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Making The Call: February Stinks for Sports
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Peter Trinkle
Published Feb 22, 2009
Modified Feb 22, 2009
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It’s almost over. Next Sunday we will turn the calendar over to March and say goodbye to February. The month started with the Super Bowl, but once that's over things get really bad. Nobody watches the Pro Bowl and the NBA All-Star Game isn’t much better. Hockey and basketball all there throughout the month, but the games are more monotonous at this point. The excitement of those seasons has waned and the playoff races haven’t really started up yet.
Tennis and golf do not offer any relief as they are holding tournaments, but none of their majors. The day that pitchers and catchers report is certainly exciting to the baseball fan, but that excitement quickly fades as you realize that actual games are still a ways off. Some will say college basketball adds excitement to February, but college basketball is really all about March.
This February we have had to suffer through the usual lack of sports excitement with a heaping dose of A-Rod and steroids making things worse than usual. But, March is just around the corner and with that we will have lots of real sports to distract us.
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