A Proper Wager  When state colleges meet in important games it
always seems to generate the sort of gubernatorial bravado in
which the states chief executives wager something emblematic of
their state on the game. The Washington State governor might put
up a bushel of vaunted apples against a sack of the famed
potatoes from Idaho. The Dairy State, Wisconsin, could bet
cheese for some corn from Illinois or Iowa.  But what of the
meeting between the universities of Connecticut and Kentucky on
Saturday in the NCAA men's basketball semifinal? The
governors—respectively Dan Malloy and Steve Beshear—in an
uninspired piece of betting have put up for stake ice cream from
Connecticut and country ham from Kentucky.  Are they new here?
What sort of a pantywaist gamble is that? Connecticut's not
known for ice cream. And country ham for Kentucky? Maybe, but
shouldn't Virginia be putting up country ham? If Connecticut
bets Kentucky, the stakes have to be cigars versus Bourbon.  At
least that's what immediately comes to my