What the hell is "Sweet Sixteen?"

Well . . . I found out the other day when I got on my exercise bike for some exercise. I turned on the little tv in my bedroom and it sure wasn't "The Young and the Restless." What I saw was a bunch of guys playing basketball! I was shocked and jumped off the bike and ran out to the living room where my newspaper was with the tv schedule. There seemed to be basketball night and day listed! I read a little and it told about the "Sweet Sixteen." I still didn't understand it but I sure didn't like it. So I went back to my bike and changed the channel to "Animal Planet" which is always good, and I was pretty sure there would be no basketball there. They were showing an episode on the Houston ASPCA that rescues animals from bad people. That day they were rescuing pit bills that were in bad shape and were tied to trees behind a dilapidated house in what looked "Deliverance"  country. That was pretty interesting so I calmed down.

I have never been a basketball fan. I've gone to high school games when my daughters were cheerleaders at their high school. But all I got out of it was a bunch of terribly sweaty guys running from one end of the gym to the other! I was glad when my girls weren't doing that anymore. I like football. I spent about 20 years going to games every Friday night when my husband was a football coach. Even now I'll watch it on tv. But when I couldn't watch "The Good Wife" which is one of my favorite shows because of basketball, I was really pissed. So last Sunday I was elated when I saw that the "Sweet Sixteen" wasn't on that night. But then Diane told me it would still be on this week as it was just winding down. I was furious! So I got to watch "The Good Wife" but I had planned on watching "Harry's Law" before it on NBC. But guess what? There was basketball on that channel too! I was not a happy camper Sunday night. I don't even like to camp because the bathroom accommodations aren't the best - they're nil.

I really do like sports. I even read the sports page. I get much of my sports news from John Canzano's column. He does an excellent job with his writing and is especially good with his human interest stories about ordinary people. My only problem is basketball. Why couldn't there be one channel that would show basketball night and day and leave the other channels free of it. Like that's ever going to happen!