The humbling memories of a short rural basketball career

The humbling memories of a short rural basketball career

When I am driving around rural North Dakota doing stories on agriculture, I often pass through small towns where I played high school basketball in the 1970s. Many of the high schools have formed cooperatives and some of them no longer exist, but the memories of riding the bus to those towns to play in their gyms still are pretty clear. Those memories are more humbling than good, which means that even though they don’t make me smile, they remind…