Top 10 Sports Days of the Year

Obviously everyone who reads this is a sports fan, and sports has some control over our lives whether we like to admit it or not. I don't try to hide it...in fact I embrace it. One of my favorite bar debates is: What are your Top 10 Sports Days of the Year?

Without further ado here are mine in order:
1) NCAA Tourney Day 1- Nothing in sports compares to the one and done drama provided by the NCAA Tournament. While us working schleps try to watch as much basketball as possible while still trying to act busy at work, final scores of games spread through the office like a junior high breakup. You're never really sure if what you are being told is true, until you check out ESPN.com, because they would never lie to us...except by trying to stress the importance of Stephen A. Smith.
2) NCAA Tourney Day 2- See above.
3) New Year's Day- 85 football games in one day including the "Grandaddy of Them All." Sign me up.
4) NCAA Championship/MLB Opening Day- This is a great combo day that offers two of the best things in sports, even though the NCAA Championship sometimes disappoints. ESPN's smorgasboard of baseball games always helps with the grieving process of no more Madness.
5) Week 1 NFL Season- Everyone's team still has a chance to win it all. The day starts with NFL Countdown at 10:30am and ends at 11pm after the Sunday Night game. Midway through the second game you take a nap, and you question how you made it through the last 7 months without football.
6) Super Bowl Sunday- It's always overhyped, and almost always under delivers, but it's always good to spend a Sunday eating as much food as possible.
7) Selection Sunday- After spending the last two weeks watching every small school try to make their way to the dance, this is the moment you have been waiting for. You watch Billy Packer act like a horse's ass and question the committee for underseeding mid-majors while other "power" conference teams get seeded 2 seeds ahead of where they belong...like our Hoosiers.
8) NFL Draft Day 1- I know that I may be one of the only people to have this on the list, but I have always been obsessed with the draft, even though most of the first round is just nonsensical babble. This is also the day when I draft a letter to Jerry Angelo questioning why he's trying to ruin the Bears.
9) NCAA Final Four- It's kind of like the Super Bowl in that it's a huge event that everyone is watching. Some lucky few may actually be playing for $, unless your bracket isn't in the garbage like mine usually is. Bonus ponits for the two hour pre-game show where you are bound to hear the names Ed Pinckney and Lorenzo Charles talked about as if they are Wilt and Russell.
10) Masters Sunday- Let me say that I am a golfing hack. I'm not good at the sport, and I don't watch a lot of golf. However, is there a better way to enjoy the start of spring than Sunday at Augusta?...that's what I thought. Sidenote #1: It should be noted that 3 of the last 4 Masters have been won by lefties. We are starting to take over the world...everyone be afraid.

Baseball Season

We're officially 6 games into baseball season, yet I have already heard some ridiculous commentaries on this season so far. Yesterday some guy called in to a Chicago sports radio station and said that this is the best Cubs team that he has seen in 10 years. This type of behavior isn't just on talk radio. In today's Chicago Tribune, a writer handed out grades for each of the Cubs newcomers. We are 4-2 (after today's shellacking at the hands of Puck's Reds), yet somehow these 6 games have provided enough insight to actually grade players and jump to ridiculous conclusions.

Do you know what the NCAA basketball equivalent is to 6 games? Roughly the first media timeout of the 2nd game. In the NFL, the 6 game equivalent is 5 minutes into the 2nd half of WEEK 1. Look I enjoyed the fact that the Cubs swept the Cardinals as much as anyone, but lets wait a bit before we bronze Ronny Cedeno's jock.

More Cubs news

Congrats Jim Hendry. You have just signed one of the best all around players in baseball to a 5 year extension under market value. This makes up for Kerry Wood making ace money, even though he may be a middle reliever at the end of this season. There is no better player than D-Lee to represent the Cubs organization, especially following the whole Sammy debacle.