The idea — or maybe more accurately, the hope — was to take the all-boy bundle of energy and tire him out. Run him like you would a golden retriever puppy. And so Ava Mashia would pack everything she could get her hands on — football, basketball, tennis racket, baseball and bat — and grab hold of her nephew and head to the park. They would play for hours, feasting on a sports smorgasbord where neither deference for your elders nor charity to a child was allowed.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter’s Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.