* The more Eli Manning throws footballs 8 feet over receivers' heads, the more Tiki Barber moves up the MVP ladder.
* Props to the NCAA for using the new Graduation Success Rate, a percentage that includes students who transfer from one school to another and still graduate. That information is not included in the federally mandated equation. Under that prehistoric thinking, an athlete who leaves Duke and graduates from North Carolina would count against both schools.
* In an unrelated incident, props to Colorado quarterback Joe Klatt for calling the NCAA "a terribly run organization." That's just plain funny.
* Props to the New York Jets for banning alcohol sales at Monday Night's game against the Patriots. I've long been a proponent of such ordinances. Now if only we can get every team to do so, games would be so much more fun to attend. (And sadly, four times more expensive.)
* Don't look now, but the Jets have crept back into the Reggie Bush race. That Week 17 Texans-49ers game is going to be huuuuuuuuuuuuge.
* Was anyone else expecting Doug Jolley to trip before reaching the end zone on his 60-yard touchdown catch against Miami?
* The calendar claims there are but a few days remaining in 2005. This means plenty of year in review stuff. I'm wondering how many of them will not include the end of Bernard Hopkins' championship reign at middleweight. The man defended his title successfully 20 straight times before losing to Jermain Taylor some five months ago and again in early December.
* I'm thinking Indianapolis head coach Tony Dungy created an unnecessary debate when he announced he would rest his starters instead of pursuing 16-0. Oh, well, 13-0 is still respectable. But not making it to the Super Bowl will be like the Seattle Mariners winning 116 games in the regular season then, predictably losing to the Yankees in the 2001 ALCS.