league members.

Look at how the Villanova situation was totally botched. Marinatto must have believed he had the votes to approve the addition of the Villanova football team before an informal invitation was extended. But somewhere along the way, he lost a vote and now the plans to add Villanova in football are on hold, largely based on concerns about where the Wildcats would play home football games.

One recent columnist questioned where the leadership was coming from in the Big East, something many fans have been asking for some time. No question the pressure is on Marinatto to deliver a media rights deal on par with what every other league has gotten. Though Scott had a chance to get his TV deal done first, what seems to set theif it is the end of the world,” said Paterne Kongbouali, 22, a student who has not been to school in two weeks.

For the Central African Republic – the second to last country on the human development index, and the most food-insecure country in the world – the floods are another burden on their path to reconstruction.

Although a peace agreement was signed on February 6, the conflict that started in 2013 never really came to an end. One-in-four Central Africans live in displacement camps in the country, or as refugees in neighbouring nations.