Best in the West publication delayed

But it's been pushed back to Nov. 11, three days before the opening of the NCAA's early signing week.

I was inable to finish all the writing for the special section because of a death in my family on Tuesday.

And I'm in Claremore, Okl., at about 1:30 a.m. Central Time on Saturday as I write this, eight hours or so after my mother's funeral services.

Not to sound trite but . . . I had the best mother a boy, and later a man, could ever hope for.