Even baseball televises its draft held during the playing season which is hilarious, since player development in baseball takes far longer than most sports. (Watching a baseball draft is like watching the planting of an oak tree.) There's summer-league NBA to follow and signing day and of course the heat-seeking thrill circus that is intrasquad spring college football.

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But the standout attraction at the moment is the Gold Palm Tree Resort and Spa, which opened last summer.

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With sixty sheep to one boy and all the tree shade he could want, my grandfather taught himself to read that first summer.

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"It will be replaced with a tree of a different species and we are confident that the building will be completed by the summer, " said architect Michael Batcup.

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