Eating is close to the top of my list, as my expense account will prove, but hitting the restaurants also gives me a chance to taste the regional cuisine while getting to see what Southwest Missouri State fans are doing.
Bears do it better.
It's all the handiwork of Dave and Nancy Wagner, owners of The Olde Mill. Okla. His state's team was eliminated by Washington on Saturday night, but earlier in the week he was wearing his OU shirt when some SMS officials spotted it. I told them I didn't have one. The owners were so taken with SMS officials and fans that they closed the restaurant just before tipoff so they could watch the game and planned to reopen the cafe after the game was over. Nancy had trouble containing her excitement.