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Porn star Adriana Sage explains her NFL prognosticating prowess. Plus: This column's Week 11 picks. Rated G and mostly wrong.

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Nov. 17, 2006 | This has been an unpredictable NFL season so far. That's my story, anyway, since I apparently wouldn't be able to pick the winner in a game between the '85 Bears and Huxley College.

But it's been predictable enough for some people, including the co-leaders of this column's NFL Panel o' Experts, Yahoo Sports' Cris Carter and my son, Buster, the coin-flippinest 3-year-old this side of the Van Allen belts.

It's also been pretty easy for porn star Adriana Sage, who publishes her weekly picks on her Web site EroticModelPicks.com. That's p-i-c-k-s. The site's not pornographic, though there's an ad for Sage's primary Web site prominently displayed. And in that ad, part of Sage is, almost, prominently displayed.

Sage, 26, has been at or near the top of the Panel o' Experts standings all year, ahead of such NFL smartguys as Peter King, Charles Robinson and Ron Jaworski. She says she grew up a Chargers fan in San Diego and got into the NFL when she played the video game "NFL Blitz" as a kid.

I spoke to her on the phone this week about her picking prowess.

What's your secret?

I don't have a secret. I guess I just pay attention to some things that I see on TV, and I go off of that.

How big a football fan are you? Do you sit around on Sundays and watch the games?

I definitely always watch the Chargers games, and if there's another interesting game I'll watch it, but I don't watch every single game.

Your line of work -- can I call you a porn star or is that somehow not cool?

Yes.

Porn star's OK?

Oh my gosh, yes.

Do you see any parallels at all between that world and the sports world?

I guess people in the sports business do what they do, some of them, for the money and aren't as concerned about, I don't know, just the joy of the game. Which is, you know, what most people in my business are most concerned with. I would think.

The money.

Yeah.

Is that true for you? Or are you a joy of the game person?

[Laughs.] That's the only thing that keeps me sound asleep at night.

That you enjoy it?

Yes.

Next page: "That's not usually what guys want to talk to me about." Plus: Week 11 picks