The University of Oklahoma is appealing the NCAA's ruling which expunged all 8 wins from Sooners' football team 2005 record for "failure to monitor" the employment of players at a Norman auto dealership. 

"We have accepted a large majority of the NCAA's findings and penalties because we agree that the highest possible standards of conduct and ethics should be maintained and that when mistakes are made, even if they are unintentional, institutions must be held accountable," [OU President David] Boren said in a statement Friday.

You got that people?  Only the highest standards from now on for the Sooners.  Oklahoma is accepting the 2 additional years of probation and the loss of 2 scholarships, and the only thing they want back is their 2005 wins.  In an imaginary letter to NCAA President Les Miles Myles Brand, Boren stated, "Listen Les Myles, we already made up next year's programs, and the statisticians are gonna have my ass if our all-time record is deemed incorrect.  Think of all the damn Wite-Out we'll have to buy.  Don't you make bring up that Oregon game again."

As an Irish-Catholic from Chicago, I'm shocked that men got paid for work they didn't perform.  And to wield your connections to get that job?  Shameful.  Haven't they ever heard of "an honest day's work for an honest day's pay" shuffling papers at a City Hall desk job for which you used your mother's maiden name to get? -KD

I spent approximately 40% of my day on YouTube, searching "Boise State Fiesta" then hitting Refresh, waiting all damn day to get a good compilation of the FUCKING BANANAS series of hijinks that was Boise State-Oklahoma in last night's Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.

Naturally, by the time I turned this bad boy up, the rock stars at The M Zone and We Are The Postmen (again! Bastards!) already had the video up. Oh well. You can go to them for video, but you'll be back. No one brings the T&A like I do.

Anyway, here's all the late-game excitement (save Ian Johnson's well-thought-out marriage proposal).

By the way, the most enjoyable summations I've read of the game are over at Every Say Should Be Saturday and the mighty mjd. You know, if you like reading. Nerd.

We all remember that refereeing ugliness from the Oklahoma-Oregon game, yes? And how Rhett Bomar got kicked off the team just before the season started? Well, things got a little even less awesome for the Sooners on Saturday when Heisman hopeful Adrian Peterson broke his collarbone at the end of a 53-yard touchdown run. And it was the first game that Peterson's father was able to watch in eight years due to a prison sentence.

All in all, a pretty disheartening series of events. That is, if you care about Oklahoma, which I don't. Hey, it's not my fault: I had to live in Oklahoma for three years. All I remember are tornado drills, rattlesnakes, and box elder bugs. And worst of all, Barry Switzer.

In case you missed it, the Pac-10 refs royally botched a call on an onside kick that pretty much screwed Oklahoma out of a win against Oregon. Of course, a defensive stand could have helped them win as well, but that wouldn't have been necessary if the refs got the call right. The Pac-10 acted pretty reasonably, suspending the officials and issuing an apology.

Oklahoma fans, though, are still pissed. Really pissed. Like, call-the-replay-official-and-threaten-his-family pissed. And I say good for them. I'm tired of referees fucking up our sporting events and getting away with it like it's not some kind of crime against humanity. This kind of grassroots vigilantism is precisely the message those fat cats need.