Did anyone see Sportscenter last night?

... because I missed it, and no one here at Lehigh seems to have caught it either. Apparently, Haddon Township's own Sal Paolantonio dumped on Donovan, saying he looked terrible during Wednesday's practice, and that he shouldn't even be on the practice field. Furthermore, the rumor goes, he said that Kelly Holcomb is the best quarterback in Eagles camp.

Now, I could barely care less about what SP (I refuse to use that nickname) or anyone else at ESPN thinks, other than a very certain few. But it does want to make fools of those of us who were also here in Bethlehem watching practice Wednesday, and who basically wrote, "He looked fine," which he did. Personally, I thought he looked a little creaky, very rusty, but not unlike any other quarterback finding his timing again after a serious injury.

More to the point, there's no way Andy Reid was even going to let McNabb try to do anything that would have betrayed a real weakness. If he were hobbled, with no hope of being ready to play any time soon, we would not have been able to tell based on what he was asked to do Wednesday, which was basically to take snaps, make handoffs, see and feel the rush coming, and make a few throws.

What I believe happened was that SP saw some moments of uncertainty -- a ginger step here and some errant throws there -- and thought to himself, "What's the splashiest, most bombastic inference I can make out of that?" Forget about what McNabb, Reid and the rest of the Eagles organization have said over the last months, or even how he looked in practice on Tuesday.

I believe it's called grandstanding, and though I have my own doubts about Donovan's readiness to actually play NFL football, it leaves a foul taste.

Incidentally, it seemed as if McNabb must have caught the segment, because he was on today. His throws were money, and when the second-team defense did not bite on a play action, he even scrambled out of a collapsing pocket, drawing a huge cheer from the bleachers. No. 5 has always fed his inner warrior with disrespect, sometimes real but usually imagined, and this may have been one of those cases.