Most of the past 38 birthdays have been spent in the bowels of a big gym covering conference or NCAA Basketball tournaments.
It all began in 1981, after the Southwest Conference Tournament in San Antonio was shipped to Austin, Texas, where U.S. Reed shot himself into the history books with a 49-foot shot that beat No. 12 Louisville 74-73 and sent the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville to New Orleans, where they lost to No. 4 LSU 72-56.
Your trusty scribe was hooked, and from then until today every conference tournament has been covered, and every round of the NCAA Tournament and the Final Four was covered until 2011.