HEY, GET THAT BOWL-MONKEY OFF YER BACK

Yep, while all y'all are busy stuffing Christmas back into the boxes out of which it poured a month or so ago, trundling stuff into the garage or the attic or heaven-help-you to your storage locker (parenthetically, residential off-site storage facilities are the Lord's subtle way of telling you YOU NEED TO GIVE OR THROW SOME THINGS AWAY!!!!!!), there is a little game going on today. It happens in a sunny venue, and will feature a Big 10 team against a Pac 10 team and will take place before a near capacity crowd. Hell, I can dream, can't I?

Okay, okay, maybe LOST has slurped the ol' Holiday kool-aid a little. Watching that Stanford basketball game last night fueled the frenzy - it had been 8 years since the last time the ol' Bruins had beaten Stanford at Pauley - LOST's follicles were still active in those days. But this is a chance for a young coach with a great work ethic (and despite that debacle earlier in the month, one who has made great strides) to make another statement. A ten win season in his third year. UCLA has only done that 5 times in its whole program history. And its going to be like shadow boxing - after all, the team faced has a solid offense and on defense, well not so much.

Lets go Bruins. Pound the Wildcats (Psst, Karl, just pretend its the Huskies) Couldn't resist that li'l dig at my one loyal reader.