Auburn beat Kentucky going away Saturday by a score of 42-10. Auburn was sloppy and let UK stay in the game for way too long in my opinion. The next three games are going to be much tougher than this one, and Tuberville will have his hands full keeping the team from overlooking Mississippi, this weekend's opponent. (The game will be on ESPN at 7:45 pm Saturday night)

In what was, in all likelihood, the death nell for Ron Zook's head coaching career at Florida, the Gators lost to mighty Mississippi State Saturday. Yes...that's right. The same Mississippi State that lost to Vanderbilt, UAB and division IAA Maine.

Zook has compounded his problems recently by getting involved in fracases on campus between his thugs, I mean football players and campus fraternities. Recently, after being terrorized by several players, a fraternity president called campus police. Instead of going to clear up the issue, they called the AD who called Zook, who took it upon himself to go to the scene. Once there, he did nothing to diffuse the situation but chose to engage the fraternity members with profanity and threats. Ahh, what a leader of men and shaper of our future cell block D residents.

The University of Florida deserves all they get from this one. I hope there next coach is someone even dumber, if that's possible.

Martin Truex Jr. extended his Busch Series points lead over Kyle Busch by winning Saturday. With four races to go, only three drivers are mathematically alive for the title, and Kyle is now down by 208 points. That means that if Truex Jr. finished ninth or better and led no laps, he'd still win the title. This seems closer than it is, and we'll have a good idea of what the real spread is this Saturday after the Busch race at Atlanta.

The Red Sox and Cardinals started the 2004 World Series Saturday night and it was more of the same for the Sox: poor defense plus decent pitching plus terrible defense equalled wins in the first two games. The sox won Saturday night 11-9 after a game-winning two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Sunday night in all likelihood marked the final start of the season for Kurt Schilling, who endured ankle suturing to secure a loose tendon TWICE to make starts in Game 6 against the Yankees and Game 2 against the Cardinals. Schilling was in pain but again masterful, giving up four hits and one un-earned run thru six innings to stake the Sox to a 2-0 lead in the Series. Team trainers inadvertently hit a nerve when doing the process Friday night, and they now concede that the surrounding tissue "may not be up to" enduring the procedure again. No matter. If the Sox can win on the back of Schilling's last two starts, it will have all been worth it. Curt could sell his cars and simply be carried wherever he wanted to go for the rest of his life by thankful Red Sox fans.

Now, the series returns to St. Louis for Tuesday night's game. Since the NLCS started, the home team has won every playoff game in which the Cards have participated.

I hope this streak ends Tuesday. I don't want a competetive series. I want the worst series imaginable for the networks. Blowouts early and a short four or five game series with the Sox prevailing. I have nothing against St. Louis or the Cards, but I love the Sox and I can't take another seven game, holy crap what just happened series.

Yesterday also marked a pretty big Egging day at our house and across the street. We cooked pork chops with Raging River and chicken breasts with Tsunami Spin and Dizzy Dust. I cannot tell you (again and again) how great the Dizzy Pig seasoning are. Just try them. That's all I am saying.

Dizzy Pig BBQ web site


One other note here. Whether you're a NASCAR fan or not, this is just tragic. Yesterday just before noon EDT, a plane owned by Rick Hendrick (owner of Hendrick Motorsports) crashed about 7 miles northwest of Martinsville Speedway. There were no survivors. On the plane were Rick's brother John, John's twin daughters Kimberly and Jennifer, Ricky Hendrick (Rick's son), Randy Dorton (Head Engine Builder for HMS), Jeff Turner (VP and GM of Hendrick Motorsports), pilots Dick Tracey and Liz Morrison, Scott Latham (Tony Stewart's helicopter pilot), and Joe Jackson (an executive with DuPont). My thoughts are with the families of the victims of this horrible tragedy.