But first, a thing or two about Opening Day for most of Major League Baseball.  I yesterday showed you how I was celebrating, spending essentially all of 9AM to 7PM, Hawaii Time, watching the games. That was brunch, and for the remainder of the day I had a variety of peanuts and chips with Johnny Walker Blue Label on rocks and a gin martini.  I also went down for a short dinner and had two glasses of Burgandy. Baseball is baseball, teams win and lose, inexplicably, making opening day mostly meaningless.  However, the  Los Angeles had quite a pre-game ceremony : Their ownership group, including Magic Johnson and Billie Jean King, raised the Dodger championship flag behind center field. In the audience was 92-year old Phil Brooks, a retired physician who was attending his 60th consecutive Dodger opening.  Accompanying him was his son Stan, only his 40th consecutive opener. Ice Cube, who has become a Dodger celebrity, drove up to pass on the World Series Championsh...

  The men's Sweet Sixteen games begin today in four locations. Four games will be nationally televised  tonight and the other four tomorrow. The Elite Eight games will then follow on Saturday and Sunday, with the Final Four at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.  National Championship on April 7 at 8:50 EDT on CBS. The women's final eight games begin on Friday, with Elite Eight finals on Sunday and Monday, and national championship game in the Amalie Arena, Tampa, Florida, at 3PM EDT on April 6. Big shocker was the  season-ending knee injury of the best women's player this year , Juju Watkins of USC. One bit of good news is that my ESPN women's bracket pick is at 95.4%. The Major League Baseball season started play between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs in Japan last week.  Dodgers won both games. So are they a lock on again being champions this year?  Yes, and no.  Mookie Betts has lost a lot weight and hasn't really played in Spring ball, ...