On my docket last week I planned on hitting a good boys basketball tilt featuring Lakewood and D’Evelyn.
I was also looking forward to getting my first look at Golden’s girls basketball team this year. Instead, like everyone else, I spent Dec. 20-22 digging out from the blizzard of 2006.
Funny how Mother Nature and Old Man Winter works. They both must have known my holiday wish list, which ran in the sports section of our Dec. 21 issues, included an “unseasonably warm” spring sports season this coming year.
Oops. Guess they showed me not to wish on anything weather related for 2007.
Every high school sporting event for three days (Dec. 20-22) was postponed or canceled. Not to mention games scheduled at Pepsi Center for the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche.
The only athletic actives were those that used a shovel or sled. While sledding down my street in the Green Mountain area sure looked inviting, tackling the 5-foot snow drift blocking the front door was my activity of choice.
While the kind of storm we had was pleasant and maddening at the same time, I’ve been living in Colorado since 1978, so it’s expected. At least once every three or four years we get a storm that shuts everything down.
Things get back to normal, even in the sports world, after a few days. High school basketball players, wrestlers, ice hockey players and swimmers will just get a few extra days off before starting the final stretch when events kick back into gear Wednesday, Jan. 3, after winter break.
For those itching for high school sports to get going in 2007, they will just have to be patient.