The Green Bay Packers ended a difficult, injury riddled season with a win over Seattle to finish 4-12, by far the worst record in the Brett Favre era. It is unknown at this point whether Ol' Number Four will return for another season, but the Packers will definitely have a new head coach next season as Mike Sherman was fired. Current defensive coordinator Jim Bates is among the leading candidates to replace Sherman.

Michigan Wolverine women's basketball is down to nine healthy players (all sophomores and frosh) following a season ending injury to junior Kelly Helvey and the loss of sophomore Jessica Starling who either quit or was dismissed from the team. Cheryl Burnett's young crew is playing hard but has lost their first four games against the always challenging Big Ten field. We will see what happens the rest of the way.

Speaking of college women's basketball, there have been some really good games on TV lately including Oklahoma vs. Ohio State, Rutgers vs. Michigan State, and of course Connecticut vs. Tennessee.

Texas beat the Southern Cal Hollywood Pretty Boys in a thrilling Rose Bowl. Now comes the exodus of U$C's key offensive players to the NFL and hopefully this will bring about a decline in the program's fortunes.

Michigan football blew a fourth quarter lead (what else is new?) and lost the Rinky Dink Master Card Alamo Bowl to Nebraska. Lloyd Carr is a good guy, but it is way beyond obvious that he has lost his coaching touch and needs to be replaced. 7 wins and 5 losses with the talent Michigan has is just not acceptable.

Ohio State vs. Notre Dame and Penn State vs. Florida State were also pretty good Bowl matchups.

In this weekend's NFL playoffs, I like Seattle (led by former Packer coach Mike Holmgren) to beat Washington. Washington was laughably inept on offense in their Wild Card Round win over Tampa Bay (a paucity of 120 total yards!) and so they will get croaked by the Seahawks.

New England will beat Denver, despite the Broncos' better record and home field advantage.

The Blitzburgh Stillers will croak the overrated, overhyped Indianapolis Colts. Or maybe I am out of my mind.

And finally, Carolina will send the Chicago Bears (who still, by the way, SUCK!) on a One Way Trip Out Of The Playoffs.