Thank God for 60 Minutes

What's more, the new starting times for the Saturday region finals, 6:40 and 9:05, are a joke. Forget the fact that they blow up Saturday night newspaper deadlines for two-thirds of the country (although the NCAA should care about people being unable to read about a game that decides a Final Four slot on Sunday morning). More importantly, it means the players have to sit and wait for a late start that helps no one except, apparently, CBS. Fans have to kill time all day, too. The old times, 4:40 and 7, were too late. This is ridiculous. The only reason the Sunday games are more reasonable (2:30 and 5) is so CBS doesn't lose "60 Minutes." Thank God for "60 Minutes."

I remember going outside and playing basketball all afternoon in 1988, after Duke beat top ranked Temple and super-frosh Mark Macon to reach the Final Four. Mike Harris and I took turns being Quinn Snyder and Kevin Strickland.