Haha, I like the blatant brown nosing towards the women, Pick.

In all fairness, I obviously read your stuff because at the least, it is intriguing. With that said, I cannot wait for football to start (or at least fall practices). There is certainly much more in question this year in the Big 12 than there has been in recent years. Brand new coaches, brand new schemes, brand new QBs, etc. in the North and South alike. This should definitely be an interesting year.

Billy Bingo says that George Steinbrenner severed all ties with the Yankees and went into direct negotiations with the Angels.

MexiMike, I do now, because I just googled him. But before that - no, I did not know. Before the last few days when my son started ranting about him and then I saw the Picker's blog, I don't think I had even heard the name.

I don't pay much attention to sports except for baseball. Even though I lived in Dallas for 30 years, I couldn't tell you anything about the Cowboys (but I could tell you a few things about a few cowboys that I knew.)

Well, actually there is one thing I could tell you about the Cowboys - a girl who worked for me when I first moved to Dallas in 1979 was dating one of the well-known players. He came to the office to pick her up for lunch and I think he was a little ticked off that I didn't know who he was and didn't act the fool like everyone else was doing. I don't even remember his name.

I guess I'm just out of touch in a lot of areas that are important to most people. I couldn't tell you who the hot stars on TV sitcoms are. I have only seen American Idol one time and that was years ago for about 5 minutes. I haven't seen the movies TWILIGHT or AVATAR and probably won't.

Someday I'll tell you about meeting Vanilla Ice many years ago and embarrassing my son until he wanted to disown me.

Pick, here is my absolute lock prediction for the 2010 football season: Tulsa will be better than last year. They will finish 6-6, AND go to a bowl game! (Make that prediction 6-7 ... still an improvement over last year!)

Tulsan in Exile, while I'm not sure which of those two predictions is further out on a limb, I hope they both come true.

SS, I think every human being interested in the NBA tuned in.

The Heat has become the most hated team in history. It also looks like one of the best. The recent additions have been tremendous. How does anybody even think about stopping those people?

Exile, the question is, what at TU is different this year? The most obvious difference is the schedule, which is torture.

Losing Gus to Auburn was a big deal. A lack of depth is a recurring doomsday scenario, a couple of injuries, and the flags go to half-mast. Beaver has to play somewhere. Six wins is a good year? Doesn't sound too good. But it probably is.

You're right, Tech is a joke. Leach will wind up somewhere much better. New coach Blabberville was never known for his offense at Auburn, was he.

Here's a good football question: How has Nebraska's old Osborne gotten away with wrecking Cornhusker tradition?

Mosezgo: NCAA scandals? Basketball hire? It appears that the OU AD has a lifetime free pass after the Stoops hire.

I give that cheerleader you mentioned a two percent chance of hitting more than half of any predictions he makes. The local sports animal radio collection has a rating of zero. It does well in OKC. You are what you listen to.