Man, July is brutal on the sports media. There’s simply not much to report on right now.

That’s why on every sports network and website you’ll find list after list. Lists are easy to put together and they kill time. And readers and viewers usually spend still more time debating the author’s list.

A friend of mine told me that he’s just waiting for Fox Sports to air, “The Top 10 Greatest List Shows.” The comedians from all of VH1’s list shows could probably host.

(We at “The Hall’s Salvage Sports Source” are above all of this, of course, which is why you can see our countdown of “The Greatest Villains in Vol Football History” today on WATE.)

In that spirit, here’s another list for you. Ten questions that I can’t get out of my head.

“Is PacMan Jones a bad guy or a dumb guy?”

Clearly he’s one or the other. Every three weeks there’s a new incident. From a pair of strip club shootings, to allegedly biting a police officer, to putting the plates from another car onto his Lamborghini. This guy is a trouble magnet.

Predictably, his attorney has now popped up to say that the police in Tennessee are simply “picking on” poor PacMan.

He didn’t mention the cops in Nevada, West Virginia and Georgia who’ve also either arrested or questioned Jones.

I used to think Jones was a thug. But now (while he still might be a thug) I’m leaning more toward dunce. After all, when you’re given “just one more chance” to make millions of dollars for playing a game, only a dunce would immediately blow that chance by getting into yet another strip club stompdown or getting pulled over for yet another string of traffic violations.

“Why is Dan Patrick leaving ESPN?”

After 18 years with the network, perhaps Patrick is unhappy with ESPN’s obvious decision to target 18-and-unders by producing fluff such as “Who’s More Now” (whatever that means), and by adding the word “Burning” to the title of all their shows.

“Jim Rome is Burning,” “The Bronx is Burning,” “Skip Bayless’ Extremely Starched Collar is Burning,” etc. Maybe Patrick doesn’t want to get burned by the continued dumbing down of ESPN.

“Why does UT’s advertising slogan for the 2007 football team make me smile?”

I used to be in marketing. Trust me, it’s not easy to come up with a slogan that resonates with people. And I like the message of the Vols’ new campaign: “Together, We Will.”

It’s just that I can’t see it without hearing Yoda’s voice speaking it. “Together we will, ummmm.” And then he levitates an X-wing fighter out of a swamp.

“Why do I always get behind the person in the fast food drive-thru who insists on special ordering everything on the menu?”

“I’d like seven Happy Meals, please. But could you replace the hamburgers with chicken cacciatore?” Just order from the menu and keep rolling, sister.

“Why don’t the Lady Vols and UConn meet one last time in Las Vegas?’ ’’

Michael Buffer could do the introductions, then Pat Summitt and Geno Auriemma could just duke this whole thing out on pay-per-view.

“Why is the History Channel now airing a series called ‘Ice Road Truckers?’ ”

Did they run out of Hitler bios and Armageddon prophecies? Recently I flipped by and saw them showing “Planet of the Apes.” Don’t they understand HISTORY Channel?

That’s about as dumb as a sportswriter dabbling in topics outside of the sports world.

“Will ‘This Is Our Country’ be the overkill advertising jingle of the decade?”

With more sports on TV today (and therefore more chances for the song to air), yes, John Mellencamp’s song will soon surpass Bob Segar’s “Like A Rock” as “the song most likely to make me pull my own ears off.”

“Why are people allowed to stand in the middle of our streets and collect cash?”

Their causes might be good and just, but if one of these Panhandlers of the Pavement makes a false step and trips backwards into my car, I’m the one who’s going to be liable.

“Why are some people saying that Michael Vick is going to get away with the dogfighting on his property?’

Federal investigators have revealed that Vick’s Virginia property was a staging area for hundreds of dogfights. And after said fights, losing dogs were shot to death.

If they were lucky. If they weren’t lucky, they were “put down” via electrocution, drowning, or hanging. (And here I didn’t think dogfighting could get any sicker.)

While Vick says he didn’t know what was going on at his property, someone was footing the massive bill for the operation. And Vick’s cousins and pals who lived in the house were all openly unemployed. You do the math.

Also, any money made from these fights had to be hidden away from the IRS to boot. It looks like to me like Vick is eventually going to be sacked by the Feds.

“Could the success of Knoxville’s Rocky Top Summer League actually be bad for UT basketball?”

Yes, if fans’ expectations are raised to the stratosphere by the inflated box scores and tomahawk slams reverberating from Bearden High School each week.

Tennessee’s basketball team will be loaded with talent this winter. Loaded.

But in summer leagues, “defense,” is a four-letter word. Fans need to remember that when they watch all these highlight reel plays.

The Vols went toe-to-toe with the nation’s elite last year. This year, on paper, they should be even better. But basketball isn’t played on paper. And gorilla jams and 50-point nights in July don’t guarantee a free pass to the Final Four.

Only hard work, a lot of chemistry, good health, and some timely breaks get you that far.

John Pennington hosts The Hall’s Salvage Sports Source on Sunday at 11 a.m. on WATE.