March Sadness

This isn't my headline. I purloined it from an article about how March Madness isn't what it used to be, how a combination of big money, "one and done," the glamor of television and its preference for the slam-dunk over the mid-range shot -- most of all the steady encroachment of the spectacle that is football -- how all of this is changing the sport.

But that's not why it's March Sadness for me.

It's March Sadness for me because the University of Kentucky isn't in the NCAA tournament.

How's that for entitlement? But it's worse than that. Not only do Kentucky fans expect to be in the "big dance" -- they expect to be in the Final Four.

It's good that "Selection Sunday" was also St. Patty's Day. Thinking green helped us not to feel blue.


(A view of Lexington from the University of Kentucky Library.)