Slow news day: USA Today’s go-to guy is quoted this morning:

Magazines like Prevention, says University of Mississippi journalism professor Samir Husni, are doing well these days because “we are looking inward because of all the bad news out there. People are asking, ‘How can I feel better; how can I be the best I can be?’ It’s that sense that you are the best thing that ever happened to you.”

Our sad house: (We interrupt this coverage of the magazine industry to talk about important stuff.) It is awful to lose the pivotal, must-win, gotta-have home game of the year, but, alas, my hometeam did yesterday. The Titans loss to the Colts reminded me so much of the Superbowl loss against the Rams: storybook ending coming up short. I’m not going to Monday-morning quarterback this, except to say two things: 1. A new specialty teams coach, 2. Other than the Music City Miracle, Marvin Harrison’s 42-yard, one-handed catch to set-up the winning touchdown, was the most spectacular thing I’ve ever seen at the Coliseum (pictures at left). When you see a catch like that, you think to yourself, “I don’t like it, but this team is supposed to win this game.” Bottomline: No home games during the playoffs and the road to Houston leads through a gauntlet of unfriendly stadiums in places like Baltimore, Foxboro, Kansas City or Indianapolis. And saddest of all: McMVP could end up being beaten by a guy with happy feet.