Morning Briefing College football playoff may never be reality
Fox Sports President Ed Goren brought an Emmy to Hollywood. ... Uh, Hollywood, Fla. ... for the Bowl Championship Series meetings this week. It was a victory-lap moment, as his network received the award for televising Boise State's wild victory over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. In that game, Ian Johnson scored the game-winning two-point conversion in overtime on a Statue of Liberty play, then ran to propose to his girlfriend, Chrissy Popadics.
Fox couldn't have diagramed it better on the Telestrator. Then again, maybe they did.
"Oh, we set that up," Goren joked. "We control everything. We thought it was an audition for a reality show."
Ed, if you really do control everything, can't Fox get us some sort of college football playoff?
Trivia time
Who are the only two major league players to hit five home runs in a doubleheader?
Running a circle route
Randy Moss is hitting the road again (easy, New England Patriot fans). The wide receiver introduced Moss Motorsports, entering the world of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.
If nothing else, it disproves that adage about tires. You know, a rolling Firestone gathers no Moss.
No way, Jose
Jose Canseco's long and winding road has skidded around another hairpin turn. He cried poor to "Inside Edition" this week after losing his $2.5-million home to foreclosure, saying those big contracts are not what they seem.
Said Canseco: "OK, let's say it's $35 million. People have to understand that $35 million, you're paying the government 41 percent. That leaves you with about $17 or $18 million, not even. Then you're taking care of your whole family."
Makes you wonder how the Cansecos ever managed to scrape by.
