"Bud Light, Suck One!"

A longer version I found of Jackie Moon.

Random Thoughts Today

With my first trip to Las Vegas quickly approaching (leaving tomorrow morning), I figure I have some time this morning to give you all some random thoughts on the past week before I take some time off for myself. Enjoy!

First things first, even though they lost to the Baltimore Orioles last night which bounced them from first place in the AL East, my Tampa Bay Rays will be here to stay all year. That's right I said MY! I have jumped hard on the bandwagon and I am here to stay! Bought myself a Rays hat and all this past weekend. How can I not jump on? I had the choice to watch them or the Florida Marlins last year when I moved down here and I chose the Rays only because of how young and exciting their farm system was getting. Now this year the team is in full bloom and for once they have a good team that could compete all year, how can I not rout for them. Getting a chance to watch Carl Crawford, who has been a Tampa Bay lifer, finally on a contender and show the country who he really is is pretty awesome. Not to mention their great starting pitching staff that is only going to get better with Scott Kazmir coming back this week and the longer this young staff pitches this year the more experience will be gained. So yes, I am now a Rays fan...how can I not?

Larry Brown is back coaching where his professional coaching career began in North Carolina. Good for Larry! If you love something so much that you can't stay away from it, who are we to disagree with his decision to come back. He has made each team better that he has coached with the exception of one. Guess!

The Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks were eliminated from the NBA Playoffs last night. And honestly did we really think that they were going to get through their series with the San Antionio Spurs and New Orleans Hornets respectively? Especially after game 1? Not me! As boring as the Spurs are and as young as the Hornets are they were just the better teams. Their next round matchup should be very interesting especially after splitting the season series 2-2 during the year.

Mel Kiper gave the Washington Redskins a B+ for their draft grade after the day 2 of the NFL Draft. I could argue against how high that grade is but why would I bother? Kiper has just finished his 30th year analyzing the NFL Draft. Thirty years! I was absolutely in awe of this guy on the second day of the draft. The way he talks about players I have never heard of into the camera without looking at his notes is amazing to me. All I am asking Mel is 10 more years of NFL Draft coverage and hopefully your hair stays the same.

Defensive End Jason Taylor of the Miami Dolphins and his boss Bill Parcells are said to be feuding this week. I don't mind this at all, especially because I believe this all stems from Taylor still advancing in Dances with the Stars. I just hope that this ends with Taylor becoming a Dancing Redskin!

Finally I would like my readers to give me numbers that are special to them before I leave. For I will be sitting my ass on the roulette wheel in Las Vegas for hours and I would like to come back to Florida a winner. Wish me luck!!!

Greatest Season of All-Time

This week's installment of my favorite greatest season of all-time moves on to #6. Though it was difficult to keep this out of the top five it had to be done. The sport is football and the year 1984.

In just his second year in the league, Dan Marino had the greatest season the NFL had ever seen by a quarterback. Blessed with a quick release and a rocket right arm, he produced a season-long performance that required its own section in the league record books once he was done. He threw for 5,084 yards, breaking Dan Fouts' record of 4,802. The MVP's 48 touchdown passes obliterated the previous record of 36 shared by Y.A. Tittle and George Blanda. For a quarterback infamous for never winning the Super Bowl, 1984 also represents Marino's only Super Bowl appearance. In fact, there is one chief reason his performance still ranks better than those produced more recently by Indianapolis' Peyton Manning and New England's Tom Brady: The application of the rules was different. Both Manning and Brady benefited from the league's decision in March 2004 to place a greater emphasis on enforcing the illegal contact rule, which penalizes defenders who touched receivers more than five yards away from the line of scrimmage. If Marino had that advantage going for him, nobody would've ever matched the season he produced 24 years ago.

Pic of the Week

Pictured above is my boy Pablo and his newly born son Kayden. The picture speaks for itself. I have never, never known Pablo having that much hair on his head and yet his son already has more than his old man. Congrats Emanuel!

Greatest Season of All-Time

This week's installment of my favorite greatest season of all-time brings us up to #7 and to the sport of basketball. To my readers, this is harder than it looks!

The city of Cincinnati had a treat during the 1961-62 NBA season, little did they know that Oscar Robertson, guard for the Cincinnati Royals, had a season that would be remembered more so than the team themselves. The term "triple-double" would not be coined for another 18 years, but Robertson showed us how it was done. He averaged 30.8 points, 11.4 assists and 12.5 rebounds, marking the only season a player has averaged a triple-double. It shouldn't be surprising that his 41 triple-doubles are also a record. Overshadowed by the league MVP Wilt Chamberlain's monstrous scoring effort that season, Robertson surpassed Bob Cousy's single-season assists record by a whopping 184 with 899. Possibly the most famous statistical season in NBA history, and he did all this in his second season in the league. Having only one MVP award in his 14 year career, the "Big O", will stay as one of, if not the greatest guard to ever play professional basketball.

Deez' Mock Draft

So who is it going to be? Offensive tackle Jake Long signed a 5 year deal with the Miami Dolphins yesterday 4 days before the draft making him the top pick in the 2008 NFL Draft. So at least I can say that I have seen the number 1 pick of a draft before he got drafted. This might be the only sure thing that we will see or get word of until 3:00 pm Saturday. Kansas City shocked everyone including myself by trading their franchise player DE Jared Allen to the Minnesota for the Vikings 17th pick overall. Allen who led the league in sacks last season is only 26 and in the prime of his career, what the Chiefs were thinking I have no idea. But, it really screwed up my mock draft so I had to re due it because I think that it is pretty obvious what the Chiefs plan on doing now, as they have 6 of the first 82 picks. I do believe that there will be tons of trades Saturday or maybe before hand. I like Baltimore to trade down if Matt Ryan doesn't fall. I also like Carolina looking to trade up as well as Seattle to get a running back after the release of Shaun Alexander. Being a Washington Redskin fan I am really lost for words on what and who the Redskins should be doing with their 1st pick. I am pretty confident though that, like I mentioned yesterday, they were too quiet this off season so I am expecting fireworks this weekend. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the wide receivers that I had get pick in the 1st round, fall in the draft to offensive lineman. The offensive line is very slim this year so expect the top ones to go earlier than usual. On to my mock draft!

1. Miami - Jake Long OT Michigan

2. St. Louis - Chris Long DE Virginia

3. Atlanta - Glenn Dorsey DT LSU

4. Oakland - Darren McFadden RB Arkansas

5. Kansas City - Vernon Gholston DE Ohio State

6. NY Jets - Matt Ryan QB Boston College

7. New England - Leodis McKelvin CB Troy State

8. Baltimore - Ryan Clady OT Boise State

9. Cincinnati - Sedrick Ellis DT USC

10. New Orleans - Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie CB Tenn. St.

11. Buffalo - Malcolm Kelly WR Oklahoma

12. Denver - Keith Rivers LB USC

13. Carolina - Derrick Harvey DE Florida

14. Chicago - Jeff Otah OT Pittsburgh

15. Detroit - Rashard Mendenhall RB Illinois

16. Arizona - Aqib Talib CB Kansas

17. Kansas City - Branden Albert OG Virginia

18. Houston - Mike Jenkins CB South Florida

19. Philadelphia - Devin Thomas WR Michigan State

20. Tampa Bay - Limas Sweed WR Texas

21. Washington - Phillip Merling DE Clemson

22. Dallas - Felix Jones RB Arkansas

23. Pittsburgh - Chris Williams OT Vanderbilt

24. Tennessee - DeSean Jackson WR California

25. Seattle - Jonathan Stewart RB Oregon

26. Jacksonville - Calais Campbell DE Miami

27. San Diego - Kentwan Balmer DT UNC

28. Dallas - Early Doucet WR LSU

29. San Francisco - Jerod Mayo OLB Tennessee

30. Green Bay - Brandon Flowers CB Virginia Tech

31. oops

32. NY Giants - Dan Connor OLB Penn State

Random Thoughts Today

My first thought today is that my back and butt really hurt while I am posting this right now. I fell...hard yesterday and I am still feeling the effects of it today. Here's how it went down...literally, I was working out at my brother's rec center in Jacksonville and after my workout I usually go and shoot some baskets in their court. Well, yesterday the maintenance worker was washing and waxing the floor and when I went in I ask him how much longer will he be. He told me that I could use one side of the court while he works on the other side, I probably should have just walked out right then. I was shooting around and when he finished waxing the one side of the court he left to empty out the rest of the water. Well, needless to say that one of my shots clanked of the rim hard and started to bounce toward the waxed side. Instead of just letting it go I went and ran for the ball to save it from getting on the cleaned area and my right foot landed on a waxed part and slid up to my chin and sent me flying into the air. While airborne I heard my back crack like a zipper on my jeans and before impact with the floor I saw benches. The fall felt like somebody swung a bat to my butt and I continued to slide right for the benches and my left leg felt left out so it got struck by the benches. As I laid there in absolute pain, I crawled about 15 yards to the door of the gym and tried to pick myself up. I got to my brothers condo took a shower and then looked at myself in the mirror and started laughing about what had just happened. If only there was a video camera that saw that! Well, there is one in the gym...Great! Here's a couple of other great falls...

So besides from my fall, the past few days have been pretty good. Here are some of my random thoughts for today...

Just reported today that the Cincinnati Bengals refused a trade with the Washington Redskins. It was Chad Johnson for the Redskins 1st round pick (21st overall) this year and a 3rd round pick next year that could possibly end up being a 1st round pick if Johnson and the Redskins hit certain performance levels. WOW! The Bengals must be pretty serious about not trading Johnson if they turned down something like that. I thought that the 'skins were a little too quiet this off season thus far. The only reason i would be for this trade is to keep Johnson away from the Eagles other than that I could really care less either way.

What's with the damn gas prices? I mean I have to pay for it so why not complain about it. This is getting a little ridiculous huh guys over in Washington? How anyone who makes minimum wage and has to travel 20 minutes to work everyday do it? With reports that before summer starts, the prices will average in the nation in the $4 rage is stupid. Thankfully my car is very good on gas, but still not that good! I am really considering using the money I get on some more tax rebates next month on my motorcycle license and getting a small bike. As of yesterday the average filling gas station in the county was at a high of $3.50 a gallon. This country is in serious trouble!

I saw the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall yesterday and if you don't mind seeing a little penis here and there this movie was absolutely hysterical. Starring Jason Segal, and from the makers of Knocked Up, this movie was funny from the start. The theater that I attended was pretty packed for this movie for a 12:30 start I thought, but with good reasons. An absolute must see!

I said this at the beginning of the Fantasy Baseball season, Chase Utley might be the best keeper in the Fantasy Baseball world today. He is an incredible talent! For those of you not knowing why I am saying this today, Utley has hit a homer in five consecutive games, six dongs overall in this stretch.

Forgivably I forgot to post a playoff preview for the NBA. Thinking that the 1st round was going to be a drag, it has been very entertaining so far. The physical play in the playoffs have brought me back to the Bulls/Knicks rivalry that had a physical foul on every trip down the court. I don't think that the players today realize how physical that series was and what the players in general could get away with then.

Why is everyone so shocked about Miguel Tejada lying about his age. Usually the Latin players put five years off their age. We should be commending Tejada for it only being the difference of two years.

Finally I really want to get into something that happened late in the Rockets/Jazz game that I have heard people talk about today. After watching the replay several times, something is going to need to be done. When Luis Scola was called for an offensive foul away from the ball just before Bobby Jackson hit a game tying three pointer with less than a minute to play the Rockets had no more chances to win the game all because Andrei Kirilenko flopped. I am little on both sides of this but more clearly on flopping needing to be more controlled. As physical as the game of basketball is you have to let some stuff go and to make a game deciding call like that is wrong. I remember playing in high school and taking three charges in one game, at least two of them were flops but the ref called them in my favor. Then weeks later I thought that I took charges at least 5 times mostly flops but the ref didn't blow his whistle. That being said, flopping is part of the game that a defensive player must do to gain an advantage and sell his defense to the referee. But, some guys take it too far! Its one thing if you get absolutely plowed into, but to fall down or throw your arms in the air to sell it is out of control. The refs need to do a better job of just letting some things go and letting the players play. I don't know if anything can be done to get control of flopping but in my opinion I would let the players decide the game with their play instead of the referees deciding the game with their whistle.

My mock NFL Draft will be worked on all day today and hopefully posted tomorrow. It looks like the only sure thing so far is that the Dolphins can't trade out of the top spot and might be taking Michigan OT Jake Long.

I am Not Much For American Idol but...

something has to be said for this David Cook character. I have never, and I mean never, have watched this much American Idol before. Why you ask? I haven't got a clue. Maybe it was the writer's strike early on. Maybe it was the lack of entertainment on Tuesday nights. Maybe it was the talented contestants this year. From what I have read in USA Today if you were to pick a year to start watching this highly rated show, I picked the right one. Now, that being said, I have to throw this out there so all of you don't think of me in a way that would damage my character. Even though I might have thrown it out the window after writing this. I am going to say this once, I DON'T VOTE for the contestants. Good, now I feel better. Let me get right to this Cook kid. I am not much for finding or getting a feel for talented music artists, but this guy is incredible. Cook is far and away a recording artist in the making and if he doesn't win this contest then American Idol got me for one year and one year only, even though the best part of this show are the fruit loops at the beginning of the season that make absolute fools of themselves. This past week Cook did his own version of Mariah Carey's, "You Always Be My Baby". Which was pretty outstanding, but my favorite of his remakes is below.

Deez' Big Board

Who needs Todd McShay and the great Mel Kiper when you have all you need to know right here at The Nutz. After reading up on the NFL Draft the past couple of days I am starting to get it all figured out. My mock draft won't be appearing until sometime next week, but today I will be giving you my big board of the top 25 players in this year's draft.

1. Chris Long DE Virginia

2. Jake Long OT Michigan

3. Darren McFadden RB Arkansas

4. Glenn Dorsey DT LSU

5. Matt Ryan QB Boston College

6. Vernon Gholston DE Ohio State

7. Sedrick Ellis DT USC

8. Keith Rivers OLB USC

9. Ryan Clady OT Boise State

10. Dominque Rodgers-Cromartie CB Tenn State

11. Leodis McKelvin CB Troy State

12. Rashard Mendenhall RB Illinois

13. Derrick Harvey DE Florida

14. Malcolm Kelly WR Oklahoma

15. Jeff Otah OT Pittsburgh

16. Chris Williams OT Vanderbilt

17. Devin Thomas WR Michigan State

18. Mike Jenkins CB South Florida

19. Jerod Mayo OLB Tennessee

20. Branden Albert OG Virginia

21. Phillip Merling DE Clemson

22. Dan Connor OLB Penn State

23. Aqib Talib CB Kansas

24. Limas Sweed WR Texas

25. DeSean Jackson WR California

My Apologies!

So I can't begin to apologize for my lack of blogging the past week or so. I have not only picked up some overtime lately as well as getting the hell out of the house and hitting the cities of Jacksonville and Orlando. Not only that but with a Las Vegas trip coming in two and a half weeks I have had my mind in the gutter and the sports news haven't really been catching my interest, even with The Masters and Major League Baseball in full swing and let's not forget the great NHL Playoffs. After seeing the movie "21" a few weeks ago Vegas has really been on my mind. Over the next few weeks leading to my trip to Vegas I will be going through a Las Vegas movie marathon. Here's a look at my top 10 Las Vegas movies of all time...

1. Casino

2. Swingers

3. Very Bad Things

4. Ocean's Eleven

5. Leaving Las Vegas

6. 21

7. Smoking Aces

8. Honeymoon in Vegas

9. The Cooler

10. Showgirls

What's going on in Major League Baseball?

We are now two weeks into the early 2008 MLB season, and I am having a tough time feeling these teams out thus far. I mean, instead of the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians showing us that they will be battling for a playoff spot all season, they are at the bottom of the division while the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals are at the top. Should the Tigers and Indians be worried with only 13,14, or even 15 games into the season. YES, I say! Umm, what else is going on...oh yeah, the Florida Marlins of course are playing great baseball. I mean why wouldn't they be, the nation questions what they are doing with dumping their top players for financial reasons, and they come right back and play well. Why are we so surprised, they do this on the regular. David Ortiz can't even bat half his weight so far. Everyone is saying that he must be exhausted from public appearances after winning the World Series a year ago in the off season, or the trip to spring training, then to Japan, then back to spring training then to Oakland. Come on D.O.! Your a designated hitter, you bat once every 2 or 3 innings, barely run, and then sit your fat ass back on the bench. This isn't much! Suck it up! The Uptons are the best baseball brother combo in the history of the game! Wow are they nice! And finally, I love watching the Tampa Bay Rays this year. They are really a very fun team to watch. Young, talented, and they play with this energy that glues you to the television. Though, they are last in the East Division at the moment, their young pitching staff will only get better as the year goes on with some experience and the addition of stud Scott Kazmir, when he gets his injury problems solved. That is all let me know what you think is interesting that is happened thus far.

Greatest Season of All-Time

This week's latest installment of my favorite greatest season of all-time before the turn of the century is getting closer to number one with #8 this week. Enjoy!

Jerry Rice is another player on this list who has enjoyed so many phenomenal campaigns that it's hard to pin down one season among others. But in the year of 1987, it stands out for one reason: his production in an abbreviated amount of time. Even with a players' strike limiting Rice to 12 games, he still managed to produce an NFL-record 22 touchdown receptions. He also scored 23 touchdowns overall, a total that was one shy of tying the single-season record John Riggins held at the time. Over a full 16-game schedule, those 22 touchdowns prorate to 29-plus. No other receiver has ever had more than 18 until Randy Moss broke Rice's mark with 23 touchdowns this season. It is hard to imagine in this Fantasy Football world that we live in for a player to score that much in such a small amount of time. Rice is far and away the best receiver to play the game, and some will argue the best player ever!

Comeback or Collapse

I haven't wrote in a while and I have been wanting to express some issues I had with the NCAA Final on Monday night. I don't know who was favored nor do I really give a damn, but Memphis after one half of basketball should have won this game going into the second half. They were the better team for 38 minutes in my opinion, not taking anything away from Kansas because they played great, had a tremendous comeback for the ages, and are a very good "team". Memphis played incredible basketball even without a strong first half from freshman standout Derrick Rose. The question that I heard on Tuesday was, "Was it a comeback or a collapse?". Well guess what, it was a collapse! All year long coach John Calipari refused to look at the problems that the team had instead of trying to correct them. He did such a terrible job coaching this season it makes me sick. "We don't have a free throw problem!", "Let's take a look at how good we were off the boards!", "My team will make them when they count down the stretch!". Right! Not only did you continue to play that card, your coaching in the final 5 minutes was terrible. Free throws is a reflection of how disciplined a team is, and as you could tell throughout the game this team was far from disciplined. Even before the Championship game, they had a back up point guard getting suspended from the Final Four. Joey Dorsey committed 2 fouls above the three point arch, one that disqualified him from the game with minutes remaining with his fifth foul. FIFTH FOUL FROM YOUR BIG MAN BEYOND THE THREE POINT LINE!!!! Unreal. While I was waiting for an explanation from Calipari for why they didn't foul either Sherron Collins or Mario Chalmers, Calipari showed his true colors by explaining after the fact to the officials that he wanted a foul. Something tells me that though he wanted a foul, he forgot to mention that to his kids. He probably would have had a chance to mention that to his kids if he called a god-damn timeout after the made foul shot from Rose, which is something that he also didn't do. When Kansas was coming back, Calipari had such a great offensive set in line for the Jayhawks...a one on one offense that was hardly the offense that got them that far. I am beginning to wonder if Calipari is just an incredible recruiter and just get the right kids to his school, so when his practice starts he just sits on a chair and rolls a ball out for them. But, since this is a "try to stay positive" blog, I would like to congratulate Bill Self, Mario Chalmers and the Jayhawks for making such a great game of the championship by coming back with a sense of will, confidence, and discipline!

Hottest Women in Sports

TENNIS

Ana Ivanovic

Maria Sharapova

Greatest Season of All-Time

Today after a couple of days layoff, I am going to get back into my favorite greatest seasons of all-time before the turn of the century. This week's installment is my 9th overall season which isn't getting any easier to decide on. Baseball is the sport, a godly pitcher is the player.

In 1968, the Year of the Pitcher, Bob Gibson, of the St. Louis Cardinals, dominated with a 1.12 ERA, the fourth-best all time, over 304 2/3 innings. He threw 13 shutouts, tied for the third most. During one ridiculous stretch of 10 starts in the middle of the summer, Gibson allowed two runs in 90 innings. His 22-9 record is quite misleading: Gibson had a 2.14 ERA in his nine losses, games in which the Cardinals scored only 12 total runs. His brilliance continued in the World Series against the Tigers. He gave up just one run in winning Games 1 and 4. Even after being touched up for four runs in a Game 7 loss, he wound up with a 1.67 ERA. I always wished I got to see him pitch live, but watching his highlights on the tube, you can get the gist of just how good he really was.

Trip to the Gulf Coast.

This past week I had the opportunity to visit Gulf Coast two and a half years after Hurricane Katrina. Although, most of my time was spent at the Stennis NASA space center in the area I got to tour most of the region during they week. The area I was stay was in Bay St. Louis, the city were the eye of the storm directly passed over and I was able to make a trip down to New Orleans which is about 45 minutes away. The wreckage that still remains amazed me. I was amazing to see how depressed the overall attitude of the people was down there, everyone smoked. I was amazed to see the many trees snapped right in half from the wind. I do suggest going down there and checking it out yourself. The area may not be too exciting, but you can still view the wreckage that occurred. Also, if you've never been to New Orleans (Bourbon St.) I suggest you do at least once. My suggestion is do some research before you go just so your not in the wrong part of the city and don't book it for a week because you will get into some trouble. A weekend will do and you'll definitely be entertained by how outrageous Bourbon St. can be. The pictures I am posting obviously aren't ones I took, but places I passed by during my journey.




This is a picture of a McDonald's in Bay St. Louis that I passed by. It's still there along with a brand new one adjacent to it. The boat is gone though.



This is a picture of I-10 which travels along the coast. It connects Jacksoville and New Orleans. The divider where the Deer is lay is acutally at least 5 times that size you see there the rest is under water.




This is a picture of one of the houses that used to be about 200 yards from the beach which was on elevated ground. This is in Gulfport, MS just before Bay St. Louis.



Bourbon St. in New Orleans. Good times and 3 for $1 Miller Lites!!!!! Oh yeah...and beads.

Final Four

You know that the Final Four is here because we are listening to talks about Tiger and the Masters, the baseball season is starting to get going, and the sun is out...wait that's only in Florida! I am very, very excited for tonight's Final Four games with all #1 seeds still in it and you ask ask for anything better when it comes to the programs, the coaches, and the marque players taking the floor tonight. Drama galour, let's get right to my previews!

MEMPHIS/UCLA, 6:07 - Let's get right into the first game. Two of the very best freshmen in the country will be on the floor for maybe their final collegiate weekend in Derrick Rose of Memphis and Kevin Love of UCLA. I have heard talks all week for who would you pick of the two? You'd have to go with Rose even though I have some love for Love. Rose is a playmaking point guard that you only can enjoy having bring the ball up on each possession. This goes without saying whoever dictates the flow of the game should win in my book, but I think that UCLA can handle scoring in the 70s, it just will be more difficult to keep up down the stretch. The marque matchup that I am really looking forward to watch is Joey Dorsey and Love battling it out under the boards, should be really fun to watch. My only concern will the referees get too involved and keep one or both off the floor, like when UCONN's run to the title in 2004 when they kept the country's best big men at that time in Omeka Okafor and Sheldon Williams off the floor for most of their game. The Memphis Tigers out of all four teams has to be the scariest with UCLA the most experienced. I like UCLA to get the aggressive Tigers in foul trouble early which will allow them to set the pace of the offense and defensively slow down the dangerous Rose. Like i said in Thursday blog, any of the four teams can win this thing just a matter of who makes fewer mistakes and this game is the game that the team with the fewer mistakes wins.

UNC/KANSAS, 8:47 - Everybody's matchup of the night, hence the game time. Roy Williams playing the program he once took to the Final Four on a few occasions with no success. Now with the Tarheels and a NCAA title under his belt I am sure that his emotions will be running crazy before gametime. The Tarheels road to San Antonio was much more difficult than the Jayhawks, with the 'hawks facing no lower than an 8 seed to the Final Four. While, the 'heels have had to go through a 4 and 3 seed. This up and down game is going to come down to the Jayhawks bigmen stopping AP Player of the Year, Tyler Hansbourgh, in the paint. On the UNC side of it they are going to have to cut down on their force shots and turnovers, other than that I think this game is going to be all about what Kansas can do, and some, to win this game. If I was betting on the games this weekend I would put the house on the Tarheels to win this game today. I just don't think that Kansas doesn't have enough threats in the paint to slow down a great Tarheel front court. The Tarheels are too good, though I do like Kansas I would be surprised if they have the lead at any point under 10 minutes to go in the second half.

Pic(s) of the Week

My father and mother brought my brother and I all of our baseball, basketball, football, and yes even hockey cards to us down here. We have been going through them just looking at all of the once studs that we hoped would make us millions by having their rookie card. But, Brien Taylor, Kevin Maas, Phil Plantier, and others never made it for us, so thanks guys....alot! But, I did come across a couple of rookie cards that are bound to be worth something.

Future girls softball coach

Future singer for 98 degrees and ex hubby for Jessica Simpson

Future basketball star for Sweet Sixteen bound Creighton U

Future Japanese homerun king

Random Thoughts Today

This has been a pretty tiring week for me this week and I have had no urge to write at all. But, today my silence will go no further. Here's just a couple of things that I was thinking about today.

Chris Henry...HAHAHA! Enjoy your year off buddy! not only that but you just got released by a team that really showed you a ton of faith and you just slapped them right in the face. I think that it is time for you to start hanging out with people your own age. First giving minors alcohol, then hitting an eighteen year old, what's next...I don't even want to write what I am thinking!

The new NFL rules have been set for next year and honestly am I pretty happy with all of them. First and probably the most controversial is the elimination of force out decisions on sideline catches. As much as this will hurt our fantasy wide receivers, I really like the rule change. Not only does this give the sideline referee less of a change to blow a game decision, but finally defensive players in the secondary get a rule in their favor. And I am all for that. Instant replay for field goals has been implemented which I really had no idea that you couldn't take a look at before. Also, the five yard facemask penalty has been banished which I am also fine with, my only concern though is the unintentional grab...so you mean that that won't be a 15 yard penalty, I doubt it! Another rule that not many people on the news today were talking about was the direct snap from the center that goes backward will now be treated as a fumble, which was a false start before. So, all in all I am in total favor for what the NFL did with it's rule changing. The only thing I thought was weird was that there was no proposal for the icing the kicker rule that was totally out of hand on numerous occasions.

Memphis back up point guard, Andre Allen, will be missing the Final Four for violating team rules. Some reports I have heard that were leaked was that he failed a drug test. Nice going Allen, your a senior, and you have lost in the Elite Eight twice in two years. I'm sure that this won't bother you the rest of your life. Idiot!

With two weeks left in the NBA season, not a single Western Conference team has clinched a playoff spot yet. Unbelievable! I still haven't really gotten into the NBA season yet, but next week I should probably stay tuned for it cause it looks like this is going to be one if not the best finish to a NBA regular season ever. I did see T.J. Ford and the Toronto Raptors get absolutely jobbed by the shumk at the time clock in Atlanta though.

Major League Baseball investigators cornered Jose Canseco in a NY bookstore bathroom, enough said there.

The Final Four is going to be one of the highest watched Final Fours in the history of the game. Even though my sheet went to pieces I am thoroughly excited for Saturday night, with any of the four teams having a serious chance of the NCAA title.

Why are people in the press being so down on Matt Leinart for partying it up with hot chicks at his house? If I was a Heisman winning quarterback at USC, was drafted in the 1st round in the NFL Draft, am a 24 year old, 6'5'', good looking man living in mansion in Arizona. I will party and bring any piece of tail I want to at my house for a party during the off season. Don't be jealous of my skills!!!

Finally, a student from a Middle School in Bristol, CT was struck in the head by a red-tailed hawk while she was with classmates touring Fenway Park. Obviously she had a Coco Crisp t-shirt on, and somebody (or something) from Boston finally stepped up and showed their opinion of Crisp...in a violent sort of way!