* We now know that the Bucs are among eight teams being considered by the NFL to appear on the HBO series “Hard Knocks” next season. And whatever team is chosen, it will not be up to that franchise to accept or not. It will be a league mandate. In short, however intrusive and distracting, just do it. It’s part of marketing.
It’s another reminder that the NFL is not just a business, it’s show business.
* First the good news. The USF baseball team is off to a 7-1 start. Among the victories, a dramatic, 9th-inning rally at Florida State, the Bulls’ first win against FSU since 1989.
As for the bad news, just when you thought men’s basketball (7-20 and a pending NCAA investigation) couldn’t get worse, it just did. Two players, including the team’s leading scorer, were left behind at the airport in Houston the other night as the team awaited a connecting flight to Tampa. No one’s in charge of making sure all players are on board? How basic is that?