SPORTS

I went to a local sports bar for fish dinner Friday night.  In the Toledo area we have a channel, Buckeye Cable Sports Network devoted to localsports of all sorts.  I watched Whitmer and  Toledo Central Catholic play.  I noted that the parochial schools and the non Toledo Public Schools bring  a lot more fans.  At some of the TPS games there arent enough people to start a fight, and when there are fights, its the black girls who are fighting.  My daughter went to Start HS, about 1600 students and sometimes they have fewer fans in the seats for a football game than my old school with less than 400 students.

The boys are much more athletic than in my day, but less disciplined on offense.  They are better conditioined, too, as some teams play full court press for the whole game.

I watched the highlights of the Waite and Start girls BB game.  Girls basketball today looks like the game we played when I was a yoot:  lots of passes and jump shots, and rebounds close to the basket and well below the rim

My daughter Sarah played broomball, a big girls sport here.  She was the league leading scorer and her team, the Start Chaos, were champions her senior year.  Here is a picture of her with Lauren Szyzmanski and Samatha Bauman. Sarah is on the left.  She has her mom's megawatt smile.  as she gets older she looks more like her mom.

here is one from the prom

The other girls are her best friends Ella Rywalski and Meredith Shalda

And here you thought I could only talk about poo.