Happy New Year!

Hopefully everyone has fully recovered from whatever form of New Year's Eve activities in which they participated. I had the pleasure of suffering through a light cold over the past week, so my NYE excitement wound down around 1:30 AM. Good luck with all of your New Year's Resolutions and guys, let's all try to be a little nicer to each other this year. Just a suggestion, please don't yell at me!

Now, on to the important issue of the day... was it just me, or did the mighty Mountaineers roll into Georgia's back yard, bend them over a knee and show them who's boss? UGA had as good of a team as anyone this year (save USC), but Rich Rodriguez's guys have transformed from an impressive bunch of young kids into a team capable of taking it to anyone in the NCAA (save USC). Had the VA Tech game come a little later in the season we'd probably be complaining about how WVU got the Auburn treatment this year.

Mark my words, WVU will be a title contender next year.

Regarding the actual title game this year, the odds are in. USC is favored by seven points, the over/under is 69.5. Take USC and/or the over. No matter how much people want it to be so, there's not a team in the league with the defense to stop the Trojans. And, even with Vince Young's abilities to make something out of nothing, he'll have to pull out more than a few miracles to survive this one. USC wins 49-35.

Finally, Pastor Fred came and went with a whimper on Saturday. As the community prepared for a full scale war with the Westboro Baptist Church, we were treated to little more than a comic sideshow. I have to say that I was truly moved to see the community come together in such a way to demand a respectful memorial for one of our own. We managed to show Fred Phelps and his congregation that we don't tolerate that type of thing around here.

Oh, and a very special thanks to the biker who shall remain nameless (for legal reasons) that treated Westboro to a knuckle sammich. We all owe you a steak dinner.