Carver-Valley II

Hello there, boys and girls.

Sorry for the long, long absence. I was prevented from posting last week due to a company-wide furlough and I've been a bit busy early this week with the Central Regional basketball coverage. I would've have posted from that fine event, as I'm doing now, but the combination of ASU's wireless and my wireless card prevented me from staying connected to the Interwebs for more than 30 seconds at a time.

Anyway, I'm here now. There is a fine Carver-BTW girls game happening in front of me. I'm supposed to be covering it, but that assignment has been altered, thanks to a 38-7 halftime advantage held by the Lady Wolverines. We've now switched into feature/preview mode for Carver's Regional finals matchup on Friday with either Selma or Beauregard. (Not that you care about any of this, of course.)

My primary assignment today will be the production of a column from the Carver-Valley boys game. You might recall that these two teams played last year -- portions of the game were broadcast on CNN, ESPN, Fox News and the BBC. It was memorable, of course, for the massive brawl that erupted between the two teams and among fans in the stands. It lasted for quite some time and was rather ugly.

Both teams were booted from the playoffs and forced into various "sportsmanship" seminars, and they say they're better people and better students and that they understand what went wrong and what led to the problems. And you know what, good for them. And good for the people who kept pushing them along.

I honestly expect nothing to happen this afternoon -- just a game. But I didn't expect one of the players to roll up to KFC after a loss a week ago and show a handgun to the Selma players. So, we shall see.

photo cred: al.com