What Baseball Race? Football Starts.

For some of us, baseball season is over, so here's what we're looking forward to now and here are two links to help you start to take your minds off of relatively unimportant stuff compared to football season--like war and politics.

For a change, it's not USC on top of the preseason Power 16. Ohio State grabbed the No. 1 ranking, but Troy Smith, Ted Ginn Jr. and the Buckeyes were hardly a unanimous selection. Texas, Notre Dame, Auburn and West Virginia also received first-place votes.

It's clear that the Braves string of fourteen division titles is over. I've been reading Braves GM John Schuerholz's new book "Built to Win." With budget restraints on the team's payroll, they cannot afford the players that they need. Let's hope that my favorite college teams pay their athletes better.