Nebraska senator and Cornhusker alum Ben Nelson will run a commercial during Wednesday night's Holiday Bowl. Why, you ask? Because Nelson cast the unpopular -- in his home state -- deciding vote that helped pass a health care bill in the Senate. A few hundred million dollars' worth of bribes in the form of taxpayer dollars provided a not so gentle nudge for that vote, but it has Nebraskans ready to ride him out of office.Thus, public groveling and an effort to explain that decision at some point during the broadcast of football-crazed Nebraska's final game of the season. And thus we see sports and politics mixing yet again. Its been this way through human history but no use avoiding the opportunity to jab at the most obvious examples of these awkward collisions.
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Here's hoping SEC fans stayed up to watch 
It was arguably the game of the year in college football. It was certainly further evidence that the Pac-10 is back as a national conference.
TUCSON, Ariz.(AP) -- 
One of the best conference races in college football has been the one going down in the Pac-10. Heading into today, five teams were still competing for a shot at the Rose Bowl: Oregon, Stanford, Oregon State, Arizona and USC. Stanford's 
On Sunday morning, after waking up and throwing back a glass of H2O, I did what I always do ... opened the laptop and checked the college football rankings. It's a habit of mine, for no particular reason at all. I'm not a huge fan of a big powerhouse, sans my affiliation to my home state Texas teams. 
It was a measure of revenge for the Big Ten this afternoon in Iowa City as the 
So is this the year someone besides USC wins the Pac-10 title and gains the automatic BCS bowl berth? 
