basketball

me and one of our assignment editors spent some of the day trying to track down one of two things:

1. a former UNC basketball player who's still in town

or

2. a few UNC fans who might who are just a little more unique than the typical crazy fine...for example in Morgantown, we did a story about a group of WVU fans who bought this old van and painted it gold and blue were just more into the Mountaineers then most

as you might know, UNC is playing Kansas on Saturday night in the Final Four. my station's doing a special show tomorrow on it so my part is trying to track down either 1 or 2 above.

you'd think that would be easy, right? um, not so much.

we contacted the alumni association, atheltic department, carolina fever (student fan organization), and UNC news services, and got no where.

the president of the alumni association sent me an e-mail with a few former players who still live in town, but we couldnt track any of them down today. a few of them we left messages but havent heard back from yet so maybe not all hope is lost. apparently, a lot of the people with the really good contacts are already in San Antonio where the Final Four game is being played. just great...wish me luck on this tomorrow as i will be making some more calls on this and hoping for a miracle!

tonight im going to play some basketball so i'm pretty excited...this is turning into a weekly occurence...i can live with that! :)