silly dawgs at it again

This is what bye weeks are like at UGA.

(bottom)Yes, that's starting RB Keshtan(I'm this years version of Herchel Walkers 2nd coming) Moreno preparing for the ferocious gator D.

(Middle)Mathew(why does everyone talk about Tim Tebow and not me) stafford.

(Top) Moreno-

Cairenes Finally Believe in Jayhawks (and other matters)

CAIRO, Egypt (T.O.) - [this part's from the A.P.] The Kansas Jayhawks believe they're for real.
Now, they're hoping the rest of the country will start to as well. ''We stepped up again and showed the world what we can do,'' cornerback Aqib Talib said.

Mr. Talib is right. Why, just this morning, I overheard 2 merchants talking over their Turkish coffee and sheesha about how they doubted Kansas, due primarily to the soft schedule and lack of success historically, but now that they managed to get a win over a rebuilding Colorado, they will start to give KU's ranking some credence. Then, I picked up the Nation, one of the big dailies here, and the sports page had an article about how Kansas must be taken seriously in the BCS discussion. If that wasn't enough, Al-Jazeera's NCAA football correspondent, Melaam Khyber, ended his segment with a commentary on how much Kansas showed him...

Somebody please tell college athletes to forget the maxim 'Think globally, act locally.' What's wrong with "we showed [our fans/the Big 12/the pollsters/college football] what we can do."?!

Other matters: Bet on it - the BCS title game will be between LSU and Boston College. On my flight from Amman to Cairo, I sat next to a Jordanian businessman who got his degree at LSU in the late '70's. Then, at my hotel, the former British Officer's Club now known as the Windsor, the only out of place item in the otherwise extremely cool bar is a framed Boston College pennant. I asked the owner about this, and it is due to the fact that his nephew is a student there. The nephew has the whole hotel conned into thinking that B.C. is "very famous university" in the States. I didn't have the heart to tell him it's probably tied with B.U. as "third most famous university between Boston harbour and Route 128."

That's all for now, friends. Not liking CU's recent struggles, but very much enjoying the chaos at Nebraska and Notre Dame. By the way, when are the "blowouts" that doomed Ty going to affect Charlie? Guess he has white privilege. One more thing: where are Raul, the Enabler, and the rest?!?! Surely a Gator fan has much to discuss, as does a Michigan man (seems Lloyd Lloyd is NOT all null-and-void after all).

Next stop, Luxor.

Which program has fallen further: USC or Notre Dame?

38-0, apparently, is the answer. Good enough for me.

Mangino

Yes sir. 100% class.





C'mon Hawk. You can't let a someone who looks like an extra from The Saprano's take you in Boulder. Slap one on the Big Puss's cousin Marco.

All you all headed back to Plano are sorry dogs!

Good God almighty, if Richard Burton O'Shea can post an entry from Qatar from a free Wi-Fi teahouse, then the rest of you sorry dogs listening to your radios on your way back to Plano can get off your cans and say SOMETHING about one of the wildest, most puzzling, deflating, and elating college football seasons in memory. What are you waiting for, Charlie Weiss to lose 80 lbs.? Urban Meyer's head to explode? Louisville to forfeit the rest of its games, because, let's face it, it may not be worth the effort and expense? John Tyler High to ruin the greatest comeback ever in the history of the world? "Oh no! No! C'mon no! ... God bless those kids, I think I'm going to be sick ... " (Truer words were never uttered.)

Everything is completely effed up in CFB, no? I'm mean, does anyone think LSU is going to go undefeated? OSU? Cal? And superpowers like 'SC, OU and Michigan humbled by stunning losses. Yet the first two are just as likely as anyone, it seems to me, to end up in the BSC Championship game, particularly if LSU, Cal or OSU loses late. WTF?

Parity in the NFL (among a host of other flaws) has made that league more boring than ever. (Break down that cover two read for us, will you Jaws.) Parity in CFB, however, is getting on my wife's nerves.

Why, she asks, would I be tuning into Versus at 10 p.m. on a Saturday night to watch Stanford/'SC? Two teams I have no vested interest in--particularly after absorbing a whole day of CFB?

"For the miracles, my child," I say. "For the miracles."

Callahan, You're On Vacation (blowout re-mix)

Check out the typical Husker hooey from the Colonel. Booing is wrong. Nebraska fans don't boo. They clap for the team that beats them. But when Nebraska fans boo (which they don't do), it's out of frustration. And it's a warning to the program. Not like other programs' fans booing, which is out of a lack of class. But again, Nebraska fans don't boo their team. (Unless they're frustrated, and wish to send a warning.)

What did I say a few weeks back about Mr. Bill's extension?

"Oh no, here comes sluggo in the form of USC and Mizzou and they're going to drill us! Oh noooooooo!"

Round 6: Which program has fallen farther, Notre Dame or USC?

Michigan fans everywhere thank USC for not showing up on Saturday. I'm not sure it's a more dubious loss than Appy State, but we'll take whatever table scraps we can get.

"After tonight, we don't care who we play," Stanford linebacker Clinton Snyder said. "We now know the only people who can beat us is us. This was a huge step for us to show our program is back." Hmmm ... okay kid. Sure.

Actually, I'm not sure that was the worst loss in Los Angeles Saturday. Dame only manages a 140 net yards and somehow gets a W? I hate to think of the total if Charlie Einstein wasn't calling the plays.

Saban steals page out of Delany poor sport book; rumored to sing "Fire & Rain" in shower.

What's the world come to when a kid can't get into 'Bama?