The NFL Draft is always a great event to have on while doing productive things around the house. I've always thought that the real beauty of it is that you can do landscaping or something and check in every hour or so and only miss five picks. There weren't a lot of surprises, except Miami picking Ted Ginn Jr. at No. 9 and Brady Quinn falling all the way down to No. 22. For a guy that was considered the No. 1 pick much of the year and even a small consideration on Draft Day, I thought he handled it pretty well. I'm not a fan at all and love the fact the JaMarcus Russell jumped over him, but even I will admit that I started feeling a little sorry for him at some point around No. 15.

I thought the Raiders had a great draft, with Russell, Zach Miller, Michael Bush and Quentin Moses are all extremely talented. The Browns also did well getting Joe Thomas and Quinn, along with Eric Wright. Basically, they got two top five picks and a first-round talent with Wright, who has major character issues. I also liked what the Vikings did with Adrian Peterson, Sidney Rice and Marcus McCauley.

It's also great to hear everyone on talk radio ripping on different draft picks at this time of year when they know nothing about any of the players. It's especially entertaining living in Wisconsin and listening to every Packer fan and talk radio ripping on a guy like third-round pick James Jones. Chances are they haven't seen San Jose State much on television and have never heard of him until this past weekend, but since they don't know who he is, it must be a bad pick. Right? Between myself and Ted Thompson, one of us has built a Super Bowl team in Seattle and had many very successful drafts as a GM and one of us hasn't so I'll just reserve opinion and assume he knows best.

Can anyone believe the Warriors are one game away from beating the Mavs? One team finished with the best record in basketball with 67 wins and the other clinched the final spot on the final day of the season. If nothing else, they've made it very interesting, but winning the first three games is possible. Beating a tested playoff team like the Mavs and delivering that final blow will be very tough. I'm already looking forward to watching the Spurs play the Suns.

I'm off to Dallas tomorrow to watch Heritage's live sports memorabilia auction. It should be a great event. If you've looked through the Heritage website or auction catalog, it's a very strong auction with plenty of amazing pieces and a bunch of Babe Ruth-signed balls. I'll try to blog about it right away next week.