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Instant relief

By Jay Cronley
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, May 23, 2008

Once upon millions of times, a nation woke up to: $4 gas. War. Expensive rice. Polls. Another Grand Theft Auto game. Drunk drivers. The "Check Engine" sign. Foreclosure Estates. Homers. Homeless. Hindsight. Meteorologists. Morons playing one year of college hoops. TV shows about year-old poker games. No test for HGH (in a nation that can put a dozen blood-spatter crime-scene shows on television. Kathy Lee Gifford. Dick Vitale. The next Wayne Newton (David Archuleta). The BCS. ...

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