Badgers! After rising to #2 in the polls, the Wisconsin Badgers were not able to continue their winning ways and lost to Hoosiers at Bloomington. Badgers are now tied with Ohio State for first in the Big Ten. Depending on what happens the rest of the week, the Badgers will probably fall to #4 in the polls. Hey, #4 isn't bad- Adriana Lima is #4 in the Askmen.com Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2007 and that ain't bad at all!!!

Apparently the star of the Super Bowl Media Day was Ines Sainz of TV Azteca (Mexico). Somehow, this hard-working journalist was able to work her way to the front of the media mob and get the attention of players like Peyton Manning!! Hey, diversity is important and it is nice to see women rise in the ranks of journalism!!! You, GO Girl!!

The most recent ranking from collegerpi.com has UCLA at #1 (despite a loss to Stanford!) and Wisconsin rising to #3. Check out who is at #9- Southern Illinois University! ESPN Bracket Buster has just set up a great match-up: SIU @ Butler (19-2 with an RPI of 21!).

Hey Chicago, do you know that we have a #1 college basketball team in town. Granted, it is the NAIA, but the Robert Morris College Eagles are the #1 team in the NAIA poll. The Eagles made the NAIA final four last year and currently undefeated. I am embarrassed to say that I just learned that RMC plays its home games at Loyola's Gentile Center ("The Joe"). Go Robert Morris!! Chicago deserves another champion.

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/cs-070129robertmorris,1,2950623.story?coll=cs-college-headlines

Kinda hard to focus on work, when we have all these Super Bowl preparations to take care of! Gotta make the Polish sausage, the brats, the nachos, etc. etc.
Da Bears! Da Bears!!

You gotta love Ozzie!

Samurai Mike! Former Bear Mike Singletary is to interview for the Dallas Cowboys Head Coaching position! I would love to see Singletary put T.O. in his place!

Some respect for Bucky as the Badgers move up to #2 in the ESPN/USA Today College Hoops Top Twenty-Five. Ohio State checks in at #5, but except for Wisconsin and Ohio State, how good is the Big Ten? The Illini are down, Iowa is barely above .500 and let's not even mention Minnesota, Northwestern and Penn State. Michigan has begun its annual dive in the standings and Indiana doesn't impress me.

Another freakin' cold day in Chicago as I watch the snow fall outside my office window (plus I left my gloves at home!) Should have stayed home next to the fireplace!

The Colts are at it again! Now, you can pre-order your Super Bowl Champions gear!

The #1 movie at the box office this weekend, "Epic Moive"! Reason enough to post a picture of Carmen Electra.

Speaking of RPIs, the #1 team in the country, Florida, had an RPI of 29!!!

Alright, time for some respect for the Badgers. Badgers hold the longest current winning streak, 17 games, after winning at Iowa City. With 21 wins, the Badgers only loss was to Missouri State from the MVC. Despite this, its appears that nationally, no one thinks of the Badgers in the same category with Florida, North Carolina, Kansas and UCLA. As of last week, Wisconsin had a strong RPI of 5, but behind both Pittsburgh and Arizona. A win at Ohio State later this season will go a long way towards earning the respect it deserves.

Some extremely generous home court clock manangement allowed the Duke Blue Devils defeat Clemson 68-66. After Duke literally tossed this game away, allowing Clemson to tie the game with a gift 3-pointer, Duke was given 4.4 seconds on the clock. At best it should have been 3.4 seconds ont he clock. Duke needed every tenth of those 4.4 seconds as David McClure barely got the shot off for the winning basket. Clemson fans (and Duke-haters generally) will be pretty pissed about this game and the rematch at Clemson on Feb. 22, 2007 will be pretty interesting.

Cincinnati Bengals' wide receiver Chris Henry is a bad boy, one of 9 bad boys on the Bengals!! Mr. Henry is going to jail for 2 days, for serving alcohol to minors. Boy the rap sheet for the Bengals is making the Vikings' "Sex Boat" odyssey seem like a trip on the Good ship Lolly-Pop!

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6407586

Yesterday, my bud, HM posted on his blog (click on HOOPRAMBLINGS on the right under "Links") so possible "problems" for Sean Salisbury. With former Bear and fan favorite, Tom Waddle leaving WGN Radio and rumored to be moving to WMVP (ESPN), we can only hope that this means that obnoxious-outsider Salisbury (he picked the Saints ans already has picked the Colts) will be replaced by Waddle!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/columnists/cs-070124sherman,1,6392844.column?coll=chi-sportscolumnistfront-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

It has been a while since I posted a picture of Katie Price Jordan, so might as well!

SI Cover Jinx?

Under the category "They get paid to do this." My friend, TEG, and friend/fellow blogger, HM, are fond of saying "They get paid to do this" when we hear sport commentators and media say stupid things. I don't just mean stupid predictions , but stating FACTS that are just wrong! Today I pick-up the Sun-Times (no Jay Mariatti column today!) and check the College Basketball page (page 104 for locals). Unnder the Associated Press Top 25, I see #14 Butler with its next game listed as "at Detroit, Saturday." Under "Area/Locals" I check Loyola and according to the Sun-Times, Loyola's next game is "vs. Wright State, 4 Saturday." Well the next game for Butler is @ Loyola this Thursday, i.e., tomorrow! Gee, you think a Chicago paper could get this correct!!!
http://loyolaramblers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/012307aaa.html

Bruce Pearl, you got to love him- especially now since he is no longer in the Horizon League! Any coach who can laugh at the heckling he recieves from the K, UIC Badger and friends is alright in my book! Can you imagine Dean Smith going shirtless and painting himself Puke Blue, I mean, Sky Blue, I mean "Carolina Blue" and supporting the Lady Tar Heels? Dang, the Great Deano would have tried to have me ejcted from the stadium if I heckled him the same way I heckled Pearl!!