Dear Coach Bluder: You helped more than you knew [DesMoinesRegister.com]
Hi, Coach! Congratulations on your recent induction into The Des Moines Sunday Register Iowa Sports Hall of Fame. The honor, of course, is well-deserved. I’ve written many times that you and your friends and longtime assistants, Jan Jensen and Jenni Fitzgerald, are some of the finest people I’ve ever met. I wanted to take a moment to tell you why. We met when I was 19 years old, a sophomore at Drake University during the 1994-95 academic year. I was the sports editor of the student...