The Road To...

The Final Four.

Wonderful, wonderful, and again wonderful.

Hope all my (dozens of? hundreds of??) readers had the chance to check out possibly the best weekend in the history of televised basketball with three overtime games out of four played to send teams to the Final Four.

In my new sports lease on life, where my mood & lifestyle are no longer locked in so fully to a particular team, and I am just plain not watching so much, I have found the sports being much more fun & interesting to watch. Whether taking the opportunity to sit down with a micro-brew and watch Monday Night Football, or happening to tune into a Big 10 regular season basketball matchup while cleaning the house on a weekend, they are much more enjoyable as a spice of life, rather than as bread & butter. Funny how, in a year where I put in less effort to my tournament picks than ever before, I have gotten such a thrill out of the event. Then I was treated to this last weekend. I didn't see every second of every game, but I saw the parts that mattered. For once the drama of the later rounds exceeded that of the early rounds.

Huzzah for the Spartans & Illini, representing the much-maligned Big 10 in fine fashion!