I got to cover a little basketball at the Garden this week.
Stanford was in the NIT semifinals--the Final Four of the Little Dance--and the San Francisco Chronicle was eager to cover it.
Being an east coaster, I mistakenly wrote "Stamford" just about every time I meant to write "Stanford." But at least I remembered that the team is called the Cardinal, not the Cardinals.
I had the opportunity to sit courtside with the other scribes and radio/TV folk, and tap out a quick story just after the game wrapped in the famed Madison Square Garden press box. I even caught a foul basketball! The game offered some real drama;
The story is here. It felt good to exercise some different muscles than I normally do.
