April rolls in...

As April rolls in we (referring to sports fans in general) prepare ourselves for such things as the end to the NCAA Basketball Tournament; opening-day and the first full week of major league baseball; the end of the regular NBA season (the playoffs are just around the corner) and many of us (sports fans), reluctantly, will scatter our separate ways and begin to focus on everything from college baseball and softball, to the PGA Tour, to NASCAR, to the NHL...well you (my readers) get the idea.

And so it goes, the end of the Spring Season, so to speak, and the beginning of those long, hot days of summer (for us Tucsonans, that is) are just around the corner...or, may I say, could those days already be here? After all, it was a cool 96 on Saturday.

Later this evening on national TV a winner will be crowned, a trophy will be raised and one team only -- the underdog 8-seeded Butler Bulldogs or the 3-seeded UConn Huskies will raise the hardware high over their heads and celebrate the finality of it all. The end of March Madness.

For us Arizonans, we can now focus on our Diamondbacks, a team, which as of this writing find themselves with one win, one loss, and a cancelled game due to (would you believe) a rainy, mixed with snow, chilly day in Denver yesterday. Our Phoenix Suns are done! The Suns are destined for an under .500 season, unless they can put together four wins in the next six games. As for our 'Cats, the ladies are rolling along with a 32-6 record and Kenzie Fowler has recorded 20 wins already this season. Fowler has matched the Arizona baseball team in wins as the Wildcats dropped a 3-game series yesterday to the Oregon State Beavers to fall to 20-7 on the season.

Finally, and after just three cups of coffee this morning, let's talk about the MLB box scores. The one box score, which has me shaking my head this morning. The Baltimore Orioles are 3-0. The Orioles third baseman, Mark Reynolds, went 2 for 4 yesterday, a run scored, two RBI...and no strikeouts!

Check those box scores...there's a story somewhere in most of them. Oh well, it is on with the month of April.