Sports news/commentary

Gruden joins 'Monday Night Football'
Gotta love Kornheiser. Everybody was excited when he first joined MNF, but even he agreed that it never really worked. Now, not only am I excited about PTI's possible return to prominence, but I think the Monday Night booth has potential to be its best in years.

Jaws is hands down the best analyst in football right now, so good that a two man booth with he and the consumate professional Tirico alone would've made for a great team. However, Gruden is the perfect final piece. He is a smart, interesting football insider coming off an extremely successful tenure with the Bucs, but since he is new to the booth, we shouldn't have to worry about him talking too much. I look forward to Tirico providing the glue while Jaws and Gruden combine for interesting analysis and debate. Finally, ESPN makes a decision benefiting the intelligent fan.

Sources: Wall picks Kentucky
Wall, the top rated point guard coming out of high school is a ridiculous athlete, and this decision has huge ramifications on the entire college basketball landscape. I don't know what kind of recruiting Callipari does, but wow that guy must be persuasive. Kentucky is already a national contender, months into his tenure there. For the sake of college basketball, I really hope that there is no foul play involved.

Source: Favre doesn't want surgery
Whether or not Favre has surgery, whether or not he joins the Vikings, whether or not he is obviously just waiting for offseason workouts to pass before signing, everybody short of Tony Dungy is tired of this story (yeah...Dungy is that patient).

But the thing that bothers me most is the big deal about his "injury" last year. A partially torn biceps tendon is a NON-ISSUE. The tendon that Favre tore is completely unneccesary, so much so that the easiest way to fix it is...completing the rupture! There is no structural damage to the body, and the pain that Favre might be presently feeling would be vanquished completely. John Elway won the Superbowl without that tendon!

Any excuses Favre has from last season that have to do with this injury are laughable. If he is still feeling pain from his performance, that is a different issue, but I really don't want to hear about this tendon anymore.

And if you must know, as much as I would love to see the Jets get even more screwed over by this whole ordeal, I really hope Favre doesn't join the Vikings. He may not realize it, but doing so would tarnish his Packer legacy, and that's just not right for football.