THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL MORE SHARES FOR THE DESERVING.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH And why stop at two national champions in college football? Oklahoma held the No. 1 spot longer than anyone during the regular season. Give 'em a share. Boise State and Miami of Ohio had only one loss this year and won their bowl games. Give 'em a share. Memphis also won a bowl in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded a few weeks ago. Give 'em a share. Ohio State, the defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre , won the Fiesta Bowl again. Give 'em a share. And what about Oregon, which had the guts to wear those lime-green pit-crew uniforms all year. Give 'em a fair head start, then we chase 'em down and pants 'em. ... --What a perfect place to keep that Bowl Championship Series shiny glass trophy: the Dogg house. Our thinking: If Snoop Dogg wants that sugar-coated piece of cubic zirconium zirconium (zərkō`nēəm), metallic chemical element; symbol Zr; at. no. 40; at. wt. 91.22; m.p. about 1,852°C;; b.p. 4,377°C;; sp. gr. 6.5 at 20°C;; valence +2, +3, or +4. so bad, let's throw him a bone. Or, even better, bling it on. ... --With LSU's Sugar Bowl victory, only three of the top nine and four of the top 12 teams in the Associated Press poll won their bowl games when the postseason came to a screeching end just before the final poll came out Sunday night. ... --Notice how all three ``home'' teams among the four major bowls all came out on top. ... --More strength-of-schedule argument fodder: The six teams USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. faced during the regular season that went to bowl games finished 5-1 in the postseason. The five teams LSU LSU Louisiana State University LSU Large Subunit LSU La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA) LSU La Sierra University LSU Link State Update (OSPF) LSU Learning Support Unit faced during the regular season that went to bowl games finished 4-1 in the postseason, and it was the one team to which the Tigers lost - Florida - that went down. The eight teams Oklahoma faced during the regular season that went to bowl games finished 2-6 in the postseason, and it's only because two Sooners foes, Fresno State and UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , played each other in the Silicon Valley Classic that one was bound to win. Although if you actually watched the Silicon Valley Classic ... --In Thursday's Rose Bowl, starting tight end Gregg Guenther caught a 19-yard pass on a key third-and-12 play in the fourth quarter to help USC beat Michigan. A day later, he came off the bench and played 13 minutes, scoring seven points and grabbing two rebounds in the Trojans' basketball loss to Oregon. ... --The key to preventing Green Bay's Al Harris from ending your season on an interception return: Gotta snare snare (snar) a wire loop for removing polyps and tumors by encircling them at the base and closing the loop. snare n. the hair. ... --So even though the Yankees got rid of Roger Clemens, David Wells and Andy Pettitte, their payroll will be about $60 mil over MLB's threshold, forcing George Steinbrenner to pay more luxury tax. Just hope Kevin Brown and Gary Sheffield make it worthwhile. ... --If only the Boss could track down that pitching prospect ... Steve Nebraska, right? ... --Paul Molitor should make it, Dennis Eckersley comes up short and Steve Garvey gets the short end again in baseball Hall of Fame voting Tuesday. ... --Ell Roberson will make one heck of a Raider come April draft time. ... --The parents of entrenched en·trench also in·trench v. en·trenched, en·trench·ing, en·trench·es v.tr. 1. To provide with a trench, especially for the purpose of fortifying or defending. 2. Arkansas football coach Houston Nutt could have been much more clever in giving their son a first name. ... --More computer input: St. Joe's might be ranked No. 10 in the media's and coaches' college basketball polls, but it's No. 1 in the RPI RPI - Rockwell Protocol Interface , while the AP's current No. 1 UConn is the RPI's No. 34 team. ... --Ten years ago Tuesday: Nancy Kerrigan got whacked on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating U.S. Figure Skating (USFS), officially called the United States Figure Skating Association or USFSA, is the national sport governing body for figure skating in the United States. Championships in Detroit. And we're still asking: Why her? |
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