Point To Ponder

While out taking team photos of basketball teams for local sports programs, I saw the squirrelly behavior of some junior high boys. My first thought was, “You won’t be so cocky when you get pounded in a game,” but then it brought up my own memories of being on a team that got royally destroyed.

Where I grew up in Indiana, there were two middle schools that fed into Chesterton High School. So naturally, those schools were rivals. Westchester, was made up of the “city kids” the ones who lived in town. (I have to use “city kids” in quotes because when you lived in a town with only one stoplight …...