Let's pretend for just this moment that you are Major League Baseball. Oh, the horror. On one hand, you've got the filthy mess of a steroids controversy.
A little over three years ago, I took my first on-location assignment for this newspaper as a sports writer.
This is crunch time for the Virginia women's lacrosse team. Yeah, the Cavaliers are the third-ranked team in the country.
There's a lot we don't know about Roger Mason Jr.'s decision to declare himself eligible for the NBA draft June 26. Has he signed with an agent, thus making him ineligible to play for Virginia next season?
In the middle of the first half last night, Juan Dixon, playing defense for Maryland, reached out with his long, lanky arms, as he has done hundreds of times before, and stole a pass he'd been watching from the very beginning, as he's done so many times before. In a second, the ball was downcourt to Maryland's Chris Wilcox.
Finally, we can breathe. I've been watching college basketball non-stop, it seems, for the past two weeks.
The best story in college basketball right now cannot be found in Durham, N.C., or College Park, Md. Instead it's on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in Kent, Ohio.
If you build it, Ray, they will come. They'll come to see $4 million worth of improvements that should transform a mere baseball field into a state-of-the-art park.
Pull this one out of the oven, baby. It's done. Dead in the water. Wrapped up. Destroyed. Finito. Flashback to late November.
Polls don't mean a darn thing in college basketball. So I'm pretty sure I saw the No. 1 team Sunday. Not Kansas.
