Mike and Mike in the Morning is the best radio show!

Driving in your car in terrible traffic, there's really only a few things that get you going. Morning radio is certainly one of those essentials - ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning is my medicine for the traffic blues.

Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic provide commentary on the sports and non-sports of the world; their takes are usually completely opposite, however, on some occasions, they do agree on things. This morning, I happened to catch some of their coverage on ESPN2 and ESPN Radio. Here is what they talked about today:

I was actually kind of shocked at the way both series have really turned around. But you know what got me, and Mike and Mike pointed this out - all the home teams are pretty much winning, and winning huge. Now, M&M were thinking there's a huge conspiracy with the way the refs call the games for and against the home team; they read off these stats about the number of free throws the home team is getting versus the amount the road team is shooting, and there is a huge disparity. It does seem odd that there is such a difference there...they really make a good point about that. I can't remember which one was saying this but one of them said, 'The baskets are the same size, the courts are the same size, their plays are the same.' And to some extent, he's right...I don't get it.

They were also talking about the OJ Mayo controversy - that thing is so messed up, and there seriously needs to be something done about the NBA/NCAA rules. That stuff is messed up. One way or another, it's bad for the game - either everyone's at fault or you can't fault anyone at this time. I really think David Stern is trying to do a good thing by extending the years to two for college players; there really are only one or two players a year who are ready to enter the NBA after high school or one year of college. I've had a stance on this forever - you keep it equal for all NCAA sports. Football is 3 years, basketball should be 3 years; and baseball is just weird. Teams draft kids still in high school; but the difference with that is, they don't put them into a game right away. And most of the kids are required to go to college, then A-ball, Winter Ball, then AA-ball, AAA-ball.

But in the case of Mayo and Reggie Bush, my personal opinion is USC just looks bad - I mean, two of their star athletes are accused of getting under-the-table money and the school 'doesn't see a problem with it.' Common, people! You know Tim Floyd knew about all of Mayo's 'extra bling' and 'new stuff' popping up all of a sudden; and I think the same of Pete Carroll and Bush. The guy was rolling a Bentley as a student athlete - that doesn't scream FRAUD!

Greenberg's point was there is something wrong with the system, and that everyone will go scott free. And Mayo knows he was in violation of NCAA rules, but will never admit it - and USC will never admit that they were in favor of it.

Golic agreed to a point, but as a college and pro athlete, he had to disagree somewhat. I think he took a bit of issue with the looseness of the student athlete terminology; it's really scary to think that he played nearly 20 years ago, and the rules have changed so much (and some not enough).

Anyway, I love those guys - it's a shame I really don't get to listen/watch them that much anymore. I'm at work by 8am and my commute is five minutes; I get about 30 minutes of M&M a day (and then the occasional little clip on ESPN.com). Oh well, they're still the best thing on morning radio - or radio in general.