If you are a sports fan, what a glorious spring it has been.

It's a spring that reminds us how fierce competition can uplift and ennoble its participants and its followers. It also has provided a much-needed contrast to the shameful and demoralizing drama being performed in a different arena by many of our political leaders.  

The wild ride in sports includes the Rory McIlroy roller coaster in the Masters golf tournament; the improbable, incredible, late-charging victory from dead last by Golden Tempo, making Cherie DeVaux the first woman trainer to win the Kentucky Derby; and an amazing spate of basketball and hockey playoff games decided in the last seconds of regulation or in overtime. It all culminated on the thrill-o-meter — at least for now — with this past week's stunning New York Knicks' comeback from a 22-point deficit with less than 8 minutes remaining to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers, 115-104, in overtime.

The results checked off the traditional boxes for why we........

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