You are the best, and we don’t care: Pushing women uphill

Let us first note that a sportswriter’s provocative-by-today’s-standards opinion, widely seen as an insult to Coach Geno Auriemma and his team, actually helped women’s basketball more than any of its on-court action. Most of us paying a morsel of attention to this stuff wouldn’t be otherwise. The numbers show that talking doesn’t equal followers, ratings,…

One and done haters: Kentucky v. Connecticut NCAA basketball

No matter who won the national championship, it is great that coach John Calipari’s Kentucky Wildcats once again stood at the top of men’s college basketball with transient young talent. It is excellent that the delusional “college hoops is better than pro because it is pure” advocate was left foaming at the mouth, as experienced…