Curt "I Cry in my Car" Schiling is apparently done for the season. Happy Days are here. Such a corrageous warrior, right? The true embodiment of Red Sox grit and determination, you say? Does that also include knowing about your injury, and managing to close an $8 million contract after the season ends? Maybe that highlights the stupidity of the Red Sox in signing him again. Supposedly he can't even shake anyone's hand, but his alternatetive training will supposedly allow him to start by mid year. I'm sure we will read about all about it on his blog. Since he claimed Clemens should return his Cy Youngs because of steroids, perhaps he should return his contract, to which he was signed when he undoubtedly knew about his injury.

If your faint of heart, then don't watch the replay of Richard Zednik having his carotid artery slashed by his teammate's skate in a freak accident. Truly frightening, and the amount of blood left on the ice makes it unbelievable he didn't die. And hockey isn't a brutal sport, right?

February is of course the pivotal month in college basketball, where hopes and dreams are created, and where puffed up teams are exposed as having ranks far exceeding where they really are. (caugh, caugh) Kansas, Georgetown, UNC anyone. Kansas not only lost to Louisville, they were beaten outright by Texas last night. Georgetown stole a game last night against Villanova, because the ref decided to call a foul on Nova with 1 second left, in Georgetown's own backcourt. I'm not quite sure what the ref was thinking.

UCONN continues with 7 in a row, and Wednesday they dismantled the Irish. Sadly, its been too long since UCONN returned to the big dance as threat (going back to the Ben Gordon and Oakafor days). The Big East is so stacked, its ridculous. Marquete, Georgetown, UCONN, Syracuse, West Virginia, Louisville, Pitt, and Notre Dame. No other conference in College Basketball comes close. People claim Memphis will win it this year, or Wisconsin or Indiana have a shot, but honestly, those teams haven't faced the top of the Big East yet, and Memphis barely beat UCONN in the second game of the season - play them now and see what happens. Thabeet is averaging 25+ a game. Outside of the Big East, the ACC is second in terms of strength of schedule, though Duke can be handled if a team takes away their 3 point shooting (as in they have no big man). People should begin to pay attention to Flordia, who is playing well right now. They won't make it past the Sweet 16 this year, but look for them to upset someone big in the tournament.

I liked Bobby Knight's resigning in mid-season, and then going on ESPN to sing Happy Days are here again.

In case you were wondering, I watch ridiculous amounts of college basketball, in addition to soccer.

Manchester United $&@# the bed against Manchester City, losing 2-0, and it happened on the 50th anniversary of the Munich disaster, where 8 players were killed when the team plane failed to take off in Munich. Arsenal, of course, won - expanding their lead at the top of the table.

The Patriots have a great offseason ahead of them. They can look forward to renegotiating Randy Moss's contract, as well as a Congressional Hearing centered around their video taping efforts. I wonder how many commercials Brady will appear in, now that its rumored they filmed the walkthrough of the St. Louis Rams prior to the 2002 Superbowl.

Roger Clemens's trainer now claims he injected Clemens's wife with HGH. I wonder who else he injected with HGH, perhaps Don Zimmer or Joe Torre? Why can't someone inject me with HGH? I like to see my tax dollars at work. The media isn't reporting positive progress in Iraq, or the real reasons for the impending recession, but instead are focused on sitting two men down in front of a congressional panel to discuss steroid abuse 7 years ago? Did Clemens take roids? Yes, probably. Does it matter? No, not really. Most of the league is on steroids, and they still don't test for HGH. More importantly, exposing Clemens as a liar accomplishes what? Though, I do admit he brings it on himself - Um, Petite misheard me, I didn't mean I took steroids, it was misunderstood. What??