Yesterday I read an article online (at MSN) that basically said America would save a lot of money if there weren't any overweight people in the country. Apparently, 66 percent of Americans are overweight and half of those are considered obese. If nobody was overweight, America would save so much money, each household could get over $4,000 handed to them using the savings...

We've all been told not to be a sore loser before. Even worse than being a sore loser is being a sore winner. Three members of Congress are taking being a sore loser/winner to new levels by requesting the Justice Department reviews the BCS. Anyone want to guess what state these three congressmen are from?...

Shorty's Saloon was short on anything but talent Saturday night as up and coming recording artist Sarah Johns showed the audience why she's spending the summer opening for George Strait. Johns entertained the crowd with songs from her only album, "Big Love in a Small Town," including the singles "The One in the Middle" and "He Hates Me." (Google the lyrics to get the reference of the sign in the picture.)...

1. Kelly pretends to be a small town girl, even naming her debut album Small Town Girl. She always acts like a wide-eye kid from Grand View dropped into the middle of Time Square. She's been around for a couple of years now, went on tour with Brad Paisley, was on American Idol, she can drop the act...

Country music is about music about real life. The Valory Music Co. recording artist Jimmy Wayne has certainly lived enough to write and record songs about real life. On Wednesday, Wayne bought a sample of his songs to the Grizzly Rose in Boise and shared the life behind the music with the audience between songs...

Nothing in Jimmy Wayne's life has come easy. He grew up moving from foster home to foster home until he was 16, often sleeping in the streets after his father abandoned him. He moved to Nashville 10 years ago to pursue his dream of a career in country music...

I'm well aware how hard it is to be a Vandal in the middle of Bronco Nation. Everyone feels free to offer their unsolicited, and often uneducated, opinion on the differences between the two schools. That's not true, their opinion focuses mostly on one difference between the two schools: the number of football games each school wins...

March Madness is here and I'm totally caught up in it. For the last two years, I've filled out brackets just to see how I would do. I haven't done to bad, including seven of last year's Elite Eight and three of the Final Four. If only I hadn't picked UCLA to upset Florida.....

The nominees for the ACM awards came out last week. I'm not even sure if the Academy of Country Music even listens to country radio anymore. How else can you explain Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Toby Keith not get any nods? I think the Academy knows it's no longer reverent anymore, that's why they are letting fans vote for their biggest award. ...