Bits & Pieces

By Kim J. Harmon

March – man, I love this time of year because I get to hunker down at the kitchen table (or the living room floor, more often than not) with my three kids to pore over our NCAA pool sheets like we were trying to decipher the meaning of the universe.

It’s not that my kids are great college basketball fans (although my 10-year-old son is a sports fan), but they love filling out the sheets and then watching the results come in and – more importantly – seeing me drift further and further back while they earn a shot at the pot.

And remember – baseball is right around the corner.

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I also love this time of the year because I get to find out how little I really know about college basketball.

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I have my pool sheet, but where’s Georgia? Oh, that’s right.

Wait, where’s Fresno State? Ooops, I forgot.

Hey, where’s Michigan? Ahhh, I remember now.

Boy, what a miserable year for college basketball, huh? But let’s not be so naïve to think that there aren’t other universities around the country cheating even a little bit. George, Fresno State and Michigan State are schools that just got caught and it always pays to confess your sins right away instead of waiting for the axe to fall.

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I hardly ever had an opportunity to watch the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team in action (I always managed to be out somewhere doing something). But when my brother told me he had tickets for the Big East Finals at Madison Square Garden I took an interest in UConn only because I wanted to make sure they would be playing in the game.

I like going to MSG, but it wouldn’t have been much fun without the Huskies.

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Madison Square Garden is a nice place to visit, but the seats (at least in the 300 section) are the most uncomfortable I have ever had the misfortune of sitting in.

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Things I thought

I’d never hear . . .

“I am sooo sorry!”

After a foul under the

basket in the Junior

Girls championship

game last weekend

 

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If this is Friday, then spring is here.

Does it feel like it?

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Practices at Newtown High School lumbered into action this week. It won’t be long before Carl Strait calls his first pitch as the new head coach of the baseball team; before the boys’ and girls’ lacrosse teams start their respective fights for another South-West Conference championship; before the softball team makes under run under coach Jay Edwards; and before the tennis, track and golf teams head outside to usher in the spring.

A little over two weeks away, my friends.

I can’t wait.