MU women’s basketball team deserves fan support

All too often, those of us who write opinion columns tend to dwell on the negative, primarily because it is much easier to complain of real and imagined failures of government, society, neighbors, et al. than to seek the roses nestled among the thorns. So much of editorial commentary, including that in this publication, preaches a brand of doom and gloom so dreary as to make one wonder whether there exists a break in the clouds — let alone a silver lining.