No Losers Allowed
By Competitions I’ve won in my lifetime:
(1) Cub Scouts Easter jelly-bean rolling contest — Roanoke, Virginia (1980)
(2) NCAA Basketball Tournament Pool — Harrisonburg, Virginia (1992)
(3) NCAA Basketball Tournament Pool — Minneapolis, Minnesota (1997)
(4) Meanest Critique of Columnist John Troyer Contest — Minneapolis, Minnesota (2001)
(5) NCAA Basketball Tournament Pool — Juneau, Alaska (2005)
(6) Lawyers, Guns and Money Baseball Challenge — Juneau, Alaska (2005)
(7) This.
My catalogue of losses and failures is, of course, as epic in length as Ben Hur itself. As I’ve said before, though, it’s the little victories in life that keep us from leaping into traffic.