeback win over Whittier College 73-67 in Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action on Saturday.

After a normal first half by her standards — nine points and two steals on 4 for 10 shooting — The SCIAC’s leading scorer went off, scoring 27 points in the second period to help the Tigers (12-2, 4-0) overcome a six-point halftime deficit.

“Sometimes they all just happen to drop and sometime they don’t,” Brandon said. “It

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