What a tough year for Plax! After being fined countless times and suspended once by the New York Giants for violating various team rules, the wide receiver has now reportedly been shot in a Manhattan nightclub. Preliminary reports indicate that Burress shot himself, though no further details are available at this time.

Burress had already been ruled out for this Sunday’s game against the Redskins, but still… something like this is just stupid. If these early reports are true and he really did shoot himself, then he’s a friggin’ moron. Even if someone in his crew did it, he’s still an idiot for hanging around people who have to carry guns to feel safe.

When will these NFL players learn? Why are so many of them involved in shooting incidents and bar fights? No wonder the league has so many conduct rules. Apparently, they’re very necessary!

It seems like I tell myself this at least 100 times during the course of a typical fantasy football season, but I need to do it again today: If losing your fantasy football matchup is the biggest problem you have in your life, then consider yourself lucky!

I made a major blunder with my lineups yesterday, and might have cost myself a spot in the playoffs. I’ve been down about it ever since, so I need to keep repeating:

It’s only a game.
It’s only a game.
It’s only a game!

There, now I feel a lot better !

Have you heard what’s going on in Mumbai, India today? Apparently, armed gunmen have initiated coordinated attacks at various luxury hotels and restaurants around the city, killing 78, injuring 200, and taking an unknown number of hostages thus far. The terrorists are said to specifically be targeting Americans and Britons, while letting those of other nationalities go free.

This is a scary situation that is still ongoing, as Indian police are continuing to battle the gunmen — who are armed with automatic weapons and hand grenades.

Mumbai has been a hotbed of bombings and other terrorist attacks in recent years, but nothing quite on this scale. I hope this particular conflict gets resolved soon, and I hope that no more people are murdered just because of the type of passport they hold….

(AP Photo)

I don’t know why this is even still an issue for the NFL and the Dallas Cowboys. Conerback Adam “Pacman” Jones, who is known more for his off-field incidents including a shooting at a las vegas strip club than for his actual play, should not be given yet another chance by commissioner Roger Goodell. Jones has shown repeatedly that he is unwilling or unable to reform his errant ways, so why continue to tarnish the league’s image by allowing this thug to draw a paycheck?

I don’t understand why there’s even a debate about Jones’ eligibility. Playing in the NFL is a privilege, not a right, and Jones should have lost that privilege for good a long time ago. I hope he’s not on the field when Dallas plays Seattle this Thanksgiving!

So apparently, the latest get-rich-quick tech schemes involve creating iPhone apps that can then be sold in the app store to anyone with an iPhone and some cash to spend. One of the top Yahoo! stories this morning was about a banker named Steve Demeter who developed an iPhone game called Trism in his free time. He then put the app up for sale at $4.99 per download — and has made somewhere in the neighborhood of $250,000 for it.

Sure, that might be chump change compared to what the founders of MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube got, but it’s not bad for something that was done in the guy’s spare time!

Anyway, Demeter has reportedly quit his banking job and started his own development company, presumably to work on even more iPhone apps.

Cool deal; let’s see what he comes up with next!

This so-called bike hero video is very popular on YouTube right now, having received more than 1,000,000 hits already in just a couple of days. It shows a kid riding a bicycle seemingly in tune to a song from Guitar Hero, and though the vid has been identified as a “fake” — since it was produced by a professional advertising team and incorporates CGI — I still think it’s pretty damn cool. I mean the idea alone is neat, and the execution just makes it awesome. Take a look:

I used to be a huge NHL fan, and loved my Chicago Blackhawks. My family even shared season tickets with one of my dad’s friends, so we used to go to a bunch of home games back in the day. That was a good 20 years ago, though, when Denis Savard, Doug Wilson, Steve Larmer, Al Secord, and Darren Pang were stars on the team.

But I haven’t watched the Hawks since the mid-90’s when they traded Jeremy Roenick to the Phoenix Coyotes for Alexei Zhamnov. Now, I can only name one player on the team — Jonathan Toews, and that’s just because I recently saw an article on him on ESPN.com.

After reading that article, I learned that the Hawks are actually doing fairly well so far this season, and are at #11 in the ESPN power rankings. That, combined with the fact that some home games are even being shown on TV this year, might be enough to draw me back in — at least a little bit. Maybe I’ll check out the next television broadcast and see if the Hawks put on an entertaining show. Apparently, they’re one of the higher scoring teams in the league now, which is something I never got to see as a fan in the ’80s, where typical winning scores were 3-2 or 2-1.

It might be fun to have hockey back in my life again…who knows!!