Earth to Manny Ramirez, It's February and you don't have a team. I don't know if you knew this, but in order to hit 700 homeruns your going to have to play. Sorry, the homeruns that you'll be hitting on the Wii while your peers are playing will not count.

You have pulled many stunts including hiding in the green monster, which is probably the best place for you. Don't get me wrong you are one of the best hitters in the game, but I have not seen Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols, or Ryan Howard act this way, so what are you entitled to?

Your acting like you won the World Series for the Dodgers. Granted you and CC Sabathia are perhaps the two best mid season pick ups in recent memory, but why are you bringing this attention to yourself. The Dodgers offered you a one year deal that would make you the second highest paid baseball player ever. Why not take it?

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Utah did not lose a single game. They made a mockery out of Alabama (a former no.1) and what do they have to show for it? A mediocore recruiting class and a Sugar Bowl trophy. Utah and the Boise State team of a few years back, could have been even greater stories if there was a college football playoff. Obviously momentum plays a huge role in sports and with a team that never lost a game, how can one say that they would not win the National Championship?

Granted both of these teams do not stack up to USC ,Florida, or other powerhouse teams on paper, but isn't that why they play the game? To find out who is the best, but in college football we are constantly left with questions about who the best team really is.

The NCAA is worried that they will lose much of their sponsor money if they go away from the bowl system, so what should be the solution? I say that they keep a bowl system and add an extra game on the end. Have four teams seeded #1-4 play each other (1 v. 4 and 2 v. 3) call these games whatever you like. Then keep the bowl games from the Meinecke car care bowl to the Chick Fil A bowl to the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl, keep them all. But take the winner the 1 v. 4 game and the winner of the 2 v. 3 game and play one final game; The National Championship. 

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The NBA reviewed tapes from the Cleveland Cavs vs. New York Knicks game the other night and they felt the need to go the extra effort to take one rebound away from Lebron James. Taking this rebound away from him turned hit historic triple double night with 52 points into a pedestrian double double.

The first point I want to make is that hours after the game nobody really cares, so why take this rebound away? Was it really crucial enough to have to review the film?

This is the first time I have ever seen something like this. Will this continue? Do we really need to review every game to down to the rebounding stats? If this is the case shouldn'e we be reviewing all games and making sure that the rebounding leaders, assist leaders, block leaders, and steal leaders are truly the leaders.

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Alex Rodriguez could have taken the approach of baseball legends Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Mark McGwire, but he didn't. He took an approach similar to less notable star Jason Giambi. A-Rod honed up to the report and took the blame that he deserved. He did not claim to not know what it was, he did not play the victim. He took the high road and took responsibility for his actions.

Rodriguez is quite possibly the best player to ever play the game. He is also, quite possibly the best player to take steroids. My question is how many great players must we expose until we figure it out? Many of the great players in the steroid era took steroids. I'm afraid there are only more stars waiting to be exposed.

What do we do about it? Surely we cannot keep players like A-Rod and Barry Bonds out of the Hall of Fame. They would have Hall of Fame numbers if you took out there steroid years. For A-Rod he said that he was on steroids from 2001-2003, during which he hit 156 homeruns. If you completely eliminate these numbers A-Rod is at 397 career homeruns and would likely still finsih with over 500. If you take A-Rods lowest home run total after 2003 and substitute it for his steroid seasons he has 512 career home runs.

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