It used to be that this week was one of my favorites out of the entire year. St. Patrick's Day + March Madness + College = A good time all around. But the further away from college I get the less I care about college basketball.

It might be that my Alma Mater was horrible this year, and they play in the Pac-10, which has such a terrible TV deal that's it's near impossible to watch their games unless you live there. It might also be that I am fed up with filling out brackets. Every year I would toil over my bracket, hoping that this year would be the year that I finally won the pool.

I would do research. I would pick an underdog. I would try. Then, every year I would lose to someone who had no idea. We've all heard the stories of people who win their office pool because they made their picks based on colors or mascots. This happened to me, twice.

Still, it's hard not to get swept up in the action. This week there will be 32 games, and probably a dozen of them will be pretty good. I just can't get excited about it.

My theory is that I am getting older, and the space in my brain is becoming limited. What I mean is that as you get older you only have some much time, and so much time in your brain, to keep track of things that are important to you.

When you're young, keeping track of sports is easy because, honestly, what else are you going to do. For me it was sports, girls and food. That was about it. Now there's bills, work, family, friends...girls, and then, maybe, after all that, sports.

So I have to pick and choose what sports I care about. College football still reigns supreme, and I love the Lakers. In the last couple of years I added baseball to the mix. So, that's it. There just isn't room for college basketball (I also feel the same way about the NFL as I do college basketball, but that's a more complicated issue).

Growing up is really about prioritizing. And as things in life pile up, as they grow and grow, there's less and less room. Space is limited, so college basketball--you're out.