COMMENTARY
Lent and March Madness have something in common—they both involve a lot of prayer. The two come around for a visit every spring, like young-adult children who look and act remarkably different yet acknowledge they’re somehow related. Lent, of course, is the elder, quietly sober, disciplined, and sometimes penitential; March Madness (whose real name is NCAA Basketball Tournament) can get hysterical, obsessive, and sometimes criminally insane. But it’s usually short-lived.