I’m not much of a professional basketball fan anymore. But I remain a solid Mickey Herskowitz fan, the longtime sportswriter for the Houston Chronicle and author. Mickey writes today about the Houston Rockets, a rather boring and generally underachieving NBA team, and observes about the frustrations that the coach must feel:

A great basketball coach once said that to appear successful, one who chose the profession needed an image shaped by two conditions: white hair for the look of distinction and hemorrhoids for the look of distress.