So far I am 2-0 in the bowls.  I suppose I should just quit there, but I am going for 32-0.  Here are the next four bowl games, only 28 to go—damn this may take a while.
Saturday, Dec. 22   8 P.M.  Las Vegas Bowl
UCLA (6-6) vs. #17 BYU (10-2)  Line: BYU by 6.5
UCLA beat BYU […]

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Looking at the game last night any Steeler fan would seem to be happy with the score. However, it wasn’t all good news for the Steelers last night as Willie Parker, the NFL’s leading rusher, broke his leg in the first quarter and will miss the rest of the season - including the playoffs. In […]

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Fact of life.  We all have whipped pals, brothers, colleagues, enemies and so on — you get the point.  But more importantly; what can possibly be done about it?  For me, the straw that really broke the camel’s back was last year when I fielded a phone call from what we’ll just refer to as […]

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Please choose which of these NFL annual occurrences is most likely to happen:
A)  The Arizona Cardinals won’t make the playoffs.
B)  Speculation whether or not Tom Coughlin will get fired.
C)  A Cincinnati Bengal will be arrested. 
D)  Bill Parcells will find a way to get his name in the press.
Actually, all are EXTREMELY likely to happen — […]

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Tom Osborne announced today that he will be staying at Nebraska, removing the Interim out of his Athletic Director title. Osborne has agreed to stay with the Cornhuskers until 2010.
Osborne returned to Nebraska as Interim Athletic Director on October 16 to fix a program that saw its football team head into the wrong direction. As […]

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If you’re like me and you play fantasy football your league has probably either just wrapped or is going into it’s version of the Superbowl this weekend.  Personally, I’m in a 10 team league and my team has gloriously made the championship game.  It’s my second time reaching the big game — I was crushed […]

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The college bowl season kicks off tomorrow night as the Running Utes of Utah, take on the Floating Midshipmen of Navy (I don’t think they are really called that by anyone) in the Poinsettia Bowl.  The bowl season will finish up on Monday, Jan. 7th in the fake National Championship Game.
There are 32 bowl games […]

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For all those watching the Cowboys face the Eagles on Sunday afternoon it was pretty difficult not to notice the beautiful Jessica Simpson watching intently from a luxury box above.  Sporting a Tony Romo jersey highlighted in pink, Jessica seemed more than ready to “out” their relationship to those millions of celebrity gawkers (like my girlfriend, Betty) […]

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How many records can Brett Favre hold? Yesterday the man from Green Bay made a quick slant pass to Donald Driver that gave him the most passing yards of all time - eclipsing Dan Marino’s mark of 61,361. Favre ended the say with 61,405 passing yards and 2 touchdowns. Earlier in the season Favre set […]

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So Rich Rodriguez has jumped ship and taken the job at Michigan.  Couch manufacturers better get to work, because they’ll be burning couches right up until the Fiesta Bowl.  After turning down Alabama last year, it appeared as if Rodriguez would be entrenched on the sidelines of Morgantown for many years to come.   
I suppose you […]

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