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Brett Favre

I have waited for awhile to comment on the Favre situation because I couldn't decide how I felt about the situation. I love Favre and I love the Packers and I'm still so conflicted.

From an organization standpoint I understand the Packers need to make decisions for the future of the organization. In March their quarterback decided he was done and they made decisions accordingly.

I also understand Favre's desire to compete. He wants and likes the competition as well as the community the he gets from teammates.

I'm sure the have been mistakes and misunderstandings from both sides. I think if he would have made his decision to play earlier most of this debacle could have been avoided.

The learning point for everyone should be how very important communication is. Not just what you say but when you say it.

celtics win

I'm a huge basketball fan. I like college basketball the best but this year the NBA championship has been fun because it reminded me of the Bird vs. Magic match-ups from when I was a kid.

I love the way Ray Allen and Keven Garnett play and I think it was cool that the current celtics were able to bring a championship back to the great history of the Boston Celtics.

The most amazing thing is how the Celtics completely destroyed the Lakers. There is no way the score of an NBA championship game should be 131 to 92. If you get paid millions of dollars to compete then you better compete! If I owned the Lakers I would be asking my players to give me back some of that money because they did not earn it.

In my opinion each Sunday is like a NBA championship game and we as a church can't afford to give half an effort. LifePoint will not always get everything right but we will always give the best effort because God deserves our best.

Brett Favre

There are certain events in your life that are markers. For me one marker will be the day Brett Favre retired.

After flirting with retirement for years, Brett Favre means it this time. The Green Bay Packers quarterback quit Tuesday after a 17-season career in which he dazzled fans with his grit, heart and rocket of an arm.

Brett said, "I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired,"

I am not sure the Green Bay Packers can be the Green Bay Packers without Brett Favre.

billiken

I thought I would find out what a billiken really was - here is the info.

The history of Saint Louis University's mascot -- and how it became affiliated with SLU -- remains debatable to this day. 

Several details seem to be certain. Everyone agrees that the Billiken is a good-luck figure who represents "things as they ought to be." The designer of the Billiken also seems to be fact. Florence Pretz, a Missouri art teacher and illustrator, patented her "design for an image" of the jovial creature in 1908.

It's also known that the Billiken was manufactured in the early 1900s as a bank and statuette and was the national rage for about six months -- kind of that period's pet rock. During this time, the Billiken was turned into all sorts of things: dolls, marshmallow candies, metal banks, hatpins, pickle forks, belt buckles, auto hood ornaments, salt and pepper shakers and glass bottles.

Billikens always possess cheery personalities, broad smiles and rotund bellies. They bring luck to Saint Louis University's sports teams and smiles to the faces of SLU fans.

basketball

I am a huge basketball fan. Duke is by far my favorite team but I simply love basketball and I would watch any game, anytime, anywhere.

Saint Louis University is a school that is in my area and I am super-pumped about their new head coach.
Rick Majerus is the new head coach for the St. Louis Billikens.

I am not really sure what a Billiken is but I will be going to some games next season. Hopefully Majerus can have the same success here that he had in Utah.

here we go

Championship Week's early upsets include UCLA, Duke and Maryland.

Thursday was flat-out crazy in the ACC, where all four higher seeds lost. Between Florida State's late one-point win, Maryland and Duke getting upset, and Georgia Tech getting hit by a Wake Forest "Hale storm" in double-OT, does Championship Week get any better? This just goes to prove that the ACC is by far th toughest conference to play in.

Even though I am in a bad mood today because my team lost there is still nothing in sports that can compair to college basketball. I received a couple of calls last night from some of my light-blue friends but I was not in the mood to talk.

basketball

After reading countless articles about the Duke vs. UNC game last night I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible for anyone to truly be objective on this one. This one of the, if not the most intense rivalries in all of sports and the two colors of blue run very deep.

There is no question that Gerald Henderson intended to foul Tyler Hansbrough hard. In my dark blue opinion I don't think he intended for it to go down like that. This is a great basketball game and will probably always be great and both sides have a lot of pride.

Here is what I know. I love basketball and if I am playing and you are beating me bad and the game is already in hand and then you try to dunk on me - well you will get fouled and it will probably be a hard foul. I am not going to try to hurt you but you are not going to get an easy in my face dunk.

I do think that the Henderson foul was a flagrant foul and according to the rules he gets a one game suspension. Any talk of anything more than that is nonsense and clearly comes from someone with a light blue opinion.

Fiesta Bowl

The ninth-ranked Broncos completed a perfect season with an exhilarating 43-42 overtime victory over No. 7 Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl.

I was wanting Oklahoma to win and even though that did not happen this had to be one of the most amazing games I have ever seen. You have to watch Sports Center and to see all the stuff that happened in this game.

In one of the most dramatic finishes in BCS history, the Sooners and the Broncos combined for 22 points in the final 86 seconds of regulation.

You may have heard the old saying that "it's not over until the fat lady sings." Well, she warmed up so many times last night that she lost her voice.

JJ

I got some really bad news during lunch today. I was watching the news and I saw that JJ Reddick was arrested for DWI last night. I felt like he might go fairly high in the NBA draft later this month but if teams think he is a problem child it may influence their decision.

I was scheduled to have a workout with the Orlando Magic today or tomorrow but that workout has now been canceled.

What will become of JJ in the NBA?

And So It Begins

Today at 12:30 the NCAA tournament begins and this event captures Americans in a way that no other event does.

The NCAA's "March Madness" basketball tournament could cost the nation's employers as much as $1.4 billion over the 15 work days of the event.

More than 58 million Americans will come down with a case of ``March Madness,'' causing them to miss work.

Experts say that at least 1 out of ever 10 Americans fill out a bracket. It something that people can have fun with and argue about. Do you have your bracket filled out?