I read Dan Jenkins' You Gotta Play Hurt, too. Orangejello and Limonjello were the twin running backs for TCU in that book.

Scott Fowler continued, "They paid him all that money and the Panthers only won six games last year! Yet the Bobcats won seven, and you don't see DeSagana Diop asking for $175 for HIS autograph!!"

Remind me again why it took so long to get a playoff

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Ha!

Well when you have a basketball team, you really only use 8-10 players in the rotation and can give a couple spots to guys who aren't going to be asked to play many minutes. So yes, if all of the 2012 players were in their current state in 1992 and you were choosing the original Dream Team, you might take Chris Paul…

OK, Janssen is deservedly getting heat for his remark - but what about the host with that idiotic question? Where did that come from?

Great analysis. Drexler making the team had nothing to do with the Blazers' success - the committee picked him over Isiah because MJ made it clear if Thomas was on the team, he wasn't. Pretty sure that was MJ's revenge for the Jordan Rules as well as Isiah leading the freezeout at Jordan's first All-Star Game.

So the Rockets miss out on a Chinese PG and decide to bring their old PG back from China.

Clearly, JoePa did have the benefit of hindsight - he was always looking after his own ass.

The takeaways from this saga are two:

Live: I was at Cal Ripken's final game at Anaheim Stadium, where his solo homer was the only run of the game in a 1-0 O's victory.

Took me a second

Ha!

December 2011...

Going to be awkward when Fox puts up billboards saying "Come peep at Erin Andrews in her new location."

“It’s Just All Made Up And Flagellant”

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yet he manages to add 3 new letters and leave out two other ones

What would ever make you think anything is about the student athlete? It's all about the conferences and the bowl committees figuring out how to a) maximize their revenue and b) keep as much of it as possible to themselves. They're not going to 16 anytime soon because that would mean the end of all the bowl games, and…