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November 26, 2011
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
And there I was thinking that it would fizzle out. More fool me.
What a year of Test cricket it's been, even though the scheduling has been rotten, and the spotlight was on the one-day game.
posted by etagloh at 11:15 PM on November 26, 2011
That inaugural Pac-12 championship game? Hm. It's never ideal when one of the participants may need to seek a bowl eligibility waiver at the end of the night.
If I were running the Pac-12, I'd see if there was some way to make USC play Oregon, stipulating that no matter what the result, the Ducks get the trophy and (of course) the Rose Bowl spot. Either the Ducks avenge their defeat earlier in the year... or the Trojans get to have a game taken away from them in front of their fans. Entertainment and NCAA sanction all in one.
posted by etagloh at 01:33 AM on November 27, 2011
Only the second scores level drawn match in Test history.
All four possible results were in play at the time the final ball was bowled.