Big Storms Disrupt My Viewing

Tornadoes hit Mid-Missouri Sunday evening. It is quite a scary thought. I am glad that I am okay, and that no tornado hit near my apartment. Hail was the biggest weather concern in my life on Sunday. The most damage that was sustained by anybody that I know was due to hail (my roommates car got some pretty severe dings thanks to the golf-ball sized hail). But these tornadoes and other storms did have a huge effect on my Sunday. One of the most important days in the sporting world had rolled around. It was Selection Sunday. The glorious day in which the NCAA Tournament field is announced. Pairing matchups that begin a month of some of the best basketball games anybody will ever see. Normally I am able to sit down and watch the Selection Show on CBS, as Greg Gumbel, Clark Kellogg, Billy Packard, Jim Nantz and others go through the matchups and discuss possible first-round (and even later round) upsets. I wasn't able to watch most of this due to the weather reports that were on the CBS station. The Selection Show was limited to a small box on the television screen that was very difficult to read. And when the weather coverage stopped the went back to the show at the point that they had interrupted it, which was a good idea at the time. But they cut back into the selection show and the small box in the corner was not in accordance with the delayed footage. Therefore I had missed the anoucement of the second half of the bracket. At that point I decided to just look the brackets up on-line. It was a much less dramatic approach, and it took a lot away from what is normally a great hour of television.

Anyway, I am glad that the storms did not harm too many people, and I am very grateful that they came nowhere near me or my friends. But they did have a large impact on me, ruining one of the most fun days in sports all year long.

Publish Date: March 13 in the Missourian.