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The Dallas Cowboys continue their annual December underachievement. To no one's surprise Dallas lost to New York yesterday. Dallas has not had a winning December/ January since the 1996 season. It looks like more of the same this season. Tony Romo played a pretty good game and the Dallas Cowboys converted on several 3rd downs. However their defense or special teams couldn't stop the Giants when it counted most. Brandon Jacobs turning a little drop off pass for 74 yards to the house. Come on! Dallas, in another crucial big game meltdown, falls to 8-4 on the season. They are tied with Philadelphia for first in the NFC East and both teams only lead the Giants by 1 game.
Jerry, it's time to get rid of Wade Phillips. This season the Cowboys got fat off beating inferior teams. Now that the Cowboys are playing good teams, the Cowboys have no fire. That's directly laid at the door of the head coach. To future Dallas coaching candidates, after 3 years of Wade, there's not much of a legacy to worry about. To apply for the head coaching position with the Dallas Cowboys go to dallascowboys.com (Sean Payton, Tony Sparano and Mike Shanahan you go straight to the head of the line.)
Dallas now welcomes the 9-3 San Diego Chargers then goes on the road to play the team who will probably be 13-0 then, the New Orleans Saints.
The lame BCS strikes again, pairing TCU vs. Boise State against each other in the January 4th Fiesta Bowl. (Yes I know it's the Tostito's Fiesta Bowl, but I refuse to acknowledge the official name of the bowls. That's just one more thing the greedy BCS has sold for more money. At this point they should just be called the $$$ System. They could also take out the C from BCS.) The BCS doesn't want to expose two of it's teams to losing to mid-major teams so they pair them playing against each other. By the way so called mid-major teams in BCS Bowls are 3-0, what does that tell you about the $$$ system? Run and hide, greed abides.
The so-called national championship game will be Texas vs. Alabama on January 7th. This was a shock to absolutely no one. A more interesting game might be The Sugar Bowl. It will be a good game for the first half, but then Florida will destroy Cincinnati. After getting steam rolled by Alabama, the Gators have something to prove. They also can finish the season #2 in the nation and it will be Tim Tebow's final game as a collegian. (Based on my prediction skills though, if I were you I'd bet on Cincinnati.)
In the Las Vegas Bowl BYU will play Oregon State. BYU will be the highest ranked team to ever play in the Las Vegas Bowl. This is the fifth straight season BYU will play in the Las Vegas Bowl. BYU is 2-2 in their previous 4 bowl games there. The 14th ranked Cougars will play OSU. In possibly the nicest location for a bowl game, San Diego, Utah will play California. Last and almost least the relatively woeful Trojans will try and get a victory for pride if nothing else. 8-4 USC will go for it's 9th win of the year against Boston College. Boston College and Utah are the two best bowl teams in recent history.
Music news: Apple has bought lala.com, an online music website. A site where you can listen to any song you want the first time free. This purchase gives us a hint in which direction Apple is going with digital music. There have been rumors they are thinking about having a subscription site like Rhapsody. I'm sure that lala.com will be incorporated in with the iPhone and the iPod Touch as well.
I have blogged about lala.com before. It has both it's pluses and minuses. I'm checking it out again this morning, listening to Owl City's "Fireflies". (Hey Owl City Death Cab for Cutie wants it's sound and song back.) Here's an example of how their pricing model works. I'll be using Allison Iraheta's "Just Like You" as an example. One can listen to each song the first time for free. If you want to listen to a song unlimited you can pay 10c for each song. One then can be able to listen to that song unlimited on lala.com. You can buy the whole web CD at 10% off each individual song. For $1.17 you can listen to every song on Iraheta's CD unlimited from their website. With this option you won't be able to move the CD to your hard drive or iPod.
One can also buy the whole MP3 CD for $9.99 and keep it on your hard drive to listen to when you want to. You could also listen to it on your iPod. (I know there are other music players out there, but why would you want one of those inferior devices. A Zune, are you kidding me?) Or you can buy the actual CD for $11.50 and get the web CD free. I'm not a big fan of playing an album but you have to click on each song individually to play it.
The gorgeous Carrie Underwood is on Fox tonight. She's hosting "An All-Star Holiday Special". She'll be singing Christmas songs along with all her biggest hits. Guest stars include Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton and David Cook. Who needs guest stars when you already have Carrie Underwood? Her new song "Cowboy Casanova" is such a great song, close to being as good as "Before He Cheats".
I continue reading through John Irving's "The Cider House Rules". It's a pretty good book, not as good as "A Prayer For Owen Meany". I was able to read several pages at one shot last night, that always helps make the reading more interesting.
Last but not least for now. Songs rockin' my life. 1) "Shine With Me"- P.O.D. 2) "Sister Golden Hair"- America. The song that reminds me the most of my beautiful wife. although she's now more "Sister Auburn Hair" 3) "Rio"- Duran Duran 4, 5 and 6) "Fire On Babylon", "Nothing Compares 2 U" and "All Kinds of Everything" (Feat. Terry Hall) Sinead O'Connor 6) "The Hustle"- Van McCoy 7) "Super Freak Pt.1"- Rick James (The funky beat is the basis for MC Hammer's "You Can't Touch This".) 8) "S.O.S."- Abba 9) "Ohio"- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 10) "The Greatest Love Of All" the amazing Whitney Houston (This is just one of several of her many better songs than "I'll Always Love You".) 11) "Seasons of Love" from the "Rent" Sound- track 12) "Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)"- Dan Seals 13) "How Do I Live"- LeAnn Rimes 14) "Chicago"- Sufjan Stevens 15) "Colour of Love"- Billy Ocean. (What a beautiful song!) 16) "Mack The Knife"- Bobby Darin 17) "Uprising"- Muse 18) "Blue Monday"- New Order 19) "We Will Fall Together"- Streetlife Manifesto 20) "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"- Tears for Fears 21) "Leavin Here" (Live)- Pearl Jam 22) "Dance Little Jean" (Live)- The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 23) "Monkey Buisness"- Skid Row 24) "Tragedy"- Bee Gees 25) "Don't Rock The Jukebox"- Alan Jackson 26) "21 Guns"- Green Day
themusicaddict
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