Today on The Sportsline with Rich and Larry ... 47 days and counting ... but the show starts out with the news that Jerry Falwell passed away earlier in the day.  Falwell was obviously a controversial around the world, but had a great impact on the city of Lynchburg, where The Sportsline is based.  Falwell had a great passion for sports, particualarly at Liberty University so LU Athletic Director Jeff Barber dropped by the show.  Barber talked about the importance of athletics to Falwell and at Liberty University ... and how the program will continue to build in honor of Falwell.

R&R once again congratulated David and Big Lick Tropical Grill for winning the Title in Season 1 of the NASCAR Fantasy League ... and then moved onto the NBA's MVP Dirk Nowitzki.  The very thought of it made Rich laugh, while Larry pointed out that the award is a regular season award.  RR would be ok with the award, other than the letters MVP ... because the Most Valuable Player in the League does not allow his team to be dumped in the first round of the playoffs by 8th seeded Golden State.  

Up next Rich and Larry began talking about Augustus Gilchrist, the VT hoops recruit who is reportedly backing out of his commitment to the Tech and using the mass shootings as his excuse.  Nathan Warters of the Lynchburg News & Advance talked about some of the reports, including the one that Bob Huggins is now recruiting Gilchrist for WVU ... and that VT might not let Gilchrist out of his commitment after all.

Solomon Wilcots of CBS Sports and the NFL Network dropped by the show next ... and kicked his interview off with a not so glowing review of Spiderman 3.  He said that he is waiting for all the facts to come out in the Michael Vick case before making a judgement ... and said that he totally trusts Jay Glazer's report that Brett Favre wants out of Green Bay ... but there is no way the Packers can deal him.