March Madness

The NCAA basketball tournament is underway (3 weeks and 68 teams, but who's counting?) and though we’re not huge college basketball fans at our house, this year, for the first time in a long while, the University of Georgia men’s team is a contender.  

UGA forward Jeremy Price (#50)

The phrase “March Madness” was coined by a man named H.V. Porter in 1939 to describe an Illinois high school basketball tournament. American sportscaster Brent Musburger first used it during National Collegiate Athletic Assocation coverage in 1982.

The tournament is also sometimes referred to as "The Big Dance."

The 6 schools who have the winningest history in NCAA Division I Men's basketball are:

UCLA with 11 championships;
Kentucky -  7 times;
Indiana with 5 Big Dance victories;
North Carolina with 4, including in 2005
Duke with 4 titles, including last year's nail biter over Indianapolis' Butler University

I saw Charles Barkley the other night on David Letterman talking about the tournament.  He was funny.

And if you’re the competitive type, here’s a link to a printable copy of the brackets on the way to the Final Four.  

Go Dawgs!

Grown Up

My oldest.  My only daughter. 

The precious little girl, who I remember like this

With Kitty

and this

and this

and this

and now this

turns 18 today! 

She is smart and talented and funny and more grown up than I could ever have imagined.  

When you are raising children, the days are long, but the years are short.  Be careful.  It's gone in a blink.  

Happy Birthday, sweet girl!