Vacation time is over

THE `BURBS - The first Sunday of the NFL season has come and gone. The balls are bouncing on a regular basis at Conseco Fieldhouse. My vacation is over. More importantly, you guys can now say training camp starts next week. Media day is Sept. 25 and the first practice is the following day. There seems to be different feeling - a positive one - about the Pacer this season. People have gone from saying they need to trade this person or that person to talking about the team's potential. The guy that put in my new furnace last week spent about 15 minutes talking nonstop about the Pacers. I sort of think he did it to get my mind off how much money I owed him. A lot of you have said the Pacers should make the playoffs this season. It's way too early to give any kind of prediction, but I've got them lumped in with a handful of teams that should compete for one of the final two playoff spots. Here's a couple of things to pay attention to. 1. Danny Granger - Granger showed he can sco...