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Eric Sugarman should probably know better. But hey, sometimes you just can't help yourself. So even though the Vikings head athletic trainer spent the past five months preaching the need to keep Adrian Peterson's superhuman ambition from becoming dangerous, occasionally he likes to press a button or two.

Star running back. In his prime. Tears his ACL in his fifth NFL season. At the age of 26. It's no wonder Adrian Peterson's knee injury hits home with former Denver Broncos star Terrell Davis, who experienced a similar setback in 1999. Like Peterson, Davis attacked rehab.

Perhaps one day, way up the road, Rick Spielman will reveal the secrets of his first draft as Vikings general manager. Maybe one day in the distant future, we'll all learn more about the poker game he played from January through mid-April, hiding his hand and never letting down his guard.

If it's not yet time for an all-out intervention, I'm afraid we're getting close. Those three letters that we've long loved (NFL), that trusty entertainment industry that injects us with giddy anticipation every fall? Well, I'm beginning to suspect the NFL and its media partners have a problem -- a potentially dangerous addiction to publicity and nonsensical hyper-analysis.

Did you know there is a war on women? Yes, it's true. Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Ed Schultz have been waging it for years with their misogynist outbursts. There have been boycotts by people on the left who are outraged that these guys still have jobs.

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Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and reassuring. Last week Nina Fedoroff, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), broke ranks in a spectacular manner.