I heard a story earlier this week that the Monday of the last full week of January is the most depressing day of the year.  The weather is normally grey and dreary, the reality of how unreasonable your New Year's Resolutions are is gone and the credit card bills for all that Christmas shopping come due.

But that's just real life.  How about sports life?  It's just as bad. 

No more football until the Super Bowl, and even that leaves only one more game.  (Funny aside, when I told our producer this weekend that we need football to go year round, she said "No, because girls need to see their boys.")

The NBA is in the thick of it's regular season, which means more meaningless games for teams the like of the Spurs who use the regular season as a tune-up for the post-season.

The NHL just lost it's only draw in Sidney Crosby for the next 8 weeks.

College basketball?  Wake me up when it's Conference Tournament week.

The Australian Open is good, but almost over.

It seems too early for golf, and thus, it's hard to watch it even if Tiger is playing for the first time this weekend.

So what's a sports fan to do?  Start watching pro bowling, poker, or darts to get yourself until the end of February.  From there, we're out of the Winter Doldrums.