Lead: The first person to throw rocks on a team.
Well, the New York Giants had the lead against the Tennessee Titans, then they didn't. The Big Apple needs to hear little more beyond that. (Okay, don't read this if you are a Giants fan: New York took a 21-0 lead into the fourth quarter only to have Tennessee storm back with 24 unanswered points for the win.)
As for Mathias Kiwanuka, he'd rather be fishing, apparently. Because on a 4th down play, the Giants' defensive end played catch and release with Titans QB Vince Young, who then wriggled for the first down.
Although you can't help but snigger at the New York Post's sports front page: "TITANIC CHOKE GAGS BIG BLUE." Double entendres aside, the ones in blue weren't choking. See, the Giants pulled out the red-and-white unis. Although after Young's fourth quarter mastery, I'm sure the voters are kicking themselves for giving the Heisman Trophy to Tiki Barber prior to this game.
Second: The second person to throw rocks on a team.
So USC moved up to second in the BCS polls with a win over overrated Notre Dame. (His words, not mine.) So let's recount who the Trojans have beaten: Arkansas (by 36), Nebraska, California, and now the Irish — all by a combined score of 145-57.
Forget the squeakers to Arizona State and the Washington duo, as well as the heartbreak to Oregon State. Those four victories against current Top 20 teams were all decisive. Michigan played Ohio State well, and beyond the Notre Dame and Wisconsin victories they didn't have a ton of tough games. Wow, maybe USC did earn the right to play in Glendale. Of course, this will probably change when UCLA upsets their crosstown foe, and I'll be singing the glory of Arkansas or Boise State or someone like that.
House: The three concentric rings (the "bullseye") on either side of the sheet, where points are scored.
Article comments
1 - berkeley joe
Matt, Matt, Matt, in ref: the UH Hawaii bowl situation. NOTHING would please us more here in Hawaii for our Warriors to go to a big time mainland bowl and play a higher caliber opponent, trust me. but this is not a matter of UH "cherry picking," this is a matter of UH being able to get into a bowl game at all. you prolly don't recall, but a few years ago, UH had an excellent year, finished at 9-3 I believe, BLEW OUT byu by about 50 points at home, and, because there was no local bowl that year, sat at home, bowlless. How could this be, you ask? well, because the university of Hawaii football program does not, as they say, travel well. No bowl in its right mind is going to take Hawaii if they can avoid it, because people don't fly out from Honolulu to see a mainland football game. Add to that that the WAC has just about no pull on the college football landscape and you have your answer, which is, basically, UH needs this bowl game, or else they sit home and twiddle thumbs, no matter how well they do. also, the bowl game needs UH, because in years that UH doesn't play in it, of course, attendance drops through the toilet. quid pro quo, clarice.
2 - Matthew T. Sussman
I think that had to do more with lack of WAC bowl tie-ins than no bowl in Hawaii. And I feel ya -- in 2001 and 2002 BGSU went 8-3 and 9-3 respectively, and no bowls either year.
To be fair Boise is a repeat offender of this practice as well.