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Block UserCHELINA MANUHUTU'S NAME IS FUN TO SAY
And the Dutch model is fun to look at.
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ME TELLING YOU WHAT TO WATCH
7:00: College Hoops on ESPN. Tenth ranked Georgetown and number 13 Notre Dame. The Hoyas were flat out pounded by new number on Pitt on Saturday. The Irish were shut down by a bad (Norm Roberts in the coach, they're bad) St. John's team at the Garden.
8:00: Ohio State and Texas play in the Fiesta Bowl on channel 19. Seeing how the Buckeyes might use both Pryor and Boeckman will be interesting, but I'll be spending my evening wondering if Colt McCoy's parents knew he'd be a quarterback at Texas when they named him.
8:00: The City on MTV.. This is Whitney Port's new show. Whitney leaves The Hill's, a show about a bunch of big city rich girls who do nothing of substance and date douchebags to star in a new show where a bunch of big city rich girls who do nothing of substance and date douchebags. 
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THIS IS WHY PHIL MUSHNICK IS THE BEST COLUMNIST IN AMERICA
From today's New York Post....
.....Despite 22 people in motion at once and hundreds of variables, TV wants you to believe that everyone operates alone, from inside a lab, inside a test tube. TV producers believe it, so should you.
Late in the Colts-Chargers game, headed for the wire, NBC asked us to stop paying attention to the game in order to consider a graphic - the Chargers' record in games determined by "eight or fewer points." Why not show us a kitten pawing at a ball of yarn?
.....Saturday against UConn in the International Bowl on ESPN2. Hamlin caught a pass at midfield, then began to exalt as if he'd just won the game and captured Constantinople. His team was down 11 with 4:31 left.
He mentions a kitten pawing a ball of yarn and capturing Constantinople in the same column. Tre-freaking-mendous. Good God we need this guy here. Even if he'd hate me.
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BOB KRAVITZ HAS APPARENTLY NEVER BEEN TO CINCINNATI
Tony Dungy has been in Indianapolis seven years. He's been the the playoffs seven times. That type of success in Cincinnati and we rename the damn city after you. That type of success apparently gets you run out of town by the local columnist in Indy.
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RACHEL STEVENS DECIDED TO POSE FOR FHM
According to Wikipedia...
Rachel is an English singer, actress and occasional model. She is a former member of the successful pop group S Club (7), and launched a solo recording career in 2003, releasing seven singles and two albums in the UK between 2003 and 2005. In 2008, she came second in the sixth series of the BBC One series Strictly Come Dancing with her dance partner Vincent Simone.
Oh. Anyway, here she is.
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YOUR 2008 NATIONAL CHAMP
Their most famous alums might be Bob Trumpy and Ted Bundy, but the Utah Utes are college football's national champion. Florida and Oklahoma are competing for second place. Only in college football can a team do everything it's required, win all its games, and still not be number one.
Dan Wetzel puts it better than I could ever try.
Why didn’t Utah merit consideration to play for the BCS national title?
Why are the Utes, despite their 13-0 record, victories over four Associated Press top-25 teams and the champions of a conference that went 6-1 in the regular season against the Pac-10, watching one-loss teams Oklahoma and Florida play on Thursday?
Just ask some of the voters in the Harris Interactive Poll, which helps determine the title-game matchup.
“I did not see them play (in the regular season),” Bobby Aillet said.
“I didn’t see any live games,” Lance McIlhenny said. “I just (saw) highlights.”
“I don’t recall if I saw them play specifically during the regular season,” David Housel said. “I don’t remember a specific game.”
Even by the absurd standards of the BCS, having voters not bother to watch an undefeated team play a single game is a new low.
Amazing. The people who help determine which teams get to play for the championship didn't even bother to watch a team worth of consideration play. Hold whatever grudge you want agains the NCAA Basketball Selection Committee (and I still do after 2006) but those people watch games. They're locked in a room and they watch games.
You've got your "most exciting regular season." You also have a joke of a way to determine a winner. Olympic gymnastics is more legit. Nice sport.
(Go Sooners.)
My man Larry Brown disagrees. Too bad he's wrong.
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TRESSEL: MORE GATORADE BATHS > LEGIT CHAMP.
The excuses for not determining a true champion get lamer and lamer. Including this from Jim Tressel....
"You saw a bunch of coaches getting Gatorade poured over their head when they were 8-5. That's great. And I worry about the physical well-being of the student-athlete, not about missing class. This is a violent game, and what if something happens in that high-powered (playoff) game because someone wants to know for sure," who is No. 1.
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IRONCLAD RULE OF THIS BLOG #45
Gymnast dudes failing = comedy gold.
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TODAY'S EDITION OF JOBS I WANT
I have a cool job. This guy has a cooler job. He's a freaking beer writer. A beer writer. That job doesn't even really exist. I've never been more qualified for something. Anyway, I bring this up because the guys at Tasty Booze have found Roger Protz's 300 Beer To Try Before You Die. Since some are saying the world is gonna end in four years, I've got some work to do.
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WILL 2009 GIVE US MORE BUSH?
No, not him. Or the overrated Saints running back. Her.
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MONDAY TOPICS AND OTHER CRAP
Kind of nice to be back to the normal schedule today. Get the week started with Sarah Shahi, who's on something called Life on NBC.
Good of UC to stay within five touchdowns against Marquette. What a brutal game. Forget making the postseason. Forget winning nine Big East games. Forget winning a game. Can we have back to back possessions where the Bearcats score? Good God, when is Mike Williams gonna start playing? Why does the team's best player not know what the defensive gameplan is? We forgive youth and inexperience, but Mike Williams played in his 72nd college game yesterday and gave the Cats five and three. Deonta did not score, and defense to just about everyone on the team, is just a rumor.
-What does Bill Cowher know that we don't?
-NFL Playoffs....since 1991, the Arizona Cardinals, (the freaking Arizona Cardinals!) have won two playoff games. The Bengals, none. San Diego/Indy was a classic. Normally a playoff game where the punter is the best player on the field is a snoozer. Not Saturday night. Anyone betting against Baltimore?
-I don't think Charles Barkley should be fired. But I do think there's some merit to this.
-Edgar Sosa picked the worst possible moment to be relevant again.
-Only four more days before Oklahoma and Florida play in the National Runner-up Game. Or the the third place team if Texas happens to win. Speaking of, anyone excited for that Fiesta Bowl?
-Know what would open up a new round of Brian Kelly speculation? This.
-Why is everyone so willing to dismiss the idea of Chris Dickerson as the everyday left fielder? Yes, he has an injury history, but doesn't Jerry Hairston as well? And we'll touch on adding Andruw Jones for $400,000.
-This is outstanding.
-I'm for reshaping the BCS, but I'm not sure we need to tangle up our courts with ways to fix it.
-College football has that great regular season its apologists keeping talking about, but the day that used to be all about college football has been ruined.
-22 more days 'til the new Boss album. Yee-haw.
