The Detroit Lions recently signed veteran back Rudi Johnson after the Bengals cut him.  This meant that someone had to go.  This happens on every team in the NFL right now.  A player gets cut from one team and another signs them the next day.  Just another day in the NFL.  Teams are tweaking as many things as they can before the season starts including their rosters.

  This story comes from our friends at profootballtalk.com: "A strange thing happened to runningback Rudi Johnson when he visited the Detroit Lions on Monday.  Someone stole his stuff.  Johnson left his bags outside CEO Matt Millen’s office while he met with team officials and, ultimately, worked out a deal with the team. So when Johnson came back to get his bags, they were nowhere to be found.  Johnson and Millen were stumped.

Enter the eye in the sky. The team checked the videotapes generated by the team’s in-house surveillance system, and they quickly identified the culprit.

So who might it have been?  None other than Tatum Bell, who lost his gig with the Lions after Rudi arrived.

Per the source, Bell took the bags to the house of a female acquaintance.  When confronted on the matter, Bell offered up some cockamamie story that he thought the bags belonged to someone he knew.  The girl, however, said that she hadn’t seen Bell in several months and he showed up out of the blue and asked her to keep the bags for a while.

Johnson has retrieved the bags, and it’s our understanding that charges won’t be pressed."

At least he didn't go Najeh Davenport on him.  Najeh got back at an exgirlfriend in college by breaking into her dorm room and dropping a duece in her closet!  

It has become very apparent that ESPN has officially "jumped-the-shark". The term comes from the TV show Happy Days when the Fonz jumped a shark and many fans said that was the point of no return and that the show had run its course.

Now look at ESPN and Sportscenter. If you are a fan of the show and channell you know what I am talking about. Each night it is all Favre all the time. If they aren’t talking about Favre they are talking about Manny Ramirez. The empire known as ESPN has dumbed it coverage down severely.

Look at the amount of coverage teams get. The coverage has gone down to just a few teams IE: the Yankees, the Mets, the Red Sox, the Packers, and the Giants.

As a fantasy football owner I need a certain amount of equal coverage throughout the NFL and well as the MLB. In the golden years of ESPN they actually gave you stats of each game and covered almost every team.

Now as I try to watch all I get is where Favre is, what the Packers said today, what they will do tomorrow, what Brett ate last night, what kind of plane he flew in, video of it taking off and landing, three reporters breaking it down, and then a Manny Ramirez highlight.

Now is the time Fox Sports should be making their move. Fox needs to assemble the old crew to have a full hour long nightly highlight show with details of all the games and stats. Fox should also incorporate a nightly football show. They have the rights to almost every local baseball game because of them being on Fox Sports Net and are the home of the NFC in football.

ESPN has dropped the ball of sports and should completely revamp now before they lose all of us forever. I have not seen any news out of 25 or more NFL teams, news about the Minnesota Twins rolling into first place without any big names, Olympics coming up (other than USA basketball), and the lack of balanced coverage through each league.

I don’t expect ESPN to cover my Lions for 10 minutes every night, but at least tell me about training camp battles around the NFL!

 ESPN isn’t the only all-Favre-all-the-time station. Try listening to national sports radio. If you flip fast enough through each chanell you would think it was the same conversation. Enough is enough. I am embarrassed for you that all you have is another take on the same topics regurgitated over and over.