Sunday, March 28, 2004
Africa - True.
Andy Katz's Daily Word for March 28th:It was as if I'd caught the NCAA with a stash of stolen property. An NCAA rep, with the help of a security guard, were frantically stuffing Saint Joseph's East Rutherford regional championship T-shirts into boxes. They were trying to shove the boxes into a closet that housed the emergency water source in case of a fire in the arena. When a fan asked if he could have a T-shirt the NCAA rep said he couldn't do it or else he'd get in a lot of trouble. When I asked where these shirts would go, the answer was, "Africa." Apparently, the NCAA used to throw out the T-shirts and then realized that was a silly idea, considering there were people somewhere on the globe that needed shirts, regardless of what was on them. The NCAA doesn't want anyone to see these shirts, but has to have them ready once the game ends.
True. While volunteering at a United Nations Refugee Camp in Kakuma, Kenya in the spring of 2002, I spotted a "USC Pac-10 Tournament Champions" T-Shirt. Problem is, USC hasn't (yet) won a Pac-10 Tournament Championship. The shirts were likely produced before the Trojans' Pac-10 final against Arizona several years back.
