Mount Rushmore of Sports

So ESPN has been doing a state-by-state (and now I think sport-by-sport) sports version of Mount Rushmore. Basically you vote on the four greatest athletes from that state to be carved into hypothetical stone as a tribute to their legacies. Though this is rather silly in a way, it does make for good conversation. Leave it to ESPN to once again fill in a slow sports time of the year with a gimmick and leave it to us to copy it! Anyhow, let's cut to the chase: if we take the nation as a whole, who should be on our national sports Mount Rushmore? And if you want to get really crazy, who would be on an all-time althletes Mount Rushmore, any time from anywhere?

Oscar Time

As the NBA emerges from its All-Star weekend and Spring Training gets underway, it can only mean one thing . . . it's Academy Award time! So let us know who you think should win and who do you think will win, as we here at the Preachers feel that the two rarely coincide. Though we'll reveal our picks on the air this week, I for one will say I'm going with Mickey Rourke for best actor. And what's up with The Wrestler getting the shaft for best picture, not to mention best song?!?!

Here We Go Again. . .

Just when you thought there'd be nothing much to talk about in sports the next few weeks, Sports Illustrated decides to drop this A-Rod nugget on us right before Spring Training begins. So now that A-Rod seems to be admitting to steroid use (with the Rangers, that is), what do we make of all this? A-Rod's transgressions aside, what's with the leaking of confidential information? Further, aren't we overeacting a bit at this point? Really, how surprised can we really pretend to be given what's gone on the last ten years? Ahhhhhh, baseball sure has a knack of starting the season on the wrong foot.

Super Bowl XLIII

As the 2008 NFL season came to dramatic end on Sunday, the Steelers were the last team standing. So where do we rank this game in Super Bowl history? Can the Steelers now lay claim to the title of "America's Team" with their 6th Lombardi trophy? How great was that James Harrison INT return? Should Big Ben have won MVP? How awesome was The Boss at halftime? (That last question was rhetorical.) Is Kurt Warner now a shoe-in Hall of Famer? Join us Tuesday at 5 PM as we wrap up the season that was.