My hypocrisy knows no bounds

Spring sports and some philosophy

In 1993, the first ESPY Awards were held. Probably the most famous one of those awards shows.

Jim Valvano, who 10 years earlier had guided his North Carolina State Wolfpack to the NCAA Championship, gave the most memorable ESPY speech of all-time. Jimmy V would die of metastatic adenocarcinoma (cancer) less than two months later.

The NCAA basketball tournament used to be the best roughly 3-week stretch in sports. Sprinkle in anticipation of the baseball season with the NBA and NHL regular seasons drawing to a close, there was not much time for anything else as far as I was concerned.

And I loved it. Really loved it. Every part of it save Duke.

I don't watch much anymore. I watched a combined less than a half of college basketball this season and it was all during this tournament season. Haven't watched a single second of live NBA…