Basketball?

Twelve hours of televised basketball starting now! Your local CBS affiliate. Maybe I should come down with a cold. . .

Well, okay. It's not a solid twelve hours. There's a two-hour gap so they can show The Price Is Right and Judge Joe Brown.

These first two nights of the NCAA tournament are some of the best television of the year. Sixteen games Thursday, sixteen games Friday. Four games at a time, slightly staggered so you can watch the ending to every single one of them. And CBS changes the channel for you. It's marvelous.

And there's always the score updates at the bottom of the screen, where you see how your team is doing even though they're not showing it at that moment. And they're within one. Yay! And five seconds later, the score comes up again and they're down by six. Boo! And the clock stopped. Penalty? Time out? What's going on? Multiply by four and again by eight and you're right there with me.