The Skinny Post Man and Woman of the Year

Tom Brady. Brett Favre. Tiger Woods. All received some consideration for the first annual Skinny Post Man of the Year, but one man went above and beyond in tying together sports and entertainment, bringing an unprecedented amount of unintentional comedy to sports broadcasts, paying less attention to the games he was announcing than the corpse of Harry Carey. This was never more evident than when Mike Patrick, during the biggest play of an overtime SEC thriller, uttered the immortal words "What's Britney Spears doing with her life?"

There was really only one contender for Woman of the Year. Lauren Caitlin Upton became the most famous beauty pageant contestant since Vanessa Williams since her inability to string together a coherent sentence became the second most memorable quote of 2007 ("Don't tase me bro" finished first).

Congratulations winners, you've provided countless hours of entertainment for millions of Americans, and now you can ring in 2008 with the first Skinnies.

Sean Taylor 4th in All Pro voting

Not a lot of surprises on this year's All Pro team. I agree with Patrick Willis at middle linebacker - he's the most dominant mike I've seen this year. I thought Adrian Peterson would get the nod but he received the third most votes at running back. I'm a little surprised Haloti Ngata, in my opinion the best interior lineman in the NFL, didn't get a single vote. But I think it's great the Sean Taylor finished tied for 4th with Tory Polamalu at safety. Meast finished tied for ninth in the NFL in interceptions and had more tackles in about half as many games as All Pro Ed Reed.

The Oscars of video games

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards video game nominations (arguably the most prestigious video game awards) have been announced. If you take away the idiosyncrasies like including The Orange Box for PS3 and not XBox 360, and pushing Halo 3 and BioShock back to next years' awards but including Ratchet and Clank and Kane & Lynch while they haven't been released yet, it's a pretty strong group. The Skinny Post favorite Gears of War has seven nominations, topped only by Wii Sports with eight. A lot of PS2 games were nominated late in the system's life cycle, while there are zero XBox or Gamecube nominations.