74 year-old Hall of Famer and Minnesota Twins legend Harmon Killebrew has decided to enter hospice care after a long hard fight against esophageal cancer. The Twins are hoping to wear their 1961 throwback jerseys for every home game to honor Killer for the rest of the season.

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The 2011 class for the Pro Football Hall of Fame was announced today. The seven selected were Deion Sanders, Marshall Faulk, Shannon Sharpe, Richard Dent, NFL Films founder Ed Sabol, Les Richter (who passed-away last June), and Chris Hanburger.

The induction ceremony is scheduled for August 6th, at the home of the HOF, Canton, Ohio.

Even more coaching-change news, long-time Tennessee Titans head coach Jeff Fisher is parting ways with the team and owner Bud Adams after a difficult season where the team went 6-10, released troubled QB Vince Young, and even decided to take on Randy Moss who played less for the Titans than he did during his brief stay with the Vikings.

The Oakland Raiders promoted offensive coordinator Hue Jackson to head coach earlier this week.

Meanwhile, despite being bad-mouthed by his former employer, Al Davis, Tom Cable got a job in Seattle as the Seahawk's offensive line coach/assistant head coach.

Former Minnesota offensive coordinator Darrel Bevell was named as Seattle's man for that same position. Bill Musgrave replaces him in Minnesota.

Johnny Damon and Manny Ramirez will be reunited as Tampa Bay Rays during the 2011 MLB season.

Wow.

The baseball writers of America elected Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven into the Hall of Fame yesterday. Alomar got 90% of the vote and Blyleven got 79.7% of the vote. A nominee must be named on 75% of the ballots to get in. Barry Larkin was third with 62.1% followed by Jack Morris with 53.5%.

A name to watch is Jeff Bagwell who got 41.7% but was a star in the steroid-era, although there is no proof that he ever used. Confessed or proven steroid users Mark McGuire got 19.8% and Rafael Palmeiro got 11%.

Popular Seattle Mariner DH Edgar Martinez got his name on 32.9% of the ballots.

Brett Favre called it quits, again, after suffering through what I would call the Viking Season From Hell, where in Chilly was fired and Leslie Frazier was hired.

Tom Cable was surprisingly fired from an improving Raiders team. That makes 7 coaches in the last 10 years for the Raiders.

Eric Mangini was fired from the Browns, too.

Randy Moss was traded to the Vikings after making noise to the fact that he wanted out of New England. Moss' first game as Brett Favre's deep-threat will come Monday night against the Jets, the team New England played last week.

In a sweep by the Yankees. This is the third(?) time in a row the Yanks (this year as the AL Wild Card) have bounced the AL Central Division Champion Twins from the playoffs in the first round.

Twins DH Jim Thome, who was added to the team earlier this year, is seriously considering retirement.

Let's not talk about last week too much, shall we? I didn't okay record-wise, going 9-6 making me 147 & 70 for the season, but I could have been better if some starters weren't benched early and Adrian Butterfingers hadn't fumbled, but we're not going to talk about that.

It's the last week, so some rankings/positions need to be decided, and a few teams need to win and have help to get into the playoffs. For some teams this is a big week, for others... not so much. Hopefully the teams I pick will take this week seriously.

Bold = my pick
Underlined = the winner

Indianapolis at Buffalo (I think Manning and most of the starters for the Colts will play longer this week)
New Orleans at Carolina (Panthers are playing good and Drew Brees is not starting)
Jacksonville at Cleveland (when in doubt...)
New England at Houston (could be an upset)
Giants at Minnesota (because they're home)
San Francisco at St. Louis
Atlanta at Tampa Bay
Pittsburgh at Miami
Chicago at Detroit
Philadelphia at Dallas
Kansas City at Denver (after such a good start, what happened to the Broncos?)
Baltimore at Oakland
Tennessee at Seattle
Washington at San Diego
Green Bay at Arizona
Cincinnati at Jets