Blogging from Starbucks as my car gets serviced for the 756th time this year...

  • Somebody tell these USC kids cramming for finals around me that NO ONE will look at their college grades in the job world.  Who are we kidding, there are no jobs for them to get anyway, so they might as well get the heck out of Starbucks and enjoy the best four years of their lives.
  • According to an Air Travel Consumer Report, Southwest's flight from Phoenix to Sacramento is delayed 95% of the time.  95%!!!!  Why don't they just change the departure or arrival time?  Instead, they try and distract you with the rapping flight attendant.
  • If you are sick and deranged and you don't follow Sarah Silverman on Twitter, you're really missing out.  For example, "About to see Precious. Is this one of those movies where the trailer's like "Starring Eddie Murphy & Eddie Murphy &... Eddie Murphy!"  Funniest women alive!
  • As I tweeted this morning, doesn't somebody love Stevie Wonder enough to tell him to shave his ridiculous clown lipstick beard?!
  • Yesterday, I broke down the Curtis Granderson trade assuming that Brian Cashman would never pull the trigger.  Now, the only rationale is that it's part 1 of 2.  Part 2, sign Johnny Damon or a left-fielder who can hit in the two-hole.  If the Yankees re-sign Damon, Granderson becomes a gigantic upgrade over Melky Cabrera, thus the team is improved, which is usually the point of a trade when you give up half your farm system.  As of now, Granderson is a better defensive version of Damon, but cannot hit lefties, strikes out too much and does not have the OBP to justify a top two lineup spot.
  • SI's Jon Heyman is about ten steps ahead of every other journalist at the Winter Meetings.  Instead of sending newspaper writers to the meetings and having them start all their stories with "according to SI's Jon Heyman", can't they save money and do that from home?  
  • "The Rooster" is starting to crow a little bit.  Danilo Gallinari has made more threes than any player in the NBA this season.  At just 21, the Italian sharpshooter ranks as the lone bright spot on a team of expiring contracts and poor draft choices. 
  • With so little young talent and no 2010 1st Round draft pick, the Knicks should set their sights on the free agent class of 2011 instead of 2010.  Specifically, Chris Paul is the big fish that could get MSG swimming again.  In Mike D'Antoni's system, Paul could enter the pantheon of all-time great point guards.  Plus, Paul leaving New Orleans is much more realistic than nabbing LeBron James or Dwyane Wade.  Sadly, my guess is that they settle for Joe Johnson.
  • In other NBA news, the exact same teams that were good last year are good this year.  The Celtics, Cavs and Magic will decide the East, while the Lakers will win the West over Denver or San Antonio.
  • If you're not already in one, join a "confidence pool" for college football bowl season.  Mild gambling is the only way to make the Bell Armed Forces Helicopter Bowl interesting.
  • The Tennessee football hostess program is raising some NCAA eyebrows.  Hey, why not teach high school athletes that the better they are the more women they'll get?!  It worked for Tiger, MJ, Shaq, ARod, Lance Armstrong, etc...

Darnell Jefferson was hosted by Autumn Haley at ECU ("The Program")