Another Tulane memory

OK, here's another quick story from Tulane that demonstrates how reporters sometimes fall into scoops. Back in the Robert Whaley era, if there was such a thing, I flew into New Orleans on my own, not on the same flight with the team. I got to the hotel a little late, checked in and headed down to the bar for a beer.

When I got there, associate head coach Dan Peters and some of the other UC people - not Bob Huggins - were already there. Peters asked me if Robert Whaley was on my flight.

"No," I said, "wasn't he on yours?"

That's how I found out that Huggs had left Whaley behind. I made a quick call to the paper and had it in my story the following morning.