A blue leather suit? I'm there.

During this interminable winter, it sometimes takes a little something extra to get me motivated enough to leave the relative comfort of my office. The best lure would be cold hard cash. However, in the case of the The New York Times, which, somewhere along the line, say 1970, decided that its dayrate was just dandy, has to rely on charm. This time, it was "well, there's this guy who has a blue leather suit." Good enough.
Dolph Pulliam is the voice of the Drake University men's basketball team who, out of nowhere, find themselves in the top 25 and bound for the NCAA tournament for the first time since Mr. Pulliam and the Bulldogs competed and actually went to the Final Four, barely losing to UCLA, in 1969.
As nice as he is tall, Mr. Pulliam did actually show up in his vaunted suit, which is seen as a good luck charm for the team. Now, do I wish it could have been bluer, perhaps even battery-powered? Just like my visions of spring, a boy has to dream.