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Are there some professional athletes who won't tolerate being hit with oddball questions?

Before we even started doing the show, I did have a problem with [former St. Louis Ram] Kyle Turley. He didn't like my questions about what it smelled like at the bottom of a fumble pile.

Who is the least-healthy-looking professional athlete?

Outside of sumo, I'd have to say [Texas Rangers relief pitcher] Antonio Alfonseca, because he's got the combination of an enormous belly plus extra fingers, which doesn't seem terribly healthy.

You often go on about Tom Cruise's cocky career, in which he has played a cocky pilot, a cocky bartender, a cocky sports agent, a cocky samurai, etc. What was the least cocky Tom Cruise performance?

I have to say the paraplegic war vet. As far as paraplegics go, he was a very cocky one in Born on the Fourth of July, but it wasn't like the cocky sexual deviant in Eyes Wide Shut.

What's your response to a sports fan who says, "Hey, it's four days before the Super Bowl, and you're doing three hours of Chuck Norris jokes."

I don't want to ostracize sports fans. It's primarily a sports show but, I mean, what can you say about the Super Bowl? What are we going to do -- predictions?

Other than T.J. Ford (see box), what sports figure is most likely not to know who Chewbacca is?

I don't know. I'm still stunned. I was floored that he didn't know. The thing with T.J. Ford was a complete disaster, but we were able to fail publicly in a big way. That's one way to be entertaining -- fail big.

If you could, would you take back the March Madness

'80s-bands bit?

No. I think we need to do it bigger. I think we need to do it on steroids.

What are your favorite and least favorite '80s bands?

Asia or Foreigner. Run-DMC. That's not a band, is it? Least favorite? Dee Snyder and Twisted Sister.

Worst Brat Packer?

You're linking me to the '80s in a way that's becoming really uncomfortable, like I dated Tiffany or something. OK -- Judd Nelson.

What's one thing people would be surprised to find out about you?

You mean, other than the disturbing showering with black gloves? It's a long story that involves a skin condition that you don't want to hear about.

Who sweats more on TV: Dan Le Batard or John Madden?

Oh, John Madden doesn't sweat. I could sweat a puddle of John Madden that weighs as much as John Madden. No contest. I am a prodigious sweater.