For better or worse, March Madness has taken on a new meaning this year. I’m thinking many of us are yearning for the good old days when it only meant basketball.

Here’s how I propose keeping score. What if all the candidates, instead of wearing the same old suit, donned basketball sneakers, shorts and jerseys, the latter bearing the names of their leading donors along with the date of when they consumed their last hot dog.

Before being allowed to participate in the upcoming debate,...

On my way to the gym this morning the radio station I was listening to made mention of the birth dates of two notable people – journalist Sam Donaldson and recently deceased Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia.

Donaldson was born on this date in 1934 in El Paso, Texas, and during his career served as White House correspondent for the ABC network. Scalia was born in Trenton, N.J., in 1936 and served on the Supreme Court for nearly 30 years after being appointed by Ronald...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a different kind of madness. This past weekend bore witness to the real March Madness, and it was truly wonderful.

Basketball has always been my favorite sport. Baseball is a close second, but basketball is the one sport I was pretty good at, and even though my skills peaked around 8th grade, it still remains the sport I love to play (although that’s infrequent these days) and love to watch. For a basketball junkie the past few days were wonderful, with...

It was Oscar Wilde who supposedly said, a cynic is a person “who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Oscar is credited with a lot of wonderful quotes and I will give him credit for this one, although I’m a little dubious about all the witty sayings that have been attributed to him over the years.

Why? I just am, and you can also add Winston Churchill to my dubious of their quotes list. But that’s fodder for another day. My real reason for writing this gets back to...