The Show

Good to be here. Just back from Pete Rose's book signing at Foxwoods. Next week he's heading to Vegas to see if he can get his apology annulled.

AVERAGE PRICE FOR SUPER BOWL SPOT UP TO $2.25 MILLION
CBS still has time available. Which makes this a buy week.

By the way, get your bets down. The over-under on Super Bowl ads with Snoop Dogg is 3½. And the money line is 50 Cent.

Gillette is running its first Super Bowl ads in 10 years. It's taken them that long to get over the ill-conceived 1994 campaign promoting Bennie Blades.

Reliant Stadium's retractable roof will be rolled back for the game, weather permitting. The roof takes 10 minutes to open. As compared to Panthers tight end Jermaine Wiggins, who takes 10 minutes to get open.

PRESIDENT BUSH CALLS ON ATHLETES TO END USE OF PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS
Except, of course, those supplements manufactured by Halliburton.

Bush is serious. Starting this spring, he's instituting mandatory testing at the White House T-ball field.

During the State of the Union the President said there are no shortcuts to accomplishment Although a couple thousand defective voting machines don't hurt

Are you like me? Were you disappointed Bush didn't refer to steroids as "weapons of muscle mass destruction?"

NASCAR CHANGES SCORING SYSTEM
Starting this year you can only win the overall championship in the last 2½ months of the season. In other words it's the exact opposite of the BCS.