I'm writing from a hotel room in Columbus, Ohio, where yesterday, National Signing Day, I was told that many people were huddled over their radios, tuned in to live reports identifying which 18-year-olds wanted to play football for the Ohio State Buckeyes next fall.

That's right--adults with families and jobs and mortgages and all of the normal, adult-type responsibilities obsessed about a sports team.

Hard to figure, isn't it?