• Jerry Jones wouldn't possibly trade Marion Barber, a No. 2 pick and a No. 1 pick just to move up and get Darren McFadden. Would he?

• Days before the Super Bowl kickoff, the city of Boston is already planning a victory parade.

• An incredible story in a Seattle newspaper makes clear just how bad a guy Jerramy Stevens was, and possibly still is. Stevens now plays for the Bucs. The Bucs reaction? That didn't happen under our watch. "Bucs" rhymes with "sucks" for a reason.

• Danny Ferry hasn't done jack to help out LeBron James, and now James is on the offensive: Get me Jason Kidd, he says.

• So what made the Twins gets off their rear end and finally trade Johan Santana? Johan Santana made them. Good for him. They were jerking him around, so now it was his turn.

• I'm not an Ohio State fan, but I sincerely hope this stud recruit chooses the Buckeyes over Michigan. Rich-Rod has turned my stomach. He doesn't deserve this kid.

• Meanwhile, stubborn mule Joe Paterno won't get the hint that the aforementioned stud recruit doesn't like Penn State.

• Reebok's new shoes will smell like Kool-Aid. I would have preferred Hawaiian Punch.

• The season of The Ultimate Fighter 7 will feature 32 fighters! Used to be 16, but these guys will be fighting just to get into the house. Should be a zoo.

• UConn coach Jim Calhoun is warring with his athletics director over the treatment of two of his players, who might or might not be druggies. It sounds like the AD is trying to find the truth. And it sounds like Calhoun doesn't want to know.

• How much does it cost to be a gigantic jerk? For Terrell Owens, it came to $2.49 million.

• Not only does Plaxico Burress say the Giants will beat New England. He gave the final score.

• After attacking Michael Vick, PETA is going to leave alone the player who castrated lambs with his teeth.

• A computer ran the Super Bowl 101 different times. New York won 12. So you're telling me there's a chance!

• If you're a nutso fan, there's hope for you, too. This guy did such a good job of being a Clippers fan that the Mavericks offered him a job. Mark Cuban is out there.

• Sonics ball hog Kevin Durant is starting to tick off his teammates.

• Not even George Brett wanted to hang out at George Brett's restaurant. No wonder it closed.

• The Texas football team has the lowest graduation rate in the Big 12, and for that coach Mack Brown was grilled by the faculty.

• Hulk Hogan won't admit to the world he's bald. In addition to that, his estranged wife says he has basically stolen millions of dollars.

• Here's the next guy to feel Houston Alexander's wrath. Assuming Alexander has learned something, anything, about the ground game.

• Nevada is going to start testing MMA fighters for steroids based in part on the fighter's physique. Good.

• UCLA fans giddy about the return of Rick Neuheisel need to understand what kind of sleaze their new coach is: He once let this scumbag play an entire season at Washington. And how about that incompetent, intimidated Seattle police department?

• David Beckham is -- seriously -- being labeled as the biggest polluter on earth.

• To come back to this team in this role, Dave Campo must have no pride. Or no other decent job prospects.

• Sixers guard Louis Williams is going to have a radio show unlike any you've ever heard.

• Why do so many NFL teams want to hire Pete Carroll?

• Here's the latest guy who will turn down Alabama's Nick Saban.

• After pitching a fit and sounding sort of like a baby, Aggies basketball coach Mark Turgeon is trying to grow up.

• Interesting. The once exciting, and now disappointing, Andrei Arlovski could be finished soon in the UFC.

• Get your early look at some of the next cast of the Ultimate Fighter reality show.

• Tom Brady has two Boston cops assigned to cover his back. The sports world has gone crazy.

• Although he lived in West Virginia for years, up to and including the moment he walked away from his contract, Rich Rodriguez is trying to get his $4 million lawsuit with WVU heard in Michigan. What a sleaze.

• Gregg Marshall lit it up at Winthrop, but so far he sucks at Wichita State.

• Something tells me the fawning over offensive coordinator Jason Garrett hasn't gone over well with the other Dallas Cowboys staffers. Otherwise, where did this story come from?

• The Mitchell Report practically named a 25-man roster of Yankees, but George Steinbrenner's idiot son says the dynasty is legit. Or was legit.

• UFC fraud Michael Bisping has a smaller body but continues to have the same big mouth.

• Did you know the UFC has a Hall of Fame? Apparently there are just four members. Soon to be five. And No. 5 is a strange choice.

• Read between the lines, or let me do it for you: The Dolphins are afraid of screwing up the No. 1 pick. Also in that link is an explanation of how the Dolphins are retooling their awful defense with failed college coaches. Excellent strategy.

• Oh brother. One of the Giants' defensive ends is calling out a Patriots offensive lineman as being a dirty player. This might come up during Super Bowl week.

• Cedrick Wilson's troubled ex-girlfriend told the Steelers receiver she tried to shoot herself but missed her head.

• I told you a few days ago Brett Favre would milk this thing. He's unbelievable. Make a decision, wishy-washy.

• Channing Crowder wrecked his car and fled. Bad idea. So was leaving the gun in the wreckage.

• Busted NBA druggie David Harrison fights for his right to smoke pot. The clichéd idiot.

• If Paul Lo Duca is guilty of using HGH and so forth, even his good friend David Wright of the Mets says throw the book at him.

• Give him credit: Rick Majerus refuses to back down from his stance on abortion, even if it gets him fired.

• And give Tim Floyd credit for falling on O.J. Mayo's sword.

• Oh Lord the New York Post is trying to figure out if Tom Brady uses hair plugs.

• D.J. Shockley's father has some explaining to do.

• Excellent commentary on UFC Fight Night 12.

• I always felt USC freshman basketball player O.J. Mayo might draw the interest of the NCAA, for whatever reason. But I didn't see this coming.

• As for the USC football team, those Trojans will do anything to get a stud recruit, including getting his brother as a transfer.

• If it was (almost) anybody but Rick Majerus, I might agree with this defense of his freedom of speech. But Majerus is a jerk, plain and simple, and whether it's for his commentary on abortion or something else, jerks need to be put in their place on occasion. Look at me, for example.

• This is no laughing matter, but I do wonder how -- in the macho world of an NFL locker room -- it will play that Steelers receiver Cedrick Wilson had to seek legal protection from his girlfriend.

• Will testy Alabama coach Nick Saban ever hire an offensive coordinator?

• A month after the Mitchell Report outed steroids and HGH users, a pitcher for the Rockies announced he has put on 15 pounds for next season. Not to worry. This dude was super skinny, and needed to add weight. If you're into fantasy sports, pick this guy early.

• The owner of the Clippers gave an ultimatum to coach Mike Dunleavy. One day later, Dunleavy gave as good as he got.

• Even his own head coach knows former No. 1 overall pick Andrea Bargnani is softer than a spider web.

• Jason McDonald fears that his opponent for UFC 82 -- a rematch with Joe Doerksen -- is a sign from the UFC that his career is in neutral. Bitching about it probably won't help much.

• Four of the five fighters from the TUF 5 show won their fights Wednesday night.

• Ever so gently, an Indianapolis columnist is calling Tony Dungy a hypocrite. And he makes a great case. Why did this family man move his family to Tampa, only to return to the Colts?

• We already suspected Philip Rivers, playing on a torn ACL, was one tough SOB for playing in the AFC title game. Turns out we had no idea. He also was playing six days after an arthroscopic knee procedure.

• After being called dirty (among other things) by a San Diego offensive lineman, the Patriots' Richard Seymour lashed back.

• Both Super Bowl quarterbacks prefer blondes. I can't believe I read that in a big-city paper. I really I can't believe I linked to it.

• Terry Bradshaw is awfully gutsy until he's face-to-face with Tom Coughlin.

• Who's running New York Knicks, the Gestapo?

• I'm guessing this will come up during Super Bowl week: New England receiver Donte Stallworth has an alter-ego from Mars.

• In this attack piece on Tom Brady, it seems as if the New York Post has completely lost its mind.

• Over-the-hill Tito Ortiz says the UFC threw him a weak fight by pitting him against Lyoto Machida. Ortiz should ask Rich Franklin about Machida. Or ask Stephan Bonner. Or Sokoudjou. Or ...

• Nate Diaz has had enough of Manny Gamburyan's whining. Preach it, brother.

• A former UCLA basketball player is playing professionally in Japan and even changed his last name to Sakuragi. Dude. Please.

• Brett Favre says he'll decide quickly whether to retire. I'm calling bullcrap. He'll milk this thing for all it's worth, because that's what he does. He's either a drama king, or he's Macbeth.

• I'm not saying a word about LaDainian Tomlinson's inability to play with an injury -- seriously -- but it turns out Philip Rivers is one tough SOB.

• He's also one chaste SOB.

• And it turns out angelic Dwight Howard isn't as chaste as he said he was.

• St. Louis' Scott Spiezio has lost that red goatee and added rock-n-roll to his repertoire.

• June Jones left Hawaii for SMU, and took a stud recruit with him. Classless.

• Speaking of runaway recruits, this fickle fast dude better be worth all this trouble.

• Japanese sensation Bob Sapp will make his American MMA debut in February.

• Here's the enormous stiff Sapp will fight. And I do mean enormous.

• The Cardinals are thinking of inviting suspected steroid user Juan Gonzalez to spring training. McGwire, Canseco, Rick Ankiel, Troy Glaus, now Gonzalez ... Tony La Russa has no shame.

• Happy to say I believed Randy Moss from the get-go when he denied hitting that woman in Florida. I believe him even more after reading how much money she wanted to extort from Moss to keep the whole thing quiet.

• If Dungy goes, the Colts' next coach apparently will be the guy who "coached" Peyton Manning. You could have coached Peyton Manning.

• Nice raffle by Chad Johnson. He offered a car, then gave it to his girlfriend. Self-centered move by a self-centered guy.

• To explain Andrew Bynum's injury to the dumb media, the Lakers' trainer brought a skeleton to the press conference. You think it was Mark Landsberger's skeleton? Whatever happened to that guy anyway?

• Former Notre Dame receiver Jeff Samardzija has a shot at making the Chicago team. The Chicago Cubs, that is.

• The Braves and local government officials kept quiet their plans to move the Triple A team near Atlanta and build a $45 million stadium. Isn't that illegal?

• Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez is now being mocked by TV car ads in West Virginia.

• Frustrated by the slow career arc of MMA oddity Kimbo Slice? Bas Rutten explains what's going on.

• Speaking of Kimbo, he and opponent Tank Abbott had one hell of a phone call. The media was listening.

• UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra called interim champ Georges St. Pierre "Frenchy" in an interview, and GSP is all kinds of pissed off.

• Through his attorney, new Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez denies (of course) having anything to do with the theft of personnel documents at West Virginia.

• In a bizarre move that might be classy but is definitely homer-ish, a Detroit paper has reprinted an old article for the sole purpose of reminding people in Michigan that West Virginians are kooks.

• West Virginia the school, meanwhile, is serious about getting to the bottom of this sordid story.

• Norm Chow has been trying to become a head coach in college or the NFL. Then he gets fired by the Titans? Wow. Weirder still, he's wondering if Vince Young had anything to do with it.

• Louisville basketball fans don't know what to make of these kissing (male) teammates. Nor do I.

• Big Ben Roethlisberger has some things he'd like the Steelers to get for him for next season, including a tall receiver. If I'm Hines Ward or Santonio Holmes or Nate Washington -- all in the 6-foot (or less) range -- I'm mad. And I'm short.

• The Rooney Rule is a good thing overall -- obviously -- but in the micro-sense it could be screwing the Dallas Cowboys out of Jason Garrett.

• The idiot Astros traded for Miguel Tejada one day before the Mitchell report blew him up, and now of course the Astros are demanding he be treated fairly. What about all those opposing pitchers Tejada never treated fairly?

• A routine drug test might have saved Nene's life. A tumor in the testicle region is no joke.

• I'm a big fan of UFC president Dana White. Make no mistake about that. But do TV networks consider him radioactive?

• TUF 6 winner Mac Danzig will make his full-scale UFC debut against a Canadian in Canada. That's no way to treat a TV star.

• This is just crazy, which is why MMA news is leading off Dribbles instead of taking its usual spot at the end: The UFC is suing its heavyweight champion for defamation.

• NBC is testing its American Gladiators for steroid usage. I say: why?

• You've probably heard about that idiot Pacman Jones getting accused of assaulting his lawyer at a strip club (!). Now then, for the rest of the story. Please look at a picture of the lawyer, a woman, he took to the strip club in the first place.

• Julius Peppers picked one heck of a bad time to have an awful season. Forget Freeney money, Julius. Think Justin Smith.

• I hope Jim Fassel gets this job. I'm sick of seeing him in the press box. He sort of weirds me out.

• Warren Sapp is retiring after a great and fascinating career, but the general reaction seems to be: Don't let the doorknob hit you on the way out.

• It looks like Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson were sold out by Simpson's freaky father.

• It would be in the Miami Heat's best interest to give minutes to younger players and get a nice spot in the 2008 NBA draft lottery. But Pat Riley's ego won't allow it. He doesn't want those L's on his career record. Maybe he can pin them to Van Gundy.

• Atlanta doesn't care a great deal about its major league baseball team until October. How is that city going to support the Braves' Triple A club as well?

• As if Purdue's utterly bizarre search for its next football coach -- while Joe Tiller remains the current coach -- wasn't weird enough, now the Black Coaches Association is pissed.

• Bobby Petrino found his first sucker to sign with Arkansas. I wonder who'll actually be coaching this kid in a few years? Because it won't be that skank Petrino.

• The New York Post has done some bizarre things over the years, so when someone compiles a list make sure to mention the time the paper hired a Jessica Simpson look-alike for the Giants-Cowboys 2008 playoff game. The link has pictures, too.

• The Cowboys' loudmouth receiver got called out big time in this story. But it's not Terrell Owens.

• The mysterious affliction of the Nuggets' Nene has spawned rampant speculation in two countries.

• After popping pills for 20 years, Chris Kaman is having a monster season after a doctor realized he shouldn't be medicated for AD/HD.

• With a massive rise in payroll, the Devils Rays won't be miserly in 2008. They'll be merely cheap.

• If Xavier Lee can't play quarterback for a bad Florida State team, why does he think he can play quarterback in the NFL. Denial is an ugly thing.

• Boxing promoter Don King is trying to steal your money.

• The UFC got rid of several fighters from its most recent reality show.

• Top MMA photo of the year? This one, apparently. I see why.

• Looks to me like the Chicago Bulls might not like Joakim Noah. Management suspended him one game for arguing with an assistant coach, but teammates voted to suspend him for a second game. Must have been one hell of an argument.

• Akron police pulled over a speeder going 101 mph in a white 2008 Mercedes with the vanity plates "KNG OF AK." You think it was LeBron James? Good guess.

• Here's a good story on one of college basketball's great coaches. Why this guy is working without a contract extension is beyond me.

• Michigan basketball is so bad, they're dressing out the guy who washes the jocks.

• Could be worse. Your favorite team this weekend could have been Michigan State.

• If I'm Reds general manager Wayne Krivsky, I won't be the GM for long.

• The media was barred from Roger Clemens' latest Texas lovefest, but the New York Post weaseled its way inside. Well done.

• The UFC continues to hit the mainstream. It doesn't get more mainstream than Budweiser.

• Great interview with UFC lightweight Joe "Daddy" Stevenson, who dishes on Penn, Guillard and Sherk.

• Typical Rich Rodriguez: He cuts and runs on West Virginia before a BCS bowl game, and now will try to avoid his $4 million buyout. Maybe he thinks contracts are written in Crayon on construction paper.

• 'Tis the time of year for ridiculous speculation on the Dallas coach.

• And for maybe not so ridiculous speculation on Tony Dungy's potential departure.

• Purdue's bizarre search for Joe Tiller's replacement, even as Tiller remains the coach, has headed in a completely bizarre direction.

• The Browns can't be this dumb, can they? Derek Anderson can't hold Tony Romo's jock. (That's Jessica Simpson's job.)

• Sports has passed completely through the looking glass when major newspapers are reporting on the potential retirement of TV's Terry Bradshaw ... in three years. This is news? Hell, even I'm dribbling on it. I suck.

• Remember Matt Mantei? He's so irrelevant, my spell-checker doesn't. Anyway, he's trying to make a comeback. Congratulations, Detroit fans. He's yours!

• If Shaun Livingston ever plays again it'll be a medical miracle. His knee was twisted sideways. I get nauseous thinking about it.

• Thirty people have applied to replace June Jones at Hawaii, including me.

• The UFC's first big-time foray into Canada in April is shaping up as a monster event.

• Melvin Guillard, still stupid.

• Kendall Grove, no longer stoned.

• If you're going to use your fame to tramp around from one famous hottie to the next, Tony Romo, expect the media coverage that comes with it. You hypocritical skank.

• How long before Michael Jordan replaces Sam Vincent as coach of the Bobcats? I give it three weeks.

• Jeff Kent says every player should