Don't buy those 2012 Final four tickets yet...

It's a new year. Time to celebrate.

Well, maybe not, according to a radio talk show host out in Oakland,California. Harold Camping, who runs Family Radio, an evangelical station, says the world is coming to an end on May 21, 2011.

If he turns out to be right, then the Arizona Wildcats will not make the NCAA Final Four in April of 2012 and I will not see my 66th birthday. I shouldn't celebrate today. I guess I should go back to bed. What a life this guy must live. He spends his days calculating the date the world will come to an end. I wonder what his grandchildren must think...if he has any? How can he plan anything? Seventeen months! If what he says comes to pass the world will not see the return of golf guru Tiger Woods and the world will not see the beloved Chicago Cubs win the World Series in 2012.

All joking aside, most of us spend our days pushing the envelope forward--doing whatever it takes to stay alive in hopes of making our lives and the lives of the people that we love better. On the other side of the coin, we got this guy continually telling us it's over. Luckily, this guy has been wrong before. Campings' earlier calculations had the world coming to an end on Sept. 6, 1994. It didn't come to pass. Camping said he made a mathematical error. Just between you and me, the world will not end in 2011, because Camping has probably already calculated how much money he's going to have in the bank by 2015. He probably expects to make a killing on the stock market by 2016 and expects to have his yacht parked alongside Tiger's by 2017.

I just as soon see the man pull the plug at his radio station and go "camping" in some far away mountains for the rest of his life. I in turn, will calculate, at least in the back of my mind, how the Wildcats will make the NCAA Final Four in 2012.