1. Tigermania is merely a fad that will have burned itself out by, oh, Tuesday. The knowledgeable baseball fan these days will be painting his entire body orange and blue and shouting "LET'S GO METS!" from the rooftops.

2. Judging by their inability to remember the snap count, tell a forward pass from a lateral and willingness to stand there flat footed and let opposition wide receivers race past them in the secondary, I can only conclude that the average IQ of an OU football player these days hovers in the mid-teens.

3. Has a "major" sports league ever opened its season to LESS fanfare or attention than the NHL did this year?

-- Spike