Never let it be said that Sports on Monday uses the excuse of vacation to not deal with a high profile athletic disappointment like last night's Sugar Bowl.  But because of said vacation (and I'm still in OK for a few more days), much has happened in the sports world that must be addressed. I think lists might be an appropriate method, don't you think? (As if you had a choice.)

Things that were good in the Sugar Bowl
1.LSU's defense
2.OU's second half defense
3. The fans

Things that were bad in the Sugar Bowl
1.OU's discipline (too many dumb penalties)
2.The announcers (Musberger at one point confused the term "oxymoron" for "redundant")
3.OU's receivers and offensive line for three quarters.

Person who was not that bad in the Sugar Bowl
1.Jason White -- see No. 3 in above list and lay off already.

And In Other Sports News ...Smileys
1.Duke upsets UConn in high profile women's b-ball matchup (after trailing by 20, and by 11 with two minutes left)
2.All three Div I football programs in OK play in bowls ...
3.And lose.
4. A drunk (or perhaps low-carb) Joe Namath propositions female reporter on national TV.
5.The media continues to whine about the BCS, the system put in place by their whining six years ago.
6.Brett Favre loses his dad unexpectedly on a Sunday and plays the game of his life on Monday night.
7. In the following weeks, the Green Bay Packers squeak into the playoffs and then a first round win ... luck or divine intervention?
8. Pete Rose shocks one little old man in South Dakota who slept through all of 1989 by admitting he bet on baseball.
9.Sooner men's b-ball remains undefeated, the women lose their first (but to Tennessee), and the OSU men put on a dunk exhibition against SMU (somebody rank these guys!)
10. Nebraska offers Arkansas coach Houston Nutt all the land in the state to run their football team and get rejected. (Proving that you truly can't pay most people enough to make them live in Nebraska.)

Sports Person of the Week:
Nick Saban, LSU head coach. He deserves it.