As many of you know from reading my blog, I taught at Drake University for 18 years and just left this past academic year for a teaching position at the University of South Florida in Sarasota.
My son and I had season tickets for Drake basketball from 1989 until he went to college in 1997. Even then we would get game tickets on weekends when he came home from school. Unfortunately, Drake lost many of these games but we still enjoyed our outing which traditionally consisted of dinner at the Drake Diner and then the game.
Fast forward to today. Drake University won the Missouri Valley Conference for Division 1 Basketball and thus is playing in the NCAA tournament on Friday. And they are playing in Tampa, Florida! So of course I had to get tickets!
So Chris, I'll be thinking of how quickly you grew up (he's now 29 and works for Microsoft) and cheering our team on. GO BULLDOGS!
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