Idle Thoughts, while waiting for beach weather, Kim Mulkey’s championship game attire and for the Rangers to win the Cup:

• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, bore the privilege of seeing the UConn women’s basketball program from the inside for many years. Geno Auriemma always left the light on for many of us in the media, but no more than for yours truly and Carl Adamec, the 34-year beat writer for the Manchester Journal Inquirer. Oh, the stories Carl and Dr. I could tell.

Adamec was honored recently in the new class of the U.S. Women’s Basketball Writers Hall of Fame. Nobody deserved it more. Hardest working man in showbiz. And frankly, Dr. I was stunned that any organization would still honor some boring old newspaper guy, when there’s got to be a 22-year-old beat writer out there who caught some 26-year-old editor’s eye posting to Tik Tok somewhere.

Anyhoo, Auriemma, in Houston to watch the UConn men at the Final Four, made the 240-mile drive Friday to Dallas for Adamec’s induction. He certainly didn’t have to do that. But he knows what Adamec has meant to the program. (Dr. I contends it was Adamec who had more to do with getting Diana Taurasi to UConn than anyone else.)

He’s a good man, that Geno.

• Congrats to New London High senior Nalyce Dudley, recently named the GameTimeCT 2023 Girls’ Basketball State Player of the Year.

Dudley, rarely seen being anything other than cheerful, and the Whalers recently won the program’s third state title. Sacred Heart is getting a good one.

• Here’s a look at why Dr. I’s sunny disposition is swirling the bowl:

Dr. I was supposed to go to the TD Garden Friday night to catch up with Kris Dunn, who was in town with the Jazz.

Dr. I was granted a media credential and reached out to Jazz public relations about pregame media availability. Dr. I figured maybe two hours before the game (as is the case in the WNBA, many of whose constructs are the same as the NBA).

Dr. I was told Dunn would be available at 10 a.m. before the Jazz’s shootaround.

Ten in the morning. Swell. Midnight already taken?

Forget that Dr. I already had a morning commitment for career day at Ledyard Middle. But 10 a.m. for a guy two hours away who has to negotiate rush hour traffic in Boston to get to the Garden on time and with no credential in hand?

A line Dr. I must say 43 times a day: Why does this have to be so difficult?

Seriously. They couldn’t make Dunn available two hours before tip for 10 minutes? Absurd.

• Note to Game On at Mohegan Sun:

There are certain endeavors Dr. I enjoys doing in the dark.

Bowling isn’t one of them.

• Empty seats for Opening Day at Disney Near Kenmore Square?

What happened to the most loyal fans in baseball?

• Would readers think less of Dr. I if he traded in his humane mouse trap (catch the mouse and release) for something more akin to a guillotine?

Because this little creep is on Dr. I’s last nerve.

• During a recent meeting, Dr. I gathered with former Coast Guard Athletic director Ray Cieplik (aka “the doctor”) to name the All-Polish baseball team. The results:

Catcher: A.J. Pierzynski. First base: Ted Kluszewski. Second base: Bill Mazeroski. Shortstop: Troy Tulowitzki. 3B: Whitey Kurowski. Outfield: Stan Musial, Al Simmons (given name Szymanski) and Carl Yastrzemski (although he popped up to Nettles in his most important at bat ever). DH: Moose Skowron (pronounced Sko-vrone, as Cieplik says). Pitchers: Phil Niekro, Eddie Lopat (given name Lopatynski). Note: Dr. I just set a personal record for most consonants used in one paragraph.

• If English amateur golfer Lottie Woad married retired international soccer player Modeste Dah, well la-de-da … that would make her Lottie Dah.

(Sorry, but that makes Dr. I laugh every time.)

• Per The Athletic, at least one MLB owner had told commissioner Rob Manfred that “analytics is an arms race to nowhere.” Manfred agreed.

Dr. I knew they’d all come around.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro