Fourth-meal

You know the times. It’s fourth-meal at Taco Bell and you just don’t know what to order. There is too much on the menu and indecision strikes even the greatest minds. Do you order the three taco meal, a quesadilla, a chalupa or the therapeutic cheesy gordita crunch?\nIt is decisions like these that haunt you for eternity.\nThat is what I feel like right now. Way too much is going on right now in the sports world. I could write about the NHL Conference Finals, round two of the NBA playoffs, the big boxing match, Tiger winning again, Roger Clemens going to the Yankees or if I really, really wanted to bore you, the WNBA preseason.\nWhat should I do?\nI’m going to do the same thing I do at Taco Bell: order the whole shebang. \nSo let’s get to fourth-meal.\nAt the beginning of the NHL playoffs, I never thought these words would leave my mouth: I am more excited to watch the Eastern Conference Finals than the Western Conference Finals. \nWhy?\nThe bloodshed between Ottawa and Buffalo during the midseason brawl was enough to spark a rivalry between even the best of friends. Add a little animosity before the brawl and at least four (hopefully seven) more playoff games and you get a series for the history books. I’m excited. Now if I can only find a TV with Versus.\nThe NBA is heating up too. With Dallas now gone, the winner of the Spurs/Suns matchup is expected to win the title, but, as much as it pains me to say it, I can’t count out the Pistons yet. Chris Webber added an element to that team that may be tough to stop.\nBut my biggest concern is for the fans and two potentially terrible conference finals. \nIn the East, there is no good combination of teams to make a truly exciting matchup. As for the West, if Utah and the Spurs both emerge victorious, the matchup will bore average fans to death. \nHowever, a Suns/Warriors matchup could be the most exciting series of the playoffs. Both teams play a “run-and-gun” style of offense (although ever since the Warriors acquired Stephen Jackson, they play more of a “run-and-pistol”), which will be highly entertaining to watch.\nBut if you’re not a basketball or hockey fan, there was that fight last weekend that wasn’t too shabby ... except that it cost more than $50 to see just 45 minutes of fighting. At least Floyd Mayweather Jr. won, because his interview afterward was great. Boastful people are funny.\nSwitching gears, a very gracious Tiger Woods won again. This was his 57th PGA tour victory, which puts him 57 victories ahead of me. I guess a corpulent kid just can’t catch a tiger. Well, maybe John Daly, but I still doubt it.\nAs for the nation’s pastime, Clemens went to the nationally-hated Yankees. Everyone had doubts about the Yankees making the playoffs this season and Clemens could be the final piece to the puzzle. \nAs for the WNBA season kicking off … actually, ever since I got Taco Bell on my mind, I’m starving.\nI’m going to go get fourth-meal.