Winner of the Week

There were not too many candidates for this week’s Winner of the Week. Alabama certainly showed they are for real with a big win over the favored Clemson Tigers. East Carolina proved that they were more than just Chris Johnson and pulled off an upset over 17th ranked Virginia Tech. But unfortunately I put less weight into preseason college football rankings than Calista Flockhart puts into her latest outfit, so neither upsets were impressive enough to earn Winner of the Week honors. There was not much news in the NFL, nothing really changed during the last week in the NBA, the Olymics have come and gone, it is still early in the U.S. Open, and Vijay Singh just won his 2nd straight tournament, but it was finished on Monday (not last week) and done sans Tiger. CC Sabathia was a close 2nd after his bazillionth complete game (does this guys literally have a rubber arm?) in which he threw a no hitter, but was robbed by a fool for an official scorekeeper and possibly lost his Winner of the Week award with that weak grounder. So, this week we’re going with a scrappy little team that yours truly wrote off in this very blog just a few days ago.