Bad Bay Area breaks, wonder of Saquon & end of I-Man era . . .

If you want to know how the next minute is the one that can change everything in sports, look at what happened with that comebacker to the other day.

Look at what is happening with It’s worth mentioning that as close as got to the lead last Sunday at Bay Hill, he ended up losing by eight strokes to whose best is still better than everybody else’s best in golf when he’s healthy.

And also worth mentioning that Tiger would have had to shoot a 60 last Sunday to beat McIlroy in the end. March Madness continues to be the most amazing pageant in American sports, one in which casual fans know the name of a 98-year-old nun from Loyola of Chicago better than they know the names of any of the Loyola players.

But you sure have to say this about the Big Dance and the Diaper Dandies making all those buzzerbeaters in the run-up to the Really Big Dance at the Final Four:

Nobody has been wearing you out on television with stories about players taking money from agents and the feds putting a different kind of fullcourt press on this sport, and doing a lot more than just busting brackets in the process. I don’t know how the first three rounds of the NFL draft are going to play out.

Have no idea which college quarterback the Jets might end up with now that they traded up to get the third pick.

But I believe this, whomever they take and whomever the Giants take, even if draft history is littered with high-pick running backs that never made it big in the NFL:

The most talented player coming out of college this time is

of Penn State. Come on, which team in the NBA should be better at losing than the Knicks are after what we’ve seen from them over the past 17 seasons?

Losing is kind of their thing, right? I don’t want lead off. I get all the thinking and analytics on this.

But the whole thing just looks like that is too cute by half.

I want Judge and backto-back and, well, belly-to-belly the way and were, and

and were. But that’s me. Finally today:

One of the great careers in the history of radio comes to end this week, when who to likes to call himself the old cowboy, will ride off, at least for now.

He showed up from Cleveland at WNBC in the early ’70s, and didn’t change the business of early-morning radio. He changed the whole business. And all he did later was do more than anybody else to make sports radio in this country, even though he wasn’t doing a sports show, when he moved “Imus in the Morning” to WFAN.

Suddenly that station was the biggest-billing radio station anywhere, and it started with him, every morning at six.

Did he get himself into bad trouble later because of what he said about the women on the Rutgers basketball team? Everybody knows he did. That is part of his history, too, and his story.

He paid a big price for what he said about young women who deserved so much better, losing his job at FAN and on MSNBC.

But he and his wife also started a ranch for kids with cancer outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, and that is part of his history, too, and his story.

Imus always said, “Everybody thinks it’s funny until it’s about them,” and he happens to be right about that.

It seemed as if everybody in town got it from him at one time or another, including me.

But after he got fired, he came back again, on radio at WABC and on television at the Fox Business channel.

It’s not like he leaves and takes his station or the business or earlymorning radio with him.

But you have to know that mornings around here won’t be quite the same without him.