OKAY! My Take.

The best team out west isn't BOISE, isn't USC, it's Oregon. Think what you will, and I will admit when Oregon beats USC next week, they will creep up to just behind Cincy and BOISE, and that will be acceptable. They did, after all, lose to BOISE. USC's vaunted defense, isn't that vaunted. Had OSU been able to figure out that defense in the first half, the score would have leaned in their favor at the end of the game. Likewise, take Alabama down. Two weeks in a row they have proved that the SEC isn't that good. That is clearly the most overrated, overhyped group of teams in the nation. If the victory by UCLA over Tenn doesn't make you wonder. Think about it, UCLA is horrible and Tenn should have beaten Alabama three times yesterday. One of those teams might get to play for the national championship, and they better hope it is against BOISE, because folks, they AIN'T beatin' the Pac 10, and they certainly won't beat the Big 12.
You know what makes pro sports so great? The constant. Because players are around for the lifespan of a kids youth, kids drive the love of the professional circus we call pro sports. I am reminded when I walk downtown and see kids with jerseys on. They aren't wearing their parents' favorite college team, but rather they are wearing, one of the statistical greats in pro football, baseball, or basketball. Amen to that. I can recall my days back up in the Pacific Northwest, on blustery fall afternoons, or snowy winter nights, passing the ball to one of my cousins, sure that I was going to be Fran Tarkenton, or running as though I was Franco Harris. I certainly always wanted to be Brooks Robinson in baseball and Wilt Chamberlain in basketball. As I watch sports today, I see the fun of college sports and their unpredictability, but I see that the kids want to watch people they know, and for that I find myself going back and revisiting pro sports, falling in love with the game all over again.
Talk to you tonight after the Yankmees/Angels series.