I was at a dinner party last weekend. A few members of the dinner group—myself in particular—are college basketball fans and three of us share the same alma mater, Xavier University. It hasn't been a great season thus far for the Musketeers, but when you have a team you support it through the good and bad.

Our hosts for the dinner party seated us during the second half of Xavier's game with Saint Joseph University. Nearly everyone at the party owns a cellphone, but I was the only one with a smartphone.

So, rather than ask our hosts to wheel in a TV or move the dinner table to the media room, I was able to supply discreet updates on the score to the others that were interested. (And by discreet, I mean I was able to do this without any stern looks from my wife or any orders to, "Put that damn thing away.")

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