Sports: half of what we hear on talk radio has to do with the vomit inducing calls at the Oregon vs Oklahoma football game, calls that can only be explained by gamblers fixing the referees. Were I the coach at Oregon I would call a team meeting and determine whether the team wanted to forfeit the game, because Oregon will be booed unmercifilly wherever they go for the next year or more.

Nothing excites a local neighborhood like a great high school football team. Our neighborhood has the USA Today rated #3 team in the country (Oaks Christian---a private school), that has ten Division One players, including the number one quarterback prospect, the Notre Dame signee Jimmy Clausen, and two High School All Americans on display each week. This week they play the number twelve USA Today team in the country, St. Bonaventure (another private school). Everyone is talking. They could fill a 40,000 seat stadium Friday night. The game had to sell advance tickets to avoid a riot. Lots of fun.

The most boring football game ever? Well, maybe not ever, but that Monday night 9-0 eye lid closer comes close. So I, like half of LA, switched to the Dodger baseball game which at one time was a joke in which they trailed by four runs going into the ninth. Four home runs tied the game in the bottom of the ninth and another won it in the tenth. Basball can be much more exciting than any 9-0 football game.