The agony of a buzzer shot, Friday night’s IHSA state basketball tournament. (Adam / Journal Star)

At 10:50pm on a Saturday evening, I can say that the two weeks of hell known as the Illinois high school state basketball tournament has lifted and the future looks a little brighter. We’ve battled access restrictions that puts freedom of the press at an increasing risk. Kudos were given to our great photo department. And we were loaned the holy grail of all cameras, the Nikon D3, only to have it soon lifted from our clammy, shaking palms. It was nice while it lasted.

In the meantime, spring is stumbling. Temperatures soared into digits long forgotten six months ago, only to plummet with windy, wet snow today. “In like a lion, out like a lamb?”

Let us remember one more thing:
Seer warns Caesar to be on guard against a great peril on the Ides of March (15th.) Later that month..
CAESAR: “The Ides of March has come.”
SEER: “Aye, Caesar, but not gone.”