All right, campus: In the words of Vince Vaughn, it is so on. You might have seen the ads running last week for my mailbag column, which, starting next week, will run Tuesdays and Fridays.

What is a mailbag, you ask? Well, it's basically a space dedicated to you, the knowledgeable reader. I'll field questions, suggestions, advice, challenges — you name it; I want it.

Basically, if you've got an idea you think needs some ink, send it to me, I'll print it and respond to it. If you've got a question that you think I don't know, or that you don't know, send it in. We'll get to the bottom of it.

If you've got funny suggestions or sports observations, i.e. Jay Fiedler and Jeff Garcia continue their dead heat in the race to be named "Ugliest NFL Quarterback," send them along. If you've been reading my columns over the past year and want to tell me what a meathead I am, go for it. Everything's encouraged. Just send it all to sports@dailyillini.com.

It should be a lot of fun for all parties involved. I do need your help, though. If you don't send me anything, I'll be like a Sox fan this October: alone and bored with nothing to do.

Just to try and get the ball rolling, I'm going to toss out some potentially spicy topics of conversation. Here goes:

— NASCAR is not a sport. Don't kid yourself. You could do the same thing in your car, but you'd get arrested for it. Kind of like driving naked, which, last I checked, was also not a sport.

— Maurice Clarett needs to suck it up, go to school and shut his (and Jim Brown's) mouth. I pity the kid for being victimized after he couldn't keep his hands off of free stuff. If you can't recognize that as an NCAA violation, maybe a few years of school without the distraction of football is what he needs.

— How come when Rush Limbaugh says that Donovan McNabb gets overhyped because he's black, he gets the pitchfork treatment, but when Isaiah Thomas says that if Larry Bird were black, he'd be "just another good player," nothing happens?

— How can anyone tolerate any sport with the potential to end in a tie? Hockey, soccer: I'm looking right at you.

— To me, the NBA keeps flirting with the "unwatchable" line. Remember the teams of the late '80s and early '90s? Man, that was fun basketball to watch. The key word there would be "teams," because I'm unaware of any teams that actually exist in the NBA today. That being said, I still can't wait to watch LeBron James.

— I think the National League should host the World Series every year, because that way there's a chance for real baseball to be played for more than half of the games.

— Speaking of baseball, Cardinals pitcher Steve Kline's recent remarks about wishing Mark Prior would take a comebacker to the forehead and "we'd never see him again" is a good sign that the Cubs-Cardinals rivalry has regained any heat it may have lost. Too bad Steve Kline needs to actually get some guys out before fans of either team start caring what he thinks.

— As this whole thing drags on, I'm starting to think that Kobe might have done it.

That's just for starters. I hope one of those will get somebody riled up. And if you've got something to say about a completely different topic, that's more than welcome. So there you go, UIUC. The challenge has been thrown down. Will you cowboy up like the Red Sox? Or fold like the A's?

Matt Coldagelli is a junior in communications. His mailbag will run Tuesdays and Fridays. Send him your trivia, questions and comments to sports@dailyillini.com.