I’m old. I like the familiar, the comfortable, that which I already know. That’s why I loved the Great Lakes Valley Conference and I loved that my college – Northern Kentucky University – played in it. It was, without question, the best overall Division 2 men’s college basketball conference in the country. It regularly filled half the bracket or more for the Great Lakes Regional. As often as not, it seemed, a GLVC team was playing for the Division 2 National Championship. Twice Northern Kentucky...

There are really good articles that I read on a daily basis and then there are the articles that tug on my heartstrings and move my inner soul. Those are the articles that I read twice because I truly want to understand each word. Today, I found one of those articles, written by Paul Daugherty of Sports Illustrated. Daugherty's daughter, Jillian, has Down syndrome. She has formed a mutually beneficial relationship with Northern Kentucky head coach Dave Bezold and his basketball program. ...