March Madness
If you live in an area where basketball is a keystone of the culture - or you have colleagues that you work with that support a team (loudly and proudly), you inevitably know about March Madness. I love the undying loyalty that comes with team sports. I am a Tampa Bay Buccanners fan (yes, I know that's football - from 1999 after learning about Mike Alstott when I lived in Lafayette Indiana. I don't LOVE basketball. I do love sports but this is not a sport I was raised with any awareness about. As an immigrant from South Africa, our big sports were Rugby, Cricket, Squash and girls played Netball in school. I moved in 1992 and attended 12th grade for a second time. Primarily becuase my grades in South Africa did not translate well as acceptable college material (even though I was immensely proud to earn the grades I did). That's a whole other story for a different time. A pretty significant cultural movie came out that year - that left me wondering if indeed I did know Englis...