The Other Super Bowl

» NYT: Beagle Is Top Hound at Westminster Dog Show (Richard Sandomir)

Bias aside, my heartiest congratulations go to Beagle lovers everywhere. Uno has won Best in Group among the hounds and now moves on to the Best in Show judging.

Now, my bias is rather clear here ... I love Basset Hounds and engage in the annual embarrassing feat of rooting them on in the spirit of my own past hounds: Claude, Beau, & Bucky. But the hound group seems to be the neglected stepchild of winners at Westminster (I'm not entirely accepting of the Afghan Hound as a peer, mind you). So if there's a chance that a beagle may change that, I'm all aboard the bandwagon.

Now if I can just be witness to seeing the first Basset Hound to win Best in Show ...