In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Monday night.
The Alabama Crimson Tide are national champions. Trent Richardson ran for 96 yards and a touchdown as the Tide beat LSU 21-0 for the BCS title. The LSU offense crossed the 50-yard line just once the entire game, and the experience was so disorienting that quarterback Jordan Jefferson began wildly firing a musket as he shouted about "the savages."
When the idea of writing about one of my favorite childhood TV programs, MTV's Rock N' Jock series, popped into my head, I assumed it would be something I could crank out in one caffeine-induced evening. Around 5 p.m. that day, I Googled "Rock N Jock Rosters," expecting to be blessed with pages of Bill Bellamy and Dan Cortese-led softball and basketball rosters and video montages of every 25-point shot.
Unfortunately for me (and almost you, the reader), it was a lot harder than expected. Sure, there's a YouTube video here and there, and a few random references to celebrities who played together, but for the most part, the ‘90s phenomenon that was athletes, musicians, television actors, and movie stars coming together in the celebration of casual sport was nonexistent online. This discouraged me, it saddened me, but when it comes to things of the mid-'90s variety, giving up is not an option.
