Maniacal Monday

ESPN's Adam Schefter started the day with an appropriate comment on his Twitter. "Busiest day of the sports year," he wrote. Once again, Schefter was right.

The men's college basketball title game, Opening Day around the MLB, a Tiger Woods press conference at Augusta and reaction to Donovan McNabb being traded within the NFC East lined an insane 24 hours.

Brad Stevens is still boss. That was one of the top three championship games I've ever seen. Thankfully, Gordon Hayward has a couple more years of college ball, or he'd be shooting 45-foot runners for the rest of his life. I was really impressed with the poise of a young Butler team which only graduates one starter-- Willie Veasley-- who played the poorest of all the Bulldogs. They almost won it "for all the small schools," but they'll never be forgotten.

Opening Night and Day in Baseball Land. I can't wait to get out to the Bronx soon and experience the pleasure that is a day at the ballpark. For now, I'm left to console the throngs of Yankees fans who too quickly jump to conclusions after one game out of 162. Yes, Joe Girardi made a mistake by going to Chan Ho Park right out of the gate (the binder comes into play pretty quickly), but you have to be happy with the way the lineup looks. As for the Mets, Mike Jacobs is hitting fourth? He'd have some problems cracking the Yankees 25-man roster (sarcasm alert). I'm curious to see how long that experiment of breaking up the right-handed hitters lasts. In other news, Albert Pujols is a machine-- news at 11.

Speaking of the local news, Tiger Woods at the Masters was story No. 1 on CBS. Are you kidding me? I understand this on ESPN, but the 11 p.m. news? I thought Tiger did a decent job outside of being fresh to a couple of reporters. The apology to his fellow players was sincere and I think he realizes how annoying the fanfare associated with his return is for all of his peers. I, for one, hope he plays as well as he did before Elin-gate, but I'm skeptical. Golf is a game of repetition and he's been through more "therapy" sessions than 18-hole rounds since Thanksgiving.

As a Giants fan, you have to love the Eagles' stupidity. After thinking about my initial feeling that it was classless to dangle Donovan McNabb around as bait, I realized it was just dumb to keep him inside the NFC East. As much as Andy Reid wanted to please his loyal quarterback, you've just set up two very awkward rivalry games for this fall. Donovan has a confusing color scheme in his career-- bright orange at Syracuse, green in Philly and that ugly off-red in Washington. The fact that some Eagles fans are pumped about this deal is comical.

I'm going to miss the college basketball season. It was an amazing March Madness, but I'm ready for some Yankees baseball. Cheers to a maniacal Monday in sports.