Tuesday was one of those 14-hour work days I have in this business about twice per month. Sometimes in news, you have these days because of a breaking story, and sometimes it's because of something planned.

Today, we had both.

I'm using the glorious date-time stamp feature of blogger to post this on Tuesday when in fact it's 1:15 in the morning on Wednesday. So, check this out.

I worked 14 hours today, got a filling at the dentist, watched both the Big Brother All-Stars and Rock Star episodes off my DVR tonight, and I could still go another three or four hours.

But, I won't. Why? I have to help comb through 500 pages of an OU report to the NCAA regarding fraudulent football-player employment at Big Red Sports/Imports in Norman (under their previous ownership).

Through a Freedom of Information act, our ace reporter obtained documents for KOCO regarding the Oklahoma investigation. We were the first to air details of the investigation tonight at 6, including the facts that a) the university got the tip about Rhett Bomar and J.D. Quinn via an anonymous e-mail b) employment from all but one other player has been verified as being legitimate (good news, Sooner fans) and c) the bookkeeping at Big Red under its previous owners was so bad that not only was the investigation darn nearly impossible in some respects, it's a wonder they were able to maintain a business.

That's not my opinion. That's in the report. You can read it here.

This was only a status report to the NCAA from the university. Tomorrow, we get a much more detailed report, a 500-page report. Several of us will have to take parts of this so we can digest it in a timely manner.

Elections took most of my effort tonight, and per predictions I made at the dentist's office this afternoon, the races went to form. However, a lot of folks don't know that I have to enter those figures manually. Race by race. For two television stations.

They fed me, so I'm totally copacetic, once again proving that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Speaking of stomach, Howie's dismissal from BB7 was pretty hard to take last week. Not so much from me. It's just a freakin' show; however, he was bamboozled.

That's how BB is played, boys and girls.

I told my buddy Jerm he'd be great on this show but what I didn't tell him exactly was why. To win on BB, you have to be cool and duplicitous at times (no offense) and conniving (did I spell that right?) and confident to the point of cockiness.

Really, it's a compliment, dude.

He's off most of the summer when the show airs, I think, and I'm hoping my encouragement could net me a cut of his winnings.

Jerm could win a half mil on this show because he is like the boys from ChillTown.

That link takes you to the dude Jerm reminds me of, which would mean I'm the Will Kirby of the duo, and I'm just not nearly that suave or cool.

Color me more like Chicken George.

Nevertheless, Season 6's James lost the Power of Veto to Janelle and faces my reality-show doppelganger for an elimination vote on Thursday. Here's predicting a James exit interview with the Dr., Boogie, Erika and Janelle voting to evict James and Danielle voting to evict the Chicken Man.

I raced through Rock Star tonight, but saw enough to know that Ryan Star has climbed into the group of contenders. Of the seven remaining contestants, I'd say only three before had legit shots of winning the opportunity to front Supernova.

Dilana, Lukas Rossi and Magni.

Ryan Star whipped out a terrific original tune called, "Back Of My Car," which you can watch on the Rock Star site (along with all the performances), and put himself in the rare position of having improved each of the last five or so weeks.

Reminds me a bit of Kendra from Apprentice III for reality buffs out there. His rise these past few weeks caused co-host Dave Navarro to label him a darkhorse.

The other performances that stood out to me tonight included Patrice's, whose original called, "Beautiful Thing," would have actually made a better pop hit than rocker and Lukas, whose rendition of a Killers tune was a case study in rock-n-roll style (if not substance).

Dilana -- the only one with superior talent, in my opinion -- was off her game a bit tonight, doing a version of The Police's "Every Breath You Take," that I had hoped would be a bit more paranoid and disturbed, like the song was meant to be performed.

When Sting sings that song low-key that's because there is some irony in his performance. When Dilana, and feel free to call me a sexist pig here, does it low-key, which she did, it felt like a copycat performance. It's what I expected a female rocker to do. I wanted to see her turn the tune on its head (or "Kill It," as Gilby, Tommy and Jason might say).

Nevertheless, the South African native by way of Houston should be safe easily, leaving Patrice, Storm and perhaps Magni again to battle it out to stave off elimination.

I think Magni will survive again, leaving Patrice and Storm to bear the brunt of Tommy's hatchet. That's right, with three weeks left in the competition, I think we'll see another double elimination.

If not, me thinks Patrice is headed home.

And, I'm headed to bed.