Ramblings

Today: View from the Moon, Gobbling the Cupcakes and the Tennis Goddess Returns?
Have you seen detailed plans for the new stadium to be co-owned by the New York Giants and Jets? Neither have I. The renderings now appearing on both team's Web sites look like the artist was asked to draw the stadium the way it might look from the moon. …Why do we still have teams in the NFL that do not have cheerleaders? Paul Tagliabue, get on this one. It's damn near un-American for a football team to not have cheerleaders. …Speaking of my good friend Tags, he assures me there is no way the Saints will relocate to Pluto. …Virginia Tech fans are upset that the Hokies do not play a tougher non-conference schedule. (I'd be more upset if they didn't have cheerleaders.) Tech athletics director Jim "Dream" Weaver insists he puts forth his best effort to put teams on the schedule from the nation's top conferences. Weaver says a lot of schools don't want to play the Hokies now that Tech has rocketed into the upper echelon of collegiate football programs. Maybe so. But I read today that the University of Tennessee football now has added the Ducks of Oregon to its future schedule along with UCLA, California and Oklahoma. The Vols recently have played Notre Dame and Miami. So how is it teams will play UT, a traditionally tough Southeastern Conference school, but not the Fighting Gobblers from Blacksburg? Just curious. …My fantasy league team, depleted by injuries since Week 1, now has lost 13 in a row and, of course, is in last place. The lowly J-E-T-S victory this past weekend gave me hope that my squad, the Wonderbras, can pull off a win before the regular season unsnaps and drops to the floor, revealing that the team and I are just a couple of boobs. Thinking about my fantasy football team reminds me of a drunk Joe Namath on the sideline with Suzy Kolber a couple of years back. Remember that? And to paraphrase Broadway Joe I'll say, "I don't care about the Wonderbras. I just want to kiss you Suzy." …Speaking of fantasy teams, my hockey team, the Kournikovas, is not in last place. They're doing ok, but they just can't win the big one. That's not a knock on Anna and her tennis career. That's simply the truth. Oh, and what's this I hear about Anna making a tennis comeback?