Considering his quarterback's alleged but reported involvement with dog fighting, think Bobby Petrino already misses good ol' boring Brian Brohm?
My reply to those who argue Kentucky kept its word by paying the University of Massachusetts the stipulated $50,000 to cancel that previously scheduled November basketball game: Just because it's legal, doesn't make it right.
Maybe the business whizzes at UK need the revenue from another Rupp Arena home game to make up for the lost revenue the school squandered by not selling off the Memorial Coliseum floor instead of pitching it into the nearest trash bin.
Quote of the week comes from Ashley Judd on Jimmy Kimmel Live, when asked about her beloved Cats signing Patrick Patterson: "Duke's unhappy, so I'm happy."
Television ratings for the Preakness dropped 9 percent. So much for that mini-revival you might have read about (blush).
The only way ABC might increase its putrid ratings for the nobody-cares NBA playoffs is to have Apolo Anton Ohno and Julianne Hough perform the fox trot at halftime.
Oh, how "Big Baby" has fallen. The Web site nbadraft.
net projects LSU's Glen Davis to be the 50th player selected in the June 28th NBA Draft.
Stat of the week: Monday's NCAA lacrosse title game, in which Johns Hopkins defeated Duke, drew 48,443 to Baltimore's M T Bank Stadium.
Any story that includes a friend (Teresa Prewett) of a head coach (Arkansas' Houston Nutt) sending that head coach's quarterback (Mitch Mustain) an e-mail that contains the sentence, "Was it so your mommie could be close by to change your diaper .
.. ?
" -- as did a USA Today story yesterday -- is a story worth reading.
The Chicago Tribune's Steve Rosenbloom reports Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood is "apparently on track to disappoint everyone sometime after the All-Star break."
When the Reds were winning last year, General Manager Wayne Krivsky tinkered with the Cincinnati roster like a madman.
This year, with the reeling Reds losing at a rampant pace, Krivsky sits on his cell phone.
One good Krivsky non-move: Keeping Homer Bailey in the minors. The Reds need not risk their one good young arm.
n Could it be just coincidence that the runner-up on American Idol and the runner-up in the NBA Draft Lottery are both from Seattle? I think not.
With Paris Hilton soon off to jail, Kobe Bryant is now officially the biggest diva in Los Angeles.
Roger Clemens is so old he remembers when the Yankees used to be good.
Greg Oden looks old enough to remember the last time the Portland Trail Blazers were good.
Marvin Lewis said Cincinnati police have been "profiling" his Bengals.
Perhaps Lewis should have read some of those profiles first.
Hometown hero Mario Pino was the toast of Baltimore for finishing second in the Kentucky Derby. There went his 15 minutes.
After Pino's premature move aboard hard-luck Hard Spun in the Preakness, trainer Larry "Cowboy" Jones has booted the jockey off the mount for the Belmont.
New Alabama football coach Nick "Go The Extra Mile" Saban is working so hard for that $4.5 million annual salary he has allegedly been talking to recruits even when it's not allowed.
Think all that talk about Billy Donovan's potential exodus to the NBA is crawling under Athletics Director Jeremy Foley's bronzed skin?
"You guys keep writing about Gator basketball," Foley told the Orlando Sentinel last week. "We love it.
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Next year's ultimate recruiting challenge will feature Kentucky versus nearly everyone else for Indiana big man Tyler Zeller, most valuable player in last weekend's Tournament of Champions.
Pro Football Weekly's 2007 preview, on newsstands now, picks the Bengals to finish 10-6. No, that's not 10 indictments and six arrests.
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