Sports Notes, 5/5/07

Yes, I know it’s Saturday, not Sunday, but so much has happened while I’ve been working! So try to look at this posting a day early instead of six weeks late …

-- Your move, Lance Briggs.

-- Dude! Lou Pinella had his blowup before I could even throw together a “When Will Lou Pinella Have His Blowup” pool!

-- Four straight over the defending NBA champions? Damn, now I’m going to have to start watching basketball.

-- Oh, and don’t look now, but … Bulls vs. Heat in the regular season: 3-1 Bulls. Bulls vs. Heat in the playoffs: 4-0 Bulls. Bulls vs. Pistons in the regular season: 3-1 Bulls. But now I’m getting ahead of myself.

-- It sure is a good thing that I saved my ticket stub from Mark Prior’s first start on May 22, 2002, because that’s going to be worth thousands of dollars oen day.

-- Try to look at it this way, Cubs fans: This team was going to go 77-85 with or without Prior and Wood.

-- Speaking of: Which would be more remarkable, if the Cubs and Sox made the playoffs in the same year or if they had the exact same sub-mediocre record? ’Cause I see a 77-85 freight train crashing on the South Side, too.

-- OK, what Brian Urlacher did was wrong, but 100,000 is a lot of dollars to have to pay for wearing the wrong hat. I mean, it’s not like what he did was as wrong as what Tank Johnson did.

-- Or Pacman Jones.

-- Or Chris Henry.

-- Or, ahem, Greg Olsen.

-- We’ll finish with a confidential note to Mark C. in Dallas, who wrote in whining that Don Nelson sets the bar too low for himself by taking on teams that aren’t expected to win: SCOREBOARD!!!!