Into the Weekend...

There are two pretty big stories going into the weekend. Which one to start with.

Frankly, Tim Tebow won the Maxwell Award last night. In the past seven goes around, the winner of the Maxwell Award did not win the Heisman. In my opinion, you can mark that down for an eigth straight year. Why you ask?

Many of the voters for the Heisman are in fact the elder statesmen in the Heisman Fraternity. I don't believe that these guys are going to want a sophomore let into their group. Without a clear cut favorite in the race, I think the Heisman Winners from years past may actually have a strong say in the numbers this year. If Jonathan Hefney can be thrown into an All SEC team after his awful season, I think McFadden can maneuver his way into being the guy who was second last year who wins it by default this year. Keep in mind that the last time there was a back to back Doak Walker winner, he walked away with the Heisman.

The other big story is in Foxboro. Everything that keeps me sane wants to say that the Steelers are going to go in there and beat down on the Patriots.

I can't really go with that though. I think the Patriots are just going to stomp the Steelers. Do you bet? I'd take the Pats and give those 10.5. Give 12. As much as I hate to say it, the Patriots will have it back in gear this week. Much to the dimise of MERC.

This is really the most depressing weekend of the year. Now comes the time when we have to force ourselves to get into college hoops. It's really a hard process too. Last year it was easy because Kevin Durant was on pretty much every Monday. This year we don't have that consensus best player in the country.

Speaking of the one armed man...someone wrote the funniest e-mail to Jim Rome the other day. Rome, who really does a good job on the radio, had John Wooden on. Wooden, 97, was absolutely amazing. Afterwards, the following e-mail came in:

Rome:
97? I hope to sound that good in 17 years.
Greg Oden.