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The Morning Stake | 2019.10.29

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Detroit’s Little Red Demon. Via AtlasObscura:

Legend has it that the Nain has been visiting Detroit since at least the 1700s. His tale features in the 1884 volume Legends of le Détroit, collected by the local author and historian Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin, who was descended from some of the city’s first French arrivals.

To hear Hamlin tell it, the trouble began at a party in Québec one March evening in 1701. At the castle of St. Louis, she writes, the French explorer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac—who would soon depart to claim Detroit for the French and their fur traders—and other officials gathered around a table, “resplendent with costly silver and sparkling glass,” their heads swimming with wine from the building’s “noted cellars.”

Into that shimmering scene burst a “swarthy,” fortune-telling crone with a scrawny black cat on her shoulder. She called herself Mère Minique, La Sorcière, and she came bearing a warning. Things would work out well for Cadillac, she promised, but if—and only if—he appeased the Nain Rouge, or “Red Dwarf.”

Hamlin describes the creature as the ornery “demon of the Strait” (détroit is the French word for “strait,” a narrow waterway linking two other bodies of water). The Nain was a creature “most malignant,” the prophetess said, but “capable of being appeased by flattery.” If Cadillac played his cards right, the woman foretold, he would “found a great city which one day will have more inhabitants than New France now possesses.” Cross the demon or let your ambition run amok, she cautioned Cadillac, and “your name will be scarcely known in the city you founded.”

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Lonzell Gilmore Medically Retires. Defensive end Lonzell Gilmore announced on Twitter that he would medically retire.

Both athletic director Kirby Hocutt and head football coach Matt Wells tweeted about Gilmore in a positive way, which I don’t think normally always happens. So Gilmore appears to be a good guy that’s been a team player, but almost always injured.

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Wells on Coleman. I think there was a press conference yesterday, or maybe a media scrum with head coach Matt Wells and Lubbock Avalanche-Journal’s Don Williams spoke with Wells and said that Douglas Coleman should not bear the brunt of the loss to Kansas:

“There’s nobody that strains more or cares more about this team than Doug Coleman, first and foremost,” Tech coach Matt Wells said Monday. “It was an unfortunate play made with all the right intentions.

“It’s just, you’ve got to know a situation better. We as coaches need to inform them of it better.”

Also part of that article are some quotes on Wells about how this team has been very close to having a good record:

“We are a half a dozen, handful of plays away from having a really good record and us talking something different,” Wells said, “but we’re not and that’s the reality. We’ll always deal in reality, but you’ve got to win close games.”

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