Biggest stink was two beat writers, one from New York and one from Minneapolis, leaving Pedro off their AL MVP ballot altogether in some sort of anti-pitcher protest. As if the one guy on the field who has to do something before anyone else can even move somehow isn't valuable. No, that's not the size of the Junior mint it'll take to sign Ken Griffey. That's the total coin The Eye offered to keep March Madness under its tent through the year 2013. First, CBS will pay the NCAA more each year for three weekends of college hoops than it does for an entire five months worth of NFL games.
Nice guys do indeed finish last.
If you believe the Baby Blue spinmeisters, Tar Heel football coach Carl Torbush is the nicest human being to grace our small planet since Gandhi wore diapers. Players quit, fans stayed away in droves, boosters were peeved and sports talk radio callers melted their cell phones. Been nice knowin' ya. Can't get much gloomier in the City of Brotherly Love these days as the local politicos have succeeded in thoroughly bottling up any plans the Phillies and Eagles might have had to play in new stadiums any time soon. Outgoing Mayor Ed Rendell, last seen meddling in the Iggs draft plans this past April, admitted his office can't submit a package to City Council before his term's up.