LeBron James proved you can go home again, maybe, although he never totally left Ohio as he made his off-season home in his hometown of Akron.
In the seemingly endlessly shifting sands of this saga, James flirted with several teams before taking a vow to help the Cavs be all they can be.
Yes, the majority of the world will be watching Germany and Argentina in today's World Cup championship match, but most Americans were caught up in where James would land, major league baseball's looming All-Star break and counting the days until football starts.
College football will rule for a few days this week from Hoover, Ala. Representatives of media outlets from coast to coast will be at SEC football media days to learn all about Alabama and Co.
Understand that the Crimson Tide lost to Auburn last year, and in doing so lost a shot at another BCS championship, but Nick Saban has made the Tide the giant of all giants in college football.
So this week Saban will thank the media for coming. He won't mean it, but most will laugh, some will giggle as they do every time he opens his mouth like his breath is gold dust, and others will shrug and wait for his inevitable spiel about this is a new season and past seasons don't matter.
He'll also grouse about the meetings being earlier and earlier each year, which they are, but by doing it this early the SEC is almost assured of the largest gathering of sports media in one college venue this year. The 2014 national championship game in January 2015 might top the number. Maybe not.
About 35 percent of the assembled media will vote on preseason all-conference teams and how the final standings will come out.
Chances are we'll miss the SEC championship winner. We've gotten it right four times in the past 22 seasons, and the last time was 2008 when we picked Florida winning it.
They were coached by Urban Meyer back then.
Not anymore. Now they are led by Will Muschamp, who is 22-16 overall and coming off a 4-8 season.
He's on the hot seat, or at least a very warm seat. He has to know it, but he will deny it vehemently because that's what coaches do when they don't want to face reality.
Muschamp has been somewhat of an experiment, having jumped from defensive coordinator and head-coach-in-waiting at Texas to head of a program rich in tradition and talent with a fan base that may be mostly quiet but definitely not satisfied.
No coach is going to get up in front of a huge ballroom of reporters and say this is going to be a long season, so there will be lots of sunshine in Hoover this week.
Everyone is undefeated, hopeful and believes they can be the next Gus Malzahn and Auburn, a huge underdog who shocked the nation last season by making it to the BCS Championship Game.
Arkansas Coach Bret Bielema is optimistic by nature, an overachiever who went from walk-on to starter in college, and he is expected to talk up quarterback Brandon Allen and his team's improvement.
LSU's Les Miles will be serious and humorous at the same time without meaning to, but that's why he's been dubbed "The Mad Hatter." The truth is, most of the media would rather deal with him than Saban.
Mark Richt, whose Georgia team should be chosen to win the SEC East, will not talk about being under pressure.
South Carolina Coach Steve Spurrier will most likely win the news conferences. He can't help himself. He'll try to act like he's put out to be here, but put him in front of that many guys looking for a witty quote and he'll let it rip a few times.
Most of the coaches will be going through the motions at their own speed, and in the end SEC football will make headline news on the front of sports sections all over the country. Radio talk-show hosts will play and replay the interviews, and TV will use the soundbites as often as possible.
Finally, football is just around the corner.
Sports on 07/13/2014