Watchdog

Here is my Tuesday newspaper column, in which I meander aimlessly from serving as Michael Strahan's TV agent (for free!), to mini-reviewing HBO's new documentary on the 1960 U.S. Open, to alerting golf fans that this year's Open will finish in prime time, to reporting that New York sneaked into the Top 10 in ratings for Saturday's Belmont.

Covering Strahan from 1995 through 2004 was an adventure, for better and worse. He told me he'd never talk to me again three or four times, but always changed his mind and always was interesting to listen to when he did. His 2007 book, "Inside the Helmet," written with his pal Jay Glazer of Fox, is an entertaining, inside-the-game read.

When I wrote a column, I think it was in 2002, wondering whether he was potential Hall of Fame material, some readers thought I was wildly premature. But his Super Bowl ring finally clinched it.

The only unfortunate side effect of his retirement timing: Now he will go into the Hall with Brett Favre, which means that he will face one more round of questions about that record-breaking "sack" in January of 2002.