I can tell ya straight up, down here in SEC land you need hip-waders full time during pigskin season.

Last year Tenn. spanked Cal in Knoxville and that proved the SEC is better than the Pac-10....Of course the same two teams could have played the next week at Cal and maybe you reverse the score. But they didn't rematch. Tennessee played Air Force in Knoxville and won 31-30 when Air Force missed a 2 pt. conversion at the buzzer. That was meaningless. The Vols were looking past them.

Florida stomps Ohio St. last year and that proves the SEC are Gods. How about when Spurrier's Florida lost the title game 62-24 or Peyton Manning's BCS team lost by 4 touchdowns?

Behold the Bush/Republican base.

Over and out.

Why Craig should resign or not run for re-election. The republican that is appointed or that the Idaho voters replace him with will be saying the same things Craig always said.

All the moral sermons by this replacement are for real this time. He's sincere for sure.

Have the cops start hanging out around and infiltrating the college young republican clubs.

Has Craig ever been to a junket or something with Brownback?

About these Texas men like Dubya and Rove.

About the Islamic Politicians/Clergy. I doubt they have a morse code for hard ons. And even if they were gay they'd have the smarts to keep it out of the public toilets.

We laugh about washing feet in the sink. How about looking for a boyfriend coming out of the next stall? Better use a condom for sure.

You got me. It doesn't happen often. Cherish the moment.

They say 90 percent is below the waterline.

Maybe this entire conservative movement and the rise of talk radio---The evangelists--the right wing Christian rural/red state politicians--Hannity, Savage, Limbaugh, John Gibson, Glenn Beck on and on.....They're all hot for each other.

Give Miami Florida and Alabama all they wanted recently?

Needs to pose the question to Craig........Were you born that way or was it a choice?

Is when the Craigs of the world lug out their wives with them as a prop before the media in these situations. Jesus that has to sting........And they said Bill abused Hillary.

At Buchanan....Remember his culture war in America. Behold the warriors.

Is another example. I saw them play at field level. They had some tremendous athletes. But to the typical Americano sports dimwit, UConn can't be any good. They are basketball. If you played UConn, you "didn't play anybody."

A hell of a lot more than a bunch of other stuff in sports. Those guys fight their guts out, come close to some good teams, and then tune into Sportscenter, where they are the butt of jokes.

Of the announcer giving the speech about what a great free throw shooter someone is when they step to the line, then the guy misses and the other announcer says--"you jinxed him."

But they hand out the pre-shot accolades every time he steps to the line and the guy makes 90 plus percent. So the jinx works very seldom. Jinx would imply more of an effect than very seldom. If there is a jinx, he's jinxing the guy to make them.

Of the fans getting involved with the superstition stuff, this is their rather pathetic way of injecting themselves into the game. They are part of the game. Part of the team. They can contribute. Something they did or didn't do made a difference.

That certainly beats the realistic alternative---They are nerds, emotionally over-invested in the outcome of something they have no control over.

Except in one case. When the team is down and losing the fans can possibly make a difference by showing up in mass and supporting and rooting for the team. Here they can actually achieve their glorious fantasy of being a real part of it. Something they do may assist the team in time of need.

And it's precisely then when the fans are pissing, moaning, bitching, booing and not showing up.

Next to the fans post game analysis their pre and during game superstitions are Einsteinian....

1.) The plays that did not work were the wrong play call by the coach.

2.) At some point an ump's or ref's call against their team was crucial.

3.) And the catch-all following the defeat--The wrong line-up was employed to start the game, or at a specific point of the game. So and so should have been in there instead of so and so.

That we include and lump all the Jesus malarchy and pointing to the sky in sports in with the silly superstitions.

What Would Jesus Do during a no-hitter.

We condemn the fans childish superstitions, let us likewise reject their idiotic exagerations......5 posts becomes 15.

Exaggeration. One of these twits is probably a member of the grammar and spelling police.

About the Larry Craig thing. It has a sports application at the ballpark. This foot nudging and hand signals under the stall divider, does that work if you can sneak into the women's restroom?

Someone might want to advise Bush not to go to Fords Theater to be on the safe side.

Beat Arkansas State 21-13.........State outgained the Longhorns 397-340.

It's even extended in some cases to the preposterous. There was some national sportswriter, can't remember the name, who spewed that the Tigers would beat the Cardinals in 3 games. In a best of 7.

Turns out the young and mostly inexperienced Tigers were mismatched against the grizzled, play-off experienced Cards.

Then the same guy a couple weeks later was typing about another contest that was absolutely automatic.

This sort of mentality leads me to think they may not necessarily mean one more bomb from the terrorists.

Any ole bomb may do.