The Week That Was

The picture to the right says it all. Notre Dame went to Washington and did exactly what they were supposed to do, beat the ever living crap out of a horrible team. Ty Willingham is a Dead Man Walking at Washington and this time the media can't come up with conspiracies about why he was fired. Notre Dame is now 5-2 and has a home game against Pittsburgh this Saturday. Notre Dame is making great strides this year and Charlie is proving all the haters wrong.

Nebraska held off a feisty Baylor team to improve to 5-3. A win was essential for the Huskers as now the schedule toughens up again in the best conference in college football, the Big 12.

In the NFL, the Washington Redskins made it interesting like they always do but were able to keep the Detroit Lions winless. It wasn't a pretty win and certainly the Redskins play needs to improve but if anyone had told the people in Washington that the Skins would be 6-2 at the halfway point they would have taken it in a heartbeat. The other big story in the NFL was the Dallas Cowboys getting a must win at home against the Tampa Bay Bucs. The Cowboys defense finally stepped up and QB Brad Johnson avoided costly turnovers. The Cowboys travel to New York on Sunday where I suspect they will receive quite the beating.

The Philadelphia Phillies are just one win away from knocking off the Tampa Bay Rays. The story of the series has been the inability of the Rays Evan Longoria or Carlos Pena to even get a hit. I still think the Rays win tonight to make Philly fans nervous but the Phillies fulfill my prediction and close out the Rays in Game 6 and make all the bandwagon Rays fans go home sad.