Things here at aubievegas tend to get skewed heavily towards college football, especially in season. That said, there are other things going on that are important. Here are some things that caught my eye outside of college football over the weekend.
The scoring of the Evan Dunham-Sean Sherk fight at UFC 119 was terrible, but its not entirely unexpected. Cecil Peoples was a judge and he has been involved in more high profile judiging screw up and controversies than any other judge in MMA. For the record, Peoples was one of the two judges that gave the fight to Sean Sherk over Dunham and he is also the only judge who I can identify by name because he has been involved in so many issues including the Bisping-Hamill and Machida-Rua fights that went to controversial decisions. It's too bad too because the judging ruined what might have been the only truly good fight of the night.
The baseball pennant races are missing something. We have an all-out sprint to the finish between three teams in the NL West and a close race in the AL East. The problem is there is no urgency yet. In the Al East, the outcome only matters for which team hosts game seven of a potential LCS between the Rays and Yankees. Nothing more. In the NL West, the wildcard fallback along with the Braves involvement in that race actually takes away something from the race. As long as there is a wildcard, we will never see another race like the San Francisco-Atlanta pennant race in 1993.
Why did the Chargers kick to Leon Washington again? He had already taken one back for a touchdown. Once a guy takes one back in a game, the rule should be to kick away from him for the remainder of the game. Instead the Chargers kicked to him again and paid for it with a 1-2 start that might actually hurt them since they have already lost a game to the 3-0 Chiefs.
The main event of UFC 119 between Frank Mir and Mirko CroCop was atrocious. Nothing happened at all during the fight except Mir's knee to finish the the fight and the boos were loud and warranted. It was so bad that Dana White didn't give Frank Mir a Knockout of the Night bonus despite being the only knockout of the night.
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