Jon Rapoport

Wednesday, Southern Methodist University hosted Alabama-Birmingham at Moody Coliseum in Dallas. Competing in two 20-minute halves, while playing with a 35-second shot clock, the Mustangs scored 28 whole points for the game.

That’s right, 28 points in a 40-minute game.

SMU shot 8 of 46 (17 percent) from the field and 3 for 29 (10 percent) from three-point territory, losing to the Blazers 47-28.

SMU forward Robert Nyakundi led his team in scoring with a solid nine points. This point total is far less pedestrian than it appears, when considering that the senior from nearby Arlington tallied nearly a third of his team’s overall production for the entire evening.

Last weekend, the last time the Mustangs took the floor prior to Wednesday, the squad was only able to muster 39 points, in a 43-39 loss to Rice.

New York Giants chairman and executive vice president Steve Tisch is the only man in the world to possess both a Super Bowl ring and an Academy Award.  One week shy of turning 63-years-old, the son of late hotel proprietor and Loews Corporation owner Bob Tisch, has once again successfully climbed his way to the top of the NFL mountain, after the Giants’ 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI.  

Steve Tisch’s second NFL championship is the latest addition to a résumé that also includes an Oscar for serving as a producer on the 1994 megahit Forrest Gump.

While much attention has been given to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s brand new 22,000 square foot home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood, far less fanfare has resulted from the news of New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning’s newly renovated 3,555 square foot condo in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Our guess is that the understated younger brother of Peyton Manning is just fine with that.

Unlike Brady, who is of course married to supermodel Gisele, Eli Manning has settled down with college girlfriend Abby McGrew. The couple met on the campus of Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi.