This is just for hahas, but Michigan hoops is really good this year. Just how good? Check out the Degrees of Loss Separation Michigan > Illinois > #1 Indiana Michigan > Arkansas > #2 Florida Michigan > NC State > #4 Duke Michigan > WVU > TCU > #5 Kansas Michigan > Illinois > #6 Gonzaga Michigan > Cal Poly > UCLA > #7 Arizona Michigan > Iowa > Iowa State > Florida Gulf Coast > #8 Miami Michigan > Pitt > #9 Syracuse Michigan > #10 Ohio State Michigan > Pitt > #9 Syracuse > #11 Louisville Michigan > Minnesota > #12 Michigan State Michigan > #13 Kansas State Michigan > Illinois > #14 Butler Michigan > #10 Ohio State > Rhode Island > St. Louis > #15 New Mexico Michigan > Iowa > Iowa State > Drake > #16 Creighton Michigan > Pitt > #9 Syracuse > #17 Cincinnati Michigan > #18 Minnesota Michigan > #18 Minnesota > Stanford > #19 Oregon Michigan > Pitt > #20 Georgetown Michigan > Arkansas > #2 Florida > #21 Missouri Michigan > #13 Kansas State > #22 Oklahoma State Michigan > #23 Pittsburgh Michigan > Arkansas > #2 Florida > #24 Marquette Michigan > NC State > UConn > #25 Notre Dame Total Degrees 59 Furthest separation is Miami who lost to some schmucks at the start of the year New Mexico who plays completely different teams Creighton as it appears that the Missouri Valley does not play the Big 10 at all The Opposite Teams with 1 degree of separation to Michigan: Indiana and Ohio State Teams with 2 degrees of separation to Michigan: Wisconsin, Illinois, Butler, Duke, Michigan State, Kansas Conclusion Essentially every team in the country outside Michigan has lost to a suspect opponent or to Michigan.

"That's what Boston is all about. It's not about one guy. It's about everybody. Whatever my job is going to be -- if I have to get into the game and kill somebody, I kill him." Darko Milicic

With that statement KG has likely come up with a list of targets. Here's my best guess.

1) Ray Allen
2) Ray Allen
3) Ray Allen
4) Lebron
5) DWade
6) Lebron
7) DWade
8) Shane Battier
9) Lebron
10) Dwade

Chris Bosh is not included because KG thinks he can take him by himself.

The above image is the Jets Drive Summary from this weekends game against San Francisco. I decided to peruse it on monday to make sure what I saw with my own eyes could be verified just as terribly on paper. The conclusion was yes, verified.

The above drive chart shows you that the MOST successful drive the Jets had for the entire game was their first. This drive lasted all of 7 plays, gained a total of 30 yards, and ended in a punt. WOOOO! SUCCESS!

After a drive like that, one could only expect the remainder of the possessions to pale in comparison. And they did just that. From the conclusion of that possession no Jets drive would contain the following combination 1) Garner at least 1 first down & 2) Punt. Of the 11 remaining possessions, only 4 included the Jets gaining a 1st down. Each of these 4 possessions ended in a turnover. So if you're adding it up at home, after the first and most successful possession, the Jets followed that up with 4 turnovers and 7 three and outs.

Tell me how you can look at that drive chart and maintain abundant optimism?

This is what I thought of while watching the end of the Seahawks game last night.  Was the decision to give the Seahawks a touchdown and the next fifteen minutes not amazing television? Seeing Pete Carrol interviewed before the game was technically over and him being told they need to kick the XP for which he replies "Get me any 11 guys", all while watching the Packers run off the field only to trot back on, pulling random helmets out of a bucket so they could "defend" a completely meaningless extra point.  For entertainment purposes that was on another level.  As the saying goes, everybody watches a train wreck, and this train wreck is fantastic.

Outside the fact that it was pretty clearly an interception, I don't understand why people are so up in arms with this result. Or the fact that the officiating botched the call in the first place.

A) If you're not a Packers fan, a fan of a different NFC West team or a gambling man who lost $$$, wouldn't you prefer the Packers (the team that went 15-1 last year) to lose?

B) I enjoy the hypocrisy of "Replay can only review whether a ruled 'simultaneous catch' was caught" and not whether it was a simultaneous catch in the first place.  The NFL continues to want officials to stand by what they deem as "judgement calls" when every single call in a football game is a judgement call.  Every spot, every flag, every catch ruling, every single thing a ref does is in real time and can be questioned yet only some of it is reviewable.  If the NFL didn't have dumb rules with their replays then the Packers would have won last night, which again who cares?

If I was Goodell I would send out a memo to the officiating crew and say, just don't take 45 minutes to conference on every call to make sure you get it right. Who cares if you get it right? Just don't botch the flow of the game and everyone will whine about the officiating like they always do every single season regardless of whether they are replacement or Eddie Muscles.

My 2 cents....

I think it's very important that we count down the Boston Red Sox Magic Numbers for playoff elimination. This will be calculated periodically based on their distance between the AL East leader and the #2 Wild Card leader.