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the over on this game is making a bundle today.

In a Bears-Vikings game? Huh?

and I’m pretty sure no one is—the reason I haven’t been so…rabid about posting about fantasy football this season is that my season has been pretty much meh so far. I’m 2-2, which is not bad, but almost none of my players are playing in games that are fun to watch. Except the Bears’ D, of course.

Yeah, you read that right. BEARS!! I have, as you know, the Bears D on my fantasy team, but as the damn server seems to be down, I can’t check to see what my score is right now.

is retiring, effective immediately. Read the full text of his email to Adam Schefter over at nfl.com.

Also: OMG, kickoff tonight! The wait is over. In more ways than one. It was touch and go for a bit, but I did get signed up for 2008 fantasy football in time. My draft happened yesterday, and though my roster is not stellar, it’s quite good:

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QB

Kurt Warner, Aaron Rodgers (meh)

RB

Matt Forte (!), Thomas Jones (!!), Maurice Jones-Drew (!!!)

DST

Bears (aww yeah), Redskins (meh)

WR

Laveranues Coles, Jerricho Cotchery, Wes Welker (!), DeSean Jackson

TE

Greg Olsen (!), Tony Scheffler

K

Nate Kaeding

in the first round of the Olympic women’s volleyball tournament, and the American women are up one set. A couple of years ago, it was physically impossible for me to care less about the sport, but I got interested, get this, because I’ve been reading a great manga about a girl’s volleyball team.

As you might expect, team USA is dominating on the strength and athleticism front, but the Japanese are strong on technique and strategy; I’m suffering a bit of divided loyalty here. Good stuff!

The Bears have let Cedric Benson go, a move that should have had as much to do with his poor production on the field as his foolish behavior off the field. (Hat tip: Prachee)

So this leaves Adrian Peterson as the go-to guy? With Garrett Wolfe as the backup? You have to be kidding me. And Brian Urlacher, the linchpin of the whole team, is in the midst of some acrimonious contract renegotiations. You’ll pardon me if I’m a bit alarmed at the current state of affairs.

Well, who knows—maybe rookie Matt Forte will step up and have a great year.

Kobe Bryant’s nostrils, the Lakers cut their two-game deficit to the Celtics down to one last night. I missed most of the second half, sadly, but the first half was some great, great ball.

Fun fact: David Cook, who sang the national anthem to open the game last night, is a die-hard Chicago Bulls fan. Represent!

I watched NBA basketball with any regularity; I grew disenchanted with it, and eventually switched my loyalties to football, where they firmly remain.

That said, now that I have an HD-capable TV, I look for HD content above just about anything else. Of the HD channels I get (limited by the satellite hardware in my building), two big ones are TNT and ESPN HD, both of which show a lot of basketball this time of year, it being playoff time. So I’ve been watching basketball on TV a lot.

Right now, I’m watching game 1 of the Eastern conference finals, where the Pistons are battling it out with the Celtics, and I have to say, watching good basketball is stirring my interest again. Good stuff.

Oh, and in other news, the Bulls, my hometown team, and the reason I spent much of the 90s absolutely obsessed by basketball—to the extent that in 9th grade (1991), I won a Bulls trivia contest—have gotten the number 1 overall draft pick in this year’s draft. Woo!

I guess we both called it: the Bears drafted an offensive tackle in the first round, and a running back in the second round (which is about halfway done now). More on the other teams’ choices later…