I'm just going to insert myself into today's Sports Reporters
Jemele Hill, myself, Lupica, Bob Ryan, and Saunders today.
In no order
Ryan: I'm worried about Peyton's neck. Necks are tricky. I lived through this with Grogan once.
Saunders in parting shots: Now that Pryor is being suspended why doesn't Pete Carroll have to sit out some time? It seems the rules are the rules, and when they aren't, make them up
Lupica: Miami is the Casablanca of college football. I'm shocked! Shocked to find out there's gambling going on here.
Saunders: Both teams in the BCS final last year are under probation
Jemele Hill with the point of the day: Until the people at the top get punished nothing will change.
Lupica: You're right. A president of a university needs to go down.
Ryan: The delightful irony is that on Sept 17 Miami plays Ohio State
Lupica: For enough money they'll let you dot the i
Ryan: College football is a sham
Saunders: Shapiro wasn't even giving away his own money
Me: Apparently he wasn't giving away enough either, because despite putting a bounty on Tebow the guy still toasted them, and now he just laughs it off. Tebow is like the anti-sports anti Tiger, anti-Farve. Tebow for president, seriously.
Jemele Hill: Suh shouldn't change a thing about his game.
Ryan: The Phillies are finally acting like the big market team they are.
Lupica with the cliche' of the day: The Eagles haven't won a thing yet. I think they just signed Lebron and Chris Bosh
Me: [dang] you look fine today Jemele. And Mr. Saunders, who is your tailor I must know?
Lupica: Only race horses get paid less than college athletes
Me: A free education at Notre Dame or USC isn't a bucket of oats. Most kids graduate with thousands of dollars of debt. These kids don't and they get 5 years to do it fully knowing less than 2% of them will get to the pros. It's more a matter of being paid what they're worth, but a lot of them aren't worth more than that
Me: Lupica, can you take voice lessons please? Speaking of which, why hasn't Peter King ever been on this show?
Ryan: Congrats to Jim Thome for hitting 600 home runs. Nobody suspects him of juice either. Between him and Jeter that's two milestones in one year!
Me: I sorta do. Guilt by association.
Lupica: What evidence do you have?
Me: He's a pro baseball player
Jemele Hill: A pro baseball player who played through the roids era and hit a ton of homers
Me: Exactly. And I suspect Jeter too. I don't care if he's skinny. So is Tiger and something's up there too.
Saunders: That's apples and oranges
Me: I know it is.
Me in parting shots: I knooooowww Tebow has some "hitch" in his throwing arm, whatever that means. The hitch that didn't seem to hold him back from a Heisman and two rings in college. I knooowww he played in a spread system just like Bradford, McCoy, and Vince Young. I knnnoowwww he's a large mobile white quarterback and suddenly Brady Quinn and Kyle Orton are Joe Montana. But I just can't help but think that the same people that don't believe in Tebow are the same ones that exiled Doug Flutie to Canada for being too short before he emerged to change the game in the NFL. In the mean time whatever happened to having a team with players you can be proud of instead of winning at all costs? Doubt Tebow all you want. You're probably the same guy that believed in a great young prospect with no hitch in his arm named Ryan Leaf. Eeehhh?
Saunders: Don't make fun of my accent.
Me: That's not what that was aboot , but sorry.