Greetings from a springtime London. OK, so after drinking wine all last night with the lady, and drinking beers in the pub all afternoon with the boyz, here are some sports related things that have crossed my mind recently.

1. Can the NFL not ban Drew Rosenhaus? He may be a power agent, but he's more importantly a major pain in the #### and causes nothing but trouble for NFL franchises, while in-turn giving all of his clients god complexes.

2. Why do NFL teams who finish with the lowest regular season record automatically have the first draft pick? Surely it would be better if the team could evaluate the draft talent and then pick what number they want to select a player. Its not the case this year, but surely the 49ers would rather not have put 50mill into Alex Smith pockets last year but they were unable to find suitable value for a trade out.

3. Why are NBA deals guaranteed? This really gets on my end. If you suck at your job, and your boss doesn't think you are worth paying - he gets rid of you. In the NBA you sign a big deal at around 30, when you are well past your prime and you often end up making massive cash either sitting on the bench and playing a few minutes a night, or sitting at home (whats up Penny Hardaway?). Don't you think some teams would love to just cut half there roster but can't as the money they've signed on for is guaranteed? Bet your #### if they were like NFL deals, some players would be playing harder to ensure their house looks fly on the next episode of cribs.

4. Why isn't the NFL season longer? Yeah, i know its fast, furious and causes injuries but do teams really need 7/8 months of the year playing pitch and catch, working out, and learning playbooks, and then playing the boring pre-season (the biggest cause of irritating injuries). So NFL, please extend the season to either 18 or 20 regular season games - if your looking for a reason to do this  - money... !!!

5. Why do Universities try and cover up the issue of academic eligibility?  Look, there are 3 kinds of people in this world. The academically gifted, the physically gifted and the rare breed of person who is brilliant at everything (i hate them..!). Most athletes (mainly talking about football players here) aren't going to have astounding careers as scientists, writers, nobel prize winners etc. but in the current world of athletes earning more in a year than most working people earn in 40years - why is that important? So why do colleges say that their star athletes (who bring in huge revenue for them) are academically eligible, when they put their players on courses a 7yr old could pass - and invariably "assist" them through the course so they can continue partying, scoring with hot girls and using their god given gifts to star for them on saturday afternoons. I have no problem with Vince Young attending a good academic institution like UT, even if he couldn't tell a fork from a spoon. The guy was a great football player for them and did so much more for the longhorns than any math student could, but i do have  problem with people like Mack Brown coming out and saying how intelligent Vince and all his other players are. Hey Mack, scoring a 7 on the Wonderlic doesn't really say he's that bright does it? But he'll earn more money than any of us will ever see, and good luck to the kid - he deserves it.

6. There are too many NBA regular season games. Why play 82 reg season games. Why? Why 82? Its called diluting the product in advertising terms and when you have 3/4 games a week, it doesn't really make each game that special, does it? I'd rather they played around 60 each season,  making each game more meaningful and competitive and giving players more time to get and stray healthy.

7. The NFL salary cap is too complicated for normal fans. Teams have "cap guys" employed to work round this, so how can regular fans be expected to understand its inner workings? They should simplify it to saying "Every NFL team may have total salaries of up to 150million a year on a 53man roster, and they may spend it how they wish". Then, we can actually see where the money is going, and which players are value for money and more importantly who isn't.

8. Television adverts are the worst things for sports fans. Ever. A big game, a touchdown, 4mins left in the 4th quarter, game all square. 3 minute advert. Kickoff. 5 minute advert. WHY-OH-WHY are we subjected to this?? I'd rather the network showed back-2-back adverts for the entire halftime than ruining the atmosphere in my TV room /bar i'm in when i'm watching a big game in the closing moments. The same goes for basketball where the last 2 minutes takes 15 minutes to play. Sure take a timout, but it should only be allowed to be a 20seconds.

9. They don't show enough cheerleaders on TV coverage. Totally sexist, but something i feel very strongly aobut. If you are watching a completely suck #### game (eg.  ATL Hawks v NY Knicks, San Fran 49ers v Houston Texans - pre Reggie Bush) in the age of interactive television, shouldn't you be able to press a button on your remote and watch the game which just so happens to incorporate a nice view of the cheerleaders. I mean, its a win-win situation - we get to look at beautiful women (and its not even porn), and these girls get more exposure in the hope they can go on to bigger things such as Stacy Kiebler.

10. Will anyone is the US watch the FIFA World Cup in Germany this summer? I know, "soccer" isn't a big deal over there, but this is the biggest sporting event in the World (more TV viewers than the olympics!) and your boys are supposedly the 5th best team in the world. I don't care if MLS gets 3 men and a dog to watch games over there, but if the US public followed the world cup half as passionately as any other major sport over there - the world cup would get even better (even if thats possible..). But then again, do the US even care about national team success in any sport?

I'm off to get some aspirin.... Comments appreciated.