Crazy stuff, eight days a week.

The Week That Was in SportsWorld ... SATURDAY. So I'm at this chick flick, In Her Shoes, and what's the last thing you'd expect from a movie featuring Cameron Diaz's legs from every conceivable angle? (She's a shoo-in for the Oscar for Best Performance by Impossibly Glam Legs.)

The last thing I'd expect is sports talk. It's there, sort of. A key line of dialogue from Diaz's sister: "Are the Sixers basketball or hockey?" And when Diaz asks a feisty old lady in a retirement village when she last felt dressed up, the old lady says, "Not since the Dodgers left Brooklyn." As best I could tell, one person in the theater laughed out loud. Me.

SUNDAY. Brett Favre, welcome back.

MONDAY. The NBA bailers heard Daddy Stern say, "Dress up," and they all bawled their little eyes out. The league wants its players to dress for public functions in a style called "business casual." That doesn't include throwback jerseys and caps turned sideways.

Being a white guy, I didn't want to jump into this briar patch. Then I heard John Thompson go all Bill Cosby on 'em. Thompson, a black man who did mighty work as the Georgetown University basketball coach, says the children need to understand they're millionaire businessmen. Besides, hip-hop ain't forever. Amen, brother.

TUESDAY. Far as cornerback Fred Smoot knows, last Thursday's boat cruise on Lake Minnetonka with maybe 15 of his Vikings teammates went off just fine. Now, why the Vikings went on a happy cruise when their season already was sinking is a question best answered by asking, "Is there any Viking in history, save for Eric the Red, who hasn't been arrested for DUI?"

Anyway, there's the cruise on the off-week, and then Smoot heads back to practice.