I know I never post, and I know only three people read this, but ( Read more... )

Sometime this week, we should be getting the information on our soon-to-be-adopted daughter. The China Center for Adoption Affairs should be sending it out early this week.

When we get the info, we'll post pictures, et al.

... or anyone else ( Read more... )

First, Steve Alford willingly leaves Iowa for ... New Mexico? (of course, he was going to get run out of Iowa, so he took the first train out of town he could get). Interestingly, his college coach threatened to leave Indiana for New Mexico several years before because of a spat with the administration ( Read more... )

... because I've lived in the classroom the last few months (or in the gym, or on the tennis court, or sitting with our head coach in bleachers watching Eric Gordon shred defenses in the regional & semistate rounds of the IHSAA tournament), but this Saturday is a favorite day of the year ( Read more... )

To avoid having to go to sleep or do practice plans for 6th-graders ( Read more... )

... first off, when did the 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers steal the jerseys of the Colts' defensive players ( Read more... )

... as of today, I'm coaching sixth-grade girls basketball at our middle school ( Read more... )

After a 1-6 start (against some VERY good teams), we survived a difficult 3rd quarter (again), lost a 9-point halftime lead and managed to beat our arch-rivals tonight 52-50 in 2OT ... with the key play being a *four-point play* in OT when we were down 50-47 ( Read more... )

Amazingly, the Cubs are throwing money around like a drunken George Steinbrenner this winter ... after watching a mediocre Cardinals team win the Central with a lousy record -- and then get hot at the right time and win the Series last year -- I think they've finally realized it doesn't take too much to win the Central. And after that, anything can ( Read more... )