This has been a truly exceptional week in sports. Among the highlights:

-Major League Baseball has begun. This is a wonderful thing, in case you were not aware. The wonder is further perpetuated by such glorious things as fantasy baseball and the MLB Extra Innings package. The combination of high speed internet for tracking stats and Extra Innings to watch all those otherwise irrelevant game makes Comcast almost friend for once.

-The NCAA basketball tournament(s) came to a somewhat unceremonious end. Yeah, the women play one also, contrary to popular assumption, save ESPN. It's interesting how ESPN kinda advertises and hypes the women's tournament as if it's exactly the same thing as CBS's men's version. They've even started staggering the games to play a day later than the men's, as if they might lure some viewers in denial that the season is over. Regardless, the teams that started the season atop the men's and women's polls won their respective tournaments without much of a challenge. As it turns out, North Carolina's toughest game may have been the 2nd round matchup against LSU. Go figure. Regardless, UNC's ability to play to their potential allowed someone you know to rack up in tournament pool winnings. Well, if you consider $32.50 "racking up".

-The Masters is being played this weekend. Tiger Woods is playing and doing alright, but not winning. This means nobody really has anything to talk about. You can't talk about how he's dominating and you can't talk about how he's struggling. He's just playing and currently sits tied for 10th place. That's not an insurmountable deficit and actually sets himself up nicely for a dominating Sunday comeback win. Then everyone will have something to talk about.

-A huge shocker out of Springfield, Massachusetts, Michael Jordan has been elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Just stop for a minute and let that sink in.

-In less-significant news, unless this dude is on your (clears throat) fantasy football team in a "keeper" league, Marshawn Lynch has been suspended for the first 3 games of next NFL season. This is hardly surprising since this dude has an appearance that lends itself to mugshots. Even when he's posing for a media headshot, he can't help but look like he was just arrested for something in a haze of smoke and booze.