Oh goody. Another college bowl game.

ESPN signed a deal to air the Pinstripe Bowl next holiday season from Yankee Stadium.
No one has agreed to televise a Salad Bowl, to the best of my knowledge. But if we can have a Pinstripe Bowl, then a Salad Bowl can't be far behind.
Someone be sure and tell me when the game starts so I can read a book.

New playoff OT rules in the NFL

Those clamoring for equal opportunity in NFL overtime playoff games, you have your wish.
The league changed its rules this afternoon. Teams that lose the coin toss and that surrender an opening field goal will have a chance to equal the score.
The rule will not apply to touchdowns in those situations, which seems a little strange.
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A sure sign of spring

The NCAA men's basketball brackets are in shambles.
The boss is lamenting his position in the office basketball pool, while others think they are out of the running because Kansas is out of the running.
The Broncos are making noises again. The Rockies will be making noises for several months. Gus Johnson of CBS can't stop making noises.
The first wave of snow-induced postponements hit the local prep sports scene last week.
A true sign of a change in seasons.

Big stretch

The news around the water cooler this morning – OK, it was on my couch at home – was:
• The number of vasectomies performed just before the NCAA basketball tournament started (insert your own comment) and
• Whether the first two days were the best days on the sports calendar each year.
Neither is worth your time.

The return of Tiger

Thanks to the return of a certain golfer, all those who think the coverage of this year's Masters golf tournament will be excessive, signify by throwing in your Woods.

Be careful what you wish for

The NCAA men's basketball tournament may be leaving CBS after almost 30 years.
The rumored suitor is ESPN.
Talk about a contrast in coverage.
Whereas we get middle-of-the-road commentary and decent analysis on the three-letter network (Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery are great together. So are Dick Enberg and whoever he's paired up with), the four-letter network can't stand the thought of providing nuts and bolts. Such a necessity is almost an afterthought. Dick Vitale cannot stay on topic for more than 10 seconds, unless the topic is who he had dinner with three weeks before the broadcast.
ESPN is full of stars – wannabes like Chris Berman, Stuart Scott and Neal Everett – and real ones.
Television sports coverage is louder than it used to be – make that needs to be. Everything else in society seems louder than it needs to be. So from that standpoint, the NCAAs on ESPN may be a perfect fit. ESPN's audience is hipper, much younger than CBS.
I'd rather see the NCAA remain with CBS. Good nuts and bolts are much easier to swallow.

Who doesn't fit where?

Did Brady Quinn, the new Broncos quarterback and who's spent a lot of time on injured reserve of late, not fit in Cleveland? Probably not. The Browns picked up Jake Delhomme recently, which made BQ somewhat expendable.
Does Kyle Orton not fit in Denver? Can't tell. Even though bringing Orton to Denver was one of Josh McDaniels' first moves, one season doesn't exactly make a trend.
A curious move? Yes. But no more so than other things that go on in Broncos-land.