Show Recap - Friday July 23, 2010

Major League Baseball shouldn’t break its arm patting itself on its back for implementing random blood testing for HGH in the minor leagues. And I wouldn’t be looking for them to nail anyone for using it either. Not when most minor leaguers can’t afford it. And not when this test has only produced one positive result in the world over the last six years; a knucklehead rugby player, who testing officials were tipped off on before the test. So there was nothing random about that one. So you’d have to be pretty stupid to get caught using with this test.

Look. It’s better than nothing. But not much. Not if it’s not reliable and especially if it doesn’t make it to the major league level. Unless it’s a precursor to that, it’s absolutely worthless. No one cares about testing minor leaguers who probably aren’t using anyway. That’s nothing more than window dressing and Bud Selig trying to convince us that the roid era really didn’t happen and that he... More »

Great day to be a Broncos fan. Because for the next 6 years… Elvis will be in the building! Hey-o!!! 6 years, $61 and a half mill. And the shortest pass rusher in the league is now one of the richest, because he’s one of the best. You might question some of Josh McDaniels’ decisions but not this one. He may have run Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall out of town, but not Elvis. Not a guy screaming off the edge and wrecking anything standing in the backfield.

Photos: Elvis Chasing QB's

And no, they didn’t overpay for him either. You can’t over pay for production. And no one other than the mulleted mad man, Jared Allen and the Ferrari that is DeMarcus Ware, has done a better of job of getting to the Q.B. than Dumervil has since he entered the league. This is a character guy and a locker room guy and it hasn’t mattered where they’ve put him, he’s made plays. Some... More »

Info & Stats: Retired NBA Hall of Fame Basketball Player | 16 Years Played in the NBA | 11-Time NBA All-Star | 1993 NBA MVP | Member of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team | Studio Analyst for TNT's Emmy Award winning show "Inside the NBA".

Photos: The Best Of Sir Charles

Chuck on why he’s not on Twitter: “I hate Twitter. If someone wakes up in the morning and wants to know what I’m doing, they’re a damn loser.”

Topics: I just play golf everyday now, life is great | The players are going to cave first | The owners already decided their not playing tell they get the deal they want | The owners want the smaller market teams to be competitive | Miami being the reason why the owners want change | We need the small market teams to be competitive | Last season was a great year for the wrong reasons | Cleveland and Toronto are ruined | Were in a recession | These players have not been hurt by the recession | 50-50 revenue split | Bryant Gumbel’s comments about David Stern being a plantation overseer were stupid | The dress code | We need young black kids to dress better | It’s an insult to compare the players to slaves | Everybody in the NBA is making a good living | I think David Stern is the best... more >

Info & Stats: Los Angeles Lakers Forward

Photos: Pro And College Career

Matt on Metta World Peace’s physical game against the Clippers: “I think we saw Ron Artest last night.”

Topics: Game against the Clippers last night | Needing a win last night | The new look Clippers | We don’t look down on them, were all men | Pau Gasol rubbing Chris Paul’s head | Pau getting sick of the soft label | Pau lead us last night | Lamar Odom | The Chris Paul trade not going through being hard on Pau | Him and Metta being interchangeable | Me and Ron are close | I think we saw Ron Artest last night | Ron Ron and Blake Griffin going to the floor | Love that old style of Ron’s rough play | Mike Brown | New system | Defense | Pau wanting the ball more down low |

Info & Stats: Cincinnati Reds 2nd Baseman | 2010 MLB All-Star

Photos: Career Highlights

Brandon on if they are the best team in the National League: “Of course, I don’t feel like anyone in the League can beat us.”

Topics: Getting ready to beat up on the Astros | Opening day win | Last season the Phillies making quick work of them in the NL Playoffs | 1st time in playoffs for a lot of us last year | Having bad luck in the Playoffs last season | Feels like they’re the best team in the National League | His injury last season | Having to play through pain down the stretch run of last season | His rivalry with St. Louis | We are the up and coming team | JRIB Correspondent | Every guy on the team had my back after the St. Louis altercation last season | Jim Edmonds taking a shot at him | Can’t talk trash in Baseball like Basketball | Meeting fans through Twitter |

Info & Stats: CBSsports.com College Football Columnist

Dennis on if College Football is heading towards four super conferences of 16 teams a piece: “Yeah, I think so.”

Topics: Major League Baseball | Milwaukee Brewers | Bobbleheads in Kansas City | Texas A&M wanting to leave the Big 12 | Super Conferences of 16 coming down the road | Network TV | Texas A&M wanting to go to the SEC | Big Ten Conference | Ohio State’s crippled state still has enough talent to win the league | Nebraska fits the Big Ten profile | BCS National Championship | Nebraska and South Carolina maybe dark horses to win the BCS title |