What a day of sports this is. Morocco and Portugal in the morning, England against France in a history laden quarter final to start the afternoon, and then, the Crosstown Shootout.
College basketball and the World Cup serve up the best spectacles in sport. The Shootout isn’t March Madness, but it’s a harbinger. It’s a reminder of what basketball can serve at its very best. And this is the very best.
Ignore the moralizers may say, ignore the landed gentry on tobacco road who feign disdain for each other, ignore most of Ohio and their stupidity about Michigan, that isn’t a basketball rivalry.