
When you read this, I will be in Mississippi with my college roommate Jon. We will be preparing ourselves mentally and physically for the clash of two collegiate football titans, Ole Miss and Alabama. Should Mississippi emerge victorious, look for me on ESPN; I'll be the drunk riding the goalpost to the ground. Jon and I graduated from Bowling Green State University (in Ohio, for those of you farther afield) and only had tentative brushes with serious collegiate athletics. Bowling Green won the NCAA hockey title in 1984 (long before we attended) and the hockey program was a big draw [...]