The morning (oops!) becomes hectic
This is what happens when I have to drive to work -- I usually take the train.
I get so far behind that the morning becomes afternoon before I know it.
There are some advantages to driving, one of which is that it enables me to listen to sports talk radio. I don't enjoy all of it, or even most of it, but that's why you have a dial.
I do like Steve Mason and John Ireland on ESPN-710. Yesterday, they did several hours of a pregame show from Oregon State and, as informative and entertaining as it was, they got tangled up in the BCS.
Pete Carroll warned them against it. Still, they focused much of their time on how badly USC had to beat Oregon State in order to impress the BCS voters and computers. There was even a discussion about how USC needed to blow out Oregon State in the first half before East Coast viewers went to bed.
Ooops.
Carroll tried to tell them that you have to win the games and then let the BCS do whatever it does in deciding which teams will play for the national championship.
They probably should have read David Wharton's story in the L.A. Times Thursday. He warned of the trap games facing USC in the Pac-10. The Trojans fall into one seemingly every season, just usually not so early.
Of course, no one would have figured it would happen after reading our coverage of the USC-Ohio State game. We had the Trojans practically booking their rooms for the championship game in Miami.
We should have listened to Pete Carroll too.
It's a long season.
-- Randy Harvey
Photo: Pete Carroll watches his USC Trojans go up against the Oregon State Beavers. Credit: Jonathan Ferrey / Getty Images
