So Noah and Smith are patrons of the arts, are they?

    People, as an episode of "Seinfeld" reminded us, they're the worst.
    The updated: They're the dumbest.
    This has nothing to do with Octo-please-tie-her-tubes-and-jaws-shut-Mom, or Ron Artest, or the Parents from Hell with a TV show and eight poor kids, or American Idol stalkers, or any dingbat in public office or on a cable talk show or the sheep that obsess about them.
    Joakim Noah of the Bulls and Josh Smith of the Hawks recently chimed in with critiques of Cleveland and Milwaukee, the cities, based on their vast experience of flipping past the Travel Channel and going to parks and museums, and to concerts that didn't stretch woofers to the limit.

Draft was fun, draft coverage was mind-numbing

    Thank you, God.
    Thank you for the end of the two-month-long NFL draft.
    Now, if you can do something about the ringing of Kiper and Berman in my ears, I'd appreciate it.
    Whew.

Huuuuge news out of Athens

    Georgia has released its fall depth chart, and those thinking it important are in hour number three - as of this writing - of pondering and speculation, rejoicing or regurgitating.
    Aaron Murray gets the nod as starting quarterback for the rest of April, and May, June and July. That the race re-starts in August matters none to many.
    He'll have no more experience than he has now, and will have no more experience than Logan Gray, but both will have more experience than the No. 3, who is expected to graduate high school soon.

And you thought spring football chatter was over?

    It was interesting timing, Mark Richt’s announcement late Sunday afternoon that quarterback Zach Mettenberger was now a former Bulldog quarterback.
    Way to jumpstart the week at the water cooler, Coach.
    Clearly, Mettenberger wasn’t dumped because of what we know about his arrest in South Georgia in March for assorted underage alcohol charges.
    The word "duh" comes to mind, especially after taking a peek at the "when you feel intellectually inferior, go online for a spell and you'll feel better" message boards.
    Richt's statement noted "personal conduct policy," so obviously it had nothing to do with his arrest in March.

Payne painful reprimand of Tiger

    There is some consternation at the comments of Billy Payne toward Tiger Woods before the Toonament started.
    He scolded.
    He counseled.
    He tweaked.
    He judged.
    He cajoled.
    He verbally spanked.
    He was overly dramatic.
    Payne didn't say much that most people hadn't thought, although his was a substantially more eloquent version, as, of course, we've come to expect from The Superior Humans Who Are and Love Augusta National and the Toonament.

The world won't change its rotation speed

    "So, you ready for the Masters?"
    Eh, I guess. I'll watch some.
    Have that brief chat with a golf freak and step back for the spasm and scolding.
    This will shock such folks, but people aren't nearly as obsessed with golf and the
majors as golf folks think.
    I'm not alone in failing to watch every hole for three or four days. Perhaps 
somewhere is some subconscious obstinance in that:

A depressing day

    Black Tuesday is just a lot blacker this year.
    And we were thiiiiis close, twice, to Black Tuesday 2010 being one of the best in years, maybe decades.
    Black Tuesday is the day after the men's NCAA championship, and the start of a week of the most overcovered event on the planet and of three months of daily obsessive analysis of every remote item involving a baseball team or player.
    Welcome to the dead zone.

Does Andy Reid not like Donovan anymore?

    What did Donovan McNabb ever do to deserve this?
    All he's done is play hard, play hurt, play well, give Philadelphia everything he had, even through legendary fan dysfunctional discord.
    And now he might be headed to Oakland? Al Davis?
    That's just mean.
    It's not like McNabb is Terrell Owens, who deserves a year or five with the Raiders. Or Pacman Jones or Ann Coulter or Milton Bradley or, yeah, many people in and out of football should serve a penance with Oakland.