Palin Basketball Note

Since Sarah insists on using basketball analogies to explain why she quit ("sometimes a point guard has to pass the ball...."), I looked back to find an article on her basketball career.

Here you go: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/27091580/

Answer -- she was a girl who played at a tiny school who couldn't make the team for 3 years, finally started as a senior and became an OK player, surrounded by "dominant front court players."

Here big claim to fame about her mental toughness: "When I was shooting those free throws in that state title game....."

Reality -- She had 0 points and her team was up by 4 in the title game and she made one lousy free throw, missing the second. There were 50 seconds left. Basically she did as well as Shaq would, lucking in one free throw and bricking the second.

So why do her basketball analogies suck so badly? Because she really wasn't much of a basketball player. She played in 1982 (when many women did not play ball) in the small school division in ALASKA and she just tossed the ball to her better teammates and tried to stay out of the way.

Heck, I earned 7 varsity letters at MY tiny high school. I guess I missed my political calling -- my garden-variety single to right in a tie game of sectional play in 1980 could have become a wicked blast in the gap for a double (I took second on the throw home) that nearly punched a hole in the outfield wall.