Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Cricket again

It's been a while since I've written. The U rocked the football world and basketball is on its way to doing the same. Spring training is in motion, and unlike The Salt Lake Tribune, my handy little MLB widget is keeping me up to date. So I know that the Brewers beat the Rockies today and the Tigers did not play.
But the sports news of the day is terrorism news and it's about cricket.
According to The Independent and what I remember from listening to NPR this evening, five members of the Sri Lankan cricket team and a British coach were injured and seven police officers and a bus driver were killed in Pakistan as the team arrived for a third day of matches against Pakistan. Another good place to keep up-to-date is on the Telegraph's cricket page.
Officials are blaming the same group who attacked Mumbai, India, killing 107, last November.
Come on people. I'm not in favor of terror as a political tool, but killing athletes, tourists and other innocents just makes people angry, it does not make politicians act, it's just a few less voters to try to please.
Hrrmph. Now I need to stop fretting about this and think about March Madness and the game that proves it is always spring or summer somewhere.