- Who's the best QB in college football: Herbert from Oregon? Fromm from Georgia? Book from Notre Dame? Burrow from LSU? Tagiovailoa from 'Bama? Patterson from Michigan? Stanley from Iowa? Ehlinger from Texas? In other words, who's eligible for the draft that the Bears can get? Fields from Ohio State is a true freshman, unfortunately.
- Why are the Bears about to go to 3-5?
- Hello, Andy Dalton is available. Eli Manning is available. Nick Foles might be. Cam Newton might be. Heck, Josh McCown is still playing.
- Just spent a weekend in Marin County, where they had the power turned off so the county wouldn't burn up. I get it, safety first. But while PG&E is doing these rolling blackouts, they are also the reason the rolling blackouts are happening. Meanwhile, I was eating chips and playing Scattegories by candlelight with my cousins.
- Why am I going to the Sicilian Butcher for dinner on my anniversary? Sounds like I'm walking into a mob movie. Isn't that where Luca Brasi was killed in Godfather?
- Gonna' play golf with my friend Dave next week. Unless he's going for an MRI on his foot. Or is it his knee? His arm? It's calld, geting old. Older.
- How did Clemson, Alabama and LSU all have the same Saturday off?
- Why does my alma mater (for my M.A.), Northern Illinois, suck this year? Got clobbered by Central Michigan this weekend.
- Remember when UCF was Central Florida? What's wrong with being called Central Florida? They get ticked off if you call them Central Florida.
- Why is my undergraduate alma mater, SUNY-Albany, formerly Albany State, now called UAlbany? That's a powerful athletic connotation. UAlbany, me not happy about it.
- Notre Dame, Texas, Florida, USC, Washington, Michigan are all out of it for the FCS title. Good. Can't stand listening to their obnoxious fans, especially the Irish.
- Is that new WWE-sponsored football league gonna' make it when it comes back next year? Really? Are they trying again? Donald Trump for commissioner - he needs something to do when he's done playing president.
- Any truth to the rumor that the new TV show "Evil" is based on the Trump family history of discriminatory housing, everywhere from Queens to Baltimore?
- While I'm happy that I'll be able to come back to my Arizona place earlier than usual this spring, it's because my snowbird-tenant the last six years is battling cancer. Sad. That was not the reason why I wanted to be able to come back to the desert earlier than I usually do in the spring.
- The Washington Nationals are scheduled to go to the White House on Monday. Will they all go, especially the minority team members? The Red Sox minority team members didn't last year, including and especially their Puerto Rican. And do the Nats remember that their fans mercilessly booed the president when he was at game 5 of the World Series last week, so how is attending the White House going to sit with their fans (Trump is highly unpopular in D.C. and the area)?
- Why were the Bears the hit of the league last year and suck this year? Has everyone just caught on to their schemes?
- My Giants and Jets still suck. What else is new? New York sports suck right now.
- Quiz (no googling): Name the nine teams in the NHL, MLB, NBA and NFL whose nicknames do not end in an 's' and do it in less than a minute. Then name the six pairs of teams in the same four leagues that have the exact same nicknames (example: in college, Kentucky "Wildcats" and Northwestern "Wildcats," an exact match).
Good luck. Listen in to the Howard Hours on Radio Free Phoenix. I'm on Saturday and Sunday next weekend, 9-midnight, Arizona time. You never know who gets a shout-out, right Bill Filetti? Good night, Mrs. Calabash.
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