As a hoofer, Warren Sapp has made it to the finals of ABC's ''Dancing with the Stars'' with some fancy footwork.
It's a banner year for Bears and Bulls fans. Not so much 2008, but what did you expect?
Random thoughts while waiting for baseball's hot stove league to warm up:
The results are in for favorite hockey logos. According to thehockeynews.com, the Blackhawks rank No. 6 (which does seem low):
"Canada has canceled plans to build a national portrait gallery. Yeah, Canada decided to stop building the gallery when they realized that every painting was of Wayne Gretzky." -- NAN O'BRIEN, host of NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"
The Blackhawks leading the league sounds impressive. Well, it might be more meaningful if the category was something other than ''tie games.''
While Quick Hits takes a couple of deep breaths, here are some thoughts from others:
Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis said Tuesday he will call the offensive plays against Navy on Saturday. This, of course, was not his first choice. But the Coast Guard Academy is not on the Irish schedule.
Random thoughts while wondering where everyone will be three years from today when it will be 11/11/11:
"The number's ridiculous to think about. How long you've got to be in one place, forget about how many games you've got to win a year to get to it. I think there's a lesson for the owners and the general managers in the league: When you have somebody good, stay with him, instead of just playing musical chairs all the time." -- P.J. CARLESIMO, Oklahoma City Thunder coach, who was on the losing end Friday against Utah's Jerry Sloan, the first coach in NBA history to win 1,000 games with one franchise
The bright side about Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich's injury? Well, he'll be well-rested for the team's playoff push.
It's not every day that Quick Hits gets taken for a ride.
In the world of jurisprudence (and with Jose Canseco being involved, you better believe there is an excellent chance of having more juris than prudence), the former baseball slugger pleaded guilty in federal court in San Diego to the misdemeanor offense of trying to bring a fertility drug from Mexico into the United States. He was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months of unsupervised probation. Canseco claimed he had gone to Tijuana to find a substance to reverse damage done by steroid use. Apparently, a brain transplant was not an option.
Random thoughts while thinking what wonderful weather Monday would've been for a World Series championship celebration in Chicago after a Game 7 victory over the weekend:
Fall back? Yes, Quick Hits (and/or The Wife) took care of that Saturday night with the clocks. Who knew that term also would apply Sunday to the Bears-Lions game at Soldier Field? As in the Bears falling back to use a previous starting quarterback and Detroit falling back into the rut that has made it a team still looking for its first victory. OK, pretty much everyone expected the latter.
If baseball commissioner Bud Selig wanted to create a buzz about the World Series, he would've called Game 5 Monday after five innings with the Phillies being declared champions. Everybody would've been talking about it for decades (if not centuries -- or until the Cubs actually win one, whichever is shorter).
Random thoughts while pondering the possibility of former Bears leader Dick Jauron as NFL coach of the year for his effort with the Bills (well, before Sunday's loss):
Tribune Co. reportedly is pondering purchasing the Orange County Register and would ''fuse'' it with the Los Angeles Times. Maybe what TribCo ought to do is buy the White Sox and fuse them with the team it already owns to come up with a World Series-winning Cubs roster.
