Today was a generally disappointing day, in the "things that don't matter overall but matter temporarily" category.

1. I did not go to Sox Opening Day, and I missed a great pitching performance.
2. Because I wasn't there, it was, of course, nearly 70 degrees and sunny. I've never been to an Opening Day game during which is was above 40 degrees.
3. I was unable to secure a sponsorship for my company softball team through a couple sources.
4. The Illini proved that the Big Ten/Illinois "curse" is still quite alive and quite well.

All I have to say is that there are certain things you know in the sports world:
1. Baseball is, has been and always will be crooked as hell from top to bottom.
2. In football, defense wins championships.
3. In basketball, you live by the three and you die by the three.

I had a bad feeling the whole tournament that Illinois (but not just them--any Big Ten team) would run out of luck once its outside game went south. And, because they were staying at least five feet away from Sean "I get more calls than Shaq" May, they had little to no inside game. Offensive fouls and blocked shots be damned, they should have drove the ball down May's throat from the get-go. He had what, one foul? Terrible.

Oh well...at least I predicted in my pool that North Carolina would win. Big deal.