(Editor's note: Tulane senior guard Grace Daley will share a weekly diary with ESPN.com throughout the season. For more information on the Green Wave, visit Tulane's official athletic site.)

Dec. 2, 1999

Greetings Green Wave fans. Last weekend was another great one. We had a 63-point victory against UNC-Asheville, which the newspaper termed a "shellacking," followed by a nine-point victory on the road against Miami!

	Daley

I was born in Miami so it was great to be home again! The game was kind of like a family reunion -- minus the T-shirts and the food -- but there was plenty of entertainment!

We played at 2 p.m. in the afternoon, but we didn't fly out until the next morning, so we had the whole evening to spend in south Miami. The coaches suggested a friendly stroll along the South Beach boardwalk to help time pass, but we, the players, were all content with going back to the hotel, ordering movies and relaxing the rest of the night.

We objected to their suggestion, but the coaches said: OBJECTION OVERRULED! We ended up spending the next two hours on the boardwalk. After we had seen more than our share of strange sights and surprises, and after we felt that we had walked around enough (just long enough to find a Baskin Robins), we decided to spend the remaining hour sitting in a nearby KFC eating and reminiscing about the game -- the highlights and the lowlights.

Usually, our conversations end up being play-by-play commentaries or reenactments of one of Janell Burse's or Salome Hector's gravity-defying blocks, but this evening we talked about something else.

After we were done eating, a destitute-looking man with a smile as wide as Julia Roberts' kept peering in through the window at our unfinished meals. Soon he gathered up the courage to come inside and ask us if he could have what was left of them. We gave him everything and we watched as he ran outside to his homeless friend and showed him the treasure he had just discovered.

After that, our conversation switched from blocked shots to how blessed we all are. We all have so much to be thankful for.