Well, let's just get right down to it. As always these are the 10 best things I've come across this week that I think you should read/watch/absorb intravenously. If you see anything you think is interesting, be sure to send it my way at tdonegan@gwmail.gwu.edu

1. Pats Honor Brown, NYTimes.com

If you had any doubt that Troy was a Patriot, through and through, this article proved it. (Although if you doubted it, I have to question what team you've been watching the last decade).

"“If [Belichick] ever needs me to come out there and do something, I’d give it my best — I don’t know what it would be,” Brown said, referring to Belichick. “I’d be 42 years old, 44 years old, coming out there and trying to jam somebody up or catch a pass.”

Love that guy.

2. Summer of Lebron is Coming

The NBA is likely to undergo a major shift in the next two years, simply from the contracts that are scheduled to run up. Lebron, Wade, Bosh, Allen, Pierce, Joe Johnson, Dirk Nowitzki, Kenyon Martin, Rasheed, Iverson, Tracy McGrady, Yao Ming, TJ Ford, Marcus Camby, Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, Like half the Knicks roster, Steve Nash, Shaq, Amare Stoudemire, Manu Ginobli, and, of course, Mark Blount are all unrestricted free agents (some the result of team or player options that might not get exercised, though) in just the next two years.

Here's the full list of free agents, restricted and unrestricted for the next two years and here's ESPN's Chad Ford's breakdown of what teams will have cash open for the 2009 crop (you need ESPN Insider, but if you don't have it, you should sign up) which will determine who has money for the Lebron Sweepstakes in 2010.

3. Get All Your Sports Pages In One Place

I've known about this for a little while but it never occured to me that most people might not be aware of it. Basically USSportsPages.com just keep all the sports pages in the country together and provide the top 10 stories of the day, a nice little place to hit up on a daily basis.

Just contributing to the demise of my career before it even begins. Don't say I never did anything for you.

4. It's real nice, I got it at Target. It was on sale. Also, Puppies.

Shiba Inu Puppy Cam is taking over the world. I'm not even kidding.

My roommates have been watching this damn thing for days. I live with all other guys, by the way, and they've just been watching this live stream of puppies in a room.

Is this what Japan does? just puts puppies in a room with a webcam? How the hell is their economy so strong?

5. Daily Herald's Tom Cox is kind of a Cox

Apparently, Tom Cox hates humor, the internet, and everything associated with it. While panning Kenny Mayne's new web show "Mayne Street," he went on a tirade about a digital age that has passed him by.

And clicks, my friends, are what it's all about in the current media environment. Page views - from different computers, not the same one over and over - are where it's at. So blogs make reference to one another and exchange links to get the click-go-round going. Altogether, it produces a narcissistic, self-referential attitude.

"Look at me, look at me, look at me now," says the Cat in the Hat, but remember he goes on to add, "It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how.

Yes, I take a ton of pleasure in linking from a blog to a guy who panns blogs linking to one another. Also, I find it incredibly funny that a guy who is probably best read online and who will probably only have a future in this business because of the Internet is lamenting it. Game-Set-Match, Internet.

6. Mayne Street Actually Pretty Funny

Oh, just to sort of force the point home, Tom Cox is also wrong about what is funny and what isn', because Mayne Street is pretty hilarious. It's typical Kenny Mayne dry wit but if you don't realize what you're getting with Mayne by now, I don't know what to tell you.

I want to be video cowboy.

7. DC Charter School Uses Rugby To Break Barriers

Loved this article about a charter school in Hyde Park, a not-so-nice area of Washington, D.C. that has really taken the local rugby scene by storm. They're a fun team to watch and they're also a great story, as they've overcome alot of stereotypes being an all-black, inner city charter school team. Definitely worth a read.

8. Dr. Lou Is Amazing, Way Better Than That Phil Jerk

I'm pretty sure I only want all my life lessons to be taught by Lou Holtz from now on. I love this guy. Awful Announcing has the video of his most recent "Dr. Lou" segment, which is phenomenal. Here's the video:

9. Fire Joe Morgan Bids Adieu

The sports blogosphere suffered one of its biggest casualties this past week as Fire Joe Morgan, one of the funniest, most interesting sports blogs on the web officially went on permanent vacation. FJM was probably the first sports blog I really got into and started reading every day and they're just a great group of bloggers, which I'm sure makes them okay human beings, too.

It was nice sharing the internet with you guys.

10. Link of the Week: A Promise, A Dream, A Hotdog Launcher

I'm actually working on a mini-documentary for class right now and I thought this was just incredibly well-done. It's a hilarious look at what went in to the creation of the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies' Hot Dog Launcher.

That proves, once again, the truth behind one of the world's great adages: everything is better when you launch it out of an eight foot gas-powered cannon.

That will do it for me this week. Remember, keep those feet moving and those links coming.