When I was growing up, my allowance at the height of my card-collecting days was $10. But there were tight restrictions placed on the pittance, to ensure that my parents didn't end up subsidizing the corner store down the road. Five of my 10 went into savings, one went to the Everman United Methodist Church and four were mine to do with what I pleased.

For all you NBA-haters, meet Cleveland Cavaliers' Delonte West.

 13.3 points per game, 4.4 assists in 40 minutes per game in the 2009 playoffs. He's burst onto the scene since going to Cleveland before the '07-'08 season. No doubt, he has benefitted from playing with the beast of a man-child that is LeBron James, but as this correspodent piece on Jim Rome Is Burning suggests, he's got enough personality alone to get the Cavs to re-up on that contract. 

Hey, baseball fan.

Are you jacked? Amped? Hyped? Psyched? Do any of these superfluous sports-isms describe your attitude toward the Second Coming of Bud Selig's Home Run Jesus, otherwise known as the World Baseball Classic?

I'm guessing no.

Are we done with big league baseball at this point? Is it the roids? The copious crotch adjustments? Or is it just overall fan malaise surrounding the precursor to what is a ridiculously long baseball season that leaves no room for excitement for the international baseball event that is, by the way, currently taking place.

Wow.

ESPN junkies will by now have witnessed the exploits of one Stephen Curry. The Davidson guard goes off for 40 on the weekly.

This kid is bonkers with it. Even on a 15-of-33 shooting night, he's electrifying to watch. You may say, "Who cares, Matt, it's just the non-conference schedule. It's nt time to start paying attention to college basketball."

Just got off the phone with Matt Hennesy, former Dodge City High School Red Demon football coach, after hearing whispers that he was going to interview for a position on Bill Snyder's KSU staff.

Hennesy would only say that he and Snyder "talked about a few different things" and that he was not offered any position during those talks. He told me that Snyder would not start the official hiring process until the new year, and that the Muskogee Rougher coach could not wait that long.

Did you hear what Ben I-Can't-Spell-Your-Last-Name Roethlisberger said about my boy Tony Romeo?

This from Steelerslive.com. The conversation with ESPN's Tafoya also got into the who media sensation that is the star-studded Couple-Bot 5000. First Bennifer. Then Brangelina. Now, I dub ye new It-couple Tessica Somo.