This season, my son coached an eighth grade basketball team. So I went to watch the team play. This is in character for me. Watching sports is one of my escapes, and let’s be honest, there’s a lot to want to escape from these days. I don’t miss my son’s HS Volleyball games or my daughter’s tennis and lacrosse matches. I am an obsessive San Francisco Giants fan; I even listen to their Spring Training games on the MLB app. To you, I’m a news junky. But the second I press publish on this edition, I’m going back to obsessing about the story I really care about: The Giants wrongly parting ways with their stadium PA announcer. I watch most Warriors games. I never miss a 49ers game (though I wish I had missed the last one this year). I watch non-major tennis tournaments. I habitually read The Athletic, listen to my local sports talk radio, and almost never miss an episode of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption. But I must admit, aside from an occasional TV check-in with Cal Men’s basketball and following Caitlyn Clark’s amazing Iowa scoring feats, I really haven’t watched a single NCAA college basketball game this season. In other words, I might be perfectly positioned to succeed in this season’s March Madness bracket challenge. After all, there are a lot of people who watch a lot of games and spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff, and none of them has ever gotten a bracket just right. “No one has ever picked a verified perfect NCAA men’s bracket, and it’s probably not going to happen in our lifetime, or the lifetime of our kids, or their kids, or their kids. The possibility of getting every game right is often reported as 1 in 9.2 quintillion. But that figure is slightly hyperbolic … The actual odds of a knowledgeable person picking a perfect men’s bracket are closer to 1 in 120 billion.” Has anyone come close? Yes. But how he did it is a mystery. And the fact that he posted a bracket at all is something he barely remembers. The key, it seems, is to know very little, make a series of haphazard guesses, and then forget anything happened. It’s not unlike how I’ve managed my stock portfolio picks and my social media posts over the years. Ryan Hockensmith in ESPN: How one fan came close to a perfect March Madness bracket. “As he got in the car on Saturday morning, still a little under the weather, he had no idea the reality of his situation: He was well on his way to having built the best NCAA men’s bracket ever assembled — one that he didn’t even remember filling out.”