What’s your favorite sport? For someone like me, that may
seem like a pretty easy question to answer. But from now until the middle of
June, it’s also easy to see why that’s such a hard question to answer. Not much
happens in February. The weather is cold, football is over and sports fans are
left looking forward to the spring. But
once the second week of March arrives, things start happening again.
It’s championship week in college basketball with conference
tournaments being played across the nation this week with the field of 68
released Sunday evening. The big dance
is the best postseason tournament in all of sports if you ask me. But with some
of the games we’ve seen this week in the conference tournaments, it’s safe to
say the madness has already begun. As I watched the four-overtime thriller
between Cincinnati and Connecticut, and saw Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield drain a half
court short at the end of regulation against West Virginia, only for the shot
to be waved off, the same three words kept running through my head. Only in
March.
With conference tournaments still to be decided this
weekend, and then the big dance starting on Tuesday, there should be many more
photo finishes and instant classics. Of course everyone fills out a bracket,
but one of the best parts about championship week is that it allows you to just
watch game after game come right down to the wire and just enjoy it and that’s
always fun.
But after it’s all over, there’s more fun for sports fans.
The NHL and NBA regular seasons both have about one month left. This year, the
Golden State Warriors are chasing the record for most wins in an NBA season.
The playoffs, particularly in the NHL, bring plenty of parity and excitement.
This all leads to champions being crowned in both leagues by the middle of
June.
The free agent frenzy kicked off this week in the NFL as the
new league year started Wednesday. Teams begin to shape rosters for the
following season and scouting efforts ramp up with the NFL Draft looming on the
horizon. The hypothetical scenarios fans dream about what their team should do
to ensure a bright future are endless.
Golf’s first two majors will be played during the next three
months. There is truly nothing like the tradition that comes with The Masters
at Augusta National Golf Club in early April. The second tennis major of the year comes at
the end of May in Paris at the French Open.
Now if I had to answer the question and tell you what my
favorite sport is, I would probably say baseball. It was the first sport I
started playing and watching as a kid. The season is about three weeks away and
opening day is certainly one of my favorite days in sports.
But these next three months are just why answering that
simple question can be so hard for me. So while February can be very boring for
sports fans, March, April, May and the first couple weeks of June are just the
opposite. It all starts now and it’s not slowing down. So buckle up and enjoy
the ride sports fans.
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