Uggggh!

ESPN's weekly coverage of college football is focused on one main topic: which two teams are going to play for the national championship.  That's the main topic, especially from September through November, and they speak ad nauseum about which teams could run the table and who is the best one-loss team etc.  It is enough to make you sick.
So now they are doing it in hoops, where so much of what they talk about centers on the top spot in the weekly polls and which of only a handful of teams they deem worthy of the spot will, in fact, earn it this week.  They speak very little, if anything, of conference races despite the fact that these races are what is truly important and they lose sight of the fact that play on the court should be promoted and not the tradition behind the jersey.  And so they spend hours discussing Kansas's bad play but not one minute on Kansas State's good play.  But it is the Wildcats, not Jayhawks, who now occupy the top spot in the Big 12 (not that I have given them their just due but will soon), at least until tomorrow night's match-up against their in-state rivals.  The Cats are just one of many teams that have shot to the top of their respective conferences, surprising the prognosticators with their fine play.  Miami, of course, has been the year-round surprise in the ACC, but did you know that St. Louis has caught Butler and VCU atop the Atlantic 10, that Marquette is tied with Syracuse as leaders of the Big East, ditto Michigan State with Indiana in Big Ten, Indiana State has reeled in Wichita State and Creighton in the Missouri Valley and that Colorado State is a half game back in the Mountain West?  Meanwhile there is a three-way tie for the Pac 12 lead and Kentucky is breathing down Florida's neck in the SEC.  The conference races are wonderful and should be the focus of the national media's attention.  Who cares who is number one this week?