Taylor Swift is not only a 2008 Grammy & MTV Video Music Award Nominee for Best New Artist, but she's also one of my "Guilty Pleasures" in music right now.

She'll turn 19 in a week or so, but this firey blonde has taken the music world by storm with her curls and her knack for catchy pop-country songs.  She's recently crossed over from the Country charts to Pop with her smash hit "Love Story." 

Fantasy football waiver pickups, and other tidbids you should know for week 12 featuring: Tyler Thigpen, JJ Arrington, Ahman Green, Willie Parker, Leon Washington and Justin Gage.

OK Chicago, you might have just been spanked by Green Bay 37-3, but the NFL Scheduling Gods have a nice little treat for you this week:  the St. Louis Rams! 

What does that mean from a fantasy  football perspective?  Get your Bears in your lineup!  Kyle Orton, Robbie Gould and Greg Olsen are great plays this week against a Rams defense that makes almost every oposing offensive coordinator look good.

NCAA football playoff advocates will not be happy with the news that ESPN has been awarded the TV rights to the BCS games from 2011-2014.

ESPN outbid all other TV networks, including Fox --the current home of BCS games through 2010, for the rights to air the Fiesta, Sugar and Orange bowls.  The Rose Bowl is currently under contract w/ ESPN affilated ABC through 2010.

This represents the first time the BCS bowl games will only be available via cable subscription.

Hank Baskett stepped onto the field on November 9, 2008 and caught 1 pass for 7 yards and a TD.  However, a few days earlier he made what might be the best catch of his career: landing Playboy 'Girl Next Door' star Kendra Wilkinson as his fiance.

I've been seeing a lot of "upgrades & downgrades" articles this week, so I thought I'd pull together the best of the best to share here.  It's a little insight on what happened in fantasy football in week 10, and a preview of week 11.

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