Guess my decision-making ability continues to be shredded.

This guy was my childhood hero. No kidding. How did I ever graduate from high school, let alone college?

Oh, Jenny Jones, where have you gone?

During your time on TV, prompted by your spectacular performance on Press Your Luck, you gave us dysfunctional relationships. Now, we're stuck with the happiness that is Maury Povich.

Snap!

As if the Texas-Oklahoma game wasn't shaping up to be the game of the year of the week...

ESPN has expectedly broken down this game from all angles, but none is more important than this look at Texas QB Colt McCoy. The junior has transformed himself into the second-best quarterback in the conference (behind only Missouri's Chase Daniel) and has done everything to this point to make sure he's in New York for the Heisman ceremony in December.

Also:

What says welcome back to the Gamecock State more than actually having a live rooster living in your apartment complex?

I'm not sure -- nor am I sure how the Palmetto State became the Gamecock State. Regardless, I snapped a couple shots of said rooster.

He was running away from me, and I, unlike Rocky, am not that fast. Nor is the camera on my phone all that steady when a limping, fat dude is running and snapping at the same time. Still, the proof lies by the back tire of this truck.

Gotta hand it to the 1,383 daily newspapers, 83,980 TV stations and countless Web sites in the Big Apple. Along with ESPN, all those cats forgot to tell us that the New York Giants were any good.

Hell, some of them even forgot to tell us the Giants were still playing football.

That's the only reason I can understand why the defending Super Bowl champs were ignored up until the last two weeks. Granted, I guess averaging 32 points a game versus your opponents' 12 really isn't that big of a deal.

Shameful, New York media. Shameful.

Now that we're in conference play, it's logical to think the SEC, Big 12 and Big 10 team will start knocking themselves down a peg or two.

I've had time to go back and add in my thoughts on each of the top 25. Again, you'll notice a theme. The big conference's best (LSU, Oklahoma, Bama, Texas, Missouri) are truly rising to the top, while some of the pretenders from those same conferences (Auburn, Kansas) are dropping quickly.

Takes O' Ian:

Give it to me, baby.

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Is it a statement of Missouri's complete ineptitude in football or Nebraska's long-time dominance that the Tigers' win on Saturday in Lincoln was the first such occurrence in 30 years?

I usually don't get too excited about sports -- yeah, I talk it a lot, I watch a hell of a lot of it. But as far as my own fandom, it usually stays on the sideline. But there's something intrinsically fun about watching Missouri play.

I lent my expertise -- watching football, judging football, commenting on football (all without a credential) -- to the dudes over at Pigskin Podcast this week.

I'm on the first and third segments, and I'm upset I didn't get to grill Raider Greg on his tool of an owner. C'est la vie.

Hey kids, it's that time of year when you better make sure you're registered to vote in the presidential election.

For my South Carolina readers, Saturday -- October 4 -- is the deadline.

In Missouri, home of my other two readers, it's Wednesday. Do your duty so you can have a say.

Turns out the Chinese gymnasts were old enough, after all.

Shocking.

The IOC, long known for it's "fair and balanced" approach, makes a decision that won't piss off what has become the largest viewership market in the world. And the IOC makes a decision that won't piss off a country that just sold it's soul to make things perfect.