Smithtown's own Sam Ryan was on the scene in San Antonio for Monday night's NCAA title tilt, but where were her friends Greg, Clark and Seth?
Yeah, I know it's Thursday already and it's baseball/golf/hockey season. But since I got several questions about CBS's decision not to send its studio team to the Final Four and since I bothered CBS's p.r. people with e-mails on that subject before and during the big game, I figured I might as well share the explanation:
Short version: There is no reason to do so for the Saturday afternoon Final Four pregame show, as it mostly would occur with an empty arena as a backdrop. And there wasn't a good enough reason to go through the time, hassle (and, presumably, money) involved in schlepping to Texas Monday for the sake of 10 minutes before throwing the action to Jim Nantz and Billy Packer.
After watching Fox's NFL studio crew nearly turn into ice sculptures in Green Bay in January, I've decided on-site pregames are overrated and perhaps life-threatening.
As CBS's spokeswoman correctly noted as I pestered her Monday night, "Honestly, no one has asked and no one but a TV writer would care."