I will admit that this year, as in the 2004-2005 season, my ire toward the BCS system is heavily biased because my team is the one getting screwed, again. Anyone who watched the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, or this Year’s Sugar Bowl, knows what I’m talking about. What is with the mentality that the SEC and Pac-10 are the only real conferences in College Football? Just because in other conferences, people have interests outside of college football, does not mean that the schools cannot produce a quality football team. This post could be a voluminous discourse about how bad the BCS system sucks. I won’t beat a dead horse stating the obvious. But the inadequacy of the BCS system is more than evident in years like this one. It is pretty apparent this year, that the voters got it wrong. Honestly, who thought that it would be a good idea to have a system where the “national champion” is crowned based on votes, rather than record, and strength of schedule? What a joke. It isn’t very hard to assume that Barry Switzer’s ignorant statements during the Sugar Bowl’s Pre-game show represent the sentiments of a large cross section of the voters (primarily those who hail from the south). For those who didn’t catch it. Switzer claimed that the best player on Utah’s team would not have even qualified as an Alabama recruit. I guess we can just assume that Switzer was referring to the fact that the best players on Utah’s team don’t have a taste for possum, and like to use toilets that flush, over outhouses. Anyway, it will be interesting to see how the final rankings turn out. Unfortunately, it will be determined by bias and speculation, since it is pretty clear that the best two teams are not the ones playing for the NCAA “championship.”

Elasun, the Chinese condom manufacturer, has employed a very clever sport themed ad campaign for the upcoming summer games. Images like one above can be found posted around the city of Beijing, coupled with slogans like “Sports make you health”[sic].

 For the image below, it probably would have been more catchy if they came up with a slogan like “sometimes you don’t want your swimmers to win.” …just an idea.

Is it because the story is funnier, knowing that the victim was a bit chubby? Or is it because TOM LIDDY, PILAR CONCI and JAMIE SCHRAM, the authors, are all slobs themselves, and it makes them feel better to point the finger at someone who has a more severe weight problem? I’m not sure. But at least the poor lady was trying to do something about her condition. Give her a little credit, man!