Is it Saturday? It seems like it’s Saturday. Having taken off the span between Christmas and New Year’s — and then Friday as well, because why go back to work for just one day this week — I’m a little disoriented. Even the television schedule hasn’t been cooperating — thanks to bowl season and a few other random events, enough sporting events have been on TV to trick my brain into thinking it’s Saturday every day.

Let’s go ahead and dive into the weekend links, then — assuming, of course, that the league-mandated Weekend Links Blackout is avoided.

*I suddenly think it’s Saturday every day…. so why not start with an Every Day Should Be Saturday link? It may be past the holiday season, but that’s no reason we still can’t go back and review the Very Orgeron Christmas.

*Similarly, the minor kerfuffle surrounding a Detroit News columnist’s making fun of Rod Marinelli has died away, but that’s no reason we can’t go back and review Joe Posnanski’s digression on the topic. As is usual for Posnanski, he avoids the obvious, cliche topic — should the guy have asked the question? — and instead delves into a thoughtful post about the difference between American media and international media, including a discussion of the old “no cheering in the press box” rule. Eventually, of course, he gets around to answering the obvious topic — but not in a way you’d think, necessarily. It goes without saying at this point that my crush on Joe Posnanski continues to deepen.

*Speaking of crushes - got a free hour? Then head over to the Smart Football blog, where Chris Brown links to his top five posts of 2008. I wish more of the internet was like that blog.

*Baby Mangino update: The Baby Mangino juggernaut cannot be stopped. Currently, the youngster is crushing Isiah Thomas in the Deadspin voting for a berth in the final round of Sports Human of the Year, and appears to be set to take out Buzz Bissinger in the final round. Yeah, I know Rand has scored plenty of scoops in the last year, but here’s what I want to know — can he be the first journalist to score a Baby Mangino interview?

*And finally: somebody out there doesn’t really like KG …. I just can’t decide whether he has a point or not.

That’ll do it for me. By the time you read this, I’ll be off to Williams Arena, hoping that the Gophers will win by so much that Mark Titus gets significant second-half playing time.

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