1. If you could take away any sport which one would it be and why?

Without a doubt, I would pick football, the sport with no off-season.

Don't get my wrong.  I'm not one of those anti-Kiper types who think the NFL draft shouldn't overshadow "real" sporting events or that live television coverage of the Combine is a sign of the impending Apocalypse. 

The problem is I love football too much. 

I start every morning by checking out the sports pages on the Philadelphia Inquirer's website.  It's baseball season, so the previous night's box score should be my first stop, right?  Nope.  Straight to the Eagles section.  And I read every piece.  Even those stupid puff pieces about how much the players give back to the community. 

(In some cases, the same players who will claim that the media "never writes about any good things" the next time they get in trouble with the law.)

Then I check out ProFootballTalk.com, which has some of the best football gossip around.  But in the off-season, they don't have much to talk about, so they end up writing multiple 600-word posts about the search process for the new GM of the Houston Texans.  I'll read that too.

At lunch time, I'll read everything else.  Peter King and Dr. Z.  Mini-camp reports.  Interviews with fourth-string tailbacks on PhiladelphiaEagles.com. 

Heck, I'm so desperate I'll even see what the writers on FoxSports.com have to say. 

It's an addiction.  A sickness.

Please. Make. Football. Go. Away.  For a little while.  Come back in August, with training camps.  Until then, let me be. 

2. You could go into the past and meet with someone who would it be?

Jim Fregosi, October 22, 1993.  I'd buy the man a beer and tell him under NO circumstances should he consider putting Mitch Williams into the next day's game.

If that didn't work, I'd take a bus over to the Blue Jays' hotel and knee-cap Joe Carter. 

3. If you played in a sport, what position would you want to play at?

I covered this pretty extensively in a previous blog post, but I would definitely pick starting quarterback of a Super Bowl team.  Unfortunately, if I were a character in Madden, my speed, arm strength/accuracy and pain threshold figures would all be in the medium-to-low single digits.  So that was never going to happen.

Had I not grown up in the United States, I think winning a gold medal in a sport that was typically associated with my country and its people would be just an incredible moment.