And your point Is?

With all due respect to our fine colleagues in the newsroom, there is a reason why sports is in a separate section.

It's our world; not yours.

We ran a front page story last week whose premise was that nobody cared, or even knew about, the NCAA Regional that was taking place at the TD Banknorth Garden. The writer found 12 people who drew complete blanks. Mayor Tom Menino was even queried, and it turned out he didn't know who the four competing teams were.

Fine. Great. Exactly what does this prove, other than, as bad as professional surveys are, amateur surveys are even more useless?

The only thing that matters is that the arena was sold out twice, and on Saturday evening 18,871 people were treated to a Villanova-Pittsburgh game that will rank as one of the great sporting experiences of their lives.

But that front page story still bothers me, so let me ask the folks out front something.

There is a highly-publicized exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. I mean, in the art and museum world, this is a big deal. When an exhibit runs from March 15 through August 16, that's a significant statement.

So I propose that the news folk send a reporter out on the street, posing the following question: "Are you aware that the MFA currently has a big exhibit entitled 'Titian, Tintoretto. Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice' "

I bet they'll find a lot more than 12 people saying, "Duh." I'll be they'll find a lot more than 12 people saying, "The Museum of What Did You Say?"

I look forward to reading that story.