* The Mets are slowly starting to look like the Yankees. It's always a shame when Mets fans lose half their arguing chips in their attempts to not feel like second-class sports citizens.
* The longer the Yankees do nothing, the greater the chances are of them doing something big . . . and stupid.
* Sports talk radio gets no better than Stephen A. Smith singing the lyrics to Mary J. Blige's "A Family Affair" when coming back from commercial breaks. C'mon, baby, let's party with Stephen A.
* Illinois beat unranked defending champion North Carolina in college hoops on Tuesday night. Unranked defending champion. An amazing phrase.
* USC's Reggie Bush will be in New York next weekend for the Heisman Trophy presentation. If the world is in synch, USC's Reggie Bush will be in New York next season for the Jets.
* Please let one of Michael Irvin's defenses for getting caught with drug paraphenalia be true. TV needs "The Playmaker."
* St. John's hoops continues trying to climb out of the abyss, but losing to Hofstra for a third straight season is just plain awful.
* In my next life, I want to come back as the male version of Morganna the Kissing Bandit from the 1980s. Maria Sharapova will still be hot! And beach volleyball will still be around. Nice.
* Four wins in a row and suddenly Army thinks it's a college football team to reckon with. Army is suspected of stealing the Commander-in-Chief's trophy which has belonged to Navy the past three seasons. According to the story, a note was left. It read: "Before we win the football game on Saturday, we thought we would take the trophy. By the time you read this, it will be halfway to West Point," home of the U.S. Military Academy. That's hilarious. Of course, Army will still lose.