More March Madness w/ Editors Note

Editor's note: These last two posts have been terribly difficult to publish. For one, after accidently deleting out of the blog, each time, before publishing it, I thought the posts were lost. But no! I found that they automatically save under the 'draft' section of the blog. Ok, thats it for the editor's note While watching the Michigan State-Tennessee game, my thoughts immediately turned to a childhood friend who I played on basketball teams with (on and off) from 6th-12th grade. Specifically, when Brian Williams, Tennessee's Center, was on the line shooting free-throws. You never knew what exactly was going to happen. Was Williams going to throw it over the basket, or miss the rim completely? Well, he did throw a couple airballs, and I couldn't help but laugh when thinking of the same impredictability of my long time friend: over the span of 6 years, I had seen it all-- free throws banking in, a free-throw going completely over the basket, and the next one missing the rim alltogether. Sometimes, the solid nothing-but-net smooth and money free-throw. My father, a Michigan State graduate himself, attended many of these games. I still remember the car rides home with his in-depth analysis of my game-- 'don't take it into the trees, but stop-and-pop mid range.' I was 13. It was an overall good relationship that aided my interest in sports: being a general contractor, he had house keys to the dayton hospitals, and more importantly, keys to the hospitals' gyms. So we would spend uninterrupted hours playing among the waxed floors and immaculate rims of tax-payers, hospital courts. Now, we talk Michigan State basketball, especially during this tournament, after each game.