Saturday Night Fever

A lot of things have broke in the last hour or so, recapping...

- Congrats to Baylor QB Robert Griffin III on winning the Heisman Trophy. A lot of experts would have predicted Stanford's Andrew Luck would get the honor but Luck finished second. He won't finish second in the NFL draft but that's for another day. Griffin probably had the best season of all the finishers anyway so he deserved to win.
- ESPN is reporting Brewers OF Ryan Braun has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. If this is true and we will wait to see on that, it is a huge blow to the Brewers with the 50-game suspension along with the probable loss of Prince Fielder but also would be a huge black eye on MLB. The MVP being suspended is not good for business.
- A big day in college basketball was topped by Indiana upsetting No. 1 Kentucky in Bloomington. The doormats of the Big Ten in recent years, Tom Crean has done a great job of turning the program around and getting it back to the way it was for many, many years. The Hoosiers will be a major player in the conference this season the way they are going.
- Let's not forget No. 2 Ohio State losing at No. 13 Kansas so we will have a new No. 1 team next week. Probably Syracuse after their win Saturday.
- Hopefully you sat down for a few and watched the Army/Navy game today. You had everything you could want from a game like that, the President helped with the coin toss and seeing all of the soldiers in uniform in the stands was breathtaking. Only happens once a year, got to enjoy it.

NFL Week 14 Predictions coming in the morning.....

Spinning Wheel

Welcome back into the Manager's office, here is the latest...

- The revolving door of coaching in the NHL continues to spin as the Ducks fired Randy Carlyle to hire just fired coach Bruce Boudreau. Are all the teams just going to fire their coaches next and shuffle them around the league?
- Speaking of coaches, Mike Leach is back and this time he's at Washington State. I'm sure Leach will bring his high-powered pass-first offense to the Great Northwest but there is one slight issue especially in that region....what happens when it rains like it does a lot there? Think about it.
- How about the Big Ten in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, winning 8 of the 12 games? This is a shift that has been happening for some time now, Big Ten basketball is getting better and while the ACC is always going to be good with Duke and North Carolina....the Big Ten has made strides.
- Football on the slate tonight as the Eagles go to Seattle to face the Seahawks? Philly has been a MAJOR disappointment this season but the Hawks have lost Sidney Rice for the season now with a concussion. I see the Eagles getting through this one, 24-10.

Short and sweet to start the day, more later.....