6A: Lookin’ fly
Feb. 23, 2008 @ 6:23 p.m. by Joannaby joanna
There are some coaches who are looking pretty fly right now. Yep, I said it. These guys look handsome.
Now, don’t get me wrong, here my dear readers. This is merely an observation. Hear me out.
I’ve watched these coaches for two days, and they’ve all been wearing jeans and some sort of shirt with some sort of school logo. It might be a T-shirt, but more likely it’s been a polo shirt.
But here, 30 minutes before the championships, they’re all dressed up. Suits, sport coats, sweater vests and for sure a tie with dress pants. Most are still in their school colors — Olathe East coaches have orange ties, Heights coaches are in black and red.
Derby coach Bill Ross is in a sport coat, but he’s still got jeans on. Turns out he forgot them, they weren’t on the hangar like he expected. But his wife is hooking him up. Yep, she’s going to the store — oh, there he goes up the stairs to get the pants she went to the store to buy. Now that’s a good coach’s wife.
And you know what surprised me even more? Goddard coach Brett Means is in a tie and blue button down shirt! I am shocked. He told me last year that he doesn’t dress up. Yet here he is. He smiled when I mentioned it (that’s two smiles in two days, congrats to me) and said, “Yeah, I’m looking handsome.” Yes you are coach.
But then it was back to business and he said “I told you it wasn’t over yet, didn’t I?” The 6A title is definitely not decided yet. It will be a fun road, though.
What’s up with this? It’s starting 18 minutes early. What’s up with this! I still have more to blog about.
All right, here’s Manhattan’s Jeff Vesta, who’s beaten this Junction City kid, Isaac Ruiz, four times this season. Ruiz has six losses. In his career, Vesta is 8-0 against Ruiz.
I’m sure we’ll have some delays tonight because TV is broadcasting this live. I hate TV timeouts, let’s let everything go as fast as possible. Then again, I’m selfish. Sorry.
Just talked to a woman from Manhattan — all their fans are behind me. She takes pictures of all the Manhattan activities. She’s got a picture, framed, that she was going to give to referee Mike Martinez, who retired at the Newton tournament. The picture is of his shoes in the middle of the mat. Very cool.
OK, TV is driving me nuts. They’re right in front of me. Dang it. But it’s worse when they do close-ups on the coaches. They are about six inches from their face.
Vesta almost lost here. He’s up 1-0, then Ruiz got away and nearly took him down. Uh-0h in sudden death overtime, Vesta just lost. Ruiz got control of him and he went crazy, jumping around. But wait, the refs are talking. What the heck. Nope, it’s Ruiz’s title. Unbelievable. That’s Vesta’s first lost this season, and he was a state champ last year.
