Too much PC

Hear that? That's the sound of polictically correctness. The sound of, "Give everyone a chance" has reared its ugly head into sports' most entertaining venue.

The coaches and voters spoke with their pencils and wrote in Florida as the second-best team in the nation, thereby eliminating the real No. 2.

If I'm Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, I'm wondering, "How in the world does a No. 2 team drop, especially if its only loss is by three points to the No. 1 team?"

But this is exactly what college presidents wanted all along. They wanted constant chatter -- good and bad -- about the BCS. They wanted the buzz to continue all season long, and if that's what they're after they're certainly going about it the right way.

Mark McGwire is on Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame balloting, which is fine and dandy. But the real problem isn't whether he should be deemed worthy to earn a bronze bust, it's that Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken -- two of baseball's model citizens -- will be overshadowed with drug discussions.

Covered a high school game last week between a pair of rival Appleton schools. At this girls' hoops contest, many of the visiting students began to rain down with jeers of: "When are you going to start to play" when Appleton "A" school feel behind Appleton "B" school by several points.

Come on. It's high school. Most of these girls are more interested in other things, but make a go of it, despite the shortcomings of a depressed program. I guess it all goes back to: "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."

Quote of the day "I told him he was making me look good," Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells on newly acquired kicker Martin Gramatica, whose 46-yard field goal with one second left beat the Giants.