Well, we’re one day closer to the weekend.  And I don’t know about you guys, but it’s been a long week already.  Today’s a great day though!  Why?  Because the Winter Dew Tour started up last night!  And, who hasn’t been anticipating the Winter Dew Tour?  Breckenridge, CO…skiing…snowboarding…The Flying Tomato in the Snowboarding Superpipe…that’s must see tv!

Grab your coffee and let’s get on with it…

Looks like the Big Televen country is pretty cold right now.  Too bad the conference’s collective bowl performances didn’t provide some heat.

So, one of OJ’s former lawyers thinks The Juice is crazy!?  Huh; who knew?

I’m always kinda fascinated by ticket prices.  Tennessee just realeased what they’ll be charging for single game tickets next season.  Not surprising, they didn’t increase prices.  My guess is they would have had a rough go at convincing people to pay even more considering how…what’s the word…disappointing last season was.  How much do you guys feel comfortable paying when it comes to tickets?

The Rambling Wreck just landed one of the top basketball recruits.

This is another one of those stories that earns Rick Reilly a bit more of that large paycheck.

So, who expected USC’s Mark Sanchez to declare for the draft and Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford to forego the draft?  Definitely not me.  I expected the exact opposite, actually.  Trey and I previously gave you our preseason Top 5 and this somewhat unexpected news changes mine for sure.  Yeah, Oklahoma is losing a large portion of their immovable O-line, but they’ve usually got good depth with replacement guys chomping at the bit to get some action.  And, USC’s got Arkiesaw primadona Mitch Mustain (and his coach-killing mom) waiting in the wings to take over for Sanchez.  All that being said, I feel it’s necessary to drop USC from my top 5 and replace them with Oklahoma.  Side note – the 2009 season will be the first in history to see all of the top three vote-getters (Bradford, Colt McCoy, and Tim Tebow) for the Heisman return to school. 

Has anybody mentioned this around here yet or are we avoiding inciting some rage from Sparty?  Is there such a thing as a life coach for famous people?  Athletes who seem to always be enveloped by drama are usually responsible for attracting said drama into their lives.  Somebody get Plax a life coach to call plays for him off the field…STAT!  Speaking of Plax and crazy wide receivers in general, Tom Coughlin said he’s “not ready” to welcome Plax back to the locker room just yet while, in the meantime, Ed Werder and his mustache are reporting that sources say TO may be released by the ‘Boys.

It took the Kings 52 minutes and 58.6 seconds to get past the Warriors…the Lakers lost to the Spurs on a walk-off travel…the Thunder increased their season win total by 16.7% just by beating the Jazz…Chris Paul came just 3 steals shy of a quadruple double in a Hornets win over the Mavs…and some other games happened too.

Obligatory baseball link…incase you don’t want to read it either, the cliff notes are that the Yankees are mean.

Here’s an appropriate comparison: the situation with Oregon State basketball compared to the one Obama will inherit in just a few days.  Those are aptly comparable, right?

#1 Pitt, #2 Wake, and #3 Duke all rolled to W’s last night…the #7 Sparty’s survived the one-time Johnson City, TN native-led Nittany Lions…the #8 ‘Cuse were taken down by the #13 Hoyas…the rest of the college roundball scores.

Conan seems to feel the same way the rest of us do about the annoying Fox robot:

I’ll leave you with a bit of sad news from the past week on two fronts.  The first being that the Petty/Gillete Evernham merger is off to a bit of a rocky start.  And, the second is the death of a notable “Hee Haw” cast member, Jim Hager of the the Hagar Twins (raise your hand if you’ve ever seen an episode of “Hee Haw”).

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