Speaking of Air Force, and of college hoops, Air Force led Colorado College 50-6 at halftime of the Falcons 82-31 home win. The Falcons didn’t run it up, as their starters played 10, 7, 10, 8, and 14 minutes respectively. The 6 points scored by Colorado College is the lowest scoring first half in the two decades of the shot clock, breaking the record set last January when Ohio led Central Michigan 35-7 at halftime. That was a non-board game, but the college board has been treating us more than fairly. Our late phone service is now 21-5 in college basketball. If you’re interested in our basketball or our football bowl package, call the office at 770-649-1078 and we’ll get you set up.

Quincy Carter jailed on drug charges, huh? Shocker. Rumors have long persisted that there was more than met the eye to Carter’s five interception “performance” at South Carolina in 2000. The Cardinals/Seahawks game last Sunday was played indoors on a beautiful early-winter Arizona day. As Dan Bickley of the Arizona Republic writes, “why have a retractable roof? if they're not going to open it up on a 64-degree day in December, when will they?”

Michael Irvin really asked TO the tough questions, didn’t he? He may be ESPN’s biggest enabler. This is high praise, considering that in 2001 Stuart Scott pulled Ray Lewis away from a pack of newspaper reporters on Ravens Super Bowl media day saying of his colleagues who dared to question Lewis, “^#&* those guys, man.”

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The Patriots were completely out of synch last week in their game against the Dolphins. Miami has an excellent front line and the Jason Taylor-led front had access to an excellent game plan implemented by Nick Saban, who knows Belichick extremely well. But we’re going to forgive the Patriots for that loss, and remind ourselves that they play extraordinarily well off of losses. Let’s focus in particular on how Tom Brady does following losses. In the past three years Brady has played in 10 regular season games after a loss. In those games he has completed over 67% of his passes for over 8.5 yards per pass attempt with 18 TD passes to only 6 interceptions. And New England’s defense and the rest of their veteran pieces can be expected to come up big in this one.

The Texans have played their last two games against the Raiders and Titans. They are very fortunate to have split the games, as Houston has been outgained by a margin of 720-364 in those two games. It is rare that you’ll see an offense over a two-week span have only 129 net yards passing, but that’s what David Carr’s offense has accomplished in the last two weeks. (they actually were –4 in passing yards in their win against Oakland.) This Texans team is a club without any discernable strengths right now. Look for New England to roll to a blowout win.

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