Brett Favre wants to play, at least for now. He has flip-flopped more times than a pancake at IHOP. What is the team suppose to do? If he returns, there will be a divided locker room, second guessing all over the place, and Green Bay might end up losing their successor to Favre.
The Packers should not give him his outright release. Favre retires, the Pack moves on with Rodgers, all is well. Favre wants a meeting in March to say he wants to unretire, then cancels. The organization seemed willing at that point to let him return. Now, almost 4 months later, he wants to play?
What is he gets into training camp and decides it is just too much and he really doesn't want to play. This is selfishness at the utmost degree. If the team tries to trade him, what will they get? Probably not much. Forget the other divisional teams and maybe most in the NFC (maybe Tampa is a possibility). You think Favre wants to go to Baltimore or Oakland? Surely, he wants to go south. Carolina would fit but are the Packers willing and able to make a respectable deal with other teams knowing that he has to be traded? He has put this organization is a terrible spot.
What a mess
This is not a good thing. Packer is synonymous with the NCAA tournament.
Packer out (no, not Brett Favre)
Billy Packer's streak of Final Fours is over after 34 years.
Billy Packer will reportedly be replaced by CBS studio analyst Clark Kellogg.
Packer, a color commentator, will be replaced in CBS' coverage by studio analyst Clark Kellogg, according to media reports Monday.
Jim Nantz will continue in his Final Four play-by-play role.
Packer, 68, will leave CBS after 28 years to pursue "other projects in basketball," according to The Miami Herald.
Speculation of Packer's exit was fueled amid widespread criticism during this year's tournament.
Early in the 2008 semifinal between Kansas and North Carolina, with the Jayhawks up 38-12, Packer declared, "The game is over."
North Carolina cut the lead to 54-50 with 11 minutes left in the second half before Kansas pulled away, winning 84-66.
The Jayhawks beat Memphis 75-68 to claim the national title.
Packer, who began his Final Four run at NBC, later defended the comment to USA Today.
"My job is to say what I see, not have some kind of subconscious feelings about offending anybody. ... It probably annoyed some people, but I don't concern myself with having some agenda that's contrary to what I'm seeing," he said.
Ian Kinsler is doing things few people predicted. He still has glove issues but this guy can play the game. I was fortunate to be able to meet him about 1 1/2 years ago and speak with him. He was confident, bordering on cocky, but still a pretty nice guy.
Kinsler hits 25
Kinsler extended his majors-best hitting streak to 25 games with three hits and drove in three runs, and Young and Bradley also had key hits, leading the Texas Rangers to a wild 12-11 victory over the AL Central-leading Chicago White Sox that clinched another series win.
"We're showing a lot of character, clawing our way through games," said Young, who has a 15-game hitting streak. "We're playing as a team. ... The momentum we've built up over the last couple of months, hopefully we can carry that over into the second half.
The Beatles are still a little bit popular
The hand-painted drum skin that appeared on the sleeve of the Beatles' ground-breaking 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" sold for $1.1 million at auction on Thursday in London, four times its estimate.
Billed as the "world's most famous drum skin," it was the star lot of Christie's rock and pop memorabilia sale in London, and eclipsed the other highlight, John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for hit song "Give Peace a Chance."
The manuscript still fetched $834,000, well above pre-sale expectations of around $500,000.
Dit ontluikt voor u (that's Dutch for "This Bud's for you")
Belgian brewer InBev has announced it will buy its U.S. rival Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion to create the world's largest brewer.
The deal would create the world's largest brewer and put the U.S. beer-maker in the hands of Belgian-based InBev.
The acquisition means control over America's largest brewer, the No. 2 worldwide, moves overseas. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Anheuser-Busch has more than 48 percent of American market share with brands that include Bud Light.
InBev is the world's second largest beer maker, with brands that include Stella Artois and Becks.
The deal must be approved by shareholders and European and U.S. antitrust regulators. The merger will produce the fourth-largest consumer product company worldwide
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