Is It Just a Game?
August 23, 2023
On Friday evenings twenty years ago, my grandfather—the paragon Hoosier basketball fanatic—would trek the short two-block divide between his home and my parents’ home in our small, southern Indiana town. I—an emerging fanatic in my own right—would be waiting in my parents’ driveway practicing free throws and left-handed layups. He would stop near the edge … More Is It Just a Game?
