College Football Play of the Week: TCU at Utah

TCU at Utah is the game most people are pointing at today.  One of these unbeaten teams will no longer be mentioned in any talk of a BCS title game.

TCU's defense has been outstanding.  They are only giving up 8.6 pts a game.  Their closest game was a 30-21 win over a ranked Oregon State.  Their resume also includes a 45-10 win over Baylor

Utah scores points in droves.  They average 45 points a game and put up 68 at Iowa State.

This will be a close game, and with the Utes getting 5 at home, I love Utah.

Go with the Utes.

* Bonus Pick  -  Iowa State is getting 17 today at home against Nebraska.  It will be the last meeting for the two teams as members of the same conference.  They could meet up in years to come in a bowl game, but this is it as Nebraska is leaving the Big XII.  Iowa State shocked Nebraska last year in Lincoln, ISU will stay within 17 this year in Ames.   Grab the Cyclones.

Hurricane Tomas Hits Haiti

Hurricane Tomas was downgraded to a tropical storm early Saturday as it passed over the Turks and Caicos Islands, losing steam a day after battering seaside towns in Haiti.

Tropical storm warnings were in effect for Haiti, the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, the southeastern Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, although the warnings for Haiti and the Dominican Republic were likely to be downgraded later Saturday morning, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported.

Coming ashore at Haiti's far southwestern edge, Tomas slammed the coastline with 85-mph winds that killed at least four people with storm surge and rains.

It then flooded camps harboring earthquake refugees, turning some into squalid islands in Leogane, a town west of the capital that lost 90 percent of its buildings and thousands of people in the Jan. 12 quake. Two people were missing in the city.

Tomas turned streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, into canals of flowing garbage. The storm largely spared the city's vast homeless encampments, however, allaying fears that an estimated 1.3 million displaced people would suffer from high winds and rain on hillsides and in parks and streets.

Two Jockeys Fight at The Breeder's Cup

Louisianan Calvin Borel, the most well-known jockey in horse racing today, raced today in Louisville in a key race against fellow jockey, Javier Castellano. In a particularly aggressive maneuver, Castellano cut his horse, Prince Will I Am, across the path of the other horses.

Borel, who has won three of the last four Kentucky Derbies, took exception. And then all hell broke loose.

It looks to me like it was Castellano who threw the first punch.  Reports also say that they went at it again in the lockerroom.

ATP Match of the Week: Roddick vs. Federer

A big semi in Basel on Saturday with Roddick and Federer.  With Federer leading 19-2 in head-to-head matches, can this be called a rivalry?

I think so, every time they two meet you have to throw out that record.  Even though Roger has 19 in the win column, these two will forever be linked.  They are close in age, turned pro about the same time and have played some great matches including the 2009 Wimbledon final that we all know Fed won 16-14 in the 5th.

Believe it or not, but these two haven't met since that final at SW19.  In Roddick's favor on Saturday is he appears fresh and in good form.  They also have gone the distance in their last 5 encounters whether it be 3 or 5 sets.  Andy's last win was in 2008 at Miami.

Federer is playing at home in Switzerland and has eased into the semis.

With the recent news that Roddick's IQ is 133 ( The Wechsler Intelligence Scale classifies an IQ Score of 133 as very superior intelligence. If you scored 133 on an IQ test, congratulations, you scored better than 98.6% of the general population) I like him to pull out a 3-setter tomorrow. 

So it will end up to be a good weekend for the #1 ranked American.  He'll notch his 3rd career win over the greatest player of all-time, and we now know he's smarter than 98.6% of the population.

Go Andy.  And notice I didn't mention your wife has an IQ 3 points higher than you at 136.

Another Qantas Jet with Engine Trouble

A Qantas Boeing 747 with 431 people on board landed safely in Singapore late Friday after an engine caught fire minutes after it took off from the city-state, the airline and a passenger said.

Just one day earlier a Qantas Airbus A380 superjumbo jet made an emergency landing at the same airport due to an engine blowout.

Qantas said in a statement later that flight QF6 from Singapore to Sydney had an issue with its number 1 engine — one of four engines.

Qantas said the captain of the jumbo jet sought priority clearance to return to Singapore as a precaution. There are 412 passengers, three flight crew and 16 cabin crew.

After the aircraft returned to Singapore, the passengers were taken in a bus to a hotel for an overnight stay. They are expected to leave Saturday.

According to the Qantas website, Flight QF6 is a Boeing 747-400, which is fitted with four Rolls-Royce RB211-524G-T engines. The daily flight operates between Frankfurt and Sydney with a stopover in Singapore.