Hurray for Meredith

Photographer Meredith Sarles has just been awarded 3rd place in the Celebrate Life photo contest, a Kentucky-based competition with entries from all over the country. First place was awarded to a California photographer, second to a Kentucky photographer, and third to Meredith. Honorable mentions went to 12 others in various states.

Meredith's picture was from her story about the Corydon Jamboree. A Celebrate Life photo contest giving an award to a picture that celebrates life in Corydon. Very cool.

This is her first ever photo award. Well-deserved. Cheers.

What a weekend!

So in the space between the end of basketball and the start of spring sports comes, conveniently, the NCAA basketball tournament. I'm such a fan of the tournament that I watched the coverage almost non-stop from Thursday through Sunday. The first two days were totally boring with almost no surprises. Maybe Winthrop, but they were tabbed by many to be better than they were seeded.

And then came Saturday. That may have been the best day of NCAA games I can remember. It's too bad Louisville wilted at the end of the game, and as an IU grad, I was disappointed that we didn't play better, but what heart those guys showed! Their refusal to quit even made up for that really careless throw-in at the end. Can't say, as a die-hard Hoosier that I minded Kentucky getting beat. Sorry. They were clearly outmatched, anyway. Great games. For what it matters (don't press me on this, I'm not sure my opinion matters at all), I'm pretty pleased with Kelvin Sampson so far, though his coaching in close games is still suspect, I'm afraid. But if he continues to get his teams to play with that intensity, the future looks good.

Tough Loss to Madison

Not sure what it means that Madison's teams beat both of Corydon's teams in their respective sectionals, other than I'm sorry it's all over.

As I've said before, at tournament time, talent never seems quite as important as heart. The teams who believe they are winners generally turn out to be so, unless overwhelmed by superior talent.

Now the NCAA tournament is about to begin, and you can almost always tell who are the winners and who are the losers just by looking at the bench, particularly during timeouts.