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Here are some quick thoughts about what's going on in sports news. I'm offering my opinion on some of the topics out right now from the Erin Andrews video to Mike Vick to my non-sports beef. Enjoy.

As training camp gets closer and closer to starting in the NFL there is a question that's been on my mind. The question is whether Michael Vick will be re-instated back into the NFL and if so will he be picked up by any teams. Despite all the PR moves by most teams saying they have absolutely no interesting Vick, I highly doubt that he'd last very long on the market if he were to be re-instated in time for some team's training camp. Recently on profootballtalk.com there have been a few posts suggesting that Vick (along with Plaxico Burress) will not be re-instated for the 2009 NFL season. Is the NFL commish riding on a moral high horse or doe he have a legitimate reason for not wanting to re-instate them? Will their shelving teach a lesson to anyone else in the league? I think that the UFL would be smart to grab Vick should the NFL snub him this year.

Let me start by saying I have no beef with Donte Stallworth or his legal team. His attorneys did what they were paid to do. They got him the best deal possible which will keep his NFL career intact. My problem is with our justice system and how it seems their priorities are mixed up.

I have an assignment for you. Go to any one of your friends who don't know anything about the NFL and never heard of Michael Vick or Donte Stallworth (it might be an old person, but do you best). Present them with the following scenarios.

That has been the question seemingly talked about 24 hours a day on ESPN since Michael Vick left prison (well they did interrupt briefly to talk about Lebron vs. Kobe in the NBA finals). The main question that keeps being asked is does he deserve the right to play? Does a man who has repaid his debt to society really need to beg for a chance to get a job doing what he does best?

A number of commentators and fans have said playing in the NFL is a privilege not a right. And I ask them is their job at ESPN a privilege. Did someone just hand them their job at ESPN or did the everyday person working at an office just get handed their job. No, most people had to work and hone their skills to get to the job they have now. Of course there are some industries where nepotism and who you know may play a role in you getting a job, I'm thinking specifically of coaching. But no top athlete is just given their position in the pros. I know people don't like to think of playing sports as a job, but it is. They spend a couple hours a day working out, a couple hours a day practicing, a couple of hours watching film. Yes, it is something we all did when we were young and we constantly say we would do for free. But the reality is people don't play professional sports for free. They play for millions of dollars, and we all support that by going to games, watching on TV, by buying tickets, by buying jerseys and hats. So no playing sports isn't a privilege in itself. Anybody who has a great job or life or family can say they're privileged. But in reality in order to get to that point work had to be put in to get to that point.

In classic American fashion it appears many in our society have realized what I have been saying for the last two years:

Maybe when society sees a multiple time felony who was caught red handed buying automatic weapons get two months in jail (See T.I.) or reads about a man shooting someone in the leg three times but gets six years probation and allowed to graduate for the same school he shot the person at (see: Morehouse shooting) it realize that their judgment of Vick was a bit harsh.

Is a Michael Vick a liar, an idiot and a cruel individual to animals?

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If I was the "Dog Whisperer" I would definitely consider it. it is better than working $10 an hour construction and I sure a quarter of a million would feel good in his pocket right now.

Here is the official press release:

Sure we all think Favre will come back to the Vikings and I'm sure there will be endless coverage over it. However Favre has his work cut out for him because there's Michael Vick's imminent release from prison. According to a press release,

ESPN has released the details about who they are sending and where. Three reporters will be spread out from Leavenworth, Kan, to Hampton, Va, and Atlanta, and the network will air specials throughout the day. There will even be a one hour special that Tuesday. Via ESPN PR....

The Hollywood Reporter is stating that imprisoned NFL Quarterback is shopping for a reality show. According to the report Vick is trying to pitch a show that will portray him "repenting for his past sins". Very similar to the T.I. reality show that aired on MTV.

Of course I am always here to help so I have a few suggestions for the Vick reality show:

1- For the Love of Poochie

In this reality show Mike host up to twenty dogs in his mansion and the dogs compete (not fight) for Vick's affection until one lucky canine gains the love and affection of the former Pro Bowl quarterback.

2- The Bachelor PETA Style

In this reality Mike has his pick from twenty sexy female veterinaries from all across the world. The world will be watching to see which woman will receive the "diamond" dog collar at the end of the night.

3- The Amazing Dog Race

In this reality show Mike has to make it to a designated location before thirty pit bulls chase him down. If he can make it to the location Roger Goddell reduces his suspension by one game. If after sixteen weeks Mike has survived he will be cleared to play in the NFL again.

Michael Vick is being paid $600,000 to appear in a documentary. There is also word that he wrote a book while he was in jail and he's looking for a publishing deal. There are those who will be upset that he's looking to bank on his misfortunes. Those people need to shut up, because it's not like PETA and the ASPCA didn't make a truckload of money off of him already.

Michael Vick is millions of dollars in debt, about to be released from jail, and resigned to working a $10 an hour construction job (cheap promotion for the company, because they're not putting a backhoe in his hands) because there's no guarantee that he'll be let back in the NFL. Roger Goodell said that Vick is "going to have to demonstrate to the larger community -- not just to the NFL community and to me -- that he has remorse for what he did and that he recognizes mistakes that he made," which is code for "I want to see this [expletive deleted] dance for the American public," because public admittance and jail time just isn't demonstration enough.

Just reading the sports news today, and I see the San Francisco 49ers interviewed Baltimore Ravens quarterbacks coach Hue Jackson Friday morning for their open offensive coordinator position. You would think that's not a big deal, until you start connecting dots, and there are plenty.

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Are you kidding me? Seriously how far can one man fall? Still can't believe you can get two years for dog fighting and Patriots lineman Nick Kazur was caught with 202 OxyContin pills and get a slap on the wrist but I digress. It is hard to feel bad for the "Dog Whisperer", but if he doesn't come out of prison a change man there will be no hope for him. Here are the details of the auction.

Courtesy of AJC.com

A storage facility employee told the station that the unit was rented by a Michael Vick and that it was put on auction because the bill hadn't been paid in the very long time.

Boy, not to be too preachy but consequences, consequences, and more consequences (whether good or bad) will occur with whatever decisions one makes. No one knows that better right now than Michael Vick. From poster boy of the NFL to poster boy of what not to do if you are a professional athlete. Despite what your opinion is on the severity of his sentence, and I know that is a hot topic, Michael Vick could have avoided that issue all together had he just made the decision to make some changes in the company he keeps and his thought process as a celebrity.

Not only did he lose his rights for at least 2 years or so, but now we hear that due to some poor decisions as to whom he invested his money with and who he entrusted to help him out of his current financial situation: Translation, he is flat broke.

Enter the upstart United Football League that is planning to throw millions of dollars at Michael Vick once he is released from prison. Michael Vick deserves this chance to redeem himself.

Even more problems mount for Michael Vick who is currently serving a 23 month sentence for plotting to run an interstate dogfighting ring. Now he is filing for bankruptcy which really doesn't matter now since he's in jail. It is not as if he can really spend any money. Let this be a lesson to everyone: the higher you are the harder you fall. Hard to believe about 4 years ago Michael Vick led the Falcons to the NFC Title Game against the Eagles and now he's a convicted felon and a broke one at that. It will be interesting to see what becomes of Michael Vick once he is released from prison. Will he be a changed man or end up making the same horrible decisions that led him to his downfall to begin with. Then again like anyone that falls from grace we always are suckers for a story where the Phoenix rises from the ashes. Only time will tell how this story will turn out.

So Mike Vick is playing on the prison football team right out of a scene in "The Longest Yard." Now in my twisted mind, he is using this time on the field to plan a "Prison Break" style escape. Instead of using tattoos, he is using discarded dog biscuits. The funny thing will be in about 18 months when NFL scouts start showing up to break down how he is playing. I can see Mel Kiper Jr breaking it down.

"Prisoner Vick shows great elusiveness when scrambling out of the pocket to avoid the rush from defensive end Shante Sheri Johnson. who you may have known as Sean Johnson in the past. Prisoner Vick still shows his inaccuracy in the pocket when he tries to thread the needle on a pass between solitary confinement and the prison cemetery."

This is reality TV at its finest. Someone please get ESPN 19 on this ASAP.