Chip Kelly spoke to the media Tuesday on his weekly conference call about what he expects to see from Mike Leach’s@@http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=322520265@@ Cougars on Saturday night at Century Link Field. Kelly said that the Cougars’ pass-first (and second, and third) approach means they’re never out of a game and will provide a challenge for the Ducks’ secondary.
“A lot of people have a run-first approach,” Kelly said. “Then when they get behind they start throwing the football to get back into it, but I think they’re always in the game because of Mike (Leach)’s offense.  He’s been known as an offensive innovator, and they score a lot of points … I think it’s a real formidable foe that we’re going up there to play against.”
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The gambling results of the highly controversial ending to this week’s Monday Night Football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks may have been as much as $250 million worldwide.@@checkedlink@@This is because the touchdown — air quotes optional — changed the score from a five-point Packers win to a Seahawks victory.  With the Vegas oddsmakers setting the spread at 3.5 points, the narrow Packers win would have been enough to cover, but Golden Tate’s@@checked@@ (in)famous reception reversed the outcome of all bets that took the Packers to cover.
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An unscientific report by the Wall Street Journal ranks all Major League Baseball broadcasters from the most biased to the most objective. Not surprisingly, Chicago White Sox play-by-play man Ken “Hawk” Harrelson@@checked@@ is the most biased announcer in the league, @@checkedlink@@and equally unsurprisingly, baseball icon Vin Scully,@@checked@@ longtime play-by-play voice of the Dodgers (Brookyln and Los Angeles) is among the most objective.