I’ve awoken in 2011 to a New Year’s celebration that will never end.
That wall-to-wall day of college football that used to await us all on the first day of the year feels like its lasting 240 hours this year.
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College football has lost its way because the media and couch potatoes want to turn it into a minor league NFL.
The sport has long been plagued by scandal. Cam Newton and Reggie Bush are only the latest in a long trail. Half a century ago it was written that Hugh McElhenny found his way to the University of Washington from Compton Junior College by following a trail of $20 bills.
But even with all that, college football had one big trump card over the pros: tradition.
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Ugh ... the bowl season goes on. Thank you to our readers. We had a wonderful response to our column last week about the bowl announcers and my opinions of all that. In fact, it was almost overwhelming. All good stuff in terms of what our readers really think. I will continue this week on the same theme. Again, there is an argument about the national championship, a playoff and too many bowl games that is legitimate on all sides.
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