Wyoming leading Texas 10-6, late in the second quarter. Wow — kind of wishing I was up in Laramie right now. And OklaSt losing too, 24-7!!
Loyette down for her nap, chips & salsa on the table, Notre Dame-Michigan underway. Life is good.
UNC beats UConn w/ 12-pt 4th Q comeback, wins on safety. Ugh. But Sparty lost to C. Mich. on Chippewas’ third chance in final minute – HA!!
Gators lead Troy 42-3. Imagine how interesting it would be if Florida played real teams. I think they host Newington High School next week.
UConn 10, #19 North Carolina 0, end of the third quarter. w00t!
I just discovered that I can now get ESPN360 through my Comcast internet service. YAAAAAY!!!!!
Here is SI.com’s always helpful TV schedule for tomorrow’s college football action. Games of particular interest to me, with times converted to Mountain Daylight Time:
• North Carolina at UConn, 10am, ESPNU (so, not really televised)
• Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 10am, no TV
• Notre Dame at Michigan, 1:30pm, ABC
• BYU at Tulane, 1:30pm, ESPN2
• UCLA at Tennessee, 2pm, ESPN
• USC at Ohio State, 6pm, ESPN
I doubt I’ll be able to sit and watch quite as much football as I did last Saturday — it’s tough with two kids, obviously, and Becky was very tolerant on opening weekend — but still. Can’t wait. Should be a great Saturday. (And Loyette will be asleep by the second half of Trojans-Buckeyes. Sweeet.)
P.S. The new masthead is a photo taken when we rushed the field at Notre Dame Stadium after the 2004 ND-Michigan game, the Irish having stunned the Skunkbears.
Colorado vs. Toledo on national TV? How is ESPN scraping the bottom of the barrel this early in the season? Oh, and Colorado is losing. Heh.
One of the goals of the so called War on Terror from the very beginning was to catch Osama Bin Laden, the terrorist who did this to us. The Bush Administration made bringing Bin Laden to justice a primary goal of the Afghanistan war. I’ve always thought this was a mistake.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Bin Laden is a good guy, or that he shouldn’t be tried for his crimes. I hope he is caught and tried for his acts. But to make the finding of a very mobile insurgent leader the aim of a WAR is horrible strategy. Really, once we made it clear that the US wanted Bin Laden’s capture to be a goal of the War on Terror, all Bin Laden has to do to make us look ineffective is to not get caught by US forces. Indeed, he pretty much booked it to Pakistan as soon as it became clear that the US was invading Afghanistan, and he’s laughing at us from another country as we speak. Unless our intelligence community gets a good tip, we won’t get him.
Instead of making catching Bin Laden a goal, we should have simply made breaking up Al Qaeda the goal. THAT is something we achieved, or at least a goal we’ve made progress on. We’ve disrupted Al Qaeda, and while I suspect that they will rebuild and figure things out, our goal should be to make life hard for them, not to catch their leader. If the intelligence community gets a good tip, go for it! Get him! That would still be a great victory. But to make finding him central to the war aims is a bad idea that, as we can see, has hurt our aims and reputation in the Middle East.
