Welcome to The Hangover, a semi-regular offseason item I’ve elected to start on weeks such as this, when children/work/travel/obligation have elected to cut deeply into both my subconscious and my time. The promise of two things per week holds true, and thus has been born this attempt at offering tips, tricks and tales for better living until college basketball returns.
Please return soon, college basketball.
National Teams
As a general rule, I’m not one to cape for national pride. I like being American; I think being from here is drastically preferable to being from a lot of other places, and I’m certainly lucky that I landed here and not some remote Indonesian island for a ton of reasons headlined by running water and convenient access to good coffee. I also don’t think we’re perfect or have any right to expect others to view us that way.