• USC May be stripped of 2004 National Championship by The BCS
I got a good laugh out of this today. A report out of USA Today suggests that there is a possibility that the BCS may strip USC of their 2004 BCS Championship, based on what the NCAA reveals in their investigation of the USC football program. My only question is this……Can you strip somebody of a title they did not actually earn in the first place? As everyone probably knows by now, in my opinion, teams do not win National Championships in College Football, you CLAIM National Championships. In what other major team sport (or any team sport) out there can there be two champions of something? Because in College Football, it has seemingly happened for over a period of 100 years and has happened as recently as 2003, when the BCS was supposed to be the model that would prevent split National Championships. The BCS can do what they want, I do not really care. Maybe Auburn will. (Remember, they went 13-0 that year, but did not get VOTED National Champion). And yes, I will admit, Nebraska has not won 5 National Championships in College Football; they have claimed 5 National Championships.
• NCAA Tournament Expansion
In what was a big sigh of relief to me and many College Basketball fans, the NCAA Board of Directors opted to expand the NCAA Men’s Tournament from 65 teams to 68 teams, not the 96 first feared. The question now remains of how the expansion is handled. Many people just assume that instead of one play-in errrrr opening round game between two 16 seeds, that there will be four opening round games between 16 and 17 seeds. Personally, I think it would be better and more competitive (and more watchable) if the last eight at-large teams in the field play for the right to compete in the NCAA Tournament. From what I have read, CBS and Turner did not pay for the rights to televise the tournament for opening round games, which could lead to the bottom of the barrel teams fighting for the right to get clowned by a #1 seed; however, I hope the NCAA sees it my way and makes the at-large teams battle it out for a spot in the final 64.
• Break up the Royals?
I was going to write an immediate column about what I thought about Ned Yost taking over as the manager of Kansas City Royals. This is the same Ned Yost that The Milwaukee Brewers fired when the team was 83-69 in 2008. The firing may have been justified, as Milwaukee was in danger of falling apart at the end of the season for the second straight season and missing the playoffs. However, so far, so good. The Royals are 5-2 under Yost and have lost each of their two games by just 1 run. Now, seven games are not even 5% of a major league schedule, so time will tell if the Royals can keep up this pace. Regardless of what the immediate future holds, Royals fans have to be happy with the start under Yost and the news that the prospects in the minor leagues (Mike Moustakas, Michael Montgomery, Aaron Crow, and Eric Hosmer) are all doing very well and may find themselves on the big league roster in 2011 and certainly no later than 2012.
• UFC 114: Evans vs. Jackson
Spike TV has done two thirty minute shows the last two Wednesdays promoting this fight. If you are a UFC fan and have not caught these episodes, I recommend you search your DVR for re-air dates because they are absolutely fantastic. I really do not know if the actual fight will live up to the verbal war these two have been one for the last year; however, it has been entertaining to see these two trade verbal jabs the last few months. If you need a taste of what, I am talking about, check out their audio press conference which was held this past Tuesday
http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=multiMedia.detail&gid=81898
• The Summer of Lebron
I don’t have much to say about this, other than I thought the Brett Favre coverage about him coming back every year was overdone. And now I got to put up with six weeks of this crap? I just hope whatever Lebron decides to do; he does it on July 1 and does not drag it out too long.
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