By
Bryan Rosenbaum
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November is the greatest month of the year, and not because of the elections taking place today.
What other month can combine college football, college basketball, the NFL, NBA and NHL, and have no baseball whatsoever (unless you count that Major League vs. Japanese League series)?
Already, the month has started out like the Viper at Magic Mountain - topsy-turvy, high speed excitement. What could possibly happen next? Ralph Nader wins the presidential election?
Compared to those Arizona-Washington and Northwestern-Michigan games on Saturday, a Nader presidency seems downright plausible.
Watching them on two televisions at the same time KO'd me from any other activities Saturday night.
They also KO'd my two teams, UA and U-M, and all but assured me a Tucson-only Winter Break.
For Christmas, I wish that the spread offense - which has helped turn around the laughable programs at Purdue and Northwestern - would be banned from the Big Ten.
Big Ten football is now faster and higher scoring than the old WAC and even Big Ten basketball. The last time the two teams met in basketball, Michigan and Northwestern were tied 49-49 at the end of regulation.
....Was anybody surprised that Florida State pounded Clemson? Even more so, was anybody surprised Florida State is still ahead of Miami in the BCS poll?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Miami beat Florida State? And isn't Florida State's best win this year against....Clemson? You can make the argument that Miami did play McNeese State - best known as the school that produced ex-Detroit Piston Joe Dumars - but fair's fair.
Miami beat the 'Noles straight up and lost on the road to Washington, which, correct me if I'm wrong again, is 8-1.
....Bobby Ross quit yesterday as head coach of the Detroit Lions. His replacement is Gary Moeller. Wait a minute: isn't this the same Gary Moeller who got fired from Michigan in 1995 after causing a drunken disturbance at a Detroit-area restaurant?
Well, at least Lions fans now have somebody they can relate to. After Charlie Batch went down with an injury for the umpteenth time Sunday, thousands of drunken fans cheered the concussion. Classless and appalling....
....We here at the Wildcat have been swamped with letters from angry band members for a comment made in a sports column last week. Fortunately, nobody can read them because they're in a secret, only-bandos-can-understand language. Can anybody decipher what the band says at basketball games besides "Nice shot, buddy" and "Hey, we're gonna get you too"? Me neither.
....How can the UA athletic department give in to Florida's request to televise tonight's match and move the event from Bear Down Gym (which isn't equipped properly for TV) to McKale Center?
By playing at Bear Down, where the team practices, Arizona would have been able to host the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament there.
As it is, the Wildcats, which will be a No. 1 or 2 seed in the tournament, will most likely be forced to go on the road because of a scheduling conflict at McKale.
What a great reward for a fantastic season and a possible Pac-10 championship.
....To spare us of more hate mail, I'm going to take time out to put in a good word for the band: please put the Pride of Arizona either behind the opponents bench or in the opposite end-zone from where they are now. Nobody can hear them as it is now, and bands are as important part of college football as the option and the winged-helmet.
As for the spread offense, get that out. Now.
