We made it to Memorial Day with our sanity intact. Mostly. The New York Jets just threw a barrel full of cash at the stagnant husk that used to be Joe Flacco, the surest sign yet that things are creeping back to normal again.
“That’s the story of life. It’s always a matter of when,” Bill Walton, the sage college basketball analyst and former NBA great, mused by phone from his San Diego home. “It’s like when you’re winding your bike through a beautiful place. You have to force yourself to ask the question: ‘Why am I trying to go so fast?