Our View: An event to look forward to

It's a short week for some, but for many it's not short enough, as a big Friday night looms large on their schedules.
Yes, there's a big event on at the end of this week, you might have read about it in The Daily Post or online or seen it previewed on numerous telly broadcasts.
The build-up has been huge and by Saturday morning it will all be over.
Our basketball boys will either be drought-breakers or heartbreakers.
With the ANBL finals series down to the wire, the third and final game on Friday night will finally, fingers crossed, see a senior Kiwi sports team take the title in an Australian competition.
Sure, in the Anzac spirit we shouldn't take so much delight in the prospect of sticking it to our transtasman cousins, especially at this time of year, but it only takes a few minutes listening to Aussie commentators like those in Sunday night's second final to put paid to any notions of camaraderie.
Not that you need the commentary - following sports via online social networking tool Twitter is becoming a more viable pursuit as celebs, media types and sports personalities spurt forth with their 140-character play-by-play observations.
Missed something or don't understand a ref's call? Just ask - someone out there will know.
There is a fair amount of sneering in the Twitterverse at those who have come late to Breakers worship, but really, basketball fans should be happy that people are jumping on the bandwagon and getting behind their chosen sport.
And should the Breakers, as expected, lift the title on Friday night, long-time fans really will need to shift over and make room for some new blood.
But do keep in mind such affairs can be short-lived. Remember Tall Blacks fever in 2002? What about last year's doomed Kiwi romance with soccer as the All Whites stormed the football World Cup?
If New Zealand basketball can pick up and keep new fans this year in the face of the almighty Rugby World Cup, good on them.

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Of course you might have thought I was talking back there about another big event this Friday night.
But I think enough column centimetres have been and will be devoted to the Royal Wedding, so I won't treat you to my thoughts on the nuptials. Other than to say it's nice to see a nation, and by extension the remnants of the Commonwealth (us) get excited about something amid the general doom and financial gloom.
Many can't be bothered with it, and fair enough, but can't you go and spread your bah humbug misery in your own little corners of the world?