A broken heart, figuratively, inspired Washington women’s basketball coach Mike Neighbors to learn how to play guitar.
“I lost a girlfriend in college to a guy that was playing in a band and I was like I’m never going to let that happen again so I learned to play the guitar,” he said. “No lessons. My step dad played. I remember going home from college at Christmas and got his guitar out and I said show me a chord.
“He said, you’re going to learn to play? I’d messed with it before, but my fingers would bleed and they would hurt.