Chilly

Good practice last night. A windy early spring day with a bit of rain falling. Just enough to wake you up but no so much that you get wet. Almost perfect lacrosse weather (another few degrees would have been nice).

We split 'em up into two teams. There weren't any complaints and we only have to shuffle one kid that I know about. So, that's good.

Tomorrow, we need to find a goalie (or two) and start working on some game situations: clears and fast breaks. We'll worry about the settled offense later. For now, it is run and gun time!

TV Time Out

According to this piece on SlateV, you can do an el cheapo ad campaign and actually get a few eyeballs on your cable TV advertising for $1300. I'm not sure what you would do with the crowd watching Glen Beck reruns at 3:00AM, but it's fun that you could actually do it.

Done

It didn't take long for my NCAA hoops bracket to collapse into disaster. I was riding high on Saturday morning (still in first) only to end the weekend in the middle of the pack. It would have helped a bit if Maryland and Pittsburgh had won, but not to be.

Next bracket: NCAA lacrosse tourney. UVA all the way!

Growing

Despite all of the hype about the NCAA basketball tourney (and it has been very interesting this year), lacrosse is the sport that is making waves. It's nice to see the MSM writing articles about lacrosse. You wouldn't have seen this 10 years ago.

Boys Will Be

Yesterday morning, I took Jack and a friend over to their lacrosse practice. We got them all armored up and sent them out there. Sophie and I took a bucket of balls and did some shooting over on the next field and I'd occasionally take a look over to see what was going on over there.

Mayhem. I thought it was tough to have a big group (30+) of elementary aged girls out there, but a similar sized group of slightly younger boys (U9) seems to degenerate into some kind of all vs. all melee. It took all the efforts of 4 grown men to keep a semblance of organization.

The kids have a great time and I'm grateful to the coaches for keeping the herd in line. Plus, I could see signs of hope on the next field over where the U11 boys were practicing. That looked more like lacrosse and less like WWE.

Bracket

Somehow, despite my selection of a Georgetown vs. Oklahoma State sweet 16 game, I'm still at least tied for first in my NCAA bracket pools today. The Cornell over Temple and ODU over ND calls are really helping me.

Echolocation

While walking the dog last night around 8 PM, I saw the first true sign of spring. Not the first robin (they were out there digging around in the snow this year) or the first flower, but the first bat. I'm glad they survived the winter. I love bats.