Despite the never-ending pregame festivities, later start time, senior citizen halftime show & a matchup the experts tried to convince us was undesirable, ratings for Sunday's Super Bowl show nearly 46-million households were watching delivering 90-million viewers. It's the best number for the game since the Rams beat the Titans in 2000.
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Speaking of the Tennessee Titans, head coach Jeff Fisher is co-chair of the NFL's Competition Committee & has offered his opinion on three of the contraversial calls from Sunday (which everyone is still talking about).
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For those of you into conspiracy theories involving game officials, the technical foul called on Florida State's Alexander Johnson against Duke Saturday only fueled the fire that Coach K's temas get all the calls. On Monday the ACC suspended the crew a game.
Yeah, that'll teach them.
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Was that the final nail I heard being nailed in the coffin last night for Rick Pitino's Louisville Cardinals? Cincinnati won the game, 74-68. At 15-8 overall, 3-7 in the Big East, you can forget March Madness. The Cards are in jeopardy of not even making it into their conference tourney which only takes the top 12 teams.
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East Carolina basketball coach Ricky Stokes has suspended junior guard Japhet McNeil & sophomore forward Johnathan Hart for conduct detrimental to the team.
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Changes in the broadcast booth as Fox's James Brown is leaving the network's pregame show to do the same job at CBS. But with the new job, Brown will add play-by-play duties for the network's March Madness coverage. Greg Gumbel is leaving the CBS NFL pregame to return to play-by-play duties for the network.
I will miss JB on Fox. They have clearly been the best of NFL pregame shows with Howie Long, Terry Bradshaw & Jimmy Johnson. Brown knew how to let his co-workers shine while keeping things in a flow & entertaining. That's not easy & he will be missed by Fox.
Meanwhile, CBS is adamant they are keeping 71-year old Dick Enberg & talks are underway to extend his contract.
Bonnie Bernstein announced Monday she is leaving CBS to begin a consulting firm; Armen Keteyian is switching from sports to the CBS news division; and finally, ESPN reporter Andrea Kremer is talking with NBC to join their coverage of Sunday night football.
Oh, I am still unemployed.
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Athletes who decide to dope it up while competing at the Olympic Winter Games will be subject to criminal proceedings, an Italian government official said Monday.
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Music quote of the day:
"Complicate this world you wrapped for me
I'm acquainted with your suffering
And all your weight, it falls on me
It brings me down
And all your weight, it falls on me
It falls on me"
posted by Forrest Goodman @ 9:02 AM
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I wish I had paid more attention to the Stones at the half of the Super Bowl. It's really not fair to make fun of their age, since my bands I like are now aging rockers. I am not saying this is the case with the Stones, but there are examples of some rock bands (or singers) that should just hang it up... but then again, there are many examples in professional sports when an athlete just simply needs to walk away, but won't.
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