Tom Jones

The Sports Emmy nominations for 2010 were announced last week and included many names familiar to us couch potatoes who spend a lot of our time watching sports. The winners will be announced May 2 in New York. Here's a look at some of the categories, with a few comments and predictions.

-- Best play-by-play personality: Jim Nantz (CBS), Al Michaels (NBC), Joe Buck (Fox), Bob Costas (MLB Network), Mike Emrick (NBC), Verne Lundquist (CBS)

The breakdown: All the usual suspects are here -- Nantz, Michaels, Buck, Costas -- but that's because they are the top play-by-play guys around (though Nantz is a little too vanilla for my taste). It would be nice to someday see on this list Ian Eagle for his NFL work on CBS. He would be a better nominee than Lundquist, a good announcer who did not have his best year in 2010.

Florida's Urban Meyer, who turned 46 in July, is hardly the first football coach to step away at a relatively young age. Here's a look at some other memorable instances when coaches abruptly resigned while seemingly in the middle of their careers.

With NFL training camps getting into full swing this week, we look at five burning questions.

1) What's up with Brett Favre?

There have been some changes in sports the past couple of weeks. Things are being done differently. With every change comes instant analysis. Bottom line: Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

It seems weird to think Donovan McNabb will wear a Washington Redskins jersey next season. Becayse despite being a polarizing figure in Philadelphia, McNabb was synonymous with the Eagles.

Each night for the past week and a half, the Vancouver Winter Olympics have entertained us, thrilled us, given us reason to cheer.

Looking back at the best and worst from the 2009 NFL regular season.