Well I was right last night Florida and   Tim Tebow proved they are the best in college football. OU was a good team but Florida was better I also loved what Tim Tebow said after the game about his faith in Jesus.  Good for him. He is a great player and even better person.   
Now I am going to try my hand at NFL picks . Here are the games and my picks.

 

This is the night some housewives can't wait for. After tonight college football is over.

Tonight we will find out who will win the NCAA title as the best football team when  Florida plays OU.  Look where  my X is below and that is my pick. First let me say both teams are pretty good  and I hope it is a good game and clean game, no matter who wins. I believe whoever wins will deserve it. OK my pick is...

	Florida (12-1)----X Schedule/Results / Bowl History
	Oklahoma (12-1) Schedule/Results / Bowl History

That is right I am going with Florida. OU. had trouble with Texas and Texas had trouble with Ohio State. I also believe the quarterback for Florida will be able to move the ball against OU. Which ever team does a better job of stopping the other team through the whole game will win and I believe that will be Florida. May the best team win. Again don't put the house on the game. I am just making this pick for fun and see how I do. I am sure all of you OU fans will give me a hard time if I am wrong.

I believe Texas will win. Sorry Ohio State fans I just feel the Big Ten is overrated and not that good this year. If  I am wrong you can all give it to me.

Tonight Alabama plays Utah in the Sugar Bowl.

Alabama should win this. I am going to say by 10.

I don't want be too prideful but did you see my other bowl picks from yesterday games. I got them all right. Don't believe, me check out my  picks in these posts    Bowl Game Picks,        Another Bowl Pick .

Tonight  in the OrangeBowl  Cincinnati  will play Virginia Tech . Don't take it to the bank or put your house on it but Tech should win .

I hope no one minds but thought I would take break from politics, and the culture issues I mostly post about.

Tomorrow is the day some of biggest  bowl games take place.

Here are my picks for two of those games.

Penn State  plays USC  in the Rose Bowl.  I could be wrong but my thinking is USC  will win this one by 14 points. I thought Penn State was overrated. Now you never know what will happen in a football game but that is the way I see it.

My home state College the Nebraska Cornhuskers plays the Clemson Tigers - in the GATOR BOWL. I recall a number years ago when my Huskers just needed to beat guess who the Clemson Tigers in the Orange Bowl and they would be gived the  National Championship.  At the end of that game it  was a happy Orange night for the Tigers and not one for the Huskers. Even though this year there are  different coaches and players I believe Nebraska will be Gator happy. I am not sure how close the game will be but it looks to me like it will be a  happy night here in Nebraska.

Yet for the life of him, Lepsis could not block out God.

For many, the revelation Lepsis played high through the first six games of the Broncos' 2007 season was jolting. I'm not so naive to think Travis Henry is the only Bronco who ever tried drugs. But Lepsis didn't seem like the type. He not only was nice, he was unfailingly polite. He didn't talk much but he laughed easily.

"I know a lot of people will look at this and say, 'Here we go again, another professional athlete who got mixed up on drugs, was in the gutter somewhere, and decided to become religious,' " Lepsis said Friday from Dallas, where he is studying at a theological seminary. "My story couldn't be any further from that. I didn't grow up in the church. I wasn't at rock bottom. I'm not stupid. I didn't seek God, God was seeking me. This happened to me and it can happen to you if you accept the free gift that God has given us."

Drugs and God may be entwined in this story, but people should know the sensational had far less impact on Lepsis' on-field performance than the spiritual.

(What a powerful true story. This shows me no one is too high in life that they don't need to be saved or too low in life that they can't be saved. Lepsis, now studying theology in a seminary at Dallas. He also  is anxious to tell his story of redemption.  Here's a couple of other news stories where he does just that: the Seattle Times, the Colorado Springs Gazette, and this particularly detailed story in Winston-Salem's JournalNow. You can also read more of the above story right here.) 

 

 

University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow has added to an already impressive collection of national football awards, garnering the 2008 Wuerffel Trophy, the Maxwell Award and the Disney Spirit Award.

Tebow is a member of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, where his parents, Bob and Pam Tebow, are longtime members and, as missionaries to the Philippines, head up the Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association.

A college junior, Tebow, who last year was the first sophomore to win the Heisman, college football's most prestigious honor, finished last among this year’s three finalists but had the most first-place votes.

The 1996 Heisman winner, Danny Wuerffel, notified Tebow Dec. 11 that he had won the trophy named for him (Wuerffel), which is awarded to the college football player who best combines exemplary community service with athletic and academic achievement.

Tebow, who will lead Florida against the Oklahoma Sooners in the Jan. 8 BCS National Championship Game in Miami, was recognized for spending his 2008 spring break as a missionary in the Philippines with his dad's ministry. In April 2008, he organized a flag football tournament to raise awareness for orphans in Gainesville and around the world. He has spoken at a business conference in Croatia and was invited by the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board to speak to missionaries in southern Asia. He also has spoken at several prisons across the state of Florida.

Mac Brunson, pastor of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, said he and the church are "incredibly proud" of Tim and "how much his leadership has come to the top."

"We talk about Timmy the runner, we talk about Timmy the passer, we talk about Timmy the football player, but I think what everybody has seen this year is the leadership quality," Brunson told the Florida Baptist Witness. "Everything rises and falls on leadership, and after the Mississippi game [Florida's lone loss], he just kind of rose to leadership."

(Good for this young man who at a young age is already making an impact for good and the things of God. Here's more from Baptist Press.)

Mike Holmgren (pictured below)is happily leaving the job he’s loved and mastered for the last 17 years in the NFL. The reason is on the second floor of the Pike Market Medical Clinic.

His wife, Kathy, a registered nurse who specializes is treating diabetes, is ending a checkup with a patient, a small, older man with bright eyes for whom English is a second language. For the last two years Kathy has volunteered at the clinic, which welcomes poor people off the streets of downtown Seattle.

She’s done foot care, made home visits and seen whoever comes through the door. She’s also traveled to Africa and Romania and Mexico while volunteering for a medical outreach team.

Before Holmgren’s final game on Sunday, Kathy had reluctantly raised the “12th Man” flag, Seattle’s in-stadium salute to its fans, immediately before kickoff. It was the first time in 15 years she’s watched one of his games in its entirety in person.

(Read more about this great coach and even better person along with his outstanding wife and their neat work   right here .)

Exactly how high the plane got off the ground is hard to say. No one could really be sure that foggy night in Ohio nearly a half-century ago. Some folks swear the old C-46, a leftover from World War II, never lifted off at all.

Ted Tollner, a quarterback at Cal Poly, was sitting over the left wing, on the side where the engine gave out.

"After we hit, it was all a blur," he said.

The Arctic-Pacific charter split in two and caught on fire Oct. 29, 1960, at Toledo Express Airport. It was the first airline crash involving a U.S. sports team. Of the 22 people killed, there were 16 Cal Poly players, a manager and a booster.

The next year, with support from Bob Hope and a blessing from President Kennedy, a game took place at the Los Angeles Coliseum to offset burial costs, pay medical expenses and set up an educational fund for the victims' families and survivors.

They called it the Mercy Bowl.

A crowd of more than 33,000 turned out to see Fresno State beat Bowling Green, 36-6, that Thanksgiving Day in 1961. Check eBay, and it's easy to find ticket stubs -- stamped with "Benefit Cal Poly Plane Crash Fund" -- and souvenir programs for sale.

Tollner was there as a spectator, still nursing the right ankle smashed in the accident. He went to a life of coaching in the NFL and college, always wondering why he was allowed to survive.

Shortly before the flight, Curtis Hill asked Tollner to switch seats. The gifted receiver became ill on the trip to play at Bowling Green, and he figured he'd do better near the front of the plane going back home to San Luis Obispo.

Tollner traded, moving back a few rows. Minutes later, the pilot, flying with a license that had been revoked by the Federal Aviation Administration, tried to take off.

"I was pretty much the cutoff," said Tollner, now the quarterbacks coach for the San Francisco 49ers. "About 100 percent of the people sitting in front of me were killed. Curtis was one of them. The people in my row and back mostly survived."

"A lot of things go through your mind when you get an extra bonus of 48 years to live. Why me?

(It is too bad they don't play a  bowl game today for some kind of cause. Read more on this story Mercy Bowl remembered.)

 Grumpy golfer John Daly took out his frustration after a bad round by smashing a spectator's camera against a tree.

The controversial American, who has battled alcohol and gambling addictions, is now in danger of missing the cut after a six-over round of 78.
Daly grabbed Brad Clegg's camera after hitting his tee shot on the ninth and final hole into a clump of trees.

"I was looking to take a drop and the camera was six inches away from my face," Daly said in a statement afterwards.

Clegg said he was stunned by the incident and did not believe he had provoked Daly, the 1991 PGA and 1995 Open champion.

"It was very unexpected. I was bold but I wasn't unreasonable," he said.

( I don't for one second want to encourage anyone to take the law into their own hands.  I also wasn't  near this event but still fans and those in the media  at times need to take a step back when trying to film well known people. Read  more on this story right here.)

 

In the matter or Orenthal James Simpson, justice was a little late, but last Friday -- 13 years after justice was delayed in a Los Angeles double murder trial -- it refused to be denied in a Las Vegas courtroom. Simpson was sentenced to between nine and 33 years behind bars for his role in last year's kidnapping and armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at Palace Station Hotel and Casino.