Ellington

TrueHoop offers a timely item as we enter the Memorial Day Weekend. First Lt. Ted Janis, leader of an Army infantry platoon in Iraq, tells how and why soldiers spend a lot of time playing basketball. Janis writes:

For me, it displays the magic of sports: No matter what has been going on that day, or what we are anticipating the next, for those couple minutes in a heated game, nothing else matters except the action on the court. It is the ultimate escape, wherever, whenever.