Does it get any better than this?

I’ve covered every Final Four since 1986, along with several NBA championship series.

And I was at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 4 when Texas took on USC in one of the great college football games of this or any other generation.

And now I’m in Mott Gymnasium in San Luis Obispo, less than an hour before the Cal Poly-Long Beach State Big West Conference volleyball showdown. I’m looking for a knife to cut the tension in the air.