Don't get me wrong, I love me some NFL Draft. But do we really need daily mock drafts and hourly commentary that end up over-saturating the entire situation? 

When this happens, we get to this point:

Recently, ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay faced off against ESPN draft guru (different thing) Mel Kiper Jr. and, among many disagreements, they battled about the projections on former Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen. For context, know that Kiper projects Clausen as the number-4 pick to the Redskins. Here is McShay's response (courtesy of The Washington Post's D.C. Sports Bog):

"The bottom line is, do you really think Jimmy Clausen is the fourth-best player in this draft, or even in the top 10? ... That's the hard part I have believing...  And if I bring [Clausen] in as a top 10 pick, I've got to play him as a rookie, and I don't think that he has the right maturity level and mental capacity to handle that right now."

OK, fair enough.

But check out McShay's latest mock draft at ESPN.com. While he doesn't put Clausen at nunmber-4 overall, McShay projects Clausen at...

Number-9 to Buffalo.

"We think the Bills should go in a different direction, but they need a long-term answer at quarterback, and Clausen is the second-best prospect in this class. Assuming his surgically repaired toe checks out, he likely will be the pick."

One more time:

"[Do] you really think Jimmy Clausen is the fourth-best player in this draft, or even in the top 10? ... That's the hard part I have believing."

Where does he place Jimmy Clausen? In the top-10.

Sure, you can say that McShay is reluctantly putting Clausen in the top-10 in his own mock draft. But he's still projecting him as a top-10 pick. So why then rip into Kiper for making the same leap and projections?

Ed Garland, of Garland, Samuel & Loeb. Ed Garland, attorney to the guilty. Ed Garland, attorney for Ben Roethlisberger.

Be afraid. But not because Garland was able to turn one-time impending murder charges against Ray Lewis into a plea deal and no jail time. And not because Garland turned T.I.'s trunk full of guns into a year and a day in jail, plus community service.

No, fear Ed Garland because he was able to spawn this smarmy bulldog, John Aspinwall "The Noggin'" Garland:

No Photoshop was used in the making of this photo.

This is rough for Fort Pierce's Rick Ankiel, but he's become the center-point of an unfortunate column about the ineptitude of the Royals:

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/02/27/1778458/problem-with-royals-is-ankiel.html

photo courtesy of John Sleezer, KansasCity.com

It's about time:

Villanova learned the hard way... you don't go into the Dome on break-the-record-night and think you're going to win. There are few intangibles that I'll recognize. This is one of them:

Syracuse has been really good for a really long time...

...and they've won a championship...

...with a lot of help from this guy...

While this year's team may not have a guy like that, the 2010 version may be deeper and, frankly, flat-out better.

Plus, you don't want to mess with this guy:

Thank you, FailBlog, for items like this:

Olympic history.