Let’s Hope This Streak Ends so This Joke Can Do the Same

Once again, there is a joke going around town relating to Saturday’s USC-Notre Dame game at the Coliseum:

A man takes a dog to a bar to watch the game on television. When Notre Dame wins, the dog does flips on the bar and barks out the Irish fight song.

When the dog’s owner is asked, “What does the dog do when USC wins?” the man replies, “I don’t know. I’ve only had him for 11 years.”

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Trivia time: What was unusual about the USC-UCLA football games in 1936 and 1938?

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Only option: The Good Doctor in Inside Sports:

Question--Knuckleball pitcher Charlie Hough finally is finished with baseball. What’s a 46-year-old, out-of-shape guy supposed to do?

Answer--Fight for the heavyweight title.

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Opinion: Skip Bayless on ESPN’s “Sports Reporters” show: “Don Shula is the most protected coach in the history of sport. His reputation is much greater than his accomplishments.”

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Full circle: Warren Moon, former Houston Oiler quarterback now with the Minnesota Vikings, in Sport magazine:

“Everybody says you sure look different in purple. Well, this is the way I got put on the map, winning the (1978) Rose Bowl with the University of Washington.

“I began in purple and gold and so it’s only fitting I go out in purple and gold.”

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The Yogi Berra file: “When my wife was sick, I took care of her. I was a regular Florence Nightinguy.”

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Disturbed: Joe Falls in the Detroit News on Michigan’s 22-6 loss to Ohio State last Saturday:

“For in the end, against their most heated and hated rival, they were inept, inefficient, desperate and disorganized. In a word, they were awful.”

Hey, Joe, it’s only a football game.

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Enough: Tom Weir of USA Today is sick of criminal allegations against Bruce McNall, and he’s tired of hearing that McNall made hockey successful in Los Angeles:

“That’s like praising G. Gordon Liddy for turning the Watergate complex into a tourist attraction.”

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New look: The Dallas Cowboys will be making a fashion statement today when they play the Green Bay Packers.

They will be attired in new “Double Star” jerseys, to be worn for special occasions and selected playoff games, according to owner Jerry Jones.

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Oz stuff: Mark Blaudschun in the Boston Globe: “They call the (UCLA) Bruins the Tin Men of college basketball--no heart during tournament time.”

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Looking back: On this day in 1960, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors set an NBA record with 55 rebounds in a 132-129 loss to the Boston Celtics.

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Trivia answer: They were played on Thanksgiving Day.

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Quotebook: Bill Robertson, director of public relations for Anaheim’s NHL team, on Oregon reaching the Rose Bowl: “If we don’t have hockey, at least you’ll get to see some form of mighty Ducks around New Year’s.”