Mississippi State’s historic run gave me a baseline seat to history. Every sportswriter dreams of covering a game or sporting event that transcends sports and becomes an iconic moment in time. You can’t train it for like the Olympics. For the record toiling away for hours also won’t make you Maya Angelou, J.K. Rowling, or Howard Cossell.
I’m not a big women’s basketball fan, at least I wasn’t before Morgan William, Teaira McCowan, and Kelsey Plum took the court in Oklahoma City for their Sweet 16 NCAA matchup.
Maybe it was the cowbells clamoring in my ear but by half-time Plum, William, McCowan, and Blair Schaefer had me transfixed.