It’s always a bit of a strange time of year on the sports calendar, isn’t it?
Football is over. There’s certainly a jarring finality to that.
Baseball isn’t here yet. Can it hurry up, please? Well, maybe not. Equipment buses are pulling into spring-training sites in Arizona and Florida and Opening Day is scheduled for April 1 — typical stuff — though there’s still a whiff of doubt in the air about an on-time start.
Until then, we’ve got what we’ve got: in a nutshell, a whole lot of basketball and hockey. That’s good enough for a lot of us, but not for everybody.