IHERALD242005: Do you think Tagliabue is going overboard with the whole helmet-to-helmet issue?

Stuart Scott: No, I don't think he is, but I do think there's too much of a crackdown on hitting in general. If a guy leads with his shoulder to separate a wideout from the ball, that's football. That's the way I was taught to play.

Eric Henderson: A modest proposal: chain nets in the NBA. Nothing like the "chlaaang" of threes raining through the links.

Stuart Scott: Only if they take the game outside, on asphalt, in the summer -- and only if one side has the chain net, and the other just a bent rim. Shirts and skins.

Joe Gartrell: I just transferred to Ohio State from a small private school. What should I do if I'm in class with football players who want to copy from me? My guess is I'd let Clarett copy.

Stuart Scott: Joe, maybe you don't realize it because you just transferred, but you just asked a politically incorrect question. What if you need to copy off them.

Andy: Do you have someone helping you with the witty responses or is that all you?

Stuart Scott: I can't answer you now. My witty robot helper just went on the blink.

Jeanette C.: Stuart, two issues ago, my boyfriend was chatting with you about pancakes and you said yours are better than mine. Come over for a cook-off!

Stuart Scott: Jeanette, is your boyfriend gonna be there? Not that I'm trying to make a pass, but naturally he'd be biased. I'll only come if we have five independent judges. But you better bring your game.

Andy: If you could meet anyone in history, who would it be?

Stuart Scott: My favorite color is black, I'm a Cancer, I'm sometimes satisfied with just spooning with my wife. And I'd like to have met Jackie Robinson.

Doug: Stu, the fade is always tight. Is there a barber shop in Bristol, or are you a quick-cuts dude?

Stuart Scott: My boy Kenny used to come to work and hook me up, but he moved to Atlanta. So now my friend Maria comes by and hooks me and Kevin Frazier up. I keep telling Rich Eisen and Scott Van Pelt she'll hook them up, too, but they've declined.

This article appears in the November 25 issue of ESPN The Magazine.