Weekend Sports Opinions 9/8-9/07

There was an abundance of sports this weekend and I didn't get a chance to watch a lot but saw a lot of highlights and watched some games. I missed a lot for good reasons - son's soccer game and church service - but know I missed it so oh well.

BYU - UCLA:
I honestly felt pretty good about the "Y's" chances against the baby bears. I have a co-worker that has had season tickets for years and she didn't know a thing about BYU so she asked what I thought would happen. I told her I thought it would be real close or UCLA would just blow us out. I felt that I was justified with the 10point win but was closer than that.

With the pick 6 in the first half UCLA had an inflated lead. Kudos for the big plays in the game but BYU dominated the majority of this game. T.O.P. was a lopsided affair as was the total yards and passing yards. I guess the most important stat was big plays and UCLA made them with the interception and fumble recoveries. HOWEVER, I didn't realize that the replay officials were as blind as the refs on the field. 1st fumble was clearly receiver's knee on the ground before the ball came out and replay?????? still fumble. I guess we need to get HD TV's for the PAC - 10 replay officials. 2nd fumble was Max Hall's arm moving forward and replay official???? fumble again. I am not blaming the refs but still feel the need to point this out. Plus, penalty yards was a lopsided affair that BYU won, unfortunately. I will say we got one call when we intercepted the ball there was clearly PI on the cougs that wasn't called so I will give that to the inconsistency to the refs for us.

Overall, I think the rest of the year should go pretty well. It was a fun game to watch other than the outcome.

Dodgers - sinking but with the weekend I just looked at finals and see they are still in the wildcard and 51/2 back in the division. We need to go on a huge winning streak and soon.

Steelers - looked great but it was the Browns. However, you need to schedule a cupcake before you get into the big games so you can get into the BCS...OOHHHH this is the NFL and they actually have playoffs. If big Ben can throw 4 touches every week, we will be in business...but again, Browns were the opponent.

NFL- Boring Cowgirls and Gigantes game. Falcons still cannot win, and this league is still overhyped. It's a good thing there are a lot of people that can follow the once a week games since they can't follow everyday sports (baseball) or everyother day sports (basektball).