March 2010 Archives

I've come to believe the axiom that things happen in threes. How often does it happen? Within the past week, three venerable TV legends that were synonymous with great TV characters passed away. You likely knew all three if you grew up watching TV in the 60's. That era featured three networks with hour-long dramas ranging from westerns to police shows. They were our reality - you lived a fantasy through the characters in the program that were larger than life.

To me, the month of March means one thing - March Madness, the basketball crazed time of wall-to-wall college basketball with hours spent fretting over filling out multiple NCAA championship brackets. The NCAA basketball tournament is a magical sporting event, and especially so for those lucky enough to score tickets. Getting tickets to an NCAA Final Four game is reputed to be one of sports toughest tickets. You get entered into a lottery for tickets a year in advance

It hardly received nary a mention, but the America's Cup was held a couple of weeks ago in Valencia, Spain. Call it the race of the billionaires. Oracle Corporation founder Larry Ellison was victorious in BMW Oracle over the defending champion, Alinghi, led by Swiss entrepreneur Ernesto Bertarelli. You had to look far and wide to find any coverage, an average of about five lines of agate type in local newspapers.