While the Keystone Kops of investigative journalism continue to treat the testimony of known extortionists as perennial fact, conjuring up retroactive repercussions for USC, we’d like to take this opportunity to look to the future…

John David Booty, 2007 Heisman favorite.

The foremost authority in Heismanditry, the Heisman Pundit:

The USC quarterback has become a glamour position in college football and Booty stands to benefit from that in 2007. When you also take into account the likelihood that the Trojans will be the preseason No. 1 in all the polls, Booty has more advantages in this race than any other player out there. It doesn’t hurt that he is coming off a great junior year in which he threw for 3,347 yards and 29 touchdowns either. There’s a long way to go, but right now Booty is the front runner for the 2007 Heisman.

Back to those jokers at Yahoo!, who have won 0 Heismans, may we suggest refocusing your efforts on I don’t know, technology? Congratulations on finally getting your much-delayed ad targeting software (Panama) done. It’s probably every bit as good as Google’s (heh), making your stock well worth paying over 2 times growth for (YHOO currently has a PEG Ratio of 2.10).

(Full disclosure: dumped all my YHOO stock yesterday.)

The HP Winter Top 20 [Heisman Pundit]