Craig Sager, Willie the Wildcat and me

With Thursday's awful news that basketball announcer Craig Sager has died at the age of 65, you'll see and hear plenty of stories about his colorful wardrobe, and what a good man he was.

So here's mine.

The hottest I've ever been in my entire life was in the summer of 2007, when I was interning at the Tulsa World newspaper before my senior year at Northwestern University. I spent seven long days sweating in the 100-degree heat, covering the PGA Championship at Southern Hills. It was awesome.

But it was also unbearably hot. I found shade under trees when I could, and I wore a hat to try to keep cool. For practical reasons, I chose a white cap rather than a dark one. It had a Northwestern logo…