What's The Point?

Welcome to my blog. Last basketball season I wrote an e-mail blog to several friends covering the Fourth Region Basketball Tournament in Diddle Arena. One or two nights into the tournament, I noticed that my e-mail list had grown after friends forwarded my messages and people asked to be included. Some said they were funny and some, I must confess, contacted me and told me to quit sending them because they were -- to paraphrase -- less than intelligent. Someone suggested that I start a blog. It was too late last year to start a blog, so I put it off until this season.

In this blog, I am not going to try to give a blow-by-blow account of any game. People can read that stuff in the newspapers. I sometimes might put some statistics in here, but I never get caught up in stats unless they are used to make a point in a story or provide background information for a story. I will only try to capture the flavor of high school basketball and football by examining rivalries, atmosphere in a gymnasium or stadium, and -- as a season draws to a close -- I will take a look at important games. In the basketball post season, I will provide insight into the Fourth Region Basketball Tournament, to which I usually have extensive access. In fact, I almost called this "The Fourth Region Blog," but I wanted to be able to step out of the region because I have close ties to First, Third, Fourth, and Seventh regions. There are times I end up at games in those regions and will want to write something about them.

I've also attended ten of the last twelve Sweet Sixteen Championships, and it is a family tradition to go to the championship game. I'm giving serious consideration to attending the entire tournament this March, but because I work for a living I don't always get to do what I want.

Yep. It's called "Pennyrile Pick and Roll." So, why did I lead off with a football story? It was the luck of the draw, and I wanted to format the website before the basketball season got up and running. I should have opportunities to attend some of the football playoffs in parts of the state.

I hope everyone enjoys reading my thoughts, and I humbly put them out here for people to read. I really hope that I can make people laugh from time-to-time without picking on players or coaches or officials.