Cripes

Just wondering - was there any speculation on whether Rhema McKnight's touchdown with 5 minutes left in the fourth should have at least been reviewed? When I saw it, it seemed he didn't fully gather in the ball before he planted his left foot out of bounds. I don't think it certainly would have changed the outcome , the way MS was playing, but you would have thought their might have been at least a second look at it.

I'll tell you what us Okie fans will never get over. This retarded-ass protest and letter from the OU president will live forever. This is going to be raised for decades to come, like George Cross quote from the '50s that he'd like to build a university that the football team can be proud of. Then the threat to never cross the Rockies again unless the Pac-10 gives us what we want. It's amazing that a decidedly non-bumpkin guy like David Boren decides to play one for a day, and put us atop the heap of Volunteers, Aggies, Huskers and Buckeyes insanely and disproportionately obsessed with their teams. I look forward to the years to come, when people will point out every time Stoops doesn't argue to overturn an official's error in HIS favor, in order to avoid pinning an "outrageous injustice" on a visiting foe.

Schnellenberger might consider leaving Florida Atlantic, if they make the call.

And reproduce? No thanks.

For all The Office nominees, here's a story about FOUR different versions of the show that have spawned from Ricky Gervais. UK, USA, France, Deutschland I personally like the BBC original too much to get into the U.S. version. I mean, David Brent was PATHETIC, not just a prick; you cannot outcreep Gareth, and a universe where Tim and Dawn are finally united is one that is not to be tampered.

10-year-old Isabelle: Have you been talking to my mother? Kevin Nealon: No, I hate that cu---...."

Thanks. I've never been there, and never quite knew the scale of the building. But I always wondered if the plane had gone into the center of the courtyard if there would have been more destruction -- more windows, glass door entrances, etc.

Monkey man, I haven't heard your story before. You saw the plane hitting the building? JH Christ, almighty. How close were you?

Says Wikipedia (which fully details all the dumbfug conclusions): In response to some of these [errors] Korey Rowe, the producer of the "Second Edition", claimed in an interview, “We know there are errors in the documentary, and we’ve actually left them in there so that people discredit us and do the research for themselves.” The "catch us if you can" scientific method?

You've forgotten about "Pistol Pete," the lost Village Person at Oklahoma State?

Even with the Internet, have we really progressed far from the days when Ronald Reagan recreated Cubs games via the telegraph? "Even without vet Troy Vincent..." ? Hey, we also were missing Henry Jones. There must be 1,000 ESPN blogger heads giving takes from the 2-minute highlight reel they saw the night before.

Last time I downloaded Cowherd's podcast, he spent an hour bitching that there wasn't an hub airport near some second-tier city he was stuck in. The guy's got too much of a prefab morning DJ and fake bravado about him. Did he, and ESPN, think the world needed a Jim Rome clone?

And that wasn't even a full quarter. He lasted only a few seconds before he pulled himself out.

And some of my lack-of-life Okie colleagues are issuing death threats. I mean, c'mon. That's just going way too far. It's just a college game. That being said, though, I still refuse to rescind my fatwa against the 1998 "Just Give it To Him" gang in New England. Now THAT was a Brink's job.

"Who the Hell is Mel Kiper..."

I think OU defensive coordinator Brent Venables is behind this stunt. 501 yards, 97th ranked defense....hey, let's hit the reset button! Even Baylor is licking its chops.

As a Sooner fan, I'm pretty pissed at our defense now...but these refs were on Mars today. Check out this video spreading like wildfire on Sooner boards. Not only does it show the Oregon player touching the ball...but OU player Allen Patrick is the one who recovers it on the 50. Look at No. 23 on the right side of the pile. You be the replay ref

The Times, in trying to exemplify how the trade of Deion Branch has crushed the spirit of the Pats' locker room. "Brady said Wednesday that he had spent so much time last week worrying about Branch's predicament that he was not himself Sunday when he fumbled the first snap of the game, leading to a Bills touchdown." I didn't know a side effect of clinical depression was added susceptibility to a Takeo Spikes hammersplatter. Brady Needs a Hug

Well, we could all be wrong yet about Ohio State, couldn't we? Considering (as pointed out earlier) that Texas ran all over Ohio State, then maybe the Buckeyes WILL be dearly missing A.J. Hawk, Whitner and their other classmates by mid-season. And if that day comes, it certainly won't buttress Texas' claim to be a contender.

Well, if the computer polls in the BCS rankings that factor in quality wins and strength of schedule do hold them back, then, no, Texas will not have been in the hunt for a national title. And I didn't say Texas was mathematically eliminated from the championship game. Hell, there might be 10 - 15 teams that can plausibly work up a scenario now that puts them in the title match (Texas included). What I meant to say iis I don't see a basis yet for expecting that to happen after they got manhandled by the Buckeyes . Perhaps they do rebound and they get a rematch with OSU. But the first priority avoiding the Big Mack Attacks that crippled them in past Cotton Bowls, handling Zac Taylor in Lincoln, and not tempting the fates by falling 19 points behind Okie State again (it's a shorter game this year, remember). As for the lthe downturn I (half-kiddingly) noted on the Big 12, I'm not being anti-Texas. Just consider that Texas loses 10 senior starters this year (including three on that stud offensive line and most of the secondary.) That's bound to produce a dropoff for the next year or two. Experience counts, not Rivals.com and Mel Kiper rankings. OU has its own troubles because it will not be able to put a difference maker at QB until at least 2009, and that's IF they can get a blue chipper this off-season who'll take two years to gel. Those circumstances to me sound like a pair of 9-2 squads for the near-term, and those sound like Holiday Bowl seasons.

With the Longhorns losing, the Big 12 has certainly lost its only chance to have a team that at is a serious contender for the BCS title game. Come Saturday, the conference may be officially eliminated from the hunt: both Nebraska and my Sooners will get their salads tossed in Pac 10 road games (USC and Oregon). Even among the periennial also-rans, there doesn't seem to be any hope of a K-State like revival: if Texas Tech barely escaped a road win against UTEP, then they'll surely get theiry candy ass spread offense squished like a bug at TCU. Colorado is about as competent as FEMA, and K-State/Okie State are riding high on the feel-good jollies from beating up Florida Atlantic. The ONLY team worth mentioning for an impressive early run is Missouri, for God's sake. It doesn't look like the Longhorns can do it without a one-man Superman running the show. The Sooners bid buh-by to Peterson in January, and will have no chance of fielding a great quarterback until 2009 thanks to Bomar's Boner. This conference is going into hibernation for the next couple of years. America: get used to seeing two-loss Big 12 champions coming to soil the field of a consolation BCS bowl near you!

So how exactly were you able to ascertain this rip job without benefit of slo-mo replays, and alternate angles that are absent from the short-cuts broadcasts? The most crucial call to me was the fourth-quarter Robert Royal illegal block on the third-down toss to Peerless Price that would have set up a potential go-ahead field goal. It took an endzone view to clearly see that Royal made a dumb, but obvious, play that deserved a flag. If the Bills want to make sure they don't get gypped by refs, then quit breaking the rules.

This has to be the oddest advice column letter ever written. From slate.com, it's about a guy who is in love with a girl...but he's since found HE killed her father in in a stupid roadside stunt he did when he was 12. (and was never caught): : I Killed My Lover's Dad with an Ear of Corn Dear Prudence, I have fallen in love with a woman I knew from childhood and ran into again after not seeing her for 20 years. As kids we hardly noticed each other, but when we met again after all these years we felt an immediate attraction. The problem is that when I was 12 years old I did something terrible that caused an accident that killed her father. No one ever found out it was me and I've never told anyone after all these years. I feel horrible about what happened, but it was a long time ago and I've gotten on with my life. But now what? Should I tell this woman that I caused her father's death many years ago? I'm afraid it would ruin our relationship and we love each other a great deal. The accident occurred when I was in a cornfield at night—we were throwing corn at cars when they drove by. We couldn't see the cars because we were hidden in the field. An ear of corn I threw went through the open car window and struck her father in the head, causing him to lose control of the car and crash into a tree. I ran from the scene and was never implicated. —Guilty and Confused Dear Guilty, History and literature are full of great loves doomed because of circumstance and fate. I'm afraid that being responsible for the death of your girlfriend's father—and having kept this terrible fact a secret—adds you to the list. You are contemplating keeping quiet in order to keep the girl. That is cruel and untenable. Do you hold her hand and nod sympathetically every time she says, "After my father died …"? You cannot build a healthy relationship on such deceit. You mentioned there was at least one other person with you in the field. Imagine how your girlfriend would feel if whoever was with you that night finds out about your romance and sends her a letter about what you did. There's no undoing the heartbreak caused by your childhood prank, but you have the power to at least answer the question for this woman (and her family) about what happened to her father that night. Telling her is the right and moral thing, and you have to accept that doing so in all likelihood will cause her to end your relationship. Before you tell, you also need to be prepared for the legal consequences of confessing. I talked to several law professors and they all said you should consult an attorney to find out your possible criminal and civil liability (and just to add to your dilemma, each said if you came to them as a client, they would advise you to keep your mouth shut). If you do decide that you can keep the secret and still live with yourself, then you must break off the romance. Her father died because of what you did accidentally; don't destroy your own decency because of what you're doing deliberately. What are the odds this has just outed himself? He was a little light on the details (like, does she think it was just an accident?). But I bet the truth likely came out when the cops probably found an ear of corn in the floorboard of the dead guy's car, and there were a dozen complaints that night about kids throwing corn at cars. Two plus two. Think of all the cops, newspaper readers, family members, etc., who remember some freaky accident like this -- and how easily the cops could figure out who this guy is. "Ma'am, we've found out who threw that corn at your father 20 years ago. Who do you sleep with?"

Idjiminit nor any word conjured up in the English language can describe the stupidity, arrogance and mental flatulence of Skip Bayless. This is the guy who called for Jimmy Johnson to bench Troy Aikman for Steve Walsh in 1990. He thought the coke-addled Mavericks needed a character guy like JR Rider in 1993. He decided a book in the '90s needed a boost with Troy Aikman-is-gay rumors. And he also recently ripped the wrong Eddie Johnson for being arrested on child molestation charges (it's not the well-known Suns and Sonics player from the 90s, but a 51-year-old has-been who played for the Hawks in the 1990s).

Herd's also a plagiarist. He took some a bit about Vince Young's bad Wonderlic score from michiganzone.com with crediting them; they called him on it, and he called them whiners for complaining about it. That is, until he had to apologize when ESPN told him that it actually wasn't cool to steal material for his show. Besides all that, Herd is just unlistenable and sounds like a million other fake-radio personas who should be selling flood-damaged cars at a "Pay Here" lot.