Somewhere between Chris Paul manhandling the Dallas Mavericks’ defense and Avery Johnson being fired, people overreacted to Josh Howard admitting to smoking marijuana in the offseason. There was no outrage when Henry Abbott of True Hoop broke this story LAST YEAR (4th question from the bottom), and the flap is extremely overblown when you consider that 80 million Americans have admitted to smoking marijuana with 11 million claiming they do so on a regular basis. Read the full story

Baseball is called America’s past time but the NFL is what drives the country. The football season is over but you can barely tell. The NFL combine and schedule release get treated like playoff games. The NFL Draft is a holy weekend for millions.

Not to be left out, NFL betting is available year round too. Most of the prop bets I found can’t be decided until the season’s in progress, but they’re still fun to go over. Forget about the same ole same ole odds to win it all next season, let your money ride on something more exciting. Read the full story

Little did I know that Bill Parcells’ quarterbacking commandments would bring quite a bit of traffic to YBB.. If you stopped by for yesterday morning, and the site was down, thank Mr. Parcells. I have to say, there are either a lot of aspiring quarterbacks out there, or Bill Parcells is the E.F. Hutton of the NFL studio. Either way, everything’s running smoothly now..As far as last week, wow what a week it was. Dallas pulled out a miracle, Leinart’s season is over, the Steelers stomped the Seahawks, and the Colts and Patriots played like the elite teams that they are. As for me.. I was under .500 (5-8-1, 34-31-7 on the season), and now fun time’s over. It’s time to right this ship.Buffalo, Denver, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Detroit have the bye week. And, as always, I don’t pick for or against my beloved Philadelphia Eagles. The home team is in bold type. Read the full story