The enigma of Joe Pa and I do get some things wrong!

This past week Joe Paterno passed away at the age of 85. Legacy Tarnished. I always felt that when he stopped coaching Penn St. university, he would die within the year. If you're 85 years old and you're not willing to retire, that job is your life. No one has single handedly meant more to a program than Joe Pa has, the only one that could remotely come close is Coach K at Duke and that's not really even that close, when you consider how nominal college basketball is to college football. If you don't believe that, then consider why all these teams are switching conferences, it ain't cuz of basketball boo. What Joe Pa did or didn't do is undoubtedly egregious, though lest not forget that before this he was considered the ultimate humanitarian. Donating $4 million to the university, former players calling him a father figure, running a clean program. That however, will not be how he is remembered by the general public, and that is an american tragedy!

Any combination of Murray, Federer, Nadal and Djokovic playing in a tennis grand slam is Must See TV. Those 4 are more or as riveting than any 1 particular sporting match other than a playoff game 7 or the Super Bowl. The skill set on these players are second to none.

The Super Bowl is just over a week away and since it's not less than a week away, im leaving it be until then. If you have read any of my blogs the last month you already know who I have winning, so there is no hindsight to offer except for why and how they win, which I kindly will drop next friday.

Speaking of my 10-0 playoff predictions, I must have channeled all of my tarot card abilities into football alone, cause I said some pretty ridiculous things in the last few weeks. First of all my apologies to the Utah Jazz for saying they will be one of the worst teams in NBA history. Not only is that not true but they are a solid playoff team, kudos to Ty Corbin for doing an early coach of the year candidate's job.

Kobe bryant may indeed win the MVP but he is not the MVP, they have 2 of the top 10 post players in the league and have trouble scoring ,that's on Kobe boo. My pick is Dwight Howard, his team is incredibly mediocre and he keeps them more than competitive and that's really what being an MVP is all about.

The Pro Bowl is on this week and I would rather watch Bowling. It's an open scrimmage with bland defense. Im sorry, but when Im stuck in the midwest in january, in sub freezing temperatures and Im watching guys in Hawaii, playing football. I wanna see somebody, get knocked the f**k out!

Congratulations Detroit Tigers for building a team for the regular season. Look, I'm on record for saying that I would rather have Prince Fielder than Albert Pujols, on age difference alone. But Prince Fielder on the Tigers drastically makes their defense worse and only Justin Verlander is a strike out pitcher on the team. That offense will slug out 90 wins for them, but they are what the Yankees were for the last 2 years. Speaking of which, on paper, the Yanks are the team to beat with newly acquired legitimate number 2 and 3 pitchers in Pineda and Kuroda. Im actually starting to get excited about baseball.

Until next week peeps...dueces!