Cornhuskers-Rainbow Warriors almost too close to call...Athlon, seductress that she is, is slowly unveiling their top 25 college football teams for next year and Nebraska checked in yesterday at #18.
It's difficult to know what to do with this information. For one, the season is still four months away so any ranking assumes that no Cornhuskers will be felled by TVs, overzealous bouncers, academic indifference or tornados/floods/drought/etc. Anyone believe that? Me neither.
The other problem is, we don't know who's ahead of Nebraska, just the seven teams who are lower. I guess the good news is, Athlon likes us better than Tennessee (#20), Auburn (#21), and Texas Ag. & Mech. (#23). The bad news is, we're only one spot better than Hawaii. The fact that Nebraska plays its games at a civilized hour has to have something to do with that.
To summarize: Preseason rankings are crap, but they're fun to look at and I would say 18 is just about right for a 2007 starting point.
Marquis flirts with perfection, but perfection is such a tease...Jason Marquis did not throw a perfect game last night. He retired the first 16 batters of the game, flirted with her for a while before the perfect game decided she was going to throw it all away and hook up with Don Kelly. Bitch.
Not to worry, however, as Marquis didn't lose his composure. He went the distance, got the three-hit shutout and realized that the frumpy girl in his chemistry class was actually a beautiful butterfly underneath the big hair and glasses.
Marquis is now 5-1 with a 1.70 ERA, and the Cubs doubled their total number of one-run wins on the season.
Preakness field rounds out, but where's Curlin?...The challengers are lining up to take on Street Sense. Hard Spun will be there and so will Teuflesberg off his 17th-place Derby finish.
Non-Derby horses include King of the Roxy, Xchanger and the unfortunately named, Mint Slewlep. (If I never see another horse with the word "Slew" in it's name, I'll be just fine.)
Word out of the Curlin camp should come today. Not only do I expect him to be there, I expect him to win...for now.
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Did you know... Jason Marquis had a clause in his previous contract that would've awarded him a $50,000 bonus for winning the Silver Slugger award. Hmm...
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