Football. American Football, that is. Thanksgiving. AmericanThanksgiving, that is. Weekend. American Thanksgiving Football Weekend. i.e. NOW. No other time of year is such a celebrationof American Football as this weekend. Beginning on Thanksgiving Day, with three NFL matches staggered toprovide Football all day and long into the evening, the football orgy continueseach day. Yesterday and today werecollege football days, the last days of their regular season, and attentionturns again on Sunday to the NFL. Eventhe great conflagration of bowl games at the new year, in this post BCS season,does not provide as much variety or excitement. Super Bowl weekend is great, but it is one game, in February. College and NFL teams this weekend play outtheir great rivalries, they reach decision points, they qualify or don't, theyaim toward a winning season or realize that they will be losers again thisyear. Thanksgiving Thursday. BlackFriday. Saturday. Sunday. Football.
What has already happened should be wellknown to you, what is to happen we do not know. Nonetheless, today, Saturday, provides some top games to watch. Chief among those is between number 9 OhioState and perennial powerhouse, Michigan. Michigan has lost just the wrong games this year, and so is currentlynot ranked, but they always have a few tricks up their sleeves for arch nemesesOhio State. A victory in this annualgame provides a great boost to either of the rivals. This year a loss cannot hurt Michigan, butcould hurt Ohio State. #1 Alabamabattles #6 Auburn in an annual intrastate blood feud. This southern rivalry is always a classic,and even more so this year with so much on the line. Other great games should be # 3 Clemson vs.#24 South Carolina in another southern rivalry, and on the west coast, another intrastaterivalry when #13 Washington State and #17 Washington do battle to prove who is theapple of Washington's eye. Ravichandra Ashwin and Ishant Sharma formed afearsome partnership for India to skittle out Sri Lanka for 205 on the openingday of the second Test of Sri Lanka's tour of India. India was on top as Ashwin destroyed SriLanka despite 'no demons' in Nagpur wicket. But the hosts were 11-1 at the close after opener Lokesh Rahul fell for7, bowled by Sri Lankan paceman Lahiru Gamage. Murali Vijay, on 2, and Cheteshwar Pujara, on 2, were batting at theclose of play in Nagpur with India trailing by 194 runs in the first innings. The day belonged to the bowlers with Ashwintaking four wickets and fellow spinner Ravindra Jadeja and Ishant picking threeeach. The tourists lost six wickets in the final session. "I think me and Ashwin were trying tobowl in good areas. Trying to restrict them by not giving easyboundaries," said Jadeja, who took 3-56. "We were just providing asupporting role to the fast bowlers who bowled well in the first session." Chandimal, who hit a six in his 122-ballknock, was given not out by the on-field umpire but captain Virat Kohli calledfor a review which went in India's favour. Chandimal and Karunaratne put on a crucial 62-run stand for the fourthwicket before the Indian bowlers struck back. The two teams are fighting to get ahead in the three-Test series afterthe opening game ended in a draw at Kolkata's Eden Gardens. The three Sri Lanka Tests come before India,the world's top-ranked team, embark on a three-Test tour starting January inSouth Africa, where they have never won a Test series. -- Posted By Rex to SR at 11/25/2017 12:12:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
