Quote of the Week I

	Michael Strahan had just three sacks in nine games last season but promises he'll rebound in 2007. Evan Pinkus/WireImage.com
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"People talk about them not being very exciting. All they have done is won four world championships, played great defense. There is nothing wrong with that motto right there.''
-- Giants coach Tom Coughlin, talking about the San Antonio Spurs winning their fourth NBA title of the decade on Thursday.

Quote of the Week II

"I didn't know paintball was that dangerous. I hope it wasn't friendly fire.''
-- Washington linebacker Marcus Washington, commenting on the injury suffered by first-round pick LaRon Landry at a team-building exercise among defensive players on Wednesday. Landry missed practice Friday after getting pelted in the groin by a paintball pellet.

Quote of the Week III

"I can still pop on the film and show you I am still the best at what I do.''
-- Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, 35, who will have to prove that all over again in 2007. He has missed 15 games due to injury over the past three years and has 18.5 sacks over that period.

Factoid of the Week That May Interest Only Me

Pepsi has introduced cucumber soda in Japan.

Seems the company thinks people will find cucumber soda an alluring way to beat the heat this summer.

Aggravating/Enjoyable Travel Note of the Week

As someone who loves train travel, and who takes the train up and down the East Coast quite often -- I did it again last week for an anniversary trip -- I can sit quietly no longer about the state of the Boston station in Back Bay. What a dump. Grimy, smelly, humid, with a crummy waiting room. Washington's train station is a thing of beauty, almost a destination in and of itself. Baltimore's is OK. Philly's is ancient and utilitarian. Even Newark has a little gem of a station, and it's always busy. But can't a great city like Boston do something about the first place many visitors see when they get to town?

Stat of the Week

There are approximately 113 million television households in the United States, and the average rating for the NBA Championship Series showed that 6.9 million of them watched the series between Cleveland and San Antonio.

Remember the late-night Monday night opener on ESPN last year between Oakland and San Diego? Awful game. San Diego won, 27-0. It was pretty much over at the half, when the Chargers led 13-0 and the Raiders couldn't get out of their own way on offense. That game -- after a weekend that started with Thursday night football, went into Sunday afternoon football and Sunday night football, and had a Monday nighter before the second game on the West Coast -- started at 10:25 p.m. EST and ended at 1:14 a.m. Tuesday. And it was on cable TV, which gets a lower rating anyway because not every TV household in America is wired for cable.

The Raiders-Chargers debacle was seen by 7.9 million American TV households.

We all know football is king in this country, but if the best the NBA has to offer gets trounced by the worst the NFL has to offer ... well, the NBA is in more than a little trouble.