Today's Sports

Notes scribbled during CBS television’s paid programming marathon, could make a Tolstoy tome.
Strip away the mind-numbing stops, and we can still recognize the Big Dance.
1. Televised basketball’s timeout rule: one at the first dead ball after four minute intervals beyond 16 minutes, then the 12-minute mark, then eight- and four-minute marks each half.
Add a coach’s strategy to call a timeout just before each TV stop, and add that the first 30-second team timeout of the second half is expanded to a television time-out.

March Madness is here and it’s like a holiday for basketball fans in Kentuckiana. The field of 68 was announced Sunday evening and regardless of what color hat you wear, there’s a likely a team for you to root for.
Forget about Tobacco Road. We live in college basketball’s Mecca and a quick scan of a map will reveal just how prominent and dominant basketball is in this area. Take Louisville, circle a 200-mile radius around the area and look how many teams are in the NCAA field are located within.

Best three weeks in sports? Roll out the jargon: Big dance ... bracketology ... good draw-bad draw ... “we wuz robbed” ... one to another Final Four and One Shining Moment punctuation.
Bonus? The Bluegrass State is so near the middle of it all, we can hear the heartbeats. Heck, we are the heartbeat.

March came roaring in like a lion with the recent outbreak of severe weather that claimed dozens of lives in Kentucky and Indiana.