Point To Ponder

I’m having a hard time this year, and I’m trying to put my finger on it, so bear with me for a bit here.

Every February things get intense throughout the region for one major reason – the IHSA Regionals begin in all of the Winter Sports and Activities.

I can still remember taking my daughter Emily with me when I was covering a Regional final in Girls’ Basketball, and she was struck when she saw the players on the losing team crying following the game.

“Was she hurt? Dad, why is she crying?”

She knew, because I had always been firm about the fact that only babies cry when the...