Carrie Cecil: How fun friends help ease gameday worries, growing up in McKale, and why ...
(World News USA)

The hands on the clock seemed to sit completely still all day Saturday. I filled my time with client work, housework and mom work and was done by 3 p.m. - only 5f hours before kickoff. Tick-tock, tick-tock went the torture clock. I was a mixed bag of excitement, anticipation and worry. Thankfully, my game-day galpal, Nanci Kincaid Tomey, came to my rescue. With decades of coach´s wife experience, she dropped words of wisdom in my heart that slid down like the stuffed olives into my martini glass. Nanci and I headed to an early pre-game supper and ran into a gaggle of old-fashioned Wildcats loyalists. I got to visit with my fairy godmother and neighbor Sally Drachman and her hubby, Bob...