I am at my college-freshman son's conference soccer tournament this weekend, with an NCAA Division III Tournament bid on the line for the winning team. It was been a long journey, from select and high school soccer through his first college game and this remarkable season. Their pulsating win in the semi-final yesterday, 7-6 on penalty kicks after the game finished 0-0 through two overtimes, was hard-fought but thankfully nothing like the BYU-New Mexico conference tournament semi-final game:
