King is just another in a long list of pundits, including just about everyone here locally in Chicago, who continues to dog Rex Grossman. In my view, this is undeserved.

Last year, in his first full season as a starter, he was 13-3 in the regular season, and 15-4 overall, the extra loss being the FREAKING SUPER BOWL. Yes, Rex has shown some iffy decision making, and his fundamentals tended to break down when pressured. But he's a young, young quarterback, and in his first full season he brough the Bears to the big game. Every coach and player, when asked about Grossman, talk about how talented he is as a player, and that all he needs is some seasoning before he can potentially become a franchise quarterback.

I'm not saying Rex is the next Joe Montana, but he's a lot better than he gets credit for, and he is still improving! I'm looking for great things out of Rex this year - I just hope he stays in Chicago long enough to mature as a QB and doesn't flee from all the negativity surrounding him every time he makes a mistake. He's going to throw some interceptions this year. He's going to get sacked. He's going to fumble. Every QB will. It just seems like with him, his mistakes are magnified far beyond what is deseved.

The Bears will beat the Chargers on Sunday.

He sits near me at Bears games, and has a Bears light to match. I even saw him on tv at the Super Bowl with the stupid blinking neon Bears light. A grown man who travels the country to big sporting events just so he can get on tv with his ridiculous neon blinking light - "pathetic" doesn't come close to capturing it. Can some D-back fan please break that light over his head tonight? For the sake of humanity?

Imagine if it was the Yankees or the Red Sox who had won 20 of their last 21? The media would be in mass hysterics - production trucks would be parked outside the stadium en masse - live reports, every hour on the hour, would be taking place from A-Rod's second grade teacher's house, Joe Torre's car dealer, and someone who once sold Big Papi a churro on the boardwalk at Disney World.

But because it's the Colorado Rockies who have accomplished this magnificent feat - magnificent because the games have all come at crunch time, when they absolutely had to win - and not just as part of some paranormal mid-season hot streak, they are reduced to columns like this, which defend them from criticism that it's all just luck.

THEY HAVE WON 20 OF THEIR LAST 21 F&%^ING GAMES!!!!!

That should be the headline sweeping the nation, not that the Rockies are lucky and oh, woe-is-us for this lackluster playoff season thus far. The Colorado Rockies are putting together a display for the ages, and most people are treating it like a cute little sideshow. What a shame.

I generally don't have a problem with people who use a bluetooth device while they're actually talking. It's the dipshits who walk around with it in their ear all day who deserve to be bludgeoned. But like people who clip their cell phones or crackberries to their belts, people who wear obscene t-shirts, and people who wear crocs, I'm actually appreciative of the constantly-on bluetoothers because I can instantly know they're a douchebag without actually having to talk to them.

It seems as if I'm in the minority here, but since when is supporting your team a form of racism? I sincerely doubt that the fans that dressed up as Chief Wahoo had anything other than genuine rooting interests in mind. And isn't intent the core of racism?

Sports teams have often used charicatures of real life people/cultures as their mascots, and it's very difficult to draw the line - where exactly does the fun stop and the harm begin?

I went to Miami (OH) and happened to be there when the controversy over the "Redskins" name reached a fever-pitch such that the mascot was changed to the blaise "Redhawks." The Miami Tribe, for whom the mascot was originally named, have a close connection with the school. Prior to the national outcry over the offensiveness of Native American-themed mascots, the Miami Tribe fully supported the Redskins name and even charicterized it as a sign of respect. It was only when they realized they could get some national media attention that they changed their tune. So the school caved - probably rightly - and changed the name of the mascot.

But if the people who we're so concerned about offending aren't offended, then is it really racism? A previous poster noted that 80% of Native Americans don't have a problem with Indian-themed mascots in sports. Taking for granted that that statistic is accurate (who knows if it is), then isn't it our own guilt that's driving this movement to eliminate Indian-themed mascots rather than the genuine outrage of Native Americans themselves?

It's just been my experience that the fans of teams with Indian-themed mascots are cheering for their team, not trying to hold Native Americans down. And often times it actually raises awareness and breeds respect for Native American culture. I'm not so naive to think that racism doesn't exist, or that it only exists against certain minority groups. But I think we take it a little too far when we start looking for things to get mad about that are fairly benign in their intent.