Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. The Hounds finally start their season this weekend down in Louisville (on ESPN2 to boot!), and we can finally yell at our TV’s for more mundane reasons. After a pair of road games the Hounds will return home to Highmark Stadium on the 22nd, albeit to a much quieter house. Due to the continued health threat that is Covid, the Hounds will be playing behind closed doors for the foreseeable future. That said, just because Highmark will be empty doesn’t mean it needs to look

Today is Juneteenth. For those who might be new to the meaning of this day, it marks the ending of slavery in the United States. On this day in 1865, those enslaved in Galveston, Texas were informed by Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, that they were now free. The Civil War continued for over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s proclamation and order that declared “that all persons held as slaves…are, and henceforward shall be free.” Two months after the end of the war, the Union troops