A quarterback signing in March usually means very little, but the New Orleans Saints have made the NFL draft change dramatically. The Saints were projected to take one of the top three collegian quarterbacks in the April draft. Drew Brees patiently fielded repeated questions about his injured throwing shoulder, then smiled when asked whether he was tiring of the subject.

”I don't mind talking about it. I've got a big smile on the inside because I know where I'm going to be in about four months,” the new Saints quarterback said during his introduction in New Orleans on Wednesday. “It's not the first time somebody said ... I couldn't do it. I'll leave the talking to my play come September.”

Brees said doctors gave him a 90 percent chance of a full recovery immediately after he had surgery in January to repair a torn labrum and partially torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder. Basically, he tore everything in his shoulder, and can now make it back. He was spending about six hours a day on rehab and expects to begin throwing again by mid- to late-April.

It doesn't really matter what Brees says at this point. He's no longer trying to sell himself, having already signed a six-year, $60 million contract that guarantees him $10 million up front with a $12 million option in his second year.

Starbury is a Moron

I’m sick of these prima donna NBA players who think they are above the team. I’ve already stopped following the league because of this, and now it’s driving me away from reporting on them. You can thank New York Knicks Point Guard Stephon Marbury for this one. Knicks coach Larry Brown responded to Stephon Marbury's vow to be more offensive minded, saying he never restricted his point guard's ability to score in the first place.

”I've never given a guard more freedom than Stephon Marbury in my life, and he has the ball all the time,” Brown said before the Knicks played the Denver Nuggets. In comments that appeared in New York area papers, Marbury said he sacrificed his game for the sake of the team, but it didn't work out. As far as I’m concerned, Stephon is so singularly focused that

A) Every team he’s left has gotten better because of him leaving
B) He has never won anything
C) He won’t help his cousin (Sebastian Telifair) because it’s all about Stephon.

Who does Marbury think he is to attack a man who’s sick, and potentially going to die, but is still out there?

”I went into this year trying to do something, to put myself in a situation where we can win, okay?” Marbury was quoted as saying. “Unfortunately, that didn't happen. So, what do I do now, as far as the way I play? I go back to playing like Stephon Marbury, aka Starbury. I haven't been Starbury this year. I've been some other dude this year.”

Stephon Marbury is now the second player to be banned from my column – the first was Terrell Owens.

Dante DiTrapano Busted for Drugs

Ah, another one of the players I like to talk about – hence my sarcasm. An agent for Randy Moss was charged with possession of crack cocaine after police were called to a hotel to investigate a disturbance, authorities said Wednesday. Dante DiTrapano and his wife, Teri, of Charleston, W.Va., were arrested on Tuesday at a hotel in St. Petersburg, police said. I see that all of Randy’s probably aren’t just his own.

The hotel management called police to report a disturbance in couple's room. When officers entered the room they found the drugs, police said. To quote South Park “Drugs are Bad.” Three other people were also arrested and charged with possession of crack cocaine, police said.

“Dante has been battling depression over two tragedies that occurred this past year. We don't know the facts of his arrest at this point, but we hope and pray that Dante will now get the help he needs,” Tim DiPiero, an attorney with DiTrapano, Barrett & DiPiero, said in a statement released Wednesday. Moss also commented through the attorney's office.