Pete Carroll, An Inspiration

If anyone watched "60 Minutes" this past Sunday they got to see more than a day in the life of a football coach. They saw a man bringing together community.

In case you missed it, Pete Carroll, "The Prince of LA" loves the grand stage, but he loves his city as well. Whether that means coaching inner-city "at-risk" youth or the USC football team. It seems that Pete Carrol is on his own personal mission to restore hope.

After listening to Brian Berger's interview with Pete Carroll in 2007, I already knew that there was the Pac-10 and then there was USC; a totally different class. But now it's Pete Carroll's off the field missions that separate him from the rest of college football coaches.


I encourage anyone who hasn't seen the "60 Minutes" profile on Pete Carroll to watch it.

Grinds My Gears

Sorry Family Guy...you know I love you!


As a baseball fan; what on earth are the Yankees doing? Ok, for the past few years, I had begun to root for the Yankees (only against the Red Sox) but now they are not only steeling talent, but seemingly making it unfair for other teams to compete with them. Of course, since they are a bunch of underachievers, who cares if they have the three highest paid players.

But is there such thing as a financial monopoly in sports? If there is it doesn't necessarily equal success. And, just because you have deap pockets, we all know the Yank's are ridiculously over budget.

On top of the three players who will be making over a half billion dollars, the Yankees are going to be unveiling a new stadium, which by the way they are having trouble selling luxury boxes for. So how does the Steinbrener family recoop its spent money. Well, they are taking on a high-risk, low reward business venture; they won't

So hears what grinds my gears.....the Yankee's are idiots, and actually that makes me happy!

A BCS System That Works, Perhaps?

As we all know, in college football, it is near impossible to have the same playoff system that is so perfect in college basketball. So why don't we stick with the BCS, all the other bowls and add a playoff at the end of it? Ok, so right now there are Four BCS Bowls plus a national championship game.

If you cut out the Championship Bowl and get rid of two teams (this year would be Ohio State and Utah), then you have eight teams in BCS bowls. I suggest the winners face one another in a four team playoff; it's the final four.

Why are Utah and Ohio State undeserving? Ohio State didn't win its conference and Utah needs stiffer competition.

You ask, why even keep those other bowls then. Well money!!! It will keep the bowl committees happy, increase revenue streams at schools and please donors.

My system isn't perfect, but we are told eight teams plus two at-large teams, or the top 16, or some other convoluted system, which is why everyone complains about the BCS to begin with. So just use it!