It’s USC-UCLA week which means the main statues on each campus get extra protection from vandalism. USC duct tapes the entire Tommy Trojan statue and has students stand guard round-the-clock.

(SbB Girl Cecilia in front of Tommy Trojan statue on USC campus)
UCLA has no such student guard patrols, and only drapes a tarp over the […]

UPDATE: Official, Hawkins back for 2010.
UPDATE: CBS 4’s Vic Lombardi Tweets Wednesday night: “We know the decision…do you really think Bohn is gonna fire Hawk on Thanksgiving? C’mon. He’s coming back.”
UPDATE: Maybe the Hawk isn’t grounded after all, as the big Denver newstalk radio station, KOA-AM, is reporting this afternoon that Dan Hawkins will return […]

Ken Hoffman of the HOUSTON CHRONICLE recent posted a piece @ Chron.com about Pete Rose’s astonishing acumen as manager of his 20-something Asian girlfriend Kiana Kim’s nude modeling career.

Then came reader reax.

An undaunted Hoffman responded to those missives by completely ignoring the criticisms and offering us even more essential information about the background of Rose’s […]

David Clark Scott of CSMonitor.com reports on a bizarre, golf-related court ruling in Canada recently. Justice Arthur J. LeBlanc recently ruled that running up to the ball to whack it, like Adam Sandler in the movie Happy Gilmore, should be considered a legal breach of “the standard of care owed to other players on the […]

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER reports this week that Tiger Woods has been cheating on his wife Elin Nordegren with a 34-year-old “New York party girl” named Rachel Uchitel.

(Photo credit: National Enquirer)
In the Enquirer’s Dec. 7 issue, Michael Glynn reports that Woods’ alleged brunette mistress has a “reputation for dating married celebrities” and has had trysts […]

Florida Gators-themed wedding cake:

(From the AngryT.com via SI.com’s Extra Mustard)
As an alumnus of the University of Georgia, I will withhold my judgement on the cake until it is moved to the judging platform.

UPDATE: The CHICAGO TRIBUNE has updated its story by reporting it got the entire thing wrong.
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The CHICAGO TRIBUNE has news that will extinguish any talk of Jimmy ClausenCharlie Weis. coming back for his senior season at Notre Dame, with or without

Century 21 real estate agent Kathye Currey reports to the CHICAGO TRIBUNE that Clausen’s home […]

Lee Higgins of the AnnArbor.com reports this week:
A University of Michigan football player was arrested this morning after a female student reported he sexually assaulted her.

The man was questioned and released as detectives continue to investigate the 2 a.m. incident in the 600 block of South State Street, Ann Arbor police Det. Dave Monroe […]