Eight and then a throw down to second.

Why is anyone at Michigan concerned that Les Miles wouldn't come? Try this experiment. Hire a good offensive and defensive coordinator and someone to head up the recruiting. Then put a hat rack on the sideline wearing a Michigan cap and some official logo merchandise. Put a head set on it. I'm thinking you've got nine wins right there.

Was there a single TV analyst who thought the Jets would beat the Dolphins? It was just too easy to pick Miami, what with the law of averages on your side. The sad truth is Miami probably isn't going to win a game this season, and most pro football insiders are guessing their point spreads off.

A lot of noise over the Jason Whitlock column in which he suggested that when the killers of Sean Taylor were found they would be African-American. Consider this. Seventy percent of the killers of caucasians are white. Eighty percent of the killers of African-Americans are black. So, it isn't like Whitlock said anything illogical, but it's also the case he didn't say anything particularly profound.

Bowie Kuhn in the Hall of Fame? And Marvin Miller doesn't make it? Try this test. If Kuhn was never commissioner what would be different today? Nothing. In Miller wasn't head of the player's union, what's the difference? Everything. The Hall of Fame is well on the way to became a farce.

Jimmie Johnson won the Cup again this year. Won it last year. Might win it again next year. Could you pick him out of a lineup? Do you know anything about him? Do you know who finished third in the chase? Didn't think so. Don't believe the hype. NASCAR isn't the number two sport in America. More like 3a, somewhere between the NBA and NHL.

Oh, so you believe the NBA is number 2? Does anyone here play roto basketball? Could the NBA sustain crowds of 30,000 plus a night for an 82 game schedule? Anyone here know anything about the history of the game before Bill Russell? Or, maybe I should say Michael Jordan? Is the quality of play improving every year?

NHL players want to do away with the instigator rule and return to the days when enforcers made the instigator think twice about taking out more highly skilled players. Fighting would increase, violent career threatening collisions away from the puck would drop away to nothing. I think the players are onto something.

O.J. Mayo watch. #26 in the nation in scoring (21.0). Good. One hundred sixteen shots and only twenty-one free throw attempts in seven games. Not so good. Still USC is 6-1, losing only to Mercer in an opener where Mayo took twenty-seven shots. Wait and see, wait and see.

And the ball sails into center field.