Chris MooneyChris Mooney, a highly-rated tight end from Marietta, Georgia’s Walton High school has chosen Columbia.Mooney has this to say about CU:”They haven’t won an Ivy championship since 1960, but they are getting better and better, and these next four years are going to be great.”We couldn’t agree more Chris, but please, it was 1961 when we won our last title! We’ve been waiting long enough as it is! Marcorus GarrettAlso from the Marietta area and coming to Columbia is Marcorus Garrett Garrett says he committed to CU back in November You can see his highlight video here. They’ll need to win, at a minimum, two of those games to really be comfortable in the driver’s seat.At this point, it looks like seven teams will be invited to dance in March: Michigan State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Ohio State.It twists and turns and goes back and forth, and that’s why we love Big Ten basketball.. I’m not a guy who calls “BS” on every call I don’t agree with, but the pass interference call in overtime was truly a bad call and makes me wonder if the refs had money on the game.The Saints could still win this game, even with all this negative talk. Lopez wins here, but the Blazers take the first game of their road trip.COverall Winner: This article is also featured on Bust a Bucket – A Portland Trail Blazers Blog. However, should things not pan out in Los Angeles, why wouldn?t Kiffin move on to Seattle should his old buddy, Steve Sarkisian, offer up an opportunity? Yes, it would be a cut in pay as well as glamour, but a coach accepting a demotion in the game of football is not altogether uncommon.One year into his tenure at Washington, Sarkisian, also 35, has vastly improved the Huskies, but the offense lagged at times last season. The Bears rolled through the season and the playoffs en route to a huge Super Bowl victory.They beat the New England Patriots in a big way in one of the most memorable games in Super Bowl history..

in 1991, he was the IRL and Indy 500 Rookie of the year in 1996, and the Nascar Rookie of the year in 1999. Voila, there?s your point guard.The Holy TrinityNo, I?m not channeling Tim Brando on Tim Tebow in this discussion. Here is a selection of those already done, and a few on the way soon.Randy Wells Derrek Lee Carlos Marmol Jeff BakerRyan Dempster. And the way the current MLB environment is looking, it may be the Orlando Rays we are cheering for.Of course, we are a long way from this even being possible For all we know, we may never hear about this idea again. There were two players (Elvis Dumervil & Jared Allen) who had more sacks than that last year Clearly they need to add a pass rusher. Yes.

I just don’t believe Lebron will ever be in that argument, and here are my reasons. 1.) LeBron did as expected.A first pick in the draft who had all the media attention behind him. This Cavalier is a quick-rising prospect with ideal size and strength. Welcome to the third edition of “Daily Random Sports Thoughts!”For those not familiar, I pick a team, player, or any other topic in sports that I have five random thoughts about. The San Jose Sharks may look like an example to follow now, but their success is mostly down to industry in trades and not due to selecting Andrei Zyuzin, Patrick Marleau, then Brad Stuart to affect their outcomes I could go on (hello Winnipeg) Tanking is no guarantee for success. The Joe Mauer contract saga appears to be headed to a conclusion.Now that the Star Tribune’s Joe Christensen  publicly broke the news of the Twins on-again, off-again negotiations with Minnesota’s mega-superstar, I can attest, without letting down my source (one that is not Christensen), that the deal was indeed intended to go down last Friday but the final parameters were still being hammered out.WCCO-TV sources appear to have confirmed what I also heard to be a ten-year deal , although no one knows yet what the final dollar amount will be. Mike Singletary has obvious ties to the Bears, but Kurt Warner’s retirement means the NFC West is up for grabs. But if Zimmerman was a Boras client, the Nationals would have him for just two more seasons before losing him to free agency.