What’s the best way for us to thank the folks who constantly email us links to quirky, cool, offbeat sports stories and keep our comments section lively and fun? Give them a post. So to reward these people, we’re going to try and give them one post a week to write about anything in 250 words or less. This week we’ve got Wes, aka bigpappawes. We actually meant to run this last week, as a tie-in to the whole Vick-jail thing, but with the whole server change and the Mitchell Report, we had to push it to this week. And yes, this is a photo of Leonard Little.

So when TBL offered me a guest post, I immediately started running through potential topics. I wanted to be funny, to elicit some LOL’s. If I did well enough, maybe even a ROFL. But nothing came to me. Then on Monday, Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in jail, 5 more than the maximum suggested by prosecution. Now this is by no means a defense for what Vick did. Dog-fighting is atrocious and add that to the perjury and marijuana issues and this sentence can be justified.

What cannot be justified is how this sentence compares to sentencing of other crimes. Most specifically (and Scott Van Pelt stole my thunder a little bit on Mike Tirico on Tuesday afternoon) the situation with Leonard Little. His run-ins with the law are well documented, but for those of you who are unfamiliar: while intoxicated and driving after his birthday in 1998, Leonard was in an accident that resulted in the death of a mother, Susan Gutweiler. His Blood Alcohol Content was at .19 after the accident. He served 90 days in jail, four years probation, and 1000 hours community service. After his probationary period ended in 2004, Little was again cited for drunk driving and speeding.

To sum: Michael Vick is going to serve 23 months in jail for his participation in dog fighting. Leonard Little killed a woman in a drunk driving incident and served 90 days.

God Bless America.