SUPER FANS

(Me with Maureen and Scott a few years ago in Kansas City during a respite from their March Madness)

Dr. Maureen and her Southern gentleman husband Scott checked in with me last night from their hotel room in beautiful downtown Shah-lot, North Carolina. Today and Sunday they will be camped out at the Time Warner Cable Arena (what the heck ever happened to venues with cool names like Madison Square Garden?), along with six of their sportiest friends, attending Rounds Two and Three of the NCAA tournament. Not only does the good doctor talk the talk, but she walks the walk, as well. If she can smell a basketball game going on within a few hundred miles of her country home, she'll be there--and so will her trusty sidekick, Scott.

Attending these games is the social event of the year for Maureen and Scott. They will be attending all six games, I do believe, wearing their finest KU shirts, scoping out other Jayhawk fans and responding to jeers from the Duke and UNC fans, of which there will be many, in the crowd. This is like the Mardi Gras for them. In between games will be bar stops--more opportunities to show off their Rock Chalk attire and pick up new friends along the way. Maureen adheres to the Will Rogers theory of goodwill: "I never met a sportsman I didn't like." (with the exception of anyone remotely associated with Missouri, Kentucky, and Duke)

I don't know if the good doctor plans to see patients come Monday morning, or if she'll spend the day recovering from the weekend. I suspect she may need some assistance from her live-in medical assistant, Nurse Sheila Jane, also a KU fan of uber-the-top proportions. Let's hope Sheila gets back from the Southwest Regionals in Tulsa in good shape and no emergency care is required. Have fun, you crazy kids!!!!