"On Sept. 13, just a month before he was set to begin his 27th season at UConn, Jim Calhoun announced his retirement. The timing was nothing if not calculated."
I was there on that road in Madison on that fateful August day. I was standing on a little hill of grass. I saw Calhoun coming down the road, it was wide open, no cars. Across the street from me, there was a man with an umbrella, even though it was sunny out, not a cloud in the sky. As Calhoun approached, I noticed a patch of sand on the right side of the road. I thought he could easily steer around the thing, but when he rode up fast, it became clear that he was headed right for it. Was it stubbornness? Or was he deliberately heading for the sand patch? If the latter, how long had he planned this? All these thoughts occurred to me as the ambulance took Calhoun away. And as I walked from the scene, I noticed that the man with the umbrella was no longer in sight.
