As I mentioned before being back in school sucks.

 It ain't nothing compared to what has transpired in the past few days. Since Sunday my wife has taken ill with a horrible bout of the flu. I woke up this morning to find out that the toilet in my basement erupted like a bubbling, gurgling volcano spewing toilet paper and feces and who the hell knows what else all over my basement. As I write this I have an extraction company wet vacuuming the carpet and removing it as the water and seepage is sewage and therefore, hazardous. Hey, you don't have to tell me. I walked in it. I also have a plumber down there trying to ascertain the damage level of the pipes and seeing if he can get it repaired. The only good thing about this mess is that the kids at school are doing without me today. After the field trip yesterday, they are probably relieved. But it also gave me time to peruse the Fox sports site and I found a few other things that make me think...What the hell is going on here?

Tommy Morrison is staging a comeback.

CHESTER, W.Va. (AP) - Former WBO heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison is staging a comeback, saying Tuesday that a positive HIV test that ended his career more than a decade ago was inaccurate.

 

"I'm negative and I've always been negative and that should be the end of it," Morrison said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

 The 38-year-old will face John Castle in a four-round fight Thursday at Mountaineer Racetrack and Gaming Resort.

 "The rug was yanked out from under my feet by a misdiagnosis," he said. "All I want to do is fight. ... It's unfinished business."

 State Athletic Commissioner Steve Allred said Tuesday he approved Morrison's participation in the fight after reviewing medical records and consulting with the Association of Boxing Commissions' medical review committee. Allred said confidentiality laws prevent him from discussing Morrison's medical history or the records he reviewed.

 West Virginia does not have mandatory blood testing for boxers.

 "I assure you that West Virginia is doing due diligence to make sure everyone who steps into the ring is healthy," Allred said.

Well ain't that something? Terrible Tommy is coming back to the ring. He's healthy as a horse and now he wants to take care of  "unfinished business." I think everyone deserves a second chance if the circumstances are right. Are they now? I have a wife and family. I will eventually die of something. But I'm still not sure I would want to venture into the ring with a guy who at one time had been diagnosed with a life threatening illness that is spread through the transfer of body fluids. That, of course, is suggesting that he would hit me so hard I would bleed (an almost certainty) and that I would have done the same thing to him (Not unless I had a bazooka). Well, whatever works for Tommy, West Virginia and John Castle, his opponent. To tell you the truth, I always wished Rocky Balboa would have taken him out in a much bigger way than he did. You go, Tommy!

Let's see, what else is there. Oh, hey, look at the Cub's go!

The Chicago Cubs and right-hander Carlos Zambrano settled their arbitration case Tuesday, agreeing to a one-year, $12.4 million contract and avoiding a potentially divisive hearing.

 

Zambrano had requested $15.5 million in arbitration. The Cubs were offering $11.025 million. The settlement figure, while below the midpoint of $13.2625 million, represents the largest salary ever for an arbitration-eligible pitcher, topping the $9.9 million salaries awarded to Kevin Millwood in 2003 and Chan Ho Park in 2001.

 Zambrano earned $6.5 million last season while going 16-7 with a 3.41 ERA and 210 strikeouts.

 With Zambrano's agreement, the Cubs have now officially spent over $300 million this off-season, a new baseball record. And that figure does not even include the money spent to bring on new manager Lou Piniella.

 The Cubs committed nearly $300 million to retain and bring in free agents before reaching an agreement with Zambrano. They re-signed third baseman Aramis Ramirez for $75 million over five years, and signed outfielder Alfonso Soriano to an eight-year, $136 million deal. They also brought in starting pitchers Ted Lilly and Jason Marquis.

 Those moves came after they hired manager Lou Piniella following a 96-loss season.

This is great. The Cub's must have figure out that Kerry Wood and Mark Prior are no longer the answer. Wow! Took them long enough. So now they have position players and a few new pitchers signed for big dough. Provided these guys are worth the dough the Cubs now have to hope that on the rare occasion when an opponent puts the ball in play they don't hit to somewhere other than third base or whatever outfield Soriano is patrolling on that day. Piniella earns every cent of whatever he is making this year if he can out smart opposing hitters and keep Soriano in the right one. Hey, until spring training gets well under way, the Cubs and their fans are grinning the big grins. Go Cubbies

There is more. I wasn't going to go here but I couldn't resist. Barry Bonds is back and he is having FUN!

"Let them investigate. Let them, they've been doing it this long," Bonds said Tuesday after his first workout this year with the San Francisco Giants. "It doesn't weigh on me at all - at all. It's just you guys talking. It's just media conversation."

 Bonds and Zito had a little fun, coming out of the clubhouse at one point in matching black T-shirts with this orange writing on the back: "DON'T ASK ME ... ASK BARRY," each with an arrow that pointed at the other Barry. Zito, who threw to Bonds this winter at UCLA, stood on the left with his arrow aimed at Bonds.

 

I love this. Whether or not they find anything in their investigation is not the issue here. Barry is telling them to do their thing. Why not, he's going to do his. And he obviously couldn't care less about making all better with the media. "It's just you guys talking. It's just media conversation." I don't really care who likes him and who hates him. I think he is a great baseball player and it is great to see him having some fun. The Barry T-shirts is great. Maybe he isn't such a horrible teammate. I think he will pass Aaron this year and he will end up in the HOF. But I'm not going to debate it with anyone. I'm going to watch a guy play ball this year and hopefully enjoy himself while he does. Go get 'em (it), Barry.

 

Alright, one last thing. Makes me think of the end of the movie Slap Shot.

 

NORTH LOGAN, Utah - A University of Southern California hockey goalie put on a show, but it had nothing to do with stopping shots.

 Mickey Meyer rode his stick like a horse, dropped his bulky pants, mooned the crowd and slapped his buttocks during a game against Brigham Young University, police said.

 He was ejected and ticketed for lewdness, a misdemeanor, after an officer who was working security at the rink said he witnessed the scene Saturday.

 "I had my fill of these refs," Meyer said on an Internet broadcast of the game, according to The Herald-Journal of Logan.

 Meyer's antics occurred while play was stopped and referees were trying to sort out penalties in the third period of a consolation game in the ACHA West Regional tournament at Eccles Ice Center.

 The junior from Clinton, N.Y., was "riding his hockey stick like a horse and slapping his butt," North Park Officer Mike Stauffer said in a report.

 After pulling down his pants, Meyer slapped his bare bottom several times, Stauffer said.

 Mickey Meyer. Plays hockey for USC. Had his fill of the refs! Hmmm, rode his hockey stick like a horse while whacking his bare butt. Nothing like representing your school, your teammates and yourself with a high level of dignity and respect. Oh, but wait, it's all the officials fault. Of course it is. They were playing in Utah and couldn't score any PAC 10 officials (I'm sorry about that one but...). Actually I couldn't care less about who officiated this game or who officiates this league. What bothers me is that in a time when hockey across the board (NHL, Collegiate, Juniors, etc., etc.) is trying to promote the game and the dignity of it by making it faster, cleaner, more skill based and more fan friendly, goog ol' Mickey has to help drop it a few notches by playing ride 'em cowboy on his hockey stick with his ass hangin' out. Oh, well. He can deal with the misdemeanor and the fine. And mommy and daddy can wipe his nose and pat him on the head and send hm off to the real world. Oh, wait, he's in college. Point made.

 

Uh, oh! Here comes the plumber and he isn't smiling and there is clumps of brown stuff on him. I guess I'm about to find out what the hell is going on here!

 

And that's the bottom line...

Go Sooners!

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