Perspective
Travails of a Red Sox Fan
Rooting for the Red Sox in New York: Mel Lavine reports on the challenge.
Rooting for the Red Sox in New York: Mel Lavine reports on the challenge.
By the time the 75th NCAA men’s basketball tournament champion is crowned late on the night of April 8 in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, more than 500,000 fans will have attended the games and an average of about 6 million television viewers will have watched each of the 63 games.
The late George Steinbrenner once said Americans generally fall into two categories — the half that pulls for the New York Yankees and “the half that hates us with a passion.”
In September 2012, my closest friend Walt and I left Los Angeles for a 16-day road trip across the U.