Possessing a roughly equal level of relative truthiness, campaign trailers and wrestling vignettes have significantly more in common with one another than you'd realize. Or probably would be comfortable with if you think about it too hard.
Playoff baseball can be excruciatingly, wonderfully hard to watch when it's at its best. Now imagine being forced to watch one of the greatest playoff games in history in total silence.
Baseball's new pace-of-play rules are totally reasonable and useful. But what's right about baseball is also what's boring about it, and the game might as well admit as much.
Even after his relapse, nobody can take Josh Hamilton's days of sobriety away from him. If you're an addict, that's something you understand far too well.
The NCAA Tournament is great in its ways and awful in its ways. There are reasons to watch, and reasons not to. But, for people in need of the escape and brightness that sports can offer, March Madness delivers.
