It’s official: Michael Vick is back. He played some quarterback for the Eagles. He lined up at wide receiver.

He played with Donovan McNabb and he played in place of him.

Here are some of the reviews:

Thomas George, NFL.com: “Vick’s passing was good: 4 of 4 for 19 yards. His reads and decision-making were solid. His arm strength was impressive.  But people want to know if Vick can still run like he used to run. If he can still outrun defenses, the ball, the wind. If he can still artfully juke a pass rush. If he can still reach that fifth gear that only few athletes possess. That blinding quickness. That mesmerizing stride. We don’t know that. We have not seen that. Vick says he knows he can and he will. Do you believe it?”

Clark Judge, CBSSports.com “The reviews are in on Michael Vick’s opening night, and listen up, Philadelphia: The Eagles are better without Michael Vick than they are with him. At least they were Thursday night in Vick’s first appearance in 2½ years. The Eagles won, overcoming Jacksonville 33-32 on a last-minute David Akers field goal, but the final score doesn’t matter. Nope, this was all about Vick and how he looked — and he looked tentative, slow and a bit disruptive to a Philadelphia offense that should be more effective than it was.”

Dan Graziano, FanHouse: “Vick and the Eagles showed us all some glimpses of the kinds of things they expect that to be. The latent message in the postgame reviews was that there’s plenty we didn’t see, and plenty more to come from an offense that has as many athletic weapons as any in the NFC.”

Matt Mosley, ESPN.com: “Tthe best thing about Thursday night is that we finally have a football component of Vick’s comeback to examine. For years, the NFL survived without a team coming forward to fight animal cruelty — but noted dog lover and Eagles owner Jeff Lurie vowed to change that with the Vick signing. On Thursday, we were able to focus on what this acquisition was all about: a man in his late 20s, whom at one point was the most dangerous running quarterback the game had seen. Contrary to what we’ve heard from the Eagles organization, Vick isn’t going to revive his NFL career by showing up at pet shelters. He’ll do it by juking defenders and throwing touchdowns from the Wildcat formation. Watching the Eagles’ first-team offense struggle in their goal-line offense had to make fans yearn for Vick.”

After the game, Vick did a better job with his postgame news conference. He sounded honestly grateful to have his career back.

Of course, the Vick’s heinous dog-fighting activities will mark him for the rest of his career.

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE

Questions to ponder while wondering how Brian Moehler does such a number on the Cardinals:

• How can this guy throttle the Cards game after game and get clobbered by the rest of baseball?
• Did Samkon Gado lock up the No. 2 running back job Thursday night in Cincinnati?
• Shouldn’t Major League Baseball let the poor Mets call it a season and just go home?
• What is moving than a Colby Rasmus music video tribute?
• Will Tony Romo live to regret dumping Jessica Simpson? Is he prepared to deal with the resulting hex?

THE TROUBLE WITH COEDS

They can distract football players. This concerns Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy, who offered this assessment to the Oklahoman:

“You’ve got 19,000 students here. You’ve got a lot of cute girls out there. There’s a lot of things going on. Guys have to focus. We’re trying to reel them in. … There’s a lot of distractions right now. Because we can’t keep them in camp. They’re out there on campus.”

RON ARTEST MISSED ALL THE FUN

He wasn’t there when Mexico played arch-rival Uruguay. He would have come in handy.

QUIPS ‘R US

Here is what some of America’s leading sports pundits have been writing:

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com: “Is it too soon to mail Albert Pujols his National League MVP trophy right now? Seriously. With all due respect to the fabulous work of Hanley Ramirez, Pablo Sandoval, Troy Tulowitzki, Chase Utley and many other upstanding NL citizens, what would have to happen in September for Pujols not to win another MVP award? Would he have to go 0-for-112? Hit into a double play every time up? Defect to Kyrgyzstan? OK, maybe all of the above. And he’d still probably win this thing.”

Phil Rogers, Chicago Tribune: “Milton Bradley? There are three possible solutions for the Cubs: continued patience and hope, endless headaches while hoping some team is silly enough to deal for him or pay him his money and send him home. My recommendation: Release him. Sadly, Jim Hendry is a baseball executive. The Cubs general manager is not a magician. This is an unfortunate reality, as it means sleight of hand is out of the question.”

Jeff Schultz, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “No, I’m not going to proclaim Michael Vick must be a degenerate or an alcoholic because he was spotted in a hotel bar sipping a Grey Goose and pineapple juice following his first football practice in two years, according to the New York Post, which I’m assuming has a reporter stationed at every hotel on the East Coast, just waiting for A-Rod. But yeah, I’ll say it: What’s he thinking? I mean, pineapple juice with his vodka and not cranberry juice? What did prison do to this man? And he’s supposed to memorize a playbook? I’m so done with him.”

Greg Cote, MiamiHerald.com: “LPGA golfer Christina Kim raised eyebrows during the recent Solheim Cup with her somewhat Happy Gilmoresque displays of exuberance. You know, what? Let her go nuts. Women’s golf is in such a black hole in terms of fan and media attention, I’d be all for the LPGA’ers stripping down to bra and panties and cartwheeling down the fairway.”

Jay Mariotti, FanHouse: “Is it me, or is the bluegrass spiked with cannabis? In Louisville, there stood Casanova Rick Pitino, lambasting the media for reporting “a total fabrication of the truth” when, in truth, he lived an extraordinary lie for years and didn’t reveal his sin — having unprotected sex with a woman in a restaurant — until his legal mess required it. In Lexington, you have Long John Calipari, earning a record $31.65 million to coach the Kentucky Wildcats after fleeing another scandal in a career filled with them. And on a highway in Lawrenceburg, there was Billy Clyde Gillispie, Calipari’s deposed predecessor, so intoxicated according to a police report that his speech was slurred, his eyes were red and glassy and he had trouble opening the glove compartment of his 2009 Mercedes to retrieve his insurance card.”

MEGAPHONE

“I’m not even sure if I really got accepted yet. I mean, everyone has been cordial and nice to me. … But week in and week out, you just have to show not only to your teammates but to yourself that you’re good enough to hang around.”

New Bears linebacker Pisa Tinoisamoa.