Power 12: The "This is the Greatest Sports Month of the Calendar Year" Edition

1.) Texas
2.) Alabama
'Bama survived Ole Miss at home. Which is a lot more than the hallowed Tebow & the media's beloved Gators can say. And the Tide is 7-0 heading to Knoxville -- I never would have dreamed of that in the preseason. This is fun!
3.) Penn State
I liked the way they responded to adversity against Michigan. If they beat the Buckeyes in Columbus, I may move them up.
4.) Southern California
5.) Florida
6.) Oklahoma
7.) Georgia
8.) LSU
9.) Ohio State
10.) Texas Tech
11.) Oklahoma State
12.) Georgia Tech
The Jackets aren't really on anyone else's radar screen, but they're a tough team to beat.

Dropped Out

BYU & Missouri

Those spread offenses don't look so good against half-way decent football teams. And when you play the spread exclusively, your defenses tend to stink. That explains why both these teams got routed this week.

And we'll see you Saturday Night!!

Rays 7
Sox 8

A big thanks to ALL the Sox... to J.D. Drew for the big hits, to Big Papi for coming back to life, to Masterson for getting a scoreless 9th when it could have slipped away, to the MVP "Destroia" Pedroia for that big double play, and to that big sweaty Jew Youkilis for scoring the winning run.

I love baseball.

How To Save a Drenched Cell Phone

I read this on an internet forum that I frequent. Maybe this story will come in handy in the future.

Got my IPhone wet a few days ago and it wouldn't function at all, and got it working again with a strange remedy I found online...

Dry it off, power it down, and bury it in a Tupperware container filled with uncooked rice. If you have any of those silica gelpacks that come in shoeboxes, put those in the container too, preferably right on the face of the Iphone, face down in the rice. Seal the Tupperware container and stick it in the oven for 48 hours. Turn the oven light on, but DO NOT turn the oven on. After 48 hours, you should be fine. The rice draws the moisture out. Worked for me. I took mine out for a test at about 36 hours and it was still a little flaky, so I put it back for 12 more hours then it was fine.

It's Time for Some Campaignin'

Power 12: "You Can't Lose if You Don't Play" Edition

1.) Alabama
2.) Texas
3.) Penn State
4.) Southern California
5.) Florida
6.) Georgia
7.) Oklahoma
8.) Missouri
9.) LSU
10.) BYU
11.) Ohio State
12.) Texas Tech

Not Even Close to Knocking on the Door

Auburn
They fired their Offensive Coordinator, but they're still rank on offense. Arkansas came into this game 87th in the nation in Total Defense & 112th in Scoring Defense, but Auburn totaled only 193 yards & one touchdown against them. I'm really starting to look forward to the Iron Bowl. :)

Portraits of the Fallen

Compassion at it's finest...

Believing the Resurrection

From N.T. Wright's "Surprised by Hope" (pg. 53)...

"Surface discrepancies do not mean that nothing happened. Indeed, they are a remarkable indication that something remarkable happened, so remarkable that the first witnesses were bewildered into telling different stories about it."

Critics often come to Scripture asking historical accuracy questions -- finding minute discrepancies in the account of the Resurrection: well was Christ raised on the 2nd day or the 3rd day? Did Mary go to the tomb alone, or was she with someone? Etc.

I like the way N.T. Wright puts it -- comparing it to the way we think about the flood. There are so many myths, or stories, that exist from antiquity that chronicle the idea that there was at one time a great flood. These accounts diverge in perspective. But scholars often take this as evidence, not that a flood didn't happen, but that something big actually DID happen. We may not have the ability to know PRECISELY how it all went down, but there was almost certainly a great flood that had a massive impact on the cradle of civilization. Likewise, the Gospel stories are close enough in substance that it would be foolish to discount them all based on variant details...

SOMETHING happened.