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The Cougars of Washington State University, despite being highly favoured to win the Apple Cup against their cross-state rivals, the Huskies of the University of Washington, blew a five-point lead in the Fourth Quarter.
The Cougs were ranked #8 in the nation; the Dawgs were not ranked at all. But all bets are off in the Apple Cup ... as was most evident this year.
I will be signing off now, as tears are reputed to short-out the keyboards of computers and mine won't stop flowing. I don't want to go to church tomorrow, because my congregation is made up mostly of Huskies ... who will likely be mean!
It is mixing sports metaphors to quote from a poem which pertains to baseball, but here it is:
Oh! somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville -- mighty Casey has struck out.
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Well, Father Steve, then somewhere in your sermon today you'll have to find a way to sneak in, "And can the Huskie fans among you forgive this once-arrogant Cougar fan?" 
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I know. I know. Repent, repent, repent. But wait until next year!
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the Apple Cup
Uh--is that basketball?
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It really IS the end of the world as we know it! I have been a loyal Gooner for over 20 years now, and, like all true Gooners, expect my Arsenal to distinguish themselves with spectacularly consistent failure in European competition. Imagine my horror, then, when Arsenal today broke a drought of over 14 months by winning away, at Inter Milan, by the unbelievable score of 5-1! 'Tis an abomination against the laws of nature (one poll on the Arsenal website shoewd 67% of Gooners expected Arsenal to be knoecked out in the first round), and thus must surely signal the event predicted by our padre.
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The good people of my congregation turned mean on Sunday. Many appeared for church dressed in Husky sweaters or Husky jackets or Husky polo shirts or Husky ball caps. Mother Cynthia, my assisting priest, tied a black mourning band on my left bicep, over the sleeve of my alb, and told people not to be too hard on the old padre while he was in mourning. The organist did an improvisation on "Bow down to Washington" as a postlude.
I had prayed that God would send a heavy snowfall between the end of the game and the beginning of the mass ... which would give me an excuse not to appear ... but I was forced by the clemency of the weather to endure the Schadenfreude.
Perhaps I should take up following spelling bees or competition Monopoly or curling.
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curlingyour tonsure? 
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No, dear. Not curling my tonsure.
Because we live close to the Canadian border and because the TV cable companies are hard-pressed to fill all of the channels which technology makes available, we are blessed with a couple of Canadian TV stations which can be seen in our home. The Canadians have this bizzare game in which otherwise-sensible people slide a fat rock down a lane of ice while other otherwise-sensible people sweep the ice ahead of it with brooms for no apparent reason. There is a target like a dart board at the end of the lane and it matters whose rocks end up where. The commentators won't say what the rules are, either because (a) the whole of their intended audience already knows them and would feel spoken down to, if they were rehearsed, or (b) there are no rules, but nobody is willing to admit that they have no idea why they are sliding rocks on ice nor what the scores may mean.
Oh, and they call THAT curling .. for no reason which I can discern, either.
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Oh, c'mon Padre ... curling is a time-honoured sport, much older than American football or even (dare I say it) ice hockey. It was first developed in Scotland. It has very definite rules and, yes, all of the intended audience (which doesn't include USns) would have known them. Feel inferior if you like. It won't suprise us! And, funnily enough, England are currently the Olympic champions. Well, four Scots lasses won it, but England are claiming it, natch. No point in being an imperialist without being imperious. It has lots of things going for it. First there is the cold, bracing air of a frozen pond in deepest winter (for non-competition games, of course). Then there's the opportunity to have your hand stick to a frozen stone's handle. But, first and foremost (and last), there's the opportunity and perfect, inalienable, excuse which it presents to guzzle whiskey like it was going out of fashion. Personally, I'm all for curling! 
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hehe. guess I should have used a wink instead of a smile... a long-time fan of shuffleboard, I always am sad at how little coverage curling gets on <cough, cough>, American TV coverage of the Winter Olympics. there is something very organic and real about curling that I really enjoy.
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