This is pretty impressive: Carl Edwards traveled to Texas to train with a local SWAT team, engaging in everything from rappelling to shooting to hostage rescue. (The "hostage" in question was Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage, and he was rescued unharmed.)

We spoke with Edwards after his escapades, and we'll have a detailed interview and story for you next week. Tidbit: when we talked with Edwards, he was actually in a Texas Subway ... and nobody recognized him. More to come!

ATLANTA – You wouldn't think a probable future NBA lottery pick dressed in eye-searing yellow could fade into the background.

And yet that's exactly what has happened to Baylor's Perry Jones III and his frontcourt compatriots, Quincy Miller and Quincy Acy. They survived challenges from South Dakota State and Colorado, but with two games standing between them and a trip to New Orleans, all eyes are on the underachieving frontcourt. Deferring to their guards, a move that worked so well in the NCAA tournament's opening weekend, is no longer a formula for success.

Perry and the Quincys – a group whose name brings to mind students at Hogwarts, not Texas ballers – are undeniably athletic, long and lean and slick enough to elude beefier post players. They can whip the ball around the court, they can run and weave and create their own shots in transition. The problem comes when those shots aren't falling.

[ Related: Baylor has winning look ]

Against South Dakota State and Colorado, all three

Not much doubt about what the wreck of the week was this week, huh? Kasey Kahne caught Regan Smith by thiiiiis much, but in a place like Bristol, that's enough to cause multi-car carnage. Now, pretty much everybody involved in the accident got back out on the track, and Kevin Harvick even managed to stay on the lead lap. Still, this had a dramatic impact on the race, taking out at least four potential winners (Harvick, Kahne, Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards) and putting Kahne in a must-run-well situation for the next few months.

For that reason, we give this wreck ... THREE Crazed Montoyas!

Three! Three! Three Montoyas!

Life is good when you're Arnold Palmer. (Getty Images)Kids these days. No respect, I tell ya.

On Wednesday, Arnold Palmer spoke to the press in advance of his tournament at Bay Hill, and talk covered everything from Q School to Tiger Woods. When asked about the absence of Rory McIlroy and Luke Donald, the top two players in the world, however, The King minced no words:

"I'm disappointed that they are not here, no question about it," Palmer said. "They are the top players on the Tour right now in the positions that they are in, and I am disappointed.
I had a letter from Rory seeking my consultation and told me he wasn't coming.  And of course that made me feel great.  And if you believe that, I'll talk to you outside afterwards," he laughed. (Rory's got some brass ones, asking for advice but not showing up to the big dog's tournament, yes?)

Palmer drew a direct connection to his days as a young golfer, when he traveled across the pond to the British Open to expand the world's interest in golf. Pay it back, he suggested. And when Arnie

The Promised Land. (Getty Images)How much is a trip to Augusta worth to players? Enough that two known names, Matteo Manassero and Robert Rock, are throwing Hail Mary passes in Morocco in an attempt to get into the field.

Rock and Manassero are playing in Morocco in the Hassan II Golf Trophy tournament at the King of Morocco's exclusive Royal Course in Agadir. If one of them manages to win, he'll amass enough points to get inside the top 50 and thus go from Agadir to Augusta.

Rock currently sits at 57th in the world rankings, and Manassero at 61st. A win would be enough to close the deal, and both players know it.

"Augusta and qualifying for the Masters is the reason why I played in Spain last week and I'm here this week in Morocco," Rock said, according to an AP report. "The only way I can now really get into the Masters is to win this week, and given how well I played in the Andalucia Open I'm quietly confident of doing enough to get myself inside the top 50."

If they can't close the deal this weekend, and this is

Corleone Motorsports.Welcome to the latest Happy Hour mailbag! You know how these work: You write us with your best rant/ joke/one-liner at happyhournascar@yahoogroups.com or on Twitter at @jaybusbee, we respond to your messages, everyone goes away with a smile on their face.

So. Going to see "The Hunger Games" this weekend? All the kids are. You know the plot, right? Twenty-four kids are dumped in the wilderness and the last one left alive wins. Which, of course, brings up the question of NASCAR Hunger Games. I'll be doing a post on this later this week, but I'd like your thoughts: which driver do you think would best survive a NASCAR Hunger Games? Email your thoughts pronto.

Until then, enjoy a sampling of the bile and outrage that arrived in the wake of the overturning of the penalties against the 48 team:

Let's see: powerful boss who has been known to engage in shady practices to get his own way, a right-hand man willing to do whatever he has to so the boss can obtain his goals, and a naive young driver drawn to the dark side when the going gets tough. Sounds like a good movie plot. Oh wait, they made it already; it was called "The Godfather"! Too bad Marlon Brando died, or he would be great playing Rick Hendrick in the NASCAR version!

— Joyce Keith

Yeah, the highly controversial appeal decision overturning penalties against Chad Knaus and the rest of the 48 team dominated our letter column inbox this week. We're still processing all this, but the early sentiment (and the early tenor of the emails we've received) is that this does absolutely nothing to convince people of the 48 team's innocence ... even if, in fact, they are.

ESPN.com's Bill Simmons has pretty much killed the usage of "The Godfather" in any sports context, but I have to say, that's a solid comparison right there. And who's Fredo, the poor brother who tries so hard to impress his dad but can't win, no matter what? Three guesses, and the first two don't count.

Luke Donald is number one again. (Getty Images)It's time for the Devil Ball Power Rankings, our weekly look at who's up and who's down in the world of golf. Your panelists are an esteemed group of the world's greatest golf journalists ... or so our mothers tell us. Devil Ball Golf's Jay Busbee and Jonathan Wall, CBS Sports/Eye on Golf's Shane Bacon, and Golf Channel/Golf Talk Central's Ryan Ballengee bring you these, our rankings. Enjoy.

T1. Rory McIlroy. All of a sudden, Rory's got competition for the top spot. You know how to settle this, right? Pool cues and trash can lids. (Two first-place votes.) Last week: 1.

T1. Luke Donald. Luke needs a little something to fire him up. You know, like Luke Skywalker. Maybe the revelation that his father is a megalomaniac dictator would do it. 'Cause the guy's way too sweet now. Last week: T3.

3. Justin Rose. He followed up his WGC win with a T29 at the Transitions. Still, he's knocking on the door of greatness. Not very loud yet, but still. Last week: 2.

4. Lee Westwood. Three

Q School changes afoot.Welcome to the new season of Teeing Off, where Devil Ball editor Jay Busbee and head writer Jonathan Wall take a day's topic and smack it all over the course. Suggest a future topic by writing jay.busbee@yahoo.com, or hit us on Twitter at @jaybusbee and @jonathanrwall. Today, Mr. Wall is absolutely on fire about the PGA Tour's new Q School plan.

Wall: This appears to be it, sir: After years of living with the same old seasonal schedule and player-development process, the PGA Tour appears to be on the verge of scrapping the entire system starting next year. I could go on a rant about this, but I won't ... at least not yet.

For now, let's get into some of the details, including the decision to scrap Q-School, move the start of the season fall and go to a wraparound season, and make the Nationwide Tour the new pipeline for aspiring tour pros, thereby forcing up-and-coming college kids and European players to forget about their dream of obtaining a card the old-fashioned way. In my opinion, this is the equivalent to college football bypassing a play-in game and going to a 64-team playoff. I don't know about you, but I think this idea is bound to fail.