A new year for sports

First off, happy new years. With the new year, we have a new year of sports. Spring training starts up in a couple months, bowl mania is in full swing with the BCS national championship game in a couple days. The NBA is gearing up for a fresh looks as new teams emerge to fill the roles of others. The NHL is still in a lock out, and It looks like we're going to have another lockout.

With the New Year comes two of footballs biggest games, The super bowl and The BCS championship game. On January 7th, at 8 PM, #1 Notre Dame and #2 Alabama will square off to see who is the best college football team in the country. Notre Dame is coming in with a 12-0 record, not playing in a championship game since 1993, and hasn't won one since 1988. Alabama, coming off a 12-1 year, is trying to become one of the few programs to win 3 national titles in 4 years, yes 3. That's how much Alabama has dominated football the past couple years. If you want to go back even further, you can say that the SEC has had a choke hold of college football for a good while now with schools such as Florida, LSU ,Auburn and Alabama winning titles in the last 13 years. LSU has 2 titles (2003,2007), Florida  has 2  (2006,2008), Auburn has 1 (2010) and Alabama has 2 (2009,2011) with the possibility of continuing the SEC dominance. An SEC school has won the championship for the last 6 years.

The NFL playoffs are underway with wildcard Saturday concluding with victories for the Houston Texans and the Packers of Green Bay. Tomorrow, we get to see two of the best rookie quarterbacks in last years draft. Russel Wilson and the Seahawks play host to the Washington Redskins and the RGIII. I have this game going down to the wire, both teams have great quarterbacks, good running attacks to balance the plays, and superb defenses. I wonder how many packer fans will rooting for the Seahawks later today. Early in the year, there was a contraversial call that gave Seattle the win over the Greenbay Packers. It was this game that many believe got the regular refs back into service and the replacement refs out.

I wish you luck if you're team is in the hunt for a bowl game or is playing today. 


*EDIT, The Redskins are playing at home, not the seahawks
*EDIT, the NHL and the NHLPA have agreed to a 10 year CBA