Anyone who watched Auburn demolish South Carolina in the SEC Championship Game 56-14 and watched Cam Newton rush for 73 yards and two touchdowns and throw for 308 yards and four touchdowns knows the answer.

I can't remember who said it at the beginning of the CBS broadcast, but he quoted former Alabama coach Gene Stallings as saying in 1992 when the SEC started their championship game that the SEC would never have another national champion because this game just made it too tough.  I guess that goes into the category of sounding smart when you say it, but it turns out being pretty dumb.

It is a shame that the two best teams have to wait 37 days before they can decide the national title.  Do you really think they will be playing in that game at the same level they are playing now?

The last two weeks the New Orleans Saints have had to rally from behind to win close games

on the road.  Do you remember when, for so many years, the Saints were the ones who let the other team come back late and win all those close games?

If the NFL has a lock-out, it will start on March 3, 2011.  It might start then, but I am willing to bet that neither side will let this thing go into the start of the regular season.  There is just too much money to be lost by both sides with a work stoppage.

The Houston Astros and the New Orleans Hornets are for sale.  Anyone want to chip in and buy them?

Drew Brees was named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.  This award could not have gone to a more deserving guy.  Brees has done nothing but bring fame and, more importantly, honor to New Orleans and Louisiana ever since he got here in 2006.

Don't call the New Orleans Saints and Tom Benson cheap.  They have the fifth highest payroll in the NFL.  They also get good value from that high payroll which is more than can be said for the Detroit Lions who rank third in the league in payroll and last in victories.

I see where the NCAA will start using a twenty second clock on pitchers in the NCAA baseball playoffs and CWS.  This was tried last season in the SEC tournament and was greeted as a huge success.

Also, the bats in college baseball have been deadened even more.  The report I got from fall ball at LSU was very few home runs were hit.  If this is the case, maybe it is time for the college game to go back to wooden bats.