<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f97ff75c-2ae4-4c94-85ac-6cad5ed19d1a/0B96DE09-63FC-40DD-9CFE-79A3A4977471/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/frank_deford/11/29/earmarks.bowls/index.html" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/frank_deford/11/29/earmarks.bowls/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">sportsillustrated.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/frank_deford/11/29/earmarks.bowls/index.html"><P>What would you think if, after the major league baseball league championships were played, the two winners practiced for a month or so and didn't play the World Series until around Thanksgiving? What would you think if, after the conference championships in college basketball were played, everybody retreated to campus, only to return many weeks later for the NCAA tournament? Hey, May Madness!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/frank_deford/11/29/earmarks.bowls/index.html"><P>But, of course, that is exactly the way college football is run. Except for a handful of games this first Saturday in December, the regular season has concluded. But the championship game will not be played till January 8th. Ohio State, one of the teams in the title game, will therefore rest up for a full fifty days.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/frank_deford/11/29/earmarks.bowls/index.html">But Fox TV, which telecasts the game, and all the other people who make money off college football, don't want to see an Ohio State-Michigan final. Too regional, too Midwest. Bad for ratings. Instead, Southern California is glamorous and better positioned, demographically, you understan</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0B96DE09-63FC-40DD-9CFE-79A3A4977471/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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