Happy Easter

This is a part of the NCAA they don’t talk about.  Valparaiso was scheduled to play Youngstown State at Youngstown Friday and Saturday, with Valpo returning home sometime Saturday night.  For players—or graduate assistants, like Clare—living close to school, that meant the chance to spend Easter at home.  Then the weather got in the way, necessitating a game on Easter.  It’s too bad no one on the team is old enough to remember the lyrics from a CCR song: “Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again,” or Youngstown, the other side of the border with Pittsburgh.  Clare took some of the players to church before the game.

Easter dinner for one college softball team today will take place at a Panera’s in Toledo.  But some family tradition must go on, so Michele and I will drive out to Valparaiso tomorrow with leftovers and an Easter basket.  Growing up, I had to find my basket Easter morning; my parents were in the habit of hiding it.  But what can you hide in a studio apartment like Clare’s?  Father rabbit will just have to make a formal presentation.