Congrats, Wisconsin Badgers & Montee Ball!

Rose Bowl-bound! 3rd straight year. And 3rd straight Big 10 Champion! Wisconsin snuffed #12 Nebraska last night, 70-31 for a trip to Pasadena. Montee Ball picked up three more TD's to bring his season total to 82, adding to his NCAA record for career TD's (set last weekend against Penn St.) and was named Big 10 Champ MVP.

 

For more on Ball, read here. For highlights of the Big 10 Championship rout, read here.

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Badgers Rose Bowl Bound...again!

In a rematch against Michigan St. at the inaugural Big Ten Championship game, the Wisconsin Badgers prevailed, beating Michigan St.. 42-39 in a nailbiter. Wisconsin will face Oregon at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Cali on January 2 and the Badgers are the underdog.

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It's official! Wisconsin Badgers. 11-1. Co-Big Ten Champs. And headed to the Grandaddy of'em all!

Congrats to Ohio State and Michigan State for tying the Wisconsin Badgers at 11-1, resulting in a three-way tie as Big 10 Champs. But - only one team goes to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. So...eat it Ohio State and whiny bitch Coach Mark Dantonio* of Michigan St. (incidentally, Dantonio was the ONLY coach to vote Michigan St. ahead of Wisconsin and Ohio State in the polls).

ROSE BOWL! ROSE BOWL! ROSE BOWL! One more time? OK...ROOOOOSE BOOOOWL!!!

*Coach Dantonio, while groveling about why Michigan State should go to the Rose Bowl, stated his team "convincingly" beat Wisconsin. Then he drove home the point by repeating his statement. Really? Hey dork - you were beating us by only 3 points with 3 minutes left in the game. If you think that's "convincingly" beating us, then how about giving your team a pep talk and tell them that the bowl they're going to is really the Rose Bowl. I'm sure you can be really "convincing".

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ESPN's Craig James (is a dick), his son (probably a dick too) and a "dark shed".

So, the former head coach of the Texas Tech football team, Mike Leach, finds himself in hot water for locking receiver Adam James in the "woodshed" ("dark shed", "storage closet", whatever the fuck it was he locked him in) because Coach Leach thought James was faking a concussion.

Before Leach could whip out the switch on James, Leach gets the boot. Normally I wouldn't condone such behavior by a coach - any adult, for that matter. However, Adam James ain't the little drummer boy, according to a number of sources.

But don't tell his daddy, former NFLer and ESPN college analyst Craig James. James and his wife brought this matter to the Texas Tech administration's attention and all hell broke lose.

Like I said - normally I'd chastise Coach Leach. But I hate Craig James. Why? In 1998, James stated on ESPN that the #9-ranked Wisconsin Badgers were "the worst team to ever play in the Rose Bowl." Wisconsin went on to defeat the #6-ranked UCLA 38–31 in the 1999 Rose Bowl, led by ex-NFLer RB Ron Dayne. Afterward, Badger coach Barry Alvarez fired back, "Well, I know we're at least the second worst."

I never forgot that Craig James' comment. It was a dumb thing to say. And every time I see his face I think it was a dumb thing to say. Best part is that he got faced in the end - Wisconsin won the game. Call me jaded...Craig could tell me it's raining when it is raining and I wouldn't believe him. No credibility.

Craig James is a dick. Ergo, so is Adam James.

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