-The Clemson game Saturday is a lot bigger than any media outlet will recognize.  As interesting as the Indiana/Michigan State game will be (yawn), it’s an absolute travesty that Clemson doesn’t get anymore respect to be placed on at least ESPN2 for their noon game with Maryland.  Heck, the Tigers are a top 20 team after all!

 

-Baseball season is winding down, and though I’m curious to see how the Rays handle the pressure-packed post season, I’ll otherwise be largely disinterested in it all.  I will however be wishing for both the Red Sox and Cubs to fall flat on their face.  Say what you will about the Lovable Losers tag on the Cubs, but I don’t like ‘em. 

 

-It only makes sense the person that hacked into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account was a University of Tennessee student.  Maybe instead of trying to get into the potential VP’s e-mail, they should’ve hacked into Urban Meyer’s playbook.

 

-Good for the Giants.  They suspended Plaxico Burress for not showing up to a team meeting the other night.  It wasn’t even so much that he didn’t show up, but that he didn’t give any reason for not showing.  His agent says Plax had a “family emergency”.  That’s all well and good, but you still let your employer know.  It’s just part of the job, whether you make $30,000 a year or $10,000,000 a year.

 

-Is it bad that playing fantasy sports is a requirement now to get me the slightest bit interested in the NBA?

 

-You gotta love the Steinbrenners.  First time in 13 years the Yanks don’t make the playoffs, and all of the sudden Hank hasn’t been liking the playoff system since the wild-card inception.  How funny!  THe same system that snuck the Yankees into the back door for some years is suddenly no good.  Here’s to hoping Joe Torre wins the World Series WITH Yankee nemesis Manny Ramirez, and carries the trophy into the House That Ruth Built for it’s final ceremony in November.