”It’s addictive, isn’t it?“ – Nebraska Softball Associate Head Coach Lori Sippel at 2024’s Softball Fan Day after I told her about getting hooked a few years prior.
She wasn’t wrong.
I had just told her my story of coaching then-just-appointed Assistant Coach Liv Ferrell, along with my daughter Mylie, in hockey since they were seven or so and how I thought it would be fun to cover the Big 10 tournament in East Lansing in 2022 when Liv was finishing her last season as a Husker player. They ended up winning the damn thing and as Coach Sippel observed almost two years later?…