![]() It may be cheesy as hell, but it’s been making grownups cry since 1987 so don’t second guess its power. But do any other songs in the history of music capture the unity of sports and storytelling quite like ‘One Shining Moment’? I don’t think so. I especially loved the final moment of the presentation, the moment CBS cut to Greg Gumbel in the studio to present ‘One Shining Moment.’Īre there better songs than ‘One Shining Moment’ in the history of music? Yes, there are. I loved watching them climb the ladder one at a time to cut down their piece of the net to hold onto forever. ![]() I loved watching the players crying and hugging each other in a sea of school-colored confetti. My biggest thrill of each college basketball season came in the moments a new champion was crowned. ![]() I enjoyed them and wanted them to succeed, but no one in my immediate family went to school there, it always felt like they were playing second fiddle to the professional sports teams I fell in love with in my hometown, and when it came time for me to go to college, it turned out I was not exactly Golden Gopher material (Fuck you, U of M admissions!!!). I grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and never really latched onto the hometown Gophers when it came to college sports. I didn’t know this truth about me until now. I have also never experienced March Madness the way it was meant to be experienced. It’s a ridiculous approach to the process, but it does have some truth to it, and I can say as a writer, if I am never not writing, then I am also never not listening to ‘One Shining Moment.’ This idea that a writer is never not writing even when they are not writing because everything is part of writing. I mean this in a similar way to how we often talk about the writing process. ![]() I don’t have a Spotify playlist setup to play the official March Madness anthem on repeat for all hours of the day. I am never not listening to ‘One Shining Moment.’ I’m talking about the Luther Vandross version, of course. ![]()
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