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This is normally the part of the day where I would plug the iPod headphones into my ear and jam to some Eagles, blink 182, Akon and whatever country song I happen to be feeling at that particular moment. Then I’ll log on and ramble about high school sports for a few minutes. But I won’t eat Zingers. Not again.

But the problem with that plan is that my iPod’s battery has been dead for a few days now. I always mean to go home and charge it, but for whatever reason I never get around to it. And let me tell you, some music right now would be awesome. Monday’s around here are kind of dull to begin with, and today is no exception. So instead of listening to music, how about I take time out to think about what today, President’s Day, really means.

OK, I have no idea what the significance of President’s Day could be. Let’s talk sports.

Just finished up the boys basketball rankings that will run in next week’s paper. Pretty glad these are about over, since it seems like all the No. 1 teams lose every week. This week, No. 1 overall Southeast lost, No. 2 Manhattan did, and Trinity, No. 1 in 3A, did too.

It was a bad week for me because I was kind of iffy on South being ranked No. 6 in 6A. So I went to watch the Titans play North, thinking they would pulverize the Redskins and solidify such a high ranking. Nope, South lost. Then I wanted to go see Trinity play because I’ve been hyping the Knights up in this blog, so I wanted to make sure they were as good as I said. Nope, they lost.

But that was actually a fun game. I went up to Cheney with my uncle, who has two kids in the Trinity feeder system and watches a lot of its games. Trinity was short a starter, but never quite could get over the hump in that game. After getting behind big early, Trinity came back to tie it twice but never took the lead. Cole Graddy scored 28, but he could have had about 40 if he wasn’t trying to get his teammates involved so much. I guess sometimes you CAN be too unselfish.

This week it’s more wrestling for me. Covering the 5A tournament in Hutchinson on Friday and Saturday. Obviously the two big stories there are Bishop Carroll’s likely easy victory and Hutchinson’s Romero Cotton going for his fourth straight title. Writing a story on Romero for Friday, seeing what it means to him to likely become the first four-time football and wrestling champ in Kansas.

That’s all I’ve got for now. Another busy week on the high school beat, so we’ll do our best to fill you in on all the good wrestling, basketball and swimming stories. Hopefully we can get some sunshine soon.

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