Live from New York... it's the NFL draft!

That's right ladies and gentlemen, we have the first three rounds of the NFL draft in the books already.

As expected, Sam Bradford went as the overall number one pick to the St. Louis Rams, where he will hopefully evolve into the face of the franchise, and more importantly... help them win some games.

However more unexpectedly, Tim Tebow went 24th in the first round to the Denver Broncos. While the franchise seems like a good fit generally, they already have depth in the Quarterback position with Kyle Orton and the newly acquired Brady Quinn. It will be interesting to see what type of player Tebow evolves into, because there is a strong possibility he won't be playing QB anytime soon. It has been widely discussed that he could be used in special teams.
Jimmy Klausen (Notre Dame) is heading to Carolina after today's second round. Klausen has a great chance of starting pretty quickly for the Panther's. Some analyst's think that he could have a better set up in Carolina than Bradford has in St. Louis because the Panthers already have a pretty solid team. However, back in Missouri Bradford will almost certainly be carrying the weight of the team on his shoulders.
Colt McCoy (Texas) will be back in orange as he heads to Cleveland. Today was a long day for the former Longhorn as he fell much later than expected, 85th pick overall. Colt tends to get over-shadowed by Tim Tebow, but what people don't realize that is that McCoy is the winningest quarterback in college football history with an NCAA record of 85 wins as a starter.

Rounds 4-7 commence tomorrow, but don't underestimate the power of the later rounds. After all, Tom Brady was a seventh, that's right SEVENTH round draft pick back in 2000. Joe Montana was drafted in the third round in 1979. Rodger Staubach... TENTH round draft pick in 1964.Complete 2010 Draft List.
NFL's list of the top 75 draft picks of all time.

Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks.

Ladies and gentlemen, baseball season has officially started! I don't know about you, but there is nothing I would rather do on a beautiful spring day than sit out at the ball park with a beer and a hot dog. While reading my latest ESPN the Mag, I found these fun little statistics about America's favorite past-time.

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In a typical MLB season there are....

• 2,430 Games
  
  


• 32,193 Strikeouts




• 21,655 Innings




• 22,850 Runs




• 5,056 Home runs




• 207 Ejections
  
  


• 13,966 Pitching changes (Most pitching changes in a nine-inning game: 16 , Cardinals (9) vs. Pirates (7) 9/30/2007)




• 21,733,839 Hot dogs sold (if you laid all the hot dogs sold in a typical season end-to-end, they would stretch from Fenway to Coors)
  
  


• 74,485,560 Tickets sold




• 1,200,000 Balls used




• 50,000 Bats used
  
  


• 1,726 Hit batters




• 730 Demotions




• 66 Trades (involving at least one MLB player)




• 425 DL stints (Most commonly injured body part resulting in DL stint, 2005-09: Right shoulder/rotator- 336)




• 3 Managerial changes




• 31 Rainouts




• 2 Snowouts

Life in the fast lane.

My parent's don't watch baseball or basketball, they don't watch Nascar, PGA golf, or tennis. They prefer the high-octane (pun intented) sport of Formula 1 racing. And since I have been living with them again, I have begun to enjoy sitting down and watching the races.

For those of you unfamiliar with Formula 1 let me inform you that it is nothing like it's redneck cousin, Nascar. Instead of being sponsored by Bud Light, you are sponsored by Johnnie Walker; Hugo Boss instead of Dollar General. Formula 1 holds their races in such exotic locales as Bahrain; Catalunya, Spain; Sao Paolo, Brazil; Monte Carlo, Monaco; and Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. Meanwhile Nascar uses other "exotic" locations as Talladega in Alabama, Kansas Motor-speedway, and Dover Speedway in Delaware.

The F1 tracks aren't your standard ovals, they are big, mean and full of curves. Also, F1 cars are made by Lotus, Ferrari, McLaren-Mercedes, BMW, etc. So you can expect so see lots of speed. F1 cars are masterpieces of technology as well as closely guarded secrets held by their makers. In Nascar, all cars look the same and are made the same, just by different people (Ford, Chevy, Dodge, etc).

Now, for my female readers, if none of this sounds appealing to you in any way, then let me introduce you to what initially drew me into Formula 1 racing... the drivers. These aren't your "good ol'boy" Nascar drivers, these are dapper foreigners with exotic roots and adorable accents.

Jenson Button

Age: 30

Hails from: Britain
Races for: McLaren-Mercedes

Status: Mine.... so don't even think about it.

Lewis Hamilton
Age: 25
Hails From: Britain
Races for: McClaren Mercedes

Timo Glock

Age: 28
Hails from: Germany
Races for: Virgin

Mark Webber
Age: 34
Hails from: Australia
Races for: Red Bull

Nico Rosberg
Age: 25
Hails from: Germany
Races for: Mercedes GP Petronas

To sum it up. If you want to see people spray champagne after a race instead of milk; if you would rather not be able to understand your driver interviews because of an Italian accent instead of a north Georgia accent; and if you prefer Grey Poupon to French's.... then it is time to check out F1 racing.