Think Pink!

The Women's Basketball Coaches Association is sponsoring THINK PINK! this week - to raise awareness about Breast Cancer and to raise money for research for treatment. The color pink is everywhere in games everywhere this week. Usually, the home team is wearing white, sometimes trimmed in pink; the visiting team wears pink uniforms, no matter what their usual color is. And all the coaches have on pink somehow - even the men are wearing pink ties. The referees are using pink whistles. I understand even the players in a hockey game wore pink.

Margaret and John wore pink to the Lady Vols game tonight (Lady Vols 59, Rutgers 58). At Thompson-Boling, they put pink t-shirts on every seat in the lower tier of seats, so everybody in the stands had on pink. Even the men's coach, Bruce Pearl, was there with a pink shirt, pink ballcap, and pink-and-white sneakers.

This was John's first major outing, and it pretty much wore him out. I'm pretty sure, though, that he'll be ready to head back to Knoxville on Thursday to the UT/LSU game.

We may all overdose on Pepto-Bismol pink before the week is out, but it surely is making people more aware of the problem of breast cancer. And, with any luck, will bring more money and progress in new diagnostic procedures and treatment options.

Today's photo is, of course, John and Margaret in pink.