Left Coast Sports Babe

CBS expects record viewers for the Super Bowl this year. The audience will be boosted by two factors: one, many Americans can’t afford to go do anything else. two, in the Philadelphia-DC area everyone is snowed in and can’t go do anything else.

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goddell says that the league has no plans to change the overtime rule, saying that the two playoff games that went to overtime were ” maybe two of the most exciting games we’ve ever had.” But exciting doesn’t necessarily mean fair to both sides. Think of how many people go to bullfights.

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Jim Barach also had a thought about the 13 year old football player who has committed to play at USC starting in 2015. He says the hardest part is waiting until he is 16 to get a license to drive his new Mercedes Benz convertible.

But I am trying to be fair to the Trojans. Really, they don’t give all their players Mercedes Benz convertibles. These days it’s all about SUVs.

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The Texas men’s basketball team has lost 4 of 6 since being ranked #1, the school’s football team lost any chance for a national championship when Colt McCoy was injured, and the Cowboys were decisively knocked out of the playoffs. Last time the state had a month this bad, an Alamo was involved.

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It’s also hard to remember a month that was so disappointing to Texas sports fans without the Rangers even playing.

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Stanford men’s basketball continued their road woes as they continued their perfect winless Pac 10 season away from home, losing 54 to 49 to USC.

If they wanted to at least salvage something positive for the environment out of this season, maybe they could just forfeit the rest of their road games and save the fuel?

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Commie pinko time.

So this week Scott Brown was sworn in as the 41st Republican senator, which may effectively kill healthcare reform. Also, this week, Anthem-Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in California, sent a notice to individual policyholders announcing a rate hike of up to 39 percent. Coincidence?

At the Tea Party Convention at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville,” Sarah Palin said “It’s so inspiring to see real people come out, stand up and speak out for common sense conservative principles.” Well, yeah, real people who could afford $549 for the convention ticket plus travel and lodging.

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