Just My Type

Natural Selection
IN THE average fantasy draft Maurice Jones-Drew was taken with the 21st pick, but there's one draft in which he went No. 1 overall: Maurice Jones-Drew's. The Jags running back (right) told me he plays in a league with other NFL players such as Larry Fitzgerald, Cato June and Steven Jackson—and that he made himself his own first selection. In Jackson's case someone else took the Rams running back in the first round, so he couldn't pick himself. I wonder if after a bad week Jackson taunts the guy who drafted him: "Ha! Shouldn't have taken me."

A Week Ago When We Were Young
FROM THE What Do We Know? department: Last week I was watching the afternoon games with NBC's Football Night in America crew—we've got festival seating over there—and Cris Collinsworth threw out the question, Could USC beat the Kansas City Chiefs? And we debated it for a good while; not one of us said, "Hell, no!"

Now we've moved on to a new question: Could Oregon State beat the Denver Broncos?

THE FINE PRINT: The Mets signed G.M. Omar Minaya to a four-year extension. In a related story Willie Randolph just got a free month of Cinemax.

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