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The Most [Annoying] Two [Weeks] In Sports

12:05 AM ET 01.31

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Let me start by saying I love NFL football, and I love the Superbowl.

But the NFL has something unique in that its championship game is set two weeks before it is to played, with no other games proceeding it. College football has the BCS championship set well in advance, but then there many other somewhat meaningful games in the interim leading up to it. Other than that, no other sport even comes close.

What that leads to is two full weeks of coverage of one game. Two teams. For two weeks. Everyday someone's got to have some new angle, some undiscovered piece of game film, some hard luck…

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Barry Bonds reportedly... wait- YAAAWN...

03:55 PM ET 01.01

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A little while ago I saw on the ESPN crawl that due to his hip surgery, Barry Bonds may not be ready for spring training but may be ready for opening day. Which begs the question... is this even newsworthy? Seeing as though no team seems close to touching him with a thirty foot pole, he could be ready all he wants- but it's not getting him on the field. Just retire and go away, Barry.It all has the feeling of the old story about the tree falling in the woods... I'm just saying.

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UPSET?? Says who?

02:22 PM ET 11.21

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Several news outlets this morning are reporting the massive college basketball upset that occurred last night: Un-ranked Michigan took down #4 UCLA at the Garden.I don't buy it.It comes back to a point I made a while back about college football. Preseason rankings mean absolutely nothing. They only take into account so-called "expert opinions" about teams that for the most part have never played all together. With the turnover in college sports, especially basketball, it's impossible to predict the cohesion of teams year in and year out. Therefore, we have all the early…

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