Of Monday, The Boss and the News...

Monday, Monday.

Monday Monday, can't trust that day,
Monday Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way
Oh Monday morning, you gave me no warning of what was to be
Oh Monday Monday, how yould cou leave and not take me.

Every other day, every other day,
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
You can find me cryin' all of the time

Quoting the Mamas and the Papas' John Phillips to start off a blog is pretty dangerous territory but, as I've said before in this blog, stay with me.

My Monday went very well. I was up early, ran some errands then caught up on some work from the past week or so. Emailed a few friends and tried to plot-out a week that will include some business and pleasure as the calendar swings towards springtime.

Here are some random thoughts and some things on-going: (no particular order)

1. Davidson played for an NCAA bid on Monday night and won, defeating an upstart Elon team for the Southern Conference championship. Coach Bob McKillop is the best coach in college basketball and his Davidson Wildcats have the longest winning streak in the country in men's basketball.

2. As college basketball chugs towards March Madness, I look forward to attending a day or two of the BIG EAST championship at Madison Square Garden. It is one of my favorite sporting events.

Until a terrible stomach virus sidelined me to bed rest last year, I had attended each and every BIG EAST tournament since the event moved to MSG back in the '80s. The early BIG EAST tourneys moved from Providence to Syracuse to Hartford, CT before the conference "Powers That Be" realized that an annual "hold" on New York City and Madison Square Garden would set the BIG EAST apart from any other college basketball conference. Good move, Mr. Dave Gavitt!

3. Daylight Savings Time always makes me happy. Looking up in the sky at 7pm EDT and seeing a bright light improves my outlook on life.

4. My buddy, Tom, flew in from Denver to see his friends and family, spend a weekend around and about East Hampton, Long Island, New York and The Bronx.

Tom's niece attends Fordham and I trekked up to the beautiful Fordham campus via Metro North to meet Tom, his sister and niece. We jumped in the family SUV and headed out to the Marriott/Uniondale, had lunch, a beer or two, then met some other friends for Bruce Springsteen's show at the Nassau Coliseum.

5. The stunning news of NY Governor Eliot Spitzer's involvement in a prostitution ring came buzzing into our emails, via WSJ, CNN and a host of other sources. It was only minutes before the "would be" NY Post headlines started to pour in to email, as well.

The best?

ELIOT MESS.

For you non-New Yorker's out there, let me explain.

The NY Post newspaper has a pretty amazing reputation to print the most amazing, clever, humorous, cutting and STUNNING headlines after major news or scandal. Among the most famous or talked about:

"HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR"

"FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD"

"IKE "BEATS" TINA TO DEATH" - a story on Ike Turner's death at age 76, as he was 'survived' by wife, Tina.

I digress, but the only time the NY Post was topped in the bizarre headline contest was in 1981 when British government officials orchestrated the exhumation of alleged JFK murderer Lee Harvey Oswald.

The Philadelphia Daily News headline the next morning?

HARVEY STILL DEAD.

A bunch of friends will frequently email each other to try to predict the POST's header for the next day. If the suggestions are good enough, I pass them along to some friends at the paper.

Let me say this, we've had a few.

6. The week of March 10 will be interesting and I hope to enjoy a little 'down time' after the obvious rough, emotionally draining week of February 29-to-March 8, 2008. Quite frankly, I need a little break and some fun in life.

7. There will be some more to come on the Springsteen show...a little music review so to say.

Stay tuned.