In an ADD era, golf's long season is all wrong

	PGA commissioner Tim Finchem has a plan to bring more excitement to the end of the golf season, but will it work? Scott Halleran/Getty Images
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With apologies to the author of Ecclesiastes, don't we wish!?

This is the time of year when sports fans are pulled in enough different directions to cause a strained hammy. We gain an hour's sleep but can't seem to lose any sports.

NFL and college football fans are waist deep and lovin' it. NBA fans are doing their final stretches before the regular season begins this week. College hoops junkies are gearing up to boo Duke. Hockey fans -- all 35 of them -- are pinching themselves.

And the South Side of Chicago? Fugitaboudit. The Pale Sox faithful are just beginning to sober up.

But that's not the worst of it.

NASCAR is still chasing the end of a season that began when there was snow on the ground.

The ATP tour, another sport that began in January, was still underway over the weekend in ... Lyon?

And for goodness sakes, those guys are still playing golf!

Yes, there's a sport for every purpose under the sun, but do they all have to take place at the same time?

Let's face it. We're in the ADD-era of sports. We like our games in neat, easily defined packages -- seasons with a beginning filled with hope, a competitive middle and an exciting championship before we get bored. We like our games leaving us wanting more, not wondering when they'll end.

Or worse, thinking they did end only to continue seeing scores and tournament results weeks after any event that mattered took place.

The NFL figured it out long ago: Limited capacity + Frenzied demand = the most popular and successful sport in America. College football is almost there, but it still needs a playoff. And NASCAR is trying its best with the Chase for the Cup, created to rev up the final weeks of its long season.

The college hoops season, a menagerie of games that weed out practically no one, is saved by March Madness, the best 30 days in sports.