Turrble

For those of you familiar with Frank Caliendo, here he is doing different sports figure impersonations such as John Madden, Jim Rome and Charles Barkley.

All is well

This evening marked the end of the second day of practice for the LCA boys' basketball team. Both days have gone well. We've had close to 30 boys come out for the team, so unfortunately, for the first time in the tenure of the head coach, Mr. Heintz, we are going to have cuts. These two days, we three coaches have spent our time surveying the field to see what areas the guys are not so good in and what areas they are. This has also sped up the process of getting to know their names.

Once we do get the final teams set, it looks like we'll have some solid squads. I'm looking forward to these try-out practices being over so I can actually get to know the kids I'll be working with and so that we can jump into the meat of what we'll be doing this year. So far, we've just been doing drills and scrimmaging.

As a team activity, the varsity is going to the Mercer vs. Harvard game on Friday evening. I'm looking forward to that as well, as Mercer knocked off USC last week. Coach Heintz knows the Mercer coach and Harvard is a local university so it's just as helpful to us to make an appearance.

Well, tomorrow brings about day three. I may have to practice my whistle-blowing before I get there. My first shot at it today was not all that impressive. Later, folks.

A part-time job

For those of you who haven't heard, I was offered and accepted a coaching position at Lexington Christian Academy, the private school where many of the Wrights have gone/go to school. I'll be the assistant varsity boys' basketball coach, which puts me in a position to do a lot of learning. This is the first long-term assignment I've received in Boston and I'm looking forward to it. It is only a part-time thing so I am still looking for work to do in the mornings before the afternoon practices and games.

Getting this job, I needed to have a car, so right now I'm in the process of driving my car from Kansas to Boston. Tonight, I am in Indianapolis. Tomorrow night I hope to be back in Walton, New York, for the first time since 2000. My short stay in Kansas did allow me to surprise Violet for her birthday, which was fun for us both.

My next post will hopefully be from Boston. 'Til then!