ATLANTA — College basketball season may be ending, but overlap season is in full swing.
I knew this, of course — the two days before coming to Atlanta included applying for my Ducks credential for the Stanley Cup playoffs and picking up my Dodgers credential — but it’s driven home all the more after spending a big chunk of the day watching Major League Baseball openers. Given that the NCAA title game starts at the ridiculous local time of 9:21 p.m., and that the whole of downtown Atlanta was jammed with people walking around in Florida shirts saying, “I need tickets� (except for the scalpers walking around asking “who needs tickets?�), there was certainly plenty of time to sit in the hotel room and watch some baseball.
(Based on those crowded streets, for a few hours tonight, the Georgia Dome may qualify as one of the largest cities in Florida.)
Overlap is nothing new, of course, since so many seasons drag on so long; we’re still more than two months from the end of the NHL and NBA seasons. But this week I’ll probably be covering baseball, basketball and hockey; if I was willing to watch the alleged sport of Arena Football, I could probably hit for the cycle.