Carol Russell's Got Balls

Monday night the University of Nebraska-Kearney women’s basketball coach Carol Russell was on the bench as her team lost to the University of North Dakota. Not strange, she should be there. She’s the coach. Oh, but there is just one more thing, lieutenant: she had given birth to her first child five hours before. That’s right: when most women would still be packed with ice, she and her left her new baby boy in the hospital and headed to the game.

Now, I may have never given birth, but I’ve watched my share of A Baby Story on Lifetime and let me tell you, all that “it’s so natural and beautiful” crap? Horseshit. There are rips and tears involved that you don’t even want to imagine. Russell must have had one of those prom date births when the young girl doesn’t know she’s pregnant until the baby falls out on the dance floor or in the bathroom. That’s the only way I can explain this away.

All that aside, though, I don’t know what her big rush was. It was a women’s game in North Dakota – most popularly known as "that vast expanse of land above South Dakota" – the team lost 108-75, its spot in the tournament, and on top of all that, it’s the Division II tournament. Even if they got in it wouldn’t matter. No one gives a shit.

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