Off-court stories you will hear all weekend:
•    UConn recruiting violations
•    Billy Gillispie’s job security vs. hiring John Calipari or Billy Donovan

Terrell Owens apparently doesn’t think he needs to meet his new coaching staff and teammates until they tell him he absolutely has to.  He has informed the Bills that he will not be attending the team’s voluntary workouts.  I can’t totally blame the man—I mean damn, nobody can ever say Owens is ever out of shape AND he says he will working out with her personal training instead.  No problems there.  My problem with all of this is that he is joining a new team.  A new staff.  A new quarterback.  Shouldn’t he at least check out how they do things before totally writing it off?

The Senate Judiciary Committee is taking a look at BCS.  They will be running this through the subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights and will be headed up by leading Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah.  It actually sounds like something will change as a result of this, and that makes all happy inside BUT does the Senate really need to be concerned this much about the BCS at this time?

It looks like Tampa Bay Rays uber-prospect David Price will start the year in the minors.  The way they handled Evan Longoria last year (AL ROY) leads me to not doubt the organization until they give me reason to do so.  I think TB has some really smart people in the front office and Price will be this year’s AL ROY.

NBA: Yo, watch out for dem Magic dem.  They beat the Celtics last night, which also put them in the 2-spot in the East, while bumping the C’s down to the 3.  If Orlando can hold on to that spot, they will beat (BEAT, I tell you) Boston in the 2nd round of the playoffs.  Howard: Double-double after 1 quarter; finished with 24-21.

Cavs win franchise-record 58th game of season.  Congrats.  What free-agency in summer 2010?  By the way, wasn’t that a headline we were expecting for the Celtics this year?  What a difference a year makes.

Non-sports topic:  KC Chopz  – “I Love Chongas”.  Just because it’s so damn cool.  If anyone can get me an MP3 of this, I need it.  For da whip. [Edit: Download Link -> 96kbps - 192kbps]

My take:  Whatever.  This is probably exactly what the team needs to gently nudge Ole Bobby out the door.  Yeah, it sucks that the wins will vanish as if they never happened, but let’s be real.  As much as the fanbase values conference and national championships here, those 14 or so wins from 2006/7 didn’t matter anyway.  It’s not like anybody has to pull down any banners, return Heismans, or rewrite the record books.

FSU football will be better because of this. Write that down.

UF Basketball: Look who forgot they aren’t a legit NCAA tourney team!  Aight aight, good win today Gators, but really all this does is set us up for a 1st weekend early knockout much like ALL those teams from 2001-2005.  By the way, Dan Werner still sucks.  How do you get so many minutes?  I know you’re not earning them…

T.O. to…the Bills?:  Yep, okthen.  I feel like this can go only 2 ways:

1. Owens balls out of control as the only legitimate weapon on the team, has a great year and leaves for a contender in 2010.  Or
2. He realizes Trent Edwards sucks and tells us all about it through the media.

Official SwaggerTooth.com Launch Party:  Much like the reasoning behind swaggertooth.com, nobody really knows what’s going on with this.  The reason I waste your time in stating that is because yesterday I said I would give you an update.  There it is.  S Dot, meet us at the 4th.