Point To Ponder

As the Lena-Winslow volleyball team began to assemble around me for the postgame interview following their incredible two game victory over a very powerful Dakota squad, I was feeling guilty for having predicted that they would probably lose.

“I owe you guys an apology,” I said. “I picked Dakota to beat you tonight, and you proved me wrong.”

“You mean you didn’t believe in us?” asked Cierra Mapes with fake disappointment.

“I’m sorry, I was an ass.”

“Well … are you going to put that in your column?” Mapes continued egging me on.

“What, that I was wrong?”

“No.”

“Oh, that I was an ass? Yes, for y...