sporting news

Spring is almost here. 
We're going through allergy meds like no one's business.
No one except the business of the people who make Benedryl and Sudafed and Mucinex and Motrin (and their generic counterparts), that is.  They are in the business plenty these days.
The fruit trucks are back out in the street.
The crocuses (croci?) are popping through, and so are the jonquils and daffodils and tulips. 
The cat is frisky.
The college kids are stripping down.
The new tree in front of the house is budding. 
The clocks are sprung. 
The boy is turning another year older this week.
Now we just wait.

And while we do?

NCAA Brackets, baby.

Mine is filled out.  Using science and age-old technique.
And pink ink.
I usually do pretty well on these things.
Pretty well for a girl.
Or a white person.
Or maybe college basketball is a white thing?  And it's the NBA that white people aren't in to?  I forget.
Does that sounds racist?  Because it sounds like I'm assuming college and white people are correlated.  Or that professional basketball is only for black people.  I don't mean that at all.  I'm just saying that I do okay for someone who doesn't know anything about basketball.

But brackets, I know about.  Brackets are easy. 
First I find all the colleges I know someone who went to and pick them to win. 
Then colleges in Pennsylvania. 
Then colleges playing against colleges located in Texas. 
Then ones with the names of states where my family lives.
Then ones in places I've visited.
Then I pick all the ones with cool sounding names and pick them to win.  Hello, Gonzaga. Vanderbilt.
Then I pick colleges that cute boys in high school wore sweatshirts for and I pick them to win.  Duke, check.  Michigan, check.  Notre Dame, check. 
That pretty much fills the first columns out- or is it the second?  I mean, the first one that you have to fill out all by yourself- but just in case there is a blank I go with school colors.  Like Syracuse because I love orange and blue together.

Next round gets filled mostly with schools where I know someone who went and places I've visited, with family residence pulling up the slack.

Then it's just guessing.  My final four is Villanova because it's close to home, and Pittsburgh because I grew up in Western Pennsylvania, Temple because I went there, and UNLV because I think the LV stands for Las Vegas and I've been there twice and I thought it would be a lucky guess.  Because luck and Vegas go together.  Temple and Pittsburgh will play the championship game and Temple will win.

Because it's the only school on the list from which I have a degree. 

Science.