I'm always amazed by the sports fans who seem to believe that coaches control their players like they're using an XBox 360. Coaches coach, players play, and @#$% happens.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but at the end of the 3rd quarter didn't Wood have numbers like 5-20 for 31 yards?

Doesn't sound like the stat line of a QB ready to throw down field.

Y'all sounded awfully confident yesterday? What happened?

How do you create low-cost universal health care?

Our whole medical system is so badly broken that it needs to be burned down & reinvented. But the $64K question is... How?

The answer lies not just at the feet of the insurance carrier & the pharmaceutical company, but with all of us.

My belief is that medical insurance should be for catastrophic cases and that the rest should come from our pocket. Think of how auto insurance works. You don't use auto insurance to pay for oil changes, but you expect to use your health insurance for a routine check up. You don't expect your insurance to cover the cost of your new transmission, but you want health insurance to cover your glasses.

You DO want your auto insurance to cover you when you get broadsided by a car. And you DO want your health insurance to cover when you get broadsided by cancer.

We need to reinvent the whole thing & how we use it... in my honest, humble opinion.

Thank you so much for your donation. I mean that with all the sincerity I can offer!

Jan is a friend & a fellow small businessperson I've known for many years. I was saddened to learn of her cancer, but was blessed with the opportunity one week ago to help assist with her yard sale. It was tough to see her, a once vibrant & energetic woman, now saddled with the effects of chemotherapy, medications, and, of course, the cancer.

But I was so immensely proud of her for standing up & doing everything in her power to take care of herself instead of allowing herself to be a victim. Even in peril, Jan is living powerfully.

To the "This is why we need free healthcare for all" crowd, you just don't get it. Some of us (most of us, I still think) don't want to suckle at anybody's teet. We want, and expect, to take care of ourselves. We want, and expect, to take care of our families. And we want, and expect, to take care of our neighbors when they could use our help. And we want, and expect, to aid strangers... at most hoping for gratitude in return... and the knowledge that the stranger we aid will pay it forward.

To expect someone else to do that for us & to be fine with that? Well, to see an example of a once-proud society that's been turned into a hopeless welfare State all you have to do is look across the pond. Heartbreaking, truly.

John D. Rockefeller (a "right wing nut job") said "Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

He was right. And Jan Cline's situation speaks to the fact that government welfare programs are injurious and that they discourage self-sufficiency.

If there is a silver lining to all of this (and I know there is), it's that she WAS suffering in silence and they money was trickling in. Now with the publicity this is drumming up, Angels are turning up everywhere :)

NOT what I expected to find on Drudge this afternoon.

I think we fans tend to forget that proper technique & football "smarts" (i.e. being in the proper place at the proper time) trump raw talent 9 out of 10 times.

It's a team game... and the surest way to blow a play or scheme up... is to have ONE GUY out of position.

He's still inconsistent, but I like what Johnny Hekk brings to the table. Maybe I'm just too enamored with a former all-state quarterback as a punter, but I love that option... and he has been awesome at pinning opponents deep this season. Thanks for the insight on why that's been successful.

Also, for those of you who constantly ride Mike Riley about not showing enough fire when it comes to riding the officials, please be sure to read this week's Forde Yard Dash on the espn website. I realize it's mr. Forde's opinion, but it paints an interesting picture of Bo Pelini... and how his ref-baiting is backfiring.

Food for thought.

I hope the team doesn't miss Pankey too much. Maybe Collins can spy on Luck... he's got the necessary wheels to do it.

Need the best game yet to earn a W - Go Beavers!!!

I would disagree with the assertion that Mike Riley does not get animated on the sidelines and that he does not "work the officials". I've seen him livid plenty of times. However he has a classy reputation, so he get's a pass.

The cameras are regularly trained on the coaches who "lose it" because they're road accidents... people can't help but look. A coach who's known for having class & not going Stoops whenever a call goes against him is not "interesting", and hence does not get shown on camera.

Goin' back to to Cali... Cali... Cali...

Goin' back to to Cali...

I don't think so.

;)