Get ready for the most hyped weekend in all sports.

The Super Bowl ought to be called the Hype-er-bowl. The Super Happy Fantastic Bowl Part XXXVII has too much hyperbole and Roman numerals for its own good.

Don’t mistake Sunday’s game for football, but then you knew that already. That’s why you’re watching the Dixie Chicks at halftime.

Good thing there are alternatives, like NBC’s Saturday Night Live. And after all the pillaging and plundering end, ABC will show a new talk show with Jimmy Kimmel, of “The Man Show” fame.

u Speaking of “The Man Show,” the Eastern men’s basketball team should start their own “Man Show,” as in, “Man, show up or shut up.” The Panthers had a chance to play pacesetter in the Ohio Valley Conference in its 33-minute game against Murray State.

The Panthers played as if they cared more about what the new mascot name would be than the game for the last seven minutes, forfeiting an eight-point lead.

u After losing more games in a row than they’d care to count, the Panther women’s squad won two in a row and had the same record in the OVC as the men’s team. The teams Eastern has beaten aren’t as respectable, with a combined 2-7 league record. But then how respectable can the Panthers possibly be with team leader Pam O’Connor out for the season?

u This week “So There” has found more evidence the Ohio Valley Conference is run by journalists. Ron English was named interim OVC commissioner effective Feb. 10, when current commish Dan Beebe leaves the league for a job in the Big 12 Conference.

Just think about the headline possibilities here. Who would be better to keep schools from the north and Alabama speaking the same language than a guy named English?

u Fumes from the nearby Dan Ryan Expressway must have gotten to executives at Comiskey Park. The White Sox signed former Chicago Cubs choker, ahem, closer Tom Gordon to a deal. What makes the Sox think the Cubs’ damaged goods will add strength to a shaky bullpen?

Why weigh so much on a little idea called the Ex-Cub factor, the late Mike Royko dreamed up?

u Newsday reported Wednesday that an unidentified friend of Pete Rose said major league baseball’s all-time career hits leader was prepared to admit he bet on baseball.

Here’s hoping the push for Charlie Hustle hustles along, but I still wouldn’t bet on it.

u Don’t bet on Bears head coach Dick Jauron gaining smarts to his brain trust. Jauron turned down Hall of Famer and former Bear Mike Singletary’s efforts to join the Bears coaching staff.

Singletary has signed on with the Baltimore Ravens at linebackers coach.

Jauron said he didn’t want to move current linebackers coach Gary Moeller to a new assignment even though the defensive line coach position is opening after the retirement of Rex Norris.

It sure would’ve been great to watch Singletary’s famous eyes glaring at potential Hall of Fame linebacker Brian Urlacher, pushing him to further greatness. But alas, another disappointment from the team that is over its quota in that department.