The Chicago Bears are assembling what most folks would consider an amazing fantasy football team- 3 years ago.

Additions like Roy Williams, Vernon Gholston, Amobi Okoye, and now Marion Barber puts General Manager Jerry Angelo even more on the brink than he was after trading his only remotely sucessful first round pick to date in TE Greg Olsen.

By the end of this season either the calls for his head will be too much to ignore or we will all anoint him the greatest GM of our era.

Like him or hate him, he's going balls deep this year. Part of me respects that.

As I tweeted yesterday, I give a lot of kudos to Peyton Manning point blank telling owner Jim Irsay (who is more than worth following on Twitter himself) that he doesn't need to be the highest paid player.

Manning reportedly felt it was more necessary to keep some other parts, i.e. RB Joseph Addai, and any more money than was necessary was unnecessary.

Now we can go back and forth about just how much a player and advertising magnet Manning really needs, but most players would all about making as much money as they possibly can. You have to tip your cap to the best quarterback of our era not getting consumed by his ego.

The Cleveland Indians are taking a calculated gamble on Ubaldo Jimenez. I know his numbers aren't exactly lighting the world on fire, but his road WHIP is 1.08 so part of me thinks that Coors Field was part of the problem.

Who knows, maybe we'll see a return to this:


I love how the internet lights up at the first possibility of a Duke basketball recruiting scandal. Apparently the venerable "Coach K" offered a scholarship when he wasn't supposed to.

It'll be curious to see if there's any kind of punishment for one of the more revered coaches in the history of basketball, not just college basketball.