From the mailbag comes these burning questions ...

You noticed that handy box labeled "Feedback" on the left side of almost every page on our site? It leads to a lot of interesting comments from visitors to our site. Some of the best from the new year so far:

Wow, it's not totally obvious that the people that make the top 25 are from ND ... the hate for Scott City is glaring ... they beat #12, owned #21, and have their only losses against #1, 2 & 6. Scott City has been one of the teams in the Top 25 that's been hard to guage all season. The Rams beat Bell City and Saxony Lutheran, but the lopsided losses to Jackson, Scott County Central and Sikeston raised red flags. As for anybody from Notre Dame affecting the poll: We get feedback and input from a lot of different people, whether it's fans, coaches or athletes. Nobody at Notre Dame has more say than anybody else. And as for me, I'm a Charleston grad.

I think you should list JV scores. Good idea, although sometimes we have our hands full just tracking down varsity scores from more than 80 high schools in our region. Our next step is to make varsity girls basketball, volleyball, baseball, softball and other sports a bigger part of our site. Once we clear that hurdle, we'll move on to JV. Until then, it's easy for anybody to post scores and info from any sport, and any team, in our message board.

You only cover SE Missouri? Come to St. Louis. That's where it's all at. As soon as they finish the work on U.S. 40.

Get your head out of the sand. New Madrid is a top 25 team. Just wait and see in the playoffs. Check the new poll. The win over Charleston last week sealed their spot in the Top 25, at least for now.

Do your monkeys that make your poll every week all have Notre Dame jerseys on? If only they made them in a chimpanzee size.