Left Coast Sports Babe

Who wrote a great Sunday column about the lies sports figures tell, and what they really mean in parentheses….  Some follow up lies and truths. 

 (This column graciously  approved by Scott Ostler too.)

We certainly respect our 0-10 opponent this week and
the team is very focused.  They know we can’t take
anything for granted.  (Are you kidding, the team is
focused on their video games and stock portfolios this
week, the guys we cut in the summer could beat these
losers.)

We never take any opponent for granted. (We take a lot
of opponents for granted.)

We are thrilled to have our wives and children with us
on the road this week. (Our girlfriends, however, are
not so happy.  Hey, anyone have the number of Kobe’s
jeweler?)

We are thrilled to be in the “fill-in-the-blank” Bowl.  (We were
shafted.)

We are thrilled to be in the Rose Bowl. (Yeah, okay so
we took ONE lousy opponent for granted. They couldn’t
even beat Notre Dame for gawdsake.)

We are thrilled to have signed “fill-in-the-blank” and hope he will blossom in the cleanup role. (Ownership wouldn’t spend the money to get anyone
decent, be prepared for a lot of 3-1 losses.)

We have high hopes for our young players. (They’re all
we could afford.)

We didn’t want to break up the team chemistry. (We
couldn’t get any decent free agents and no one wanted
to trade with us.)

So USC has to “settle” for the Rose Bowl, in a year that the Trojans thought they would be playing for the National Championship.

Seems they forgot a BCS cardinal rule…

Better Crush Stanford.

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Two other quick bowl thoughts:

Will plays that are overturned on review during the A T and T Cotton Bowl be referred to as “dropped calls?”

Why is the Papajohns.com Bowl scheduled at 1pm?  (10:00am on the West Coast.)  Instead of in the evening when people are more likely to order pizza?

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Dr. Robert Cade, the inventor of Gatorade, died last week at the age of 80.    While it began simply as a sports drink, Gatorade became even more famous as a beverage to be poured over the winning coach.   Or so the Miami Dolphins have heard.

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So 2005 American Idol finalist Jessica Serra was arrested Saturday morning  at a bar in Florida.  She was charged of disorderly intoxication,  resisting arrest and violating conditions of her parole from an earlier incident involving cocaine.

She may not have become  an American Idol,  but looks like she is well on her way to becoming Britney Spears.

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So the Idaho Statesman now says they have eight other men who claim either that they had sex with  Larry Craig, or that he made advances towards them.   Wonder if the story was titled “Eight Men Out?”

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The Midwest was hit with its first really bad storm of the season.  In fact, people say it was the iciest conditions since Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were last in the same room