When I graduated from Flagler less than a year ago, I had pretty high aspirations for myself and I still do. I want to work for ESPN and host a radio show while also writing for the magazine and the website. I also want to write for USA Today and at some point, work in Dallas covering high school football on Friday nights, local college football on Saturdays and the Cowboys every other day of the week.

It’s been awhile since I’ve shown my face around here…so here are some random thoughts I’ve had from this week in sports:

• I feel bad for the WNBA, but what does it say for your sport if the team that won your first four championships closes up shop? What would we think of the NFL if the Green Bay Packers did the same?

I’ve been feeling a little Flagler nostalgia lately.

Maybe it was the fact that basketball season is around the corner and I’m not getting ready to be on the radio for the first time in a long time.

Consider the panic button pushed.

After watching my Cowboys be taken to the woodshed by the Arizona Cardinals last Sunday, I was discouraged, to say the least. This Cowboys team was supposed to make teams like the Cardinals and Bengals look like they belonged somewhere between the Arena League and the XFL. What had happened?

After Week Six is generally when you start to get an idea for who the haves and have-nots are. Teams like Kansas City, Detroit, Houston and Cincinnati are already starting to prepare for the 2009 Draft. While the undefeated Giants and Titans will look to stave off epic collapses and should make the playoffs.

But then there are the teams stuck in the middle and there are plenty of them. Here are five teams with two or more losses that bear watching in the coming weeks.

Rather then going through my progressions this week and making some quick hits, I’m going to focus on one target.

My target this week is the national media and their continually suspect treatment of Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens.

As I mentioned briefly last week, I’ve been in the process of relocating again. Following graduation from Flagler in the spring I remained in St. Augustine for a few months before moving back north and setting up shop in Northeast Pennsylvania. While there I began freelancing for The Pocono Record, covering my current specialty, high school football. But I began applying for jobs and after turning down offers at small newspapers in rural California and rural Ohio, I got an offer I couldn’t refuse.

As I’m completing a move from Pennsylvania back to the Sunshine State for a new job, I’ll keep this week’s post short and sweet. Here are my picks:

Last week I penned, or I guess typed, in this instance, a blog in which I picked the New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl and claimed that no one should doubt Tom Brady. What I meant to say was: no one should doubt Tom Brady unless a linebacker rolls over his knee tearing his ACL and MCL.

It’s hard for me to cry over Brady’s injury after spending all of last season wishing that he would just go away. Now that he has, I think it’s time for some new teams to make some noise in the crowded AFC.

A couple of months ago, I was pining for football season. As my Mets sat in oblivion, I couldn’t wait for the NFL to start back up. Well now, the Mets lead the NL East by three games going into a weekend showdown with second place Philly. Still, to be as corny as possible: I’M READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!

With the season starting tonight with a game where all I can hope is that both teams injury as many guys on the other team as possible, it’s time I came up with my picks to stick in the NFL this season as well as my picks for Week 1.

I wrote last week about a certain Olympic addiction. Well, with the games closing yesterday, I’m going through a rough time having to quit cold turkey. What am I going to watch with no handball at 4:30 am on MSNBC? Where will I go for my badminton fix? HOW CAN I POSSIBLY GO ON WITHOUT COMPETITIVE TRAMPOLINE?

I’m not sure of the answer to any of those questions, but I’m sure I’ll make it somehow. I have filled up my DVR with the likes of Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson and, of course, Alicia Sacramone so there’s always that. Plus the NFL starts in 10 days and baseball is hitting the stretch run with my Mets in the thick of a pennant race. But before I kiss the Summer Olympics goodbye for another four years, here are my winners, losers and other awards that no one really cares about but me.

And I’m addicted to the Olympics.

The Olympics started this week and in no uncertain terms, I’m hooked. Morning and night, at the gym and in the living room, when I go to sleep and when I wake up. I’ve got Olympic fever.

I don’t consider myself a big tennis fan. Rarely do I even tune in for a match, but I do watch the big finals when they come around, and I’m not afraid to say that on Sunday, I saw the best tennis match ever played, and a match I would rank among the top five sporting events I’ve ever seen.

For me to say this might not give this match as much justice as it deserves. I’m only 22, and so, I haven’t seen some of the greatest games that my elders have viewed. But watching Federer vs. Nadal, I was awed to the point where I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen.

Rather than broach one subject this week, I thought it would be interesting to take some short looks at a bunch of things that happened in sports over the last week or so.