PSoTD

4 road wins. Yep, four.

Jacksonville over Pittsburgh.
Washington over Seattle.
New York Giants over Tampa Bay.
And the biggest upset of all, Tennessee over San Diego in "The Return of The Glazed Eyes of Norv Turner".

They tried. They didn't have to, it didn't necessarily help them for the playoffs, but they didn't give up, they took their chances, and for that the rest of the NFL's fans ought to be appreciative.

Yeah, I really don't understand the "NBA on Christmas Day" tradition either. And I actually like the NBA.

Thank you, Lovie. This is a good choice - time to get some clues about upside on Kyle Orton.

Lovie Smith - it's time to find out what Orton can do with the offense this year for the Chicago Bears. The hunt for the playoffs is over. Griese is clearly not the long-term answer. Grossman is hurt.

And I'm sorry, I don't think I can agree that QB is the top priority for the offseason for the Bears. As bad as the offensive line is, any new quarterback is likely to get injured over time as well. It must be improved. Same with the defense. It has sucked this year.

Pick any baseball player - but my advice is to pick a player that played a long time for many teams - as a starting point. Cal Ripken, Jr., will end your game immediately. Go to that player's web page at BaseballReference.com. At the bottom of the page you will see the transactions that the player was involved in - and you'll be using the trades to link to your next player.

Your goal is to follow a trail of trades to make your Baseball Team. You need 1 starting pitcher, 1 relief pitcher, and 8 position players. That's 10 players. But you can only follow the transactions - and specific trades - to get your player, and if you link forward to a dead end, and have to backtrack to the prior player, that is as far as you can go. You can only go back one step. You can't replace who you select, either.

Here's my example - if I start with

Mike Pagliarulo, Third Baseman

here's what I end up with:

Walt Terrell, Starting Pitcher

Lee Mazzili, First Base

Bucky Dent, Shortstop

Oscar Gamble, Outfield

Johnny Callison, outfield

Jack Aker, Relief Pitcher

Johnny Romano, Catcher

Rocky Colavito, Outfield

Jerry Lumpe, Second Base

Not a bad little team, although there's a generation of time between these players.

It requires a bit of knowledge of which baseball players have been traded a lot, otherwise you'll find it easy to get stuck with a position having no player.

76ers fired Billy King.

Is this a common practice at football stadiums?

Calling all shovelers to Lambeau Field.

The Green Bay Packers say they're going to need some help tomorrow with snow removal.

The team's facility operations director Ted Eisenreich says they'll need about 300 shovelers beginning at 8 a.m. and continuing throughout the day.

The Packers will provide the shovels. You must be 15. You'll get eight bucks an hour when you're done.

Green Bay plays the Oakland Raiders Sunday at Lambeau.

Good to see that Sacramento King fans gave Rick Adelman something well deserved.

Kevin Martin praised Rick Adelman before Saturday night's game, then went out and helped spoil his former coach's return to Sacramento.

Adelman, who was often criticized during the last of his eight seasons as the Kings coach, made his first visit back to Arco Arena and received a standing ovation during pregame introductions. The typically stoic Adelman, who guided Kings to their biggest success in the Sacramento era and won 63 percent of his games before being fired after the 2005-06 season, stood up and waved to the crowd, acknowledging the ovation.

"It was the first time I went against my old coaching staff, I felt like I had been traded," Martin said. "I told them (Adelman and former Kings assistants Elston Turner and T.R. Dunn) I appreciated the great job they did here and that they were remembered. He got a standing ovation for a couple of minutes and it could have went five."

I don't know who will be the second ranked team in NCAA football by the end of the day, but whoever it is, I have no doubt that they will destroy Ohio State in the championship game.