About those "ubiquitous tournament pins"...  I keep on trying to buy them
at the western regionals and the NCAA keeps on forgetting to send them.
I don't know if it's bad planning or what.  It sure can't be shipping costs.

Doug Peterson

On 19 Mar 2002 at 13:36, Hampton, Nathan E. wrote:

> On the other hand..... I think the NCAA realizes that those who board
airplanes have all
> forms of personal defense forcibly removed from their possession, and
are thus at the
> mercy of any terrorist wielding nothing more dangerous than a box
opener. But those fans
> attending the games are able to protect themselves with the weapon of
their choice - flags
> on sticks, hard rubber disks, fuzzy baseball hats in the shape of a
gopher, and the
> ubiquitous tournament pin. No wonder the NCAA bans beer sales from
its games, because with
> an arsenal like that, any spark may set off the powerkeg.
>
> Nathan Hampton