On this episode of the Torg Stories Podcast, we’re talking about the official start to high school basketball season here in North Carolina, the Dodgers winning the World Series, the Colts vs. Steelers matchup, and the Panthers upset win over the Packers. Congratulations to Anne again for another Dodgers World Series win. What a wild finish to Game 7. I got home from a long day of scrimmages with my Watauga High School girls basketball team and I texted Anne “Boom Baby” at 11:15 PM when Miguel Rojas hit that homer. Later, the Dodgers would end the World Series on a double play in the 11th, win their second straight title, and the first back-to-back champion since the Yankees run that ended in 2000. Yamamoto was named the World Series MVP, and the stat lines around his postseason performance feel like something out of baseball mythology.
Meanwhile, high school basketball season is off and running. We had two days of tryouts, practiced on Halloween (with costumes!), handed out gear for our first set of scrimmages, and then drove 115 miles to Charlotte to open the season at Providence Day — three scrimmages on three courts with over 25 teams and more than 50 college coaches in the building. The first two weeks are jam-packed with games, paperwork, fundraisers, and parent meetings before the rhythm of the season settles in. This episode is basically the intersection of sport at the highest level and sport at the most local level — the Dodgers as world champions and a bus ride through curvy mountain roads to an 8:30 AM tip-off at Freedom High School next Saturday morning.
Hope you enjoy the episode!