Moving up to a record of 7-3 on the season, the South Carolina Gamecocks defeated the Arkansas Razorbacks by a score of 34-21.
Coach Steve Spurrier returned to his practice of using 2 quarterbacks as he continues to develop the talent of freshman Steven Garcia. Senior quarterback Chris Smelley served as starting quarterback for today's game.
Next Saturday the Gamecocks will face Spurrier's Alma mater and old stomping grounds as the nations' top coach, the Florida Gators. It was at Florida that Spurrier won the Heisman Trophy as a player. It was also at Florida that Spurrier dominated the SEC and college football as a whole during his record-setting years as the Gator coach.
Spurrier has struggled with the Gators since becoming South Carolina's head coach. This year's prospects are not good as the Gamecocks face a Gator team that has racked up terribly lopsided scores against many of their opponents.
Still, an upset is possible, and the Gamecocks hope that this is their year.
Saturday, November 08, 2008
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And I am surprised?
NOT!
The Arkansas Razorbacks have been consistently lousy ever since I moved to Arkansas and actually knew they existed.
What I am amazed by is the overwhelming level of support this consistently losing team has. It beats all I've ever heard of. Of course, I don't care for sports, and don't follow any of the different activities, but it is hard to ignore when they shutdown half of Fayetteville for a game.
This DOES highlight a very real problem in American society. Americans are focused on all the unimportant things, at the expense of dealing with some very real and pressing problems.
This is destroying us as a nation.
I guess it will finally come to halt when the nukes hit, or we find Russian and/or Chinese armed forces within our borders.
Well, I enjoy watching baseball, college football, and ice hockey. But I keep it in perspective.
While some in Washington refer to CEO salaries as 'obscene,' nobody says a word about the salaries of sports stars and the Hollywood elite.
When I see the amount of money the top NBA players make, for example, it just strikes me as odd that we allow that to get by but browbeat those who fight their way up the system in business, or who start a buisness and nearly starve the first 10 years until they finally reach successs.
Our priorities as a society as certainly topsy turvey.
While I am not interested in any of those things, as long as it's kept in proper perspective, I don't care if someone else does. My problem is the excessive focus (bordering on obsession) with sports. What it really is, is entertainment.
The outrageous pay of those in "professional" sports tell the whole story. They don't produce anything, they don't educate anyone (except in bad behavior by example), they don't invent things to aid business, medicine, etc., they don't advance our technical knowledge and ability, etc.. Yet, they are "paid" unbelievable sums of money.
Something is far, too far wrong with this situation.
BTW, just what does an "actor" do, besides be a professional hypocrite?
Just as an aside, my "sports" interests are reloading, shooting, and hunting. But only after the necessary and essential things are done.
An actor is one who is paid obscene amounts of money to play like he/she is someone else and then pretend to be a political pundit on the side. LOL.
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