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Unhappy Valley AND Notre Dame Gets Another Gift

11:07 AM ET 09.27

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Yes, I thought this one up ("Unhappy Valley") during last
night's Penn State/Iowa game- the second in what's becoming an illustrative
tradition for those of us who feel Paterno's glory days are behind
him. The same goes for Bobby Bowden, whose 'Noles were
"ambushed," or "stunned" or whatever by South Florida. This weekend's
"huge upsets" just continue to support the argument that early season
college football rankings are weak- if not useless- indicators of what's really
going down in the NCAA landscape. Ole Miss was number 5 and got
laid out by South Carolina, but why
were…

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Week Three- Let's Begin

11:02 AM ET 09.26

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Right, right, right- sure, ya'll say; it's wicked easy to stand on the sidelines for the first two weeks, take in all the games, early injuries, bide your time before you make any decisions about which bandwagon to jump on (or off). Well, yeah, that's the disciplined way to do thangs, is my opinion. Look, my big brother (God help him) inherited the bug from a great uncle of ours, a man who- as my Dad put it- bet on anything that moved. The (in)famous story illustrating this axiom of Uncle Bill involved his going up to New Hampshire with some buddies to check out the NASCAR…

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Post-Thanksgiving College Picks, and Go (Needham) Rockets

11:13 AM ET 11.29

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Right- that's the Needham (MA) Rockets, my hometown high school football team, not Toledo (though there's nowhere for those Rockets to go but up after this season's sad 3 and 9 record) or Houston, for that matter. No, my friends, I'm speaking of Needham, Massachusetts, a very liveable, boring place to grow up (which I appreciate now but not while I was growing up there, bored out of my skull with the endless liveability of the place). Believe it or not- and a lot of folks don't, for whatever reason- Needham High and neighboring Wellesley (home of the hated…

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