Ryan Howard's father is being compared to the daddies of Eli Manning and Eric Lindros. Not good company.
I'm with this writer from Philadelphia on the idiot Eagle Mike Patterson right up to the point where the writer calls Patterson "insensitive" to Andy Reid because of Reid's sons' problems with drugs. And now I'm lost.
The 49ers should change their nickname to Sooners. Reason? You have to understand the genesis of the word "Sooner" in Oklahoma history, a state that was settled by people who cheated the early land rush by entering the Oklahoma territory too soon. Still they were rewarded with land. Hence, the state nickname Sooners. That's a great story, and I hope to hell I told it correctly.
Well look who's late to the party? This guy just figured out that Michael Jordan and Isiah Thomas were every bit as bad in the front office as they were good on the court.
Trent Johnson is winning huge at Stanford, where winning huge is inhumanly difficult, and after making him work toward the end of his contract the school is going to give him a three-year extension? That's nice. Stanford apparently doesn't appreciate what it has. Maybe the interest of other schools will send the message.
It turns out the Suns won't lose every single game now that they have Shaq. Whew.
Then again, in that game the Suns won, it was just Memphis.
That genius Pat Riley is finally starting to realize that he wasted a first-round draft pick on Daequan Cook, for every possible reason.
Roger Clemens' lawyer took time away from the Rocket to comment on the Rockets. Kind of confusing. But cool story.
Bartolo Colon is pleasantly plump.
OK, he's fat.
The original founder of the UFC -- not Dana White -- is putting on another promotion, and his first card is downright fascinating.
