Add the entire state of California to the movement against canonizing Paul Tagliabue, if this column on CBS Sportsline is any indication. That's a former colleague in San Fran writing that, and I can vouch for all of it, certainly the part about city after city and stadium after stadium in Cali being neglected. One could make a case for the stadiums for the 49ers, Raiders and Chargers as being the worst, most decrepit, most obsolete in the NFL, and that doesn't count team-less L.A., whose best stadium is still the Coliseum. How does that happen in California, of all places? Nashville gets a new stadium but no place in California can? It's hard to make a case for Tagliabue's greatness on the stadium issue with a gap that big in the resume.

Look at the facilities for all the other sports that have come into being the past decade and a half, while the NFL has abandoned California. The former Pac Bell Park for the S.F. Giants. Staples Center for the Lakers and Clippers. A renovated Oakland Arena for the Warriors. The former San Jose Arena for the Sharks (also several NCAA men's and women's basketball regionals). The Pond in Anaheim for the Mighty Ducks. Even the old Anaheim Stadium has gotten a major makeover recently for the Angels. And a new arena for the Sacramento Kings is being debated (even though Vegas might end up being the destination). But nothing anywhere for the biggest, baddest sports league in the land. That's just weird.

But enough about him. It is my sad duty to report that the Sun is among many media outlets that were apparently punked by the infamous March Madness-lost productivity report. Slate magazine is only the latest outlet to out the fake math used to reach that figure and the agenda behind it. The original report, that America suffered lost workplace productivity to the tune of $3.8 billion, always sounded suspicious. I figured a similar number, at least, would apply to productivity lost to playing computer solitaire. Note, in particular, the fact that the same company spreading this around, raised the cost nearly $3 billion from last year's estimate.