Let's go Ravens!

Writer Keith

Living in the south puts me in a hotbed for college sports. Within a two-hour drive, I can see some of the top colleges from the SEC and ACC in both hoops and football at any time I want. Most Saturday's I need to beg my local bartender to put on the Notre Dame football game instead of Clemson or Florida State. But today, I get a first. I get to ask the bartender to switch to the Franklin Pierce basketball game on ESPN. See, my alma mater has made it to the national championship for Division 2 Women's Basketball. This may seem pretty lame to you, but this may be the first and only team Franklin Pierce team I get to see on a national network.

We used to run beer pong tournaments on my old college TV show "Bravvas Weekly," but we were never close to going national (well except for the people who want to put my old show on YouTube, which may or may not get me fired). When I went to college, our women's soccer team won several national championships. But this is different. It's on TV. I mean seriously: a small liberal arts school in the foothills of Mount Monadnock will be on television. The same team that had its star point guard bust out in laughter when I belted out a "You Can Do It" during a game in 1999.

Back in the day, our biggest support went to our hockey team. It was quite convenient, since there was a bar next to the rink. We actually had one student who got arrested and was banned from the games for foul language. He came to the next game wearing a red bandanna on his face and called himself "El Hockito Bandito." I have absolutely no idea about the team that made it to the finals. According to reports, some of our top scorers include Johannah Leedham and her sister Jennifer. I really don't care. For the first time in my life I can watch my own school on national TV. So let's go Ravens! WACAW, WACAW!!!!!!