COMMERCIALS DRIVING THE MADNESS, ROUGH START FOR THE DODGERS & STORRS IS COLLEGE HOOPS CAPITAL …

You know who does a really good job on the CBS studio show during the tournament? Candace Parker. All those who complained about CBS News cutting into tournament games on Friday afternoon so News could give an update on the announcement about Kate Middleton’s cancer need to find a search engine that can maybe find them a life.

Love Spike and Charles Barkley, love Samuel L. and Jennifer Garner and Jim Nantz.

But after one weekend of those commercials, I once again feel as if they’ve moved in with me.

l It’s a good thing Scott Boras isn’t a free agent looking for a job after the offseason he just had for his clients.

l If the Giants do love J.J. McCarthy, Giants fans are probably asking themselves this question:

Well, yeah, but do they love him as much as they loved Daniel Jones?

l How do you think the Dodgers enjoyed the official start of the baseball season over there in Seoul?

First, the story breaks about Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter having been $4.5 million in the hole with a bookie.

Then the story changes overnight, when Shohei’s lawyers decide he wasn’t just helping a brother out by paying off the bookie, but that the interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, had actually been stealing from Ohtani.

In the middle of all that, the Dodgers’ new $325 million starter, Mr. Yamamoto, gives up five runs in the first inning of his first start to the Padres.

So, if you’re keep score at home, the Dodgers have invested $1.25 billion — billion with a B on one star who found his name in a gambling story this week, and another who hasn’t gotten anybody out since he got to America.

By the way?

I know the people running the Dodgers think they’re smarter than everybody else, but over the past few years, here is the short list of the players they’ve lost without compensation:

Corey Seager.

Manny Machado.

Trea Turner.

Now they’ve had to move Mookie Betts to shortstop.

Think any of the guys on that short list might have helped them at that position? Because I sort of do. l Jalen Brunson’s play continues to be both a joy and a wonder at Madison Square Garden.

But before long we’re going to find out — again — how having your best player be his size works in the playoffs.

l Online gambling in this country is no longer a fun, innocent pastime.

It’s the legalized peddling of a drug — gambling — that’s far more dangerous and addicting than legalized marijuana.

And all the people shilling for it know who they are.

Next year, you will be able to go to the NBA’s League Pass and bet live on the game you are watching.

Good times. l Say it again:

The capital of college basketball is no longer Durham, N.C. Or Chapel Hill.

Or Rupp Arena in Lexington or Pauley Pavilion in L.A. or Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan.

It’s right off Rt. 84, in Storrs, Conn.

Hold on:

I think the University of Virginia might have finally scored a basket.