One of our football coaches is headed to Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa. Surprise, he has nothing to do with your Dallas Cowboys.

I blogged, oh-so briefly, about Grapevine Faith's Nov. 7 high-school game against the Gainesville State Tornadoes. Ring a bell?

Rick Reilly's terriffic ESPN The Magazine column is here. For the short, sweet version, we're jumping ...

Oh say can you see, how charitable this guy is?

You: “The media only reports the bad news.”

Me: “Guilty.”

Well, not only the bad news. But I do admit that we, the media, tend to magnify the drunk athlete and shrug off the charitable one. Why?

Great question. We’d like to hide behind the ol’ supply-and-demand tenet, but that’s not always the case. Or is it? There’s a reason, after all, that TMZ blossomed from a sleazy web site into a sleazy TV show.

Philosophical and ethical debate notwithstanding, let me this morning attempt to balance the scales a tad.