For someone who isn’t really a sports fan, I’m spending an unusual amount of time with them.

I watched the Superbowl, as always mainly for the jazzy new commercials and the half-time show. But actually, the game itself was the best part of it. And cheers to New Orleans for winning.

Half-time was just painful. The Who should have enough sense to retire gracefully. They surely can’t need the money. I guess the distinction of appearing before the largest audience in mankind’s history was an incentive. But they were a very pale shadow of what they once were.

And now it’s the Winter Olympics. The Opening Ceremony was fantastic, the highlight for me being K.D. Lang singing a Leonard Cohen song. As I said on Facebook, it just doesn’t get better than that.

But I’m enjoying the games themselves, too.