Left Coast Sports Babe

Regarding the 49ers…

Many fans say Alex Smith is the person reponsible for the fate of the 2007 49ers.

Just as Captain Edward John Smith was responsible for the fate of the Titanic?

Steelers safety Anthony Smith has guaranteed that Pittsburgh will upset the Patriots this Sunday. 

He is even bringing a banner to the Steelers locker room reading, ‘Mission Accomplished.'”

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Balducci’s, an upscale Manhattan deli, posted a sign this week advertising ham for hanukkah.  

What’s next, rabbit for Easter?

And for the first time in a long time, the BCS is confident none of their top teams will lose this weekend.

But speaking of losers…

The 0-12 Miami Dolphins effectively ended Zach Thomas’s
season by placing him on injured reserve.  They  decided they could no longer afford to have a spot on the roster taken up by an idle player. 
 
The Dolphins might be one player away from being a decent
team…unfortunately, that player would have to be
Dan Marino. 

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And President Bush insists that Iran still does have a
nuclear weapons program…the same as he still has a plan
for victory in Iraq.
  

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With all this back and forth about ambition,  going back to a paper Barack Obama supposedly wrote in kindergarten about wanting to be president, I can’t help but wonder…

Could the country be any worse off if  George W. Bush had given a thought to the fact he might some day be president, before the age of about 40?
 

Anthony Smith of the Pittsburgh Steelers is guaranteeing a win against the unbeaten Miami Dolphins Sunday.   Sort of     He said. “Yeah, I can guarantee a win. As long as we come out and do what we got to do. Both sides of the ball are rolling, and if
our special teams come through for us, we’ve got a good chance to win.”

Well, if this football thing doesn’t work out he has a great future at the Pentagon.

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University of Florida football player Jermaine Cunningham was arrested Wednesday and charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly hitting a restaurant employee with a sandwich.   Good thing he didn’t use a Double Bacon Cheese Whopper,  or he could have been charged with manslaughter.
 

Since it is only 30 days to the Iowa Caucuses….

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So Hillary Clinton has been criticizing Barack Obama
for being ambitious.

Isn’t that like Bill Clinton criticizing Rudy Giuliani
for being a bad husband.

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And the Clinton campaign is complaining that Obama’s
campaign is trying to convince students to come back
to school early for the Iowa caucuses.

So what’s worse, moving back to a dorm where you live
most of the year to vote for president.

Or moving to a state where you have never lived to run
for senator?

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President Bush now wants  to become a peacemaker in the Middle East.   Isn’t that about as likely as John Edwards becoming the spokesman for Supercuts?

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And back to sports.

Travis Henry had his one year NFL  suspension for a positive drug  test overturned.  Did they consider it a mitigating circumstance that he had to feed his families?

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And while he is on a roll, Henry might see if he can get some of those nine paternity tests thrown out too. 

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

Rank him #2 in the BCS