I'm in the process of earning my second from University of Washington.

Neither of my teams has an in-conference win this year.  Not one.

However, one of my two Washington schools will get a win today -- because they'll play each other in the Apple Cup!  Soo, yayyy!

In addition, WSU has bragging rights, because many analysts believe that their football team is the WORST in PAC 10 HISTORY.  Yes, as in the worst ever, ever, ever!

If the mighty Gators are all that "Mighty" then why didn't they schedule someone to play that would prove that point? Instead they play a team that guarantees them to be able to pad the win column.

Frankly if I was a Gator fan I would be embarrassed.  If the Gators even play their starters at all today, for even one series of downs, they should be dropped from the Top Ten just on principle.

Scheduling The Citadel is just not keeping in the spirit of competitive college football.

As President-elect Barack Obama moved closer to making Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton his choice for secretary of state, independent legal experts said unwinding some of the most nettlesome conflicts involving her husband's global fundraising would prove extraordinarily complicated.

"I think he was far more interested in his children than the social whirl," said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a longtime Biden friend. "I have to kid him a little bit, because he's no longer going to be asking, `Are we going to finish this vote by 7:45?' so he can make this mad dash to the train."

Not that Mr. Biden will suddenly become a fixture at Washington dinner parties, predicted Mr. Leahy, who in his 34 years in the Senate has seen a few new administrations come to town. "Everybody loves to have the vice president over for dinner, and he'll have 100 invitations piling up," Mr. Leahy said. "But I think he can be very valuable to President Obama up on the Hill. That will be the most important place to be."

Sally Quinn, the journalist and author, said that like the Obamas, who have spent little time in Washington, the Bidens will be social newcomers.

"I've never seen Joe Biden at a party in Washington," Ms. Quinn said. "Both of those couples are going to be fresh faces, even though they've both been in the Senate and Biden's been here for a hundred years. It'll be very interesting to have them around."

Mr. Kaufman, who has been a close Biden friend since the 1970s, said Mr. Biden was damaged politically by his absence on the social scene.

"He did not participate in it," Mr. Kaufman said. "To be honest, it was a real hindrance, because when he ran for president in '87, people didn't know him. You could probably count on two hands the number of embassy functions he went to."

[. . .]

If she chooses to work, Dr. Biden's chosen profession is unlikely to raise any red flags. "It's almost impossible for me to imagine what kind of conflict there could be with a teacher," said Melanie Sloan, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group.

An official at one Washington college said she hoped that Dr. Biden would come looking for a job there. "We would love it," said Elizabeth Homan, a spokeswoman for Montgomery College, one of the largest community colleges in the Washington area. "I think it would be a really pleasant surprise."

Officials at Amtrak, however, were less enthusiastic about losing their high-profile customer.

"We will miss having Senator Biden as a regular passenger," said Karina Romero, an Amtrak spokeswoman.

Obama has also been meeting with possible candidates for other posts, including director of national intelligence. One name that has surfaced as a possibility in recent days is retired Adm. Dennis Blair, a former chief of the U.S. Pacific Command. Others said to be possibilities include John Brennan, a former CIA analyst who worked his way up the agency ladder, and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). A member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a former Army officer and businessman, Hagel has strong Capitol Hill support and is respected within the national security community as a nonpartisan analyst of intelligence issues.

An interesting question.  A lot of the "Democratic official" quotes just sound like Beltway whining though.  

When teams play their forever rivals.

Harvard - Yale, Michigan - Ohio State, you get the idea.

The game which, if it's the "1" in a 1-9 season, still means the season was successful.

Looks like you will have to play them twice.

I'd wait a bit before picking out who I want to play for the NC if I were you.

This is the substitute teacher that was having to use a windows 98 machine with autodated virus scanners and that had porn popups appear.  They originally found her guilty, and ultimately she gave up her license and accepted a misdemeanor disorderly conduct 'deal.'