•Is this really the end for Allen Iverson, ol’ “Cat Daddy” himself?

We’ll see.

If it is, it seems a little sad, a onetime great player whose career appears to be ending in disappointment.

It is ending in disappointment for several reasons, not the least of which is that Iverson refuses to deal with the fact he’s no longer the “AI” we used to know and is offended when teams want him to come off the bench.

Truth be told, Iverson always has been an idiosyncratic player, one of those scoring point guards who makes no one else better, one against the world. In his prime, he did it brilliantly. But his prime is over.

•It wasn’t the turkey that put you to sleep on Thanksgiving, Bunky, it was the Lions.

•Theo Epstein would seemingly have a better chance of finding the fountain of youth than he has of finding a shortstop.

•The world will end before I stand in a parking lot waiting for store doors to open on Black Friday.

•Maybe the most amazing thing about the Yankees’ championship is that they got through the postseason with a three-man rotation.

•Quiz of the Week: How many Rhode Island males playing Division I college basketball can you name? (Answer near the bottom of the column.)

•Line of the Week comes from longtime Yankee P.A. announcer Bob Sheppard, who had the job since 1951 and announced on Thursday that he’s all done at age 99: “I had a good run at it.”

You think?

•The Giants went down as easily on Thanksgiving as the cranberry sauce.

•Jay Murphy, who lives in South Kingstown, is still the 10th all-time scorer in Boston College basketball history with nearly 1,800 points.

•Can we put all those “Mark Sanchez is the new Joe Namath” stories on hold for a while?

•Look up the term “conspicuous consumption” in the dictionary and there’s a picture of P. Diddy spending $3 million to host a 40th birthday party for himself at the Plaza in New York. Keeping it real, right?

•Corey Conner, the former Classical All-Stater now playing at Bridgewater State, had 27 points against Rhode Island College, 22 in the second half.

•You want tradition? Westerly and Stonington played for the 150th time on Thanksgiving.

•The demise of Northeastern football does not bode well for URI football, regardless of the protestations to the contrary.

•About 70 percent of the condos at the Providence 903 are due to be auctioned off in mid-December? Remember when everyone wanted to live downtown?

•The Friars’ Greedy Peterson’s one-handed slam off an out-of-bounds pass against Vermont was the No. 1 play of the day on “SportsCenter,” which was narrated by Kobe.

•Speaking of which, the true sign of celebrity these days is if you are known by your first name. Like “Chiefy,” for instance.

•If you gave the Magic’s Dwight Howard an offensive move, he’d have one.

•Yes, Randy Moss is going to the Hall of Fame, but Wes Welker is the receiver who makes the Pats’ offense go.

•There’s no truth to the rumor that AI took the words to “walking in Memphis” literally.

•Or that being the governor of this state is like being mayor of New Orleans with Katrina staring down at you.-

•The word is that Billy Soriano, last year’s All-State point guard who left Mount Pleasant, has surfaced at North Miami High School.

•If Rex Ryan were a Broadway show, he’d have been closed down already.

•Wasn’t Rajon Rondo supposed to be a better shooter this year?

•Memo to Jay Leno: The 10 o’clock gig isn’t working, brother.

•The Rams are long and athletic and like to bring the heat, but do they shoot it well enough?

•R.I.P. Phil Landry, who coached tiny Sacred Heart of Central Falls to the state basketball title in the late 1960s.

• Clay Buchholz should be renting in Boston, not owning.

•Someone once said that the problem with the future is that it’s not what it used to be.

•You’ll know the baseball offseason is fair when the Royals and Pirates are in the hunt for free agents.

•What are the odds that Obama invites Patrick and the Bishop to settle their differences at a beer summit?

•Quiz answer: By my unofficial count, there are 11: Joey Accaoui at Vermont. Jeff Correia at UMass. Ben Crenca at Vermont. Pat Dame at Stony Brook. Mike Marra at Louisville. Sam Martin at Yale. Joe Mazzulla at West Virginia. Eric Murphy at Florida. David Ruffell at Dartmouth. Rakim Sanders at Boston College. Corey Wright at LIU.

•If I never see (“American Idol”) Adam Lambert again, it would be too soon.

•If Eric Mangini and Josh McDaniels are showing that they’re over-the-top intense, what do you think Coach Bill is like behind closed doors?

•Al Skinner has taken nine teams to the NCAA Tournament in his career, including two at URI.

•Get well, Tiger.

•There’s no truth to the rumor that Rhode Island leads the country in the number of moving vans leaving a state.