Dave Sez

Golden Streams

Oh happy day! For years, I've longed for those glorious days of college when my Spring Break always coincided with the first week of the NCAA Tournament. I'd park myself on a sofa somewhere (even when I was in Daytona) and just watch hoops all day. Great times.

These days I have a job and family and for some reason they don't see the need for me to burn vacation days just to watch basketball. Weird, huh? So, I'm left with various forms of online score trackers and the occassional streaming radio broadcast. It's not bad, but it's just not the same as watching the games.

Well, this year things will be different (maybe). CBS Sports has announced that they will be streaming the games this year - for free! They won't show the same games that are on the local television broadcast, but it should still cover a lot of games. I wonder if the streams will manage to miss all of the close endings, just like the television broadcast does?

I'm pretty pumped about this, but at the same time I have a hunch that they are going to grossly underestimate the interest in this and their servers will catch fire sometime in the early afternoon of the first Thursday.