The Economy is improving. woot told me so.
Okay, it really didn’t in words, but more in the actions of the users. For those unfamiliar with the site, woot is a website that sells one item-per-day. When the inventory of that item is gone for they day, you wait until the next to see what they offer. About once every two monts, they hold woot-offs – where there are multiple items per day and once the inventory for one is gone, they pop up another.
Simple, right?
It was my first real story as a journalist. I was writing for a Badger sports magazine, and my editor had set up an interview with Sara Bauer. Bauer was a member of the Badger woman’s hockey team that had won a National Championship the year before and won the Patty Kazmaier Award as the best woman’s player in college hockey.
I was nervous as I waited for Bauer to come off the ice after practice. Before my prep I did not know a whole lot about women’s hockey other than we won our first championship the year before. All my research made me the huge fan that I still am today.
While I waited, I chatted with another reporter from the college newspaper. He was there to interview multiple players, and they shuffled over to him as they came off the ice. I struck up a casual conversation with one player as we both waited for our interviews. She was the back-up sophomore goalie that started sharing time with the incumbent this season.
Who would know that I would talk to two Kazmaier winners that day.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – March. Along with nonsense like nice weather and St. Patrick’s Day, there is important stuff happening in our wonderful country. Today is Selection Sunday – quite possibly my favorite holiday. Here are my initial thoughts on the brackets.
The top seeds in the tournament are Louisville, Pittsburg, North Carolina and Connecticut. Really can’t argue with the top teams. No one apart from Louisville played like they wanted to be a top seed down the stretch. A little surprised there are three Big East teams as one seeds, but it’s really hard to argue for anyone else.
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