Among the great pleasures of following college sports is watching a school revel in a moment of unaccustomed glory.
You haven't seen fans party like those of a Final Four newcomer or a football championship game first-timer.
So it was during the first few days of the millennium in New Orleans, where Virginia Tech followers owned Bourbon Street right up to kickoff of the national championship game in the Sugar Bowl.
Every school should experience those feelings, and it's the pride and sheer joy of such an uplifting occasion that Virginia Tech followers should summon today.
The grisly cable news headlines told it all as Monday unfolded.
"Massacre at Virginia Tech"
"Deadliest U.S. shooting"
Scenes of ambulance lights flashing on a quiet campus road, police running, trembling students trying to describe what they heard or saw at the dormitory and classroom is the stuff of fiction. ...
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