Post #519309 by The Gnomon on Tue, Mar 23, 2010 8:11 AM

Cheryl may be a contender with 85, so that's better for me than last season when she had no talent to work with whatsoever.

As for Derek, I've always thought he was one of the best and it looks like he's a definite contender himself this season.

My appreciation of his integrity became elevated a couple of years ago when he called out Warren Sapp for sabatoging a group project they were doing. Warren came to the rehearsal late, was slacking off, complaining, and making everyone else suffer for his own shortcomings. When Derek got in his face about it, Warren apparently lifted Derek off the floor and pressed him against the wall. All I gotta say is that Warren is one lucky SOB that Derek did not send him to the hospital on a gurney.

I'm glad he has a good partner. Hope he loses...to Cheryl and 85.

Why they brought Buzz in, I don't know, since I would expect him to be among the first to go. But it was great seeing the guy I saw as a kid skipping across the surface of the moon now skipping (sort of) across a dance floor decades later. Is Buzz 85? I think he's somewhere in that vicinity, which gives him and Chad something in common.