Yes, my Harvard comrades, it's that excruciating time of year again when the winter sports teams are finished with their respective seasons and the spring sports teams are thawing out in their sweatsuits at Briggs Cage.

March. The month when everyone stops talking sports and starts discussing politics to fill out the meaningless lunchtime "Hey, how's it going?" type of conversation. And while they say politics makes for strange bedfellows, my recurring nightmares still consist of being alone in a room with Jack O'Callahan and no referee.

Meanwhile, the coaches who select All-Ivy hockey team have got to be as blind as some of the dates I've been on. While this was definitely not Harvard's year on the ice by any stretch of the garter belt, leaving the names of George Hughes and John Hynes off the All-League roster is like saying the floor at Father's Six isn't sticky on Thursday nights.

Although by no means either of them should have made first or second team, Hughes still remains one of the most effective and unquestionably respected forwards in the circuit. He was selected for honorable mention honors his freshman year and second team status last season.

Hynes, meanwhile, had the third best goals against average in the Ivies (behind first-teamer Mike Laycock of Brown and second teamer Fred Cherne of Princeton), but was overlooked for honorable mention by the coaches in favor of Penn's Bob Sutton and Cornell's Steve Napier.

It reminds me of last season when Brian Petrovek got jobbed out of All-ECAC honors though his g.a. was the second best in the East.

I've got to stop complaining or God might not grant my wish to get the fungo bat surgically removed from Mickey Rivers's behind.

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Speaking of Reggie Jackson and chocolate (my face breaks out at the thought of either one), the new "Reggie" candy bar that will hit the stands next month in time for the opening of the baseball season already has a couple of financial strikes against it. One is its high price (25 cents for a paltry two-ounce bar) and the other is the unique traditionalism of the candy industry.

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Jim Reinig's Quiz-In-Rhyme:

The same surname as a famous knife Belongs to him.

And this Crimson star cuts quite a wake,

In any freestyle swim.

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