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SXSW or Women's Basketball
Published: 3/17/2007 10:33 AM
Last Modified: 3/17/2007 10:33 AM

I'm 53, love football and NASCAR, and my idea of music is something from the 1970s.
This weekend I'm one of those souls lost in the seventies here in Austin.
The South by Southwest Music Festival, one of the biggest things in the music industry, is in Austin this weekend.
So is women's basketball.
You would be hard-pressed to find much mention of the women's basketball in this town.
The music fesstival, which draws several hundred bands from around the world and record execs from everywhere, dominates the city this weekend.
The hotels and restaurants are full of people wearing black - lots of black.
And, when I left my room to go to the Oklahoma women's basketball game on Saturday morning, every door I passed in the hallway going to the elevator had a do not disturb sign hunge on the door.
No surprise since I heard a rock concert coming from down the hall about 4 a.m.
The restaurants at the the hotel are advertising special hours that go until 4 a.m.
I looked through a list of musicians playing the festival on Friday and Saturday. I didn't recognize any of them, although Asleep at the Wheel did get a mention (I do know them).
The morning newspaper buried the women's basketball but had a special section (daily) devoted to the music festival.
The television news on Friday night didn't even mention the women's basketball but led the news with the festival.
So, the Sooners started play on Saturday. Not many people down here noticed.
But I'm looking forward to the adult alternative punk night.



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