The Rundown: Super Bowl Week

I talked about this last week about the various story-lines you'll read and hear about during Super Bowl week. Here's a Rundown of some of those story-lines already being talked about.

- Of course former Sacramento Bee columnist and current ESPN columnist Mark Kriedler had to go straight to the "Alex Smith was drafted over Aaron Rodgers" storyline right out of the box. Just reading this story makes me bitter beyond belief.

"Alex Smith was the high-octane product of Urban Meyer's offense at Utah. He was a little taller than Rodgers and thought by some to be more pro-ready. Though Meyer cautioned that Smith would need adjustment time to figure out the NFL style, 49ers coach Mike Nolan and his front office, a group that included current Packers coach Mike McCarthy, were enchanted.

The 49ers took a long look at Rodgers, the Northern California kid who grew up idolizing Joe Montana and had San Francisco at the top of the list of teams for which he would most like to play. But on draft day, with the first overall pick, the Niners blew right by him in favor of Smith."

Excuse me while I go and punch a hole in a wall.

The Rundown, 5/24/2010

Craig Sager's Suit: I guess I really shouldn't be surprised when Craig Sager wears a suit like this, but I am. That suit is so awful that Phil Jackson made fun of Sager during the between quarters interview.



Brown Out in Cleveland: Silly editors think they are so funny using the headline, "Brown Out" for their story on recently fired Cleveland Cavaliers coach Mike Brown. It's so funny that a poor guy lost his job despite the fact that he doesn't play. "Brown Out", calm on we can make better headlines than that.

I Now Have Interest In the French Open: The French Open started yesterday with a few mundane matchups. The biggest headline from France yesterday was a risque outfit Venus Williams wore for her first round match. It was a black see-through outfit with lots of lace. Here's how Venus describes it, "The outfit is about illusion,'' Williams said. "And that's been a lot of my motif this year.'' By the way, Venus is playing the best Tennis of her career and should be playing for the title in a couple of weeks.


Milton Bradley Takes Responsibility: At the beginning of the month, Seattle Mariners outfielder Milton Bradley was placed on the "restricted list" for he could take care of some personnel problems. Bradley has finally opened up since then and is no longer blaming others for his problems.

"I used to put responsibility on other people,'' Bradley said. "That part of my life is over. The thing I've learned is that I have to take responsibility for what I do now.''

Bradley has been receiving counseling to help him deal with his anger issues. I truly hope Bradley continues to seek treatment. Milton became a punchline in recent years because of his outbursts and anger problems. He needed help and I was glad to see he asked the Mariners for that help and they gladly gave it to him. Get well soon, Milton.