Dan also wants you to know that soon, if he has anything to do with the way the world runs, bridge will be an Olympic sport. He's the U.S. representative to the World Bridge Federation, which is courting the Olympics' organizing committee. That action put bridge on the same footing as more traditional Olympic-hopeful sports such as karate, squash, golf and rugby. At 62, Dan thinks about giving up his day job, maybe selling his pharmacy to his brother. Boxers have gyms.
Baseball players have fields.
Bridge players have clubs like the Bridge and Games Studio, where Dan is playing Sunday night. Tucked inside an office park off the Southwest Freeway, the club basically amounts to a big room full of tables. Sessions last around three and a half hours, which works out to less than two bucks an hour. On Sunday Dan was playing in a doubles league. In '96 she moved to Houston from California, and that, she says, is when her game took off.