Manny Pacquiao is one of the best fighters of all-time.  While Cotto may have been a shade slower than he was pre-Margarito, he still looked fit and like he packed a punch.  The two questions I had were whether Manny could hurt a true welterweight as he was unable to do against a feeble Oscar and whether Manny could take a punch from a true welterweight.  Questions answered.  Check and check plus.  All that said thought, I still like Mayweather when the two eventually meet after a messy negotiation.  Pretty Boy is slightly faster and his defense will frustrate Manny into taking too many chances that open him up.  Mayweather has shown much more of a willingness to make others play his game.

There are some really bad teams in the NFL.  I spend five minutes trying to figure out the Browns against the Lions because a friend of mine was adamant about the Lions being slighted with the line.  Then I realized I would never get those five minutes of my life back and took the Browns if only because they're underdogs.

Ireland deserves a drink.  I've never seen a bigger missed non-call.  I tried to slip the word "blatant" in there but I couldn't figure out where to put it.

I don't understand what Dwayne Bowe tested positive for but it's clear the rest of the Chiefs aren't on it.

Brandon Jennings is a boss in the making.

UCLA basketball will have to forget about the 09-10 season in a few years.  It's going to get ugly before it gets remotely good.  And I know we already lost to Cal. State Fullerton.  I'll be at the Pepperdine game on Monday.  Hopefully the Bruins look a bit better.

I like it when UCLA football wins, but I love it when USC football loses.  That's what you get for having male cheerleaders doing push-ups on top of one another in white sweaters.  Need I say more?

The L.A. Kings might be worth following for the first time in almost a decade.

The Clippers are not.

Tiger Woods gets paid more for showing up to play golf than 99.9% of us will make in a lifetime.

Sarah Palin makes my head hurt.  Not as much as Glenn Beck does though.  Wait, he's crying again.

Mark Cuban, L.A. Dodgers owner?  I like.

Pau Gasol was back tonight and he looked good.  I guess Christmas has come early for Lakers fans, or Channukah for a good portion of us.

Derek Fisher had better not get hurt. 

Pau better not get hurt again either.  I'm not sure if calling Mbenga, "Shrek" is offensive to Mbenga or the make pretent ogre played by Mike Myers.  It's clearly offensive to someone.

Sasha Vujacic is offensive to the human race.

Bill Belichick's decision to go was not dumb.  Not in the least.  His defense has shown no ability to stop the Colts.  Brady for two yards sounded like a much better bet to me at the time than stopping Peyton Manning with over two minutes left.  If nothing else there was the element of surprise because I think at least 80% of those watching figured they'd go hard count then take the delay.  Oh, and did I mention the ridiculously HORRIBLE spot that the official gave.  What was that signal he was giving?  The bobble?  More like the, "take the spot and subtract 1.5 yards" signal. 

Chad Ochocinco needs a 24/7.  Can he fight Pacquiao?  I'd mistake him for Paul Williams in a second.  But then someone would just duck him.

When you bench your #1 draft pick and the future of your franchise in favor of Brad Gradkowski, things are clearly going in the right direction.  At least nobody has accused the Raiders head coach of assault or battery in the last 4 days, or since I started typing this column.

I really hope TCU and Cincinnati spank whomever they face in their respective bowl games. 

Kansas football.  What amateur sports should be all about.

New Super Bowl prediction:  Patriots 38 - Saints 31