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The BCS Championship Had Points After All

Written by Matthew T. Sussman
Published January 09, 2008
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7. G Manny Legace — I had to check if he's still one of seven aging goalies still with the Red Wings. Nope. St. Louis Blues.

Legace had two shutouts in a three-game span, earning the NHL's first star for the week. That's a hell of a week. In fact, he's had a hell of a career already. He's been in the league for ten years, and won a Stanley Cup with Detroit in 2002. I wonder what kind of thing he'll leave behind. You know ... how people will remember him. A lasting image. Um, a ... I can't think of the word.

8. Andy Murray — I've yet to name this feature, but I'm tentatively going with This Week In Honest Dubious Portrayal Of Reality.

While addressing the media at the Kooyong Classic tennis tournament in Melbourne, the Scottish tennis player was asked what his favorite scene was from the movie Wayne's World. So he demonstrated for the audience.

Camera one ... camera two. Camera one ... camera two.

Bold choice, but I must disagree. It's with the Ed O'Neill soliloquy to the camera in the first scene. Good thing he wasn't the one who got a gun rack for his birthday.

9. SP Roger Clemens — After watching his press conference and catching an audio snippet of his telephone conversation with trainer Brian McNamee, a scary thought went through my head.

What if he's right? What if Clemens never took — or even unknowingly took — steroids or human growth hormone? What if Clemens' full-out denial isn't merely posturing for the court of public opinion?

That means that McNamee lied for some reason. And Clemens' spurts of anger weren't the result of roid rage, but just him being a genuine dick. A dick who doesn't care about the Hall of Fame.

That was the one quote from the press conference that got me. He said he didn't give a rat's ass about the Hall of Fame. Well, if he doesn't care, then he doesn't get enshrined. Them's the rules. Here, Bert Blyleven. We have room for you now.

Coach: June Jones — On the surface, it appears that the outgoing Hawaii coach is making the biggest blunder of his coaching career by accepting the Southern Methodist job. Jones has created a program using his own unique run-and-shoot passing system, and it's gotten results. Home games are almost always wins, and ... well, there are other tempting reasons.

But Jones is respectfully declining all of that majesty any longer and opting for leading a program which so far is only famous for getting the "death penalty" in the 80s after paying football players while their football program was already on probation.

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Matt SussmanMatt Sussman is the sports editor of BC Magazine and also writes for Deadspin, SPORTSbyBROOKS, The Futon Report, and the Toledo Free Press. Catch him Mondays and Fridays at 8 p.m. ET with asst. sports editor Tuffy on Treehouse Fort, the official show of BC Sports.

E-mail sports-related inquiries (or inquiry-related sports, such as full-contact Twenty Questions) to matt.sussman@blogcritics.org.
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The BCS Championship Had Points After All
Published: January 09, 2008
Type: News
Section: Sports
Filed Under: Sports: Baseball, Sports: Basketball, Sports: College, Sports: Football (American), Sports: Football (English), Sports: Hockey, Sports: Tennis
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