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March 29, 2009 Last week I wrote about the fact that the world of sport offers no guarantees, and no preferential treatment. You can’t buy your way in, it has to be earned. Sure, Coaches might play favorites, but as Rasheed Wallace likes to say, “The ball don’t lie!” If you can’t carry the freight, you won’t be around. Case in point: Hall of Fame WR Jerry Rice, announced his son, Jerry Rice Jr. would attempt to ‘walk-on’ at UCLA this fall in his quest to make the football team. Case closed. But you may have also noticed that another Wildcat team, the Villanova Wildcats, have played their way into the Final Four, and no one handed them a thing. After defeating heavily favored Pittsburgh Saturday to advance, people have been reminded again that life’s battles don’t necessarily go to the bigger or the stronger. Villanova’s intensity has been well-chronicled, but all the pundits said they were ‘under-sized.’ For the record, I thought Pitt would beat Villanova as well, but now that it’s over I realize the better team won. They did what they had to do when it mattered most, even though Pittsburgh has three legitimate stars that will play in the NBA, while Villanova might have one, if that many. So why is Villanova advancing when Pitt was the #1 seed, and the darling of media commentators? Because they earned it… No one handed them a thing. Outside of Philadelphia, I guarantee no one has Villanova winning it all in their bracket, because no one wrote that script. The fact that they are Wildcats, also, makes it even better. (c) 2009 Novi
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