It's time for your 6-month psychic checkup, people

It's July 1. Six months of 2009 are behind us, and I want to remind you of all the prognostications Hlastradamus made on Jan. 1 that came true:

1) Florida over Oklahoma in the BCS title game. OK, not too tough.

2) North Carolina to win the NCAA men's basketball title. No climbing out on a limb there, either.

3) Iowa and Iowa State to fail to make the NCAA tourney, again. Really, really no climbing out on a limb there.

4) The Arizona Cardinals would dust off three straight NFC teams in the playoffs to reach the Super Bowl. Not bad.

5) Angel Cabrera to win the Masters. Pretty impressive, I must say.

6) Manny Ramirez would get suspended 50 games for using a women's fertility drug. Let's just say I had a hunch.

7) KFC would start selling grilled chicken. Let's just say I had a lunch.

8) Comedian Artie Lange would win the Boston Marathon. Everyone said it couldn't be done, but the foul-mouthed foil to Joe Buck shocked the world.

Come back here in six months and I'll tell you all my amazingly successful predictions for the second half of this year.