Brett, LeBron, Tiger - who should go away first

Who are you most sick and tired of seeing on your TV screen - Brett Favre, LeBron James or Tiger Woods? No, you can't say all three. You have to pick one.
If you're like most folks, this is a really tough call. All three athletes have gotten more prime time coverage than President Obama and it's not even close. Let's be honest, there really isn't a wrong answer.
I have to admit, I watched LeBron's "The Decision." Yeah, pretty much the whole hour, I sat there and listened. The thing is, I believe he really is getting a bit of a bum rap. He earned the right, as a free agent, to pick and choose his team.
As for his show, if ESPN wants to suckle his teat like a baby piglet, why should he say no? Fact is, LeBron didn't do anything he didn't have a right to do. As far as I'm concerned, the only people who should be angry at him are Cavalier fans. And, who really cares about those hundred or so losers, anyway?
Yeah, I'm tired of seeing LeBron trying to apologize to one city and explain his actions or whatever. But, of the three athletes in question, he's the least of my worries.
While LeBron didn't do anything wrong, Tiger, on the other hand, messed up real bad. Arguably the most popular athlete in the world, he had everything in the palm of his hand and carelessly cast it aside.
What gets me is all the ESPN talking heads who are now actually casting Woods as a sympathetic figure. Who are you kidding?
Tiger screwed Tiger. Well, okay, he diddled and daddled with a bunch of porn stars first but, you know what I mean. Now that he's distracted and his golf game is struggling, I have no sympathy for the guy. He actually had the nerve to explain away his struggles on the links, saying he doesn't have time to practice because he has to spend time with his kids.
Oh no he didn't?
I really wish Tiger would go away. Ryder Cup? Hell, get in a Ryder truck and haul his tail off Sportscenter.
The thing is, as sick as I am of seeing El Tigre, he's probably just as sick of being seen. Tiger doesn't want to be on ESPN anymore than we want to see him there.
Alas, that's not the case for old number four. Brett Favre has turned into the biggest media whore this side of Paris Hilton. How many times is ESPN going to play his game?
He's retiring. He's not retiring. He's injured. He's going to have surgery. He's not going to have surgery. He wants to play. Well, maybe he doesn't want to play.
For the love of cheese, please find a tree in Mississippi and climb it.
Someone tell ESPN, no one cares anymore. Until he's in a uniform, this is not a story. He's throwing passes to high school kids. Whoop dee freaking do! Yet, every day there's a reporter sweating like a hooker in church down in Hattiesburg.
"Today, Brett Favre shot at a possum," said the reporter. "We'll tell you if he actually hit the possum at the top of the hour. Back to you, Stew."
No one is looking smarter, right now, than the Green Bay Packers, who pulled the plug on Favre's act years ago. Now, the old man is playing the Minnesota Vikings like a banjo. They might as well be called Brett's Vikings because it's clear he runs the team.
Yeah, like LeBron, if Favre can make a team dance like a freaking monkey, he has every right to do so. If he make ESPN spend countless hours staking out his front porch down in Mississippi and the network is so stupid, it's his right. But, at least LeBron got his "decision" over with in an hour.
Brett Favre has been a story for far too long. Please, dear Lord, can you make him go away.

Hat's off to her

Some people are trying to cook up some heat on Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino for is treatment of a reporter at a press conference this week. The reporter showed up at the press conference wearing a Florida Gators hat.
Petrino answered her question then said simply, "that will be the last question I answer with that hat on."
The press conference was indoors so the reporter could've simply removed the hat and I would assume the coach would've answered another question from her.
Anyway, the reporter was fired from the company in Northwest Arkansas, which makes its money by covering Arkansas Razorback sports. The question, was the reporter wronged?
The answer - no.
There's an old saying, "know where your bread is buttered." If you get a job in Razorback territory covering the Razorbacks. You don't flaunt a Florida Gators hat to that job. It's not illegal but it is stupid, especially if you want to please your bosses.
The reporter is a Florida alum, who openly supports the Gators. That's fine. But, fact is, if she showed up at a Florida press conference sporting a Hog hat, Urban Meyer would've been pissed, too.
It's disrespectful. She knew it was disrespectful. That's why she did it.
I hope the reporter finds work soon. Hopefully she won't wear a Burger King crown to her interview at McDonalds.
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