Nobody asked me, but :
: the next time my doctor tells me my cholesterol level is too high, I’m going to ask him to delay judgment until he checks the “B” sample.
: by my reckoning, the last piece of dead weight on the Royals’ roster is shortstop Angel Berroa, who no doubt would have been traded by now if 1) another team wanted him or if 2) back-up Andres Blanco wasn’t as pitiful a hitter as Joey Gathright.
: now that Barry Collier has bolted Nebraska men’s basketball to become athletic director at Butler (the university, not the buildings), I say bring back Danny Nee.
: speaking of Nebraska, it strikes me as ironic that the Cornhuskers’ baseball team plays at Hawks Field, and that the football team will soon have an indoor workout facility called Hawks Championship Center. The benefactor’s name is Howard Hawks, not Jay Hawks.
: here are my nominees for Big 12 Conference football Game of the Year – The Citadel at Texas A&M (Sept. 2), Nicholls State at Nebraska (Sept. 9) and Middle Tennessee State at Oklahoma (Sept. 23).
: that St. Louis Cardinals pitcher named John Lush who threw a no-hitter against the Dodgers 98 years ago is not believed to be related to actor-director Mel Gibson.
: as difficult as it is to believe, the toughest three-game stretch of KU’s fall football schedule may be the late September games against Toledo, South Florida and Nebraska.
: the Royals finally unloaded Jeremy Affeldt??? They must be kidding. I thought K.C. was the last refuge for underachieving left-handed pitchers.
: if they ever make a movie about Dick Vermeil’s life, I sure hope they can get Robert Redford to play the lead role. And I like Philip Seymour Hoffman to play the young Vermeil.
: perhaps someday they’ll erect a statue to Barry Bonds. If you can’t wait, just watch him play left field for the San Francisco Giants.
: news that Oklahoma University quarterback Rhett Bomar has been declared ineligible is further proof that entitlement is a bigger problem in college athletics today than drugs. They can test for drugs. They cannot test for hands under the table.
: I couldn’t be happier that the NBA has decided to seed teams for its playoffs. Now if they would just eliminate about eight teams from the playoffs.
: you have to wonder if Floyd Landis and Justin Gatlin forever will be linked in history as the Testosterone Twins.
: if Ashley Judd is often seen at the race track with husband Dario Franchitti, why is it that we never see Franchitti with Judd at Kentucky basketball games?
: according to Sports Illustrated, Tiger Woods made $97.6 million last year, which means the world’s most famous golfer pocketed about twice the entire Kansas University athletic department budget.
: if, as Milwaukee Brewers infielder Jeff Cirillo contends, the baseballs used by the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field are waterlogged, then surely the culprit must be pure Rocky Mountain spring water.
