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Kid Hoops<\/h3>\n

A week ago L\u2019s team beat some good sixth graders in the best game they\u2019ve played all year. This week they played another sixth grade team and got crushed.<\/p>\n

It was a 50\u201326 loss. And that was with us scoring six points in the last minute. The team we played made at least 7 3\u2019s to our one. They worked us over pretty good on the defensive end. They dominated the boards. Nothing really went right for us.<\/p>\n

L was feeling under the weather and looked like she had zero energy. We were missing our best player. We had another girl who hadn\u2019t played with us all year and was clueless. And another girl who has played a couple times but never goes to practice showed up and had no idea who she was supposed to be guarding when we were on defense. Not that any of that made any difference.<\/p>\n

Our tournament starts Thursday, the first game against a team that beat the sixth graders that just beat us. So doubting that L\u2019s team will make a run.<\/p>\n

In good news, we had our parent Zoom meeting for the travel team Sunday night. They will start practicing in two weeks. We will miss the first tournament of the season because of spring break, so L won\u2019t get a travel game until April. She\u2019s excited to rejoin those girls, though.<\/p>\n

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Jayhawk Talk<\/h3>\n

Whew.<\/p>\n

I had a bad feeling about this run of West Virginia and Texas Tech back-to-back. It felt like too many people were chalking them up as wins and assuming KU would be playing for, at worst, a tie for the Big 12 title next weekend in Austin. I hoped the team was taking them more seriously than KU fans were.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure what the answer to that question is, whether it was the KU guys not being focused or WVU just playing great, but it was too damn close of a game.<\/p>\n

I missed the second half for a social event. I was extra stressed because I couldn\u2019t find the broadcast anywhere on Sirius while we were driving. I checked the score when we stopped to pick friends up and was relieved to see KU up by seven late. A few minutes later I checked again and let out an \u201cOh shit!\u201d when I saw it was a one-point game. Reminded me of almost exactly a year ago when we went out as the KU-Texas game was going on and my peaks at the score of an intense, close, low-scoring game made me want to throw up.<\/p>\n

A dub is a dub, especially on a day that saw crazy ends to games in Tucson and Iowa City. With Texas losing to Baylor, the Jayhawks are one win away from clinching at least a share of the title.<\/p>\n

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Social Outing<\/h3>\n

S and I attended Cathedral\u2019s annual fundraiser Saturday evening. We\u2019ve gone once before, and that was your standard \u201cdress up, drink, eat, and donate some money\u201d type deal. But this year there was a Yellowstone\/Western theme.<\/p>\n

If you know me, you know I don\u2019t have much time for the cowboy thing. So I bought a hipster Western shirt<\/a> and a $20 cowboy hat from Amazon. That was enough to fake the look for a few hours.<\/p>\n

It was a fun night. We hung with some friends we don\u2019t see often enough. Saw a ton of St P\u2019s people. It was fun to talk college choices with the others who also have seniors. S ran into lots of people she went to school with back in the day.<\/p>\n

We did not bid on anything. Someone did take home a very cute puppy for $10,500. Catholics, man!<\/p>\n

M was working the event to get National Honor Society points. One of her friends was tasked with walking around and showing the puppy off to people before bid time. M made sure that girl kept swinging by us. My response each time was that she is four and a half years away from being able to buy her own dog.<\/p>\n

Afterward she agreed $10K was too much for a puppy.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t heard the final haul but several fancy trips also went for over 10K. Again, Catholics!<\/p>\n

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The Decision<\/h3>\n

I supposed I\u2019ve buried the lede. As some of you know from direct messages or my Facebook post, M decided last Wednesday that she will be enrolling at the University of Cincinnati next fall. She is excited to have made her final choice and relieved the process is over.<\/p>\n

Now begins the work on housing. She confirmed that she can only request one roommate, so she\u2019s back in the pool \u201cmeeting\u201d people and trying to find a match.<\/p>\n

She got more good news Friday, learning that UC accepts credit from Semester at Sea<\/a>. That is now on the radar for her junior year, following the path of one aunt and one uncle who participated in that program during their undergrad days.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

So she\u2019s going to be a Bearcat. KU plays football in Cincinnati next Thanksgiving weekend, which may be a tough one to attend. The basketball Jayhawks should be in the Queen City sometime in the next two years as well. I already warned her I\u2019m going to be super obnoxious to her on those days, whether I go to the games or not.<\/p>\n

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  1. That aunt also went back as an adult and served as a counselor, guide, or whatever they are called. \u00a0\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Kid Hoops A week ago L\u2019s team beat some good sixth graders in the best game they\u2019ve played all year. This week they played another sixth grade team and got crushed. It was a 50\u201326 loss. And that was with us scoring six points in the last minute. The team we played made at least 7 3\u2019s to our one. They worked us over pretty good on the defensive end. They dominated the boards. Nothing really went right for us. L was feeling under the weather and looked like she had zero energy. We were missing our best player. We had another girl who hadn\u2019t played with us all year and was clueless. And another girl who has played a couple times but never goes to practice showed up and had no idea who she was supposed to be guarding when we were on defense. Not that any of that made any difference. Our tournament starts Thursday, the first game against a team that beat the sixth graders that just beat us. So doubting that L\u2019s team will make a run. In good news, we had our parent Zoom meeting for the travel team Sunday night. They will start practicing in two weeks. We will miss the first tournament of the season because of spring break, so L won\u2019t get a travel game until April. She\u2019s excited to rejoin those girls, though. Jayhawk Talk Whew. I had a bad feeling about this run of West Virginia and Texas Tech back-to-back. It felt like too many people were chalking them up as wins and assuming KU would be playing for, at worst, a tie for the Big 12 title next weekend in Austin. I hoped the team was taking them more seriously than KU fans were. I\u2019m not sure what the answer to that question is, whether it was the KU guys not being focused or WVU just playing great, but it was too damn close of a game. I missed the second half for a social event. I was extra stressed because I couldn\u2019t find the broadcast anywhere on Sirius while we were driving. I checked the score when we stopped to pick friends up and was relieved to see KU up by seven late. A few minutes later I checked again and let out an \u201cOh shit!\u201d when I saw it was a one-point game. Reminded me of almost exactly a year ago when we went out as the KU-Texas game was going on and my peaks at the score of an intense, close, low-scoring game made me want to throw up. A dub is a dub, especially on a day that saw crazy ends to games in Tucson and Iowa City. With Texas losing to Baylor, the Jayhawks are one win away from clinching at least a share of the title. Social Outing S and I attended Cathedral\u2019s annual fundraiser Saturday evening. We\u2019ve gone once before, and that was your standard \u201cdress up, drink, eat, and donate some money\u201d type deal. But this year there was a Yellowstone\/Western theme. If you know me, you know I don\u2019t have much time for the cowboy thing. So I bought a hipster Western shirt and a $20 cowboy hat from Amazon. That was enough to fake the look for a few hours. It was a fun night. We hung with some friends we don\u2019t see often enough. Saw a ton of St P\u2019s people. It was fun to talk college choices with the others who also have seniors. S ran into lots of people she went to school with back in the day. We did not bid on anything. Someone did take home a very cute puppy for $10,500. Catholics, man! M was working the event to get National Honor Society points. One of her friends was tasked with walking around and showing the puppy off to people before bid time. M made sure that girl kept swinging by us. My response each time was that she is four and a half years away from being able to buy her own dog. Afterward she agreed $10K was too much for a puppy. I haven\u2019t heard the final haul but several fancy trips also went for over 10K. Again, Catholics! The Decision I supposed I\u2019ve buried the lede. As some of you know from direct messages or my Facebook post, M decided last Wednesday that she will be enrolling at the University of Cincinnati next fall. She is excited to have made her final choice and relieved the process is over. Now begins the work on housing. She confirmed that she can only request one roommate, so she\u2019s back in the pool \u201cmeeting\u201d people and trying to find a match. She got more good news Friday, learning that UC accepts credit from Semester at Sea. That is now on the radar for her junior year, following the path of one aunt and one uncle who participated in that program during their undergrad days.[1] So she\u2019s going to be a Bearcat. KU plays football in Cincinnati next Thanksgiving weekend, which may be a tough one to attend. The basketball Jayhawks should be in the Queen City sometime in the next two years as well. I already warned her I\u2019m going to be super obnoxious to her on those days, whether I go to the games or not. That aunt also went back as an adult and served as a counselor, guide, or whatever they are called. \u00a0\u21a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,77,33,52,26,58,14,30],"class_list":["post-11798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-basketball","tag-cincinnati","tag-college","tag-college-sports","tag-family","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-parenting","tag-youth-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11800,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798\/revisions\/11800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}