While driving into the vast nothingness that is the middle of Kansas last month, The Minutes had a couple of thoughts:
1. Being a third-shift toll booth operator on the Kansas Turnpike in the dead of winter has to rank among the sorriest jobs in America.
2. Even the pheasant have to be bored out here.
But the drive also got The Minutes to thinking about why people live where they live. And why people build colleges where they do. And why students choose to attend colleges where they do.
Clearly, it’s all a matter of individual taste. That’s why we have people who love Manhattan, N.Y., and others who love Manhattan, Kan.
Anyway, this rumination led to a Minutes Media Poll of sports writers who do their work in the college towns of America. The Minutes asked writers who cover the six major conferences to name the best and worst towns in their respective leagues — and the best and worst basketball towns. (There can be a distinct difference.)
Full story: Forde Minutes: 40 names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college hoops – ESPN