Happy Easter a day of new beginnings. And a quiet day on the TV sports front. We are a in between days of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament. We do have the NCAA Women's tournament tonight and thankgoodness UConn is the late game so Stanford and Oklahoma might be at least a game where either team can win. ESPN's attempt to boost 6'8 Baylor center Brittany Griner is only expected. They are trying to put some question in peoples mind that UConn might lose. It won't happen. It will be UConn and Oklahoma in the finals Tuesday night. As much as I root against Oklahoma in any sport, I do feel for the Rothlesberger girl that plays for the Sooners. Yea, Big Ben's little sister. What must she be going though with all the off the field news of her more famous big brother and Steeler quarterback and his "sex related" legal problems. I am really hoping that Butler can pull off a modern day "Hoosiers" story although Dick Vitale quickly tells you that this Butler team isn't the little underdog that that Hickory was in the movie or Milan High was in 1954 when they beat Muncie Central in the Indiana State championship thus setting the storyline for the movie 30 years later. Yea, Butler was a top 10 rated pre season team but team's from the Horizen League don't make it to the Final Four. Just like Missouri Valley Conference team's don't usually make it past the second round, although Northern Iowa was the exception this year. And they are playing Duke. The big bad Blue Devils who play in the best conference in men's college basketball. The ACC. The Blue Devils who have a certain look of arrogance and cockiness. Don't know if they have the same dorm as the Duke men's lacrosse team, but they are a confident crew. They played that way last night. Butler did not play very well and were fortunate to win. I say that Duke will come back down to earth and Butler will play well, perhaps "out of their head" if you will. I don't know if Norman Dale will be in the building, or Joey Chitwood, or Bobby Plamp or Plump for that matter. It still should be compelling television basketball. Let's hope that CBS surprises us all and lets Dick Enberg call the game, which would be his last after 50 years of covering NCAA basketball. Oh wait, he will be busy. New voice of the San Diego Padres.
And Baseball. Only 1 exhibition game today. Oakland at San Francisco. Everyone else is off and ready to open the season tomorrow. The Twins are in L.A. or Anaheim more precisely. The Cubs in Atlanta. Oh yea, there is something on TV tonight other than the NCAA women's tournament. The Red Sox and the Yankees, really the only two teams in major league baseball, according to ESPN. At least MLB Network understands that there is baseball west of the Hudson River. Come to think of it, there might be some hockey today and golf. Oh my. TV sports lives on............any channel carrying the movie "Hoosiers"?
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