Random Jottings

...if Donovan McNabb didn’t have a concussion (the Eagles claim he was uninjured), then the only possible explanation for the reports of his getting sick in the huddle before the end of the Super Bowl is a panic attack. If this is so, how does this guy move forward? He will probably be fine, but would you venture that it’s a decent possibility that this guy goes Donnie Moore? Not suicide, mind you, but that his career is never the same.

...and now that Pierre Pierce is on his way to a stretch in Anamosa, can the University of Iowa finally get rid of the real problem with its basketball program? I’m speaking of Steve “The Hair Doesn’t Move” Alford. This man is an enabler and an apologist for some bad kids. He gives the rest of the university a bad image (I can’t believe that Kirk Ferentz is too thrilled to have to share the occasional banquet dais with Alford). It should be easy to lose Alford after this season. Even though the Pierce situation should be enough cause for firing, there’s the easier reason – the team isn’t winning.

...now Jim Caple chimes in on the Sammy Sosa trade. He chides Cubs fans for being too quick to want Sosa out of town. What’s funny about this hack job is the sheer number of “to be sure” paragraphs (I count three out of a sixteen paragraph essay). You know, when an author acknowledges and dismisses the evidence that makes their point wrong. Go ahead and read it, but be sure you understand that Caple has already acknowledged that we who wanted Sammy gone are in the right.