10. Ray Bourque won the Stanley Cup.........In Colorado. This was a media thing to promote hockey wasn’t it? Maybe I am biased because I am in Hockeytown. Although I was happy for Joe Sakic. But for Bourque to win a cup anywhere but Boston was very empty in feeling.

9. Army vs. Navy every year. Maybe if someone put a highlight or three together before the week of the game the rest of the nation would know a little bit about the actual game. If it is going to be a national TV game how about a little lead in on it.

8. The Pro Bowl from Hawaii is the most anticlimactic sporting events of the year. Most players that played in the Super Bowl get sudden injuries and don’t play in it. Every player on the field just wants to enjoy the off-season with out being injured. Let them do it by not even playing the game and just name the Pro Bowlers like they do in college as the All-Americans.

7. Any Mike Tyson fight ever. He made millions per minute with some of the "joke-of-the-day" type fights with nobodies like Peter McNeely and 90 second fights against Leon Spinx. For the money per pay-per-view Tyson should have had to fight at least four fighters in a row with a minimum of 3 full rounds fought. That wasn’t a problem late in his career. Going to jail was very detrimental to his career.

6. Billy Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in a battle of the sexes match in 1973 in tennis. The match was held in front of a record audience at the Houston Astrodome. Had Bobby Riggs been a top ranked player in at least the top 10,000 in the world the match would have been ok. Billy Jean King was the best woman tennis player in the world. Bobby Riggs was just the hype machine used to promote tennis. Tennis just happens to be one of the few sports and really the only womens sport that compete with the male counterpart in revenue.

5. Roger Bannister breaking the four minute mile in 1954 is a moment ranked in the top ten as a great sports moment. If this happened in 2008 this would be the next doping scandal of the next 3-4 years. Guilty or innocent, too many athletes have lied and been caught to get treated fairly and individually in media today. Regarding Bannister it is just running really fast, lets not make this more than it was.

4. BCS Title Game every year just feels hollow. Letting people who don’t play football decide who will, is just wrong. Let the teams play it out in a small playoff of 8 teams. Let them settle it on the field. Divisions 2 and 3 NCAA football have playoffs. Have they ever looked at the money the college basketball March Madness tournament rakes in each year? It is Billions with a capital B! What do you think that would be in football? That’s right Kajillions with a capital K!

3. The Indianapolis 500 race is the only open wheel race most sports fans even hear about during the racing season. With all the hype the race gets ever year, can you name last years winner? What about 2006?

2. The Heisman Trophy Award and ceremony. It is getting out of hand. Way too much is being made of the award. How many of these great college football players have ever done anything after winning the award. They are very few and far between. Besides, almost half of the time many think that the wrong player won. Why not put all the awards on one show from college football.

1.The Daytona 500 is called the Super Bowl of Nascar, only it is at the beginning of the season? Not even close! They have more than one race at the track every year as well. The night race at mid-season is better esthetically. The cars look way better at night. Does the Daytona 500 get you more points for the Nextel Cup Series? Does it win the Championship in the first week of the season? How many teams are in it again? Well it seams it is nothing at all and actually the opposite of the Super Bowl! It may be the most exciting race of the year because it is opening weekend. It is my favorite track and the only one I have ever been on and in the pit area. However it is not the Super Bowl of anything.

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 Different reasons come up every year.  In the NCAA they still go with the BCS Championship.  Every year we all have arguments on who should be in the big game.  Last year many thought Michigan should rematch with Ohio State for the title.  We all know what happened though.  The polls came out and Florida got voted into the game against Ohio State and crushed them.

 That is the problem.  We rely on votes for game participants like it's American Idol?  It has got to go.  Is it really that hard to have a four or eight team tournament to see who really is the best?  Do we really trust all who actually vote on this to make a sound decision?

  Well look at this year.  This week LSU played at Auburn.  LSU is ranked #4.  LSU also got beat last week by Kentucky who moved up to #7 after beating LSU.  How is it that a team beats another and is still ranked lower?  We just saw them beat LSU.  Doesn't that make them better?  How bad does that loss look now that Kentucky followed up that win with a 45-37 loss to Florida?  Didn't Florida just lose to LSU?

Look at all the top 25 teams that have been not only beaten but have been embarrassed this season.  Every week the top 25 teams and even the top 10 teams change more than ever.

Besides, this could be the biggest money maker for the NCAA since the NCAA basketball tournament.  There aren't nearly as many college hoops fanatics as college football junkies.  It isn't like they don't have a month of open schedule anyway.  Last year the two teams in the Championship game had over 50 days off, that is way to long.

It is as big as it gets this week when #2 Michigan travels to Columbus to face #1 Ohio State for the biggest game in college football this year.  This may also be the biggest game of the two schools storied rivalry.  These two teams are seperated by a few mere thousanths of a point in the BCS standings.  The big question also remains, if these two should rematch for the National Championship.

  The only way I see them rematching would be if #3 USC gets beat by #5 Notre Dame.  Notre Dame got thumped at home by Michigan earlier this year, and #4 Florida may not even win their conference title, they still have tough games ahead.  Michigan and Ohio State have dominated with defense all season and are both still undefeated.  A new player emerging in the BCS question is Rutgers.  They too are undefeated and just beat former #3 Louisville.

  Through all the Michigan VS Ohio State games though, this is the biggest.  The last time these two were both unbeaten was 1973.  That game ended in a 10-10 tie leaving both unbeaten and OSU getting the vote to go to the Rose Bowl.  Of the 102 previous meetings between Michigan and Ohio State, just four have come when both teams were undefeated. And just nine have seen both teams ranked in the Top 5.

  This Saturday at 3:30 pm EST we will all find out just how evenly matched these two teams are.  If either team wins in a blow out there is now way they will rematch for the National Championship, if it is close they just might.

  The other winner in all this, Wisconsin?  Would they then be the next team in line for the Rose Bowl?  Not likely.  If the Wolverines and Buckeyes rematch there would not be a Big Ten team in the Rose Bowl.  That hasn't happened since..........well last year

  I was a little suprised but not too suprised that I read a blog from a WVU (West Virginia) that said his team should have been ranked #2 ahead of an overrated Michigan team.  Even with the BCS rankings out now with WVU coming in at #3 it does not mean that WVU can even play in the BCS title game.  OSU and Michigan are both rated so high and closely that the loser of the Nov. 18th showdown may not even drop past #2 anyway.

  Don't get me wrong West Virginia has a terrific team this year.  Their toughest opponent though is their schedule.  They have one of the most pathetic schedules with only Louisville as a threat to beat them the entire year.  When was the last time WVU went into a top ranked teams stadium and smacked them around like Michigan did to then #2 ranked Notre Dame and Ohio State did to Texas?  Well they never have and certainly haven't this year. 

   Respect is earned and not given.  Also Michigan is 9-0, WVU is 7-0.  Michigan beat Wisconsin (8-1) Notre Dame (7-1) and Penn State and 2 of 3 were on the road.  Penn States two losses came from who else?  Michigan and Ohio State.  Michigan also boasts the number one defense as well.  Besides WVU fans, all you have to do is win out and your team has a shot at the National Title, until they play Michigan or Ohio State in the title game.  Then it may get embarrassing.