3.24.2006

Competition and Caring

Last night I was watching some of the NCAA basketball tournament. The game had just finished and it was a rough ending with many surprises and an amazing comeback. I personally was hoping that Gonzaga would pull it off and beat UCLA, but alas they choked the game away.

So after the final buzzer sounded, there in the middle of the floor was a player from the losing team face down on the court sobbing. On the other side of the court was the winning team celebrating their comeback and win. One of the players from the winning team saw the Gonzaga player and felt bad enough for him, that he left his celebrating teammates to go over and pick up his opponent.

Even though their teams had spent two hours battling each other, this was about one human seeing another's pain and going to try to help. See even good things can happen in sports.

Oh, and Duke lost.

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