1. Riding high
Promise not to scream like you just saw Justin Timberlake when you read this: The Bears are on a two-game winning streak. Now come on, you promised.
2. Road trip
Interesting: About a third of the NHL players are playing in Europe during the ongoing lockout while the other two-fifths are still struggling with fractions.
3. Take off, you hoser
The Toronto-Montreal winner plays the Saskatchewan-British Columbia winner in the Grey Cup on Nov. 21. It’s Canadian
football, baby. Put on your toque and beer me.
4. Father time
Moises Alou says he’d love to play for his dad partly because the 38-year-old free agent thinks he can help the Giants, but also because after games his dad takes him to McDonald’s.
5. Freedom!
Jaromir Jagr is jumping from the Czech hockey league to the Russian hockey league. Only in America.
6. Lost and confused
Whenever Wisconsin and Minnesota play for Paul Bunyan’s Axe, I can’t get the picture out of my head of Paul Bunyan tearing apart his woods looking for the damn thing.
7. Bowl me over
The top of the BCS remains USC,
Oklahoma, Auburn, California and Wisconsin followed by “I don’t care,” “It’s half-baked,” “Computer formulas frustrate me,” “I’d prefer a playoff system” and “Let’s go Utah!”
8. Dunk and go nuts
CBS.sportsline.com has a stats page that tracks the NBA’s dunk leaders. I take it back: The game-winning RBI used to be the most meaningless statistic ever.
9. Oh, what the hell
Tyson Chandler leads all Bulls with two dunks. Kids love the dunks.
FIVE THINGS
Five non-factors in the BCS computations:
– Brightness of school colors (neons included).
– Sharpness of team’s mascot teeth.
– Distance from campus to closest gentlemen’s club.
– Aggregate alumni celebrity power.
– Number of vowels in state’s name.
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