What's been the most exciting event in sports this past week? Baseball trades, rumors, and staff changes. This past week of football blew, and I missed the Pats-Broncos game, which sounded exciting. But Billy Wagner to the Phillies? Now what? There are so many free agents out there, once it's all done, the new baseball season is going to be like going to your new college classes for the semester. Ozzie Guillen is a great manager for the White Sox to have, and I'm a little surprised that Mattingly is the new hitting coach for the Yanks (because I don't think he liked Steinbrenner that much either)

I've seen two more films, so here we go:

BROTHER BEAR: In which Disney, for the 800th time, decides to go very heavy-handed with themes that drag a movie's entertainment down with it. When we first see a bear in this film, its eyes are drawn with a thin spiral, with almost no life in them. When Kenai (voiced by Joaquin Phoenix) turns into a bear, his eyes are the usual Disney caricature, given human appearance. And just to make it cuddlier, his surrogate little bear brother has the cute, wide-eyed look as well. During their journey we are scolded for killing animals and are supposed to be led to believe that animals generally look at death like we do. We are also led to believe that if we go into a jungle, minding our own business, not hunting bears or anything, that the bear will realize this and leave us alone as well. Also, nothing is going to change the fact that the Native Americans were treated most inhumanely, dispatched from their homes, slaughtered, lied to, raped, and so on--so the required happy ending renders the whole movie moot. Although every critic in America likes to pick on Phil Collins for some reason, I won't here because his songs are not the problem. It has some fairly enjoyable moments, but there's a dark cloud hanging over it every minute of the way.

MATRIX REVOLUTIONS: Not going to say much about this, other than I feel it's a satisfactory ending to one of the most discussed, philosophised movie series this side of STAR WARS. I can say that the conclusion to this film will likely spur debate, a la Kubrick's 2001. It's not as cryptic, but it certainly will have you talking. There is a FANTASTIC action scene in here that bridges the film's beginning and end.