Here’s a quick top-of-mind view from here in the basement.

1. Miami Don may have the scoop on this, but I cannot figure out the city of Miami in particular and south Florida in general when it comes to sports.  I watched some of the Jets-Dolphins game yesterday and was struck with the relatively scarce crowd in attendance for the first game of the season and Brett Favre in town.  I expect that here in the ATL, but the mighty Dolphins?  An embarassment.
2. Congrats to Serena Williams for regaining the #1 ranking in tennis and taking the US Open title.  There are few sports figures I dislike more than Chris Evert (she made only about a hundred different excuses as Martina Navratilova routinely toyed with her).  Her calling out of Serena in an open letter in the May 2006 issue of Tennis Magazine.  “I don’t see how acting and designing clothes can compare with the pride of being the best tennis player in the world,” said Evert.  Well, Serena and her sister have simply shown that the two of them can compete at the highest level in sport while balancing their lives with other interests.  Let’s celebrate that!
3. Does anyone care about baseball?  Anywhere?  I get the NY Times on Saturday and Sunday, and I’m amazed how such a big chunk of America lives and dies with the hardball when surely most of the country could care less.
4. If you’re waiting for parity to reach college football, you’re a year or two too late.  East Carolina and Utah may have grabbed the headlines, but look at how many I-AA schools played their big brothers tight the last two weeks.  Furman could have beaten the Hokies, no doubt about it.  Isn’t it time to simply ban these games though?
5. I stumbled upon a young poker pro, Alex Fitgerald, playing online as well as recently in Macau at the APPT.  A sobering look at what it’s like to make a go of playing professionally, especially the tough parts away from the felt.
6. Speaking of parity, is the balance back in the NFL between the NFC and AFC?  I love soccer, but really there is no sports league in the world that approaches the NFL.  All the talking heads get paid tons of cash predicting and analyzing these games ad nauseum.  In reality, is the NFL really sixteen games between mostly teams of equal talent and coaching, where a couple of twists here and there can lead to a victory of defeat?  Do this sixteen times in a season, and standard variation leads to most teams finishing somewhere between 10-6 and 6-10?
7. Speaking of not caring, does anyone care about the PGA’s FedEx Cup?  I’ve casually read about who qualified for what, and to be honest I can’t get even the smallest amount of interest in this.
8. College football polls are moronic.  How can the Top 10 be identical between the two major polls when we’re two weeks into a season with results all over the map?  I know nothing about this, but college baseball seems better to me as their two major polls rarely look similar to one another.

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