Full confession: Unlike coaches, who don't always tell the truth, I like preseason polls. In fact, I like just ranking things in general. During my 13 years as an Arizona sportswriter, I've voted in the AP college basketball and football polls and participated in power rankings of nearly every kind.
This crosses over to my home life. Just last week, my daughters and I ranked things as we waited for pizza at this great place in Gilbert. Top three fast-food restaurants -- go. Three animals you'd least like to run into in the wild -- go. (Mine: Grizzly, great white, rattlesnake.