With electronic media being a dodgy source for legitimate information and news at the best of times, I feel it's necessary and even to a certain degree benevolent for internet sources to be up front about any conflicts of interest that arise out of their publishing of issues that may be, for lack of a better term, close to the heart.

So I'll come right out and say that this next item, though not without value as a general piece of Canadian trivia, is of particular interest to me in particular because it regards the life path and trials/tribulations of my mother's brother's son.

Cousin Jared, at three years my junior, has always been better than me at basketball. Maybe when I was in second grade or something I could sneak a game of horse or two out of him, but it wouldn't have been long after that since I'd been physically and athletically dwarfed by him.

Flash forward to a couple years ago and Jared's playing D1 ball at Lafayette on a scholarship.

Highlites from this year include his being NCAA top 50 in shooting percentage well into February this year. No small feat for a youngun from Marlee and the jungle.

Recently, the one sports magazine I bought for years as a teen, Slam published an online story about Jared Mintz.

How dope is that?

Check it out on me ;)