The voice of Tiger baseball Jeff Brightwell invited me out to join him on his broadcast yesterday & it was a lot of fun. It's been a few years since I had been in the booth for a broadcast. I may try to sneak out for a couple of more as the season moves along.

Meanwhile, the Tigers' baseball team is improving. Yesterday's win was ugly, 9-7, over UT-Martin. But it's early in the season & after last season, this team will take a "w" any way they can get it.

Good luck to coach Schoenrock!

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NFL spokesman Steve Alic, on Vince Young's alleged score of 6 on the Wonderlic test: "Any report of a test score of 6 is incorrect. The people who run the combine told me emphatically that it was incorrect. They said it couldn't be more wrong. I know the report is wrong and know the scores are confidential."

Columnist Neal McReady of the Mobile Register offers terrific insight into this story as he writes, "A more disturbing rumor, if you ask me, is one circulating in Indianapolis that Young's representatives didn't know the test would be administered at the Combine and so the Houston native wasn't prepared.

"Who is preparing Young for the most important few months of his life so far? Well, therein lays the problem. Young hired family attorney Major Adams as his agent, despite the fact that Adams has only negotiated one NFL contract. Houston attorney Joe Jamail, a prominent Texas booster, has been hired to advise Young during contract negotiations. Young's uncle, Keith Young, a former computer software representative who is now a teacher at Paul Revere Middle School in Houston, has been hired as Young's business manager. Together, the group is called "Team Vince," a moniker that is drawing derisive laughs in NFL circles."

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Meanwhile, the two battling sides in the NFL's labor negotiations broke off talks yesterday.

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I could have gone the rest of my life & been happy not seeing Barry Bonds dressed in drag. But now that I have seen it, it's time I share my pain with you.

Actually, hats off to Barry for putting on the blonde wig to impersonate Paula Abdul while the San Fransisco Giants held their version of American Idol to raise money for their community fund.

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New York Knicks owner James Dolan is supposed to meet with team beat reporters here in Memphis later today before his team faces the Grizzlies. A public vote of confidence for team president Isiah Thomas is expected, which as we know is the kiss of death in the sports world.

The New York media can be quite brutal. They have been feasting daily on what is now nothing but a carcas we know as the Knicks. Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News writes, "If Dolan does this, does it out of some misguided sense of loyalty, or some macho notion that if you do the opposite of what everybody in town wants you to do you're some kind of tough guy, he will make the ducks who march through the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis every day look smarter than he is about pro basketball."

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Music quote of the day:

"So we sailed up to the sun
'Till we found the sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine"

The Beatles - "Yellow Submarine"