Show me your picks! (Caught On The Fly).(Column)

People from New Orleans think gluttony is good (44-oz. hurricane, anyone?), so even though the Saints already have two first-round picks, well--Laissez les bons temp rouler!--three would be better. The plan is to add a lot of youth/speed/strength on defense, or better yet, put together a pick package to move up to get a guy they really want (like Jimmy Kennedy or Terence Newman). Even though the club says it's not dangling Kyle Turley as bait, that carries about as much weight as the guy who says he's going to the Mardi Gras parades so he can catch a lot of beads.

Still a few left turns from the mainstream

Imagine if they had stopped the World Series in the seventh inning of Game 6. Or the Fiesta Bowl after the first drive in overtime. Or the Super Bowl at halftime (OK, bad example).

But that's what NASCAR did by bailing on Daytona, and gear-heads still are over-heated about it. Grassroots calls are being made for officials to institute rules so 500 miles always are run, even if that means finishing them on Monday. That wouldn't have thrown too big of a wrench into Fox's daytime programming since it saves its must-sleaze TV for prime time.

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