Weekend Roundup

Pro Bowl Game Comes and Goes, and No One Seems to Care: The NFC defeated the AFC yesterday, 42-30. TO and Adrian Peterson were on fire, but I think anyone can put up huge offensive numbers when no one is running or tackling on defense. Only one more year of the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, then Goodell will decide what/where/when the Pro Bowl will be held. My idea? The game should be play each year at midseason at the city who had the worst record last season. All the good teams get to host playoff games or at the least GO to the Super Bowl, so why not throw a bone to the teams in the doldrums. If they employed this for next season, after Week 8, the pro bowlers would be heading to Miami for a week of fun in the sun.

Shaq is Patiently Waiting: The Diesel watched the Suns defeat Washington last night, while the world still waits and wonders how he will fit in to the Phoenix offense. Meanwhile Shawn Marion made his debut for the Heat, garnered a double-double, and lost. Welcome to Miami basketball, Shawn! Where even your best game won't make us any better!

Obligatory Golf Update: At Pebble Beach, Steve Lowery defeated Vijay Singh after Singh completed a monumental collapse. Vijay was up by three with four holes to play and made three straight bogeys and then lost on the first playoff hole. Wait - a golf recap that doesn't involve Tiger? You probably already stopped reading.

Memphis Stays Undefeated, ESPN To Make Too Much Out of "Perfect Season" Quest: The Tigers beat the powerhouse that is Central Florida over the weekend, stretching their record to 23-0. Shockingly enough, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network have decided to jump on this story with "The Quest for 40-0." I'm thinking that after last week's Super Bowl, the producer who had been making sure that something appeared on every Sportscenter episode for the last three months about the Patriots going perfect spent three nights crying himself to sleep after they lost. Then someone nudged him and said, hey, this college basketball team could go undefeated. The producer rejoiced and decided there was a new team that he could overanalyze, report about too much, and create an unbelievable amount of unnecessary pressure on the team for the next seven weeks.