I’m having trouble coming up with a blog title today.

I'm having trouble coming up with a blog topic today.

I would write about the Super Bowl, but everyone who is reading this either watched it or doesn't care. I'd write about the Super Bowl ads, but the same rule applies. (I might write about them later.)

I'd write about UNC basketball, which is at a terribly low point right now even as it gears up for one of the perennial high points of the college basketball season. But Adam Lucas wrote a column that is much more interesting than anything I'd write. If I wanted to revisit this past week through written word, I'd just read his column again. Because it's worth rereading.

So, I don't really have a topic today. Here are a couple of thoughts:

I'm working with students in conferences this week, and everybody is rescheduling from today to Tuesday or Wednesday, probably because they all watched the Super Bowl instead of working on their drafts. I can't say I blame them.

I've said this before, but I really enjoy conferences. They give me a chance to work with my students on a one-on-one basis. More than that, they give me a chance to get to know them. I like people, and that principle generally extends to my students. So I like getting to know my students.

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I have mixed feelings about Bud Selig, but the Brewers evidently don't. They like him, in case you didn't follow that link.

I like the Wild Card addition to the playoffs – what I think Selig will have engraved on his Hall of Fame plaque. I think it's one of the most valuable additions to any professional sport during my lifetime, unless you count HDTV, which wasn't really added by sports.

But I don't necessarily like the "steroids era" or Selig's claim that any such era that may have existed is officially over. I don't necessarily blame Selig for the steroids era, but I think he is culpable, a slight but necessary distinction. Unfortunately, if "added Wild Card teams to the playoffs" goes on his HoF plaque, "presided over so-called 'steroids era'" will probably be engraved on his HoF-statue forehead.

His statue is going to need a big forehead.

Event of the Week:

My college buddy Spencer Yoo is performing in the NC Comedy Arts Festival in Chapel Hill Thursday.