Well, since we were kind of academic in trying to find Miss
Ann, maybe I have a little license to descend into a (mercifully short) mild rant and despite
drivers giving me some justification, this has more to do with sports.
This last weekend kind of kicked off a special time for
those of us who like college sports, in that both the women and men basketball players
were finally to their ‘final four”, the “frozen four” will febe played this week, and although it is not college, it is “Master’s Week” at
Augusta. A special time. So, we did spend a fair amount
of time watching the various contests. But what
really gets me is the scheduling of such broadcasts. I suppose the TV pundits have to try to
satisfy a nationwide audience, but why must they schedule games to start
after nine at night? Want to watch
Michigan play Syracuse? Caffeine yourself,
it tips at 9:20! Tonight’s “championship”
game is estimated to start at 9:23. Did
you watch Notre Dame (women) play UCONN last night? What time did you finally get to sleep? After midnight. Don’t the “kids” playing need some sleep too? I can maybe see it if they are playing on the
West Coast, three hours from a decent time there is late here. But the men are playing in Atlanta, and the
women are in New Orleans (okay, there’s one hour), so why can’t they start at,
say, seven or seven thirty? I suppose
the answer is that they don’t want a four o’clock type start on the west coast,
but that could be a nice excuse for an early out and watch the game with happy
hour. All I know is that it takes me a week
or so to recover from this run of late games.
And good friend Domer, I can’t let this go without
comment. In probably what will amount to
the women’s championship game last night, UCONN finally beat the lady
Irish. And yes, this is more of an
indictment of the “media” than the player, but if I had a buck for every
mention of Skyler Diggins, I would be having a really nice bottle of wine.
Skyler this, Skyler that, the cameras barely left her with close up after close
up, up the court, down the court, on the bench, in time outs, features, on and
on. And in the end, I couldn’t help but
think of another Manti T’eo situation wherein the media hyped Notre Dame player
just doesn’t show up on the big stage. A
three for fifteen shooting night with ten total points, four of which came on
free throws.. okay I’m done.
And to try to end on a more positive note, did you see Jim
Furyk hole out on eighteen yesterday in the last PGA event prior to the
Masters? What a shot. But what I really liked was the fact that he
actually laughed and enjoyed it. Think Tiger
would have done that? Nope, stone faced
as usual.. oops that isn’t too positive.
Okay I feel better, go Michigan, hope I can stay awake after
I have
DFD
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