It's an issue no one seems to want to address. Partly because it's grossly unfair to the hundreds of student-athletes, coaches and staff that work so hard and achieve so much.
The NFL Draft is next weekend -- did you know that? If you are an ESPN watcher, espn.com checker or ESPN the Magazine reader, then that is as silly a question as asking if Jack Bauer could kill you with his bare hands.
Recently, I've found myself staying up late watching several classic baseball movies -- "The Natural," "Field of Dreams," "The Sandlot" -- and I've come to realize the 12-year-old inside of me just won't let my obsession with baseball go.
The title of this column contains the tagline CBS uses when promoting the Masters, the PGA Major Championship Tournament that occurs this weekend in Augusta, GA at Augusta National.
Last week, the Virginia Festival of the Book was held here in Charlottesville and one of my new favorite authors, Warren St.
Lost in the Madness of March, lost in the four straight days of continuously bad CBS coverage and -- even worse -- Applebee's commercials, lost in the fact that despite the calendar is entering late March and it's still cold, was the re-emergence of America's pastime -- baseball. The only thing is, America can't claim baseball for itself anymore.
I won the first March Madness pool that I ever participated in. It was my freshman year in high school and I rode Michigan State and the Flintstones to $65.
You would think that in a week characterized by hateful exams, stressful hours in Clemons and eating meals out of a vending machine that the only thing I'd hear in conversation this week would be whining and complaining.
As we head towards that time of year when watching sports on TV becomes one of my specialties (with March Madness, the Masters, the NFL draft and the NBA playoffs rapidly approaching), I have replayed a disturbing imaginative conversation in my head almost every day. And I'm not concerned that I have complex conversations in my head -
As you may have read last week, I was not quite super-excited about SUPER BOWL XL (and really, it lived down to that sentiment). But that didn't stop me from being excited about the Super Bowl commercials.
