In sports … A Mike Leach-Al Gonzales connection?

Texas Tech fired Mike Leach as head coach today, just before the Red Raiders take on Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl. Leach was accused of mistreating wide receiver Adam James by ordering the player into small, dark rooms after James suffered a concussion. James is the son of ESPN analyst and former SMU and NFL player Craig James.

One can only wonder if the allegations are true. Especially in light of other Texas Tech hires including retired basketball coach Bobby Knight, and the pro-torture former U.S. Attorney General in the Gee Dubya Bush administration, Alberto Gonzales.

Gonzales is a visiting professor at Texas Tech and is a diversity recruiter. No figures have yet been released as to how many Muslim students Professor Gonzales has managed to sign at Texas Tech, located in Lubbock. That is, with or without torture.

Goin’deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppppp

The Houston Texans held on for a second straight week to beat Miami and to escape once again with more Ws than Ls. Now, the entire AFC will not have to fall into a fresh opening in the ground and disappear in order for the Texans to capture a wild card playoff spot. Perhaps, just the equivalent of an AFC conference will have to be kidnapped.

With the Texans facing New England for their last game, Patriots coach Bill Belechick is reportedly playing coy to questions as to whether hotshot QB Tom Brady will play since the Pats are assured the AFC East title. That’s fine with me (see INDIANAPOLIS). It doesn’t matter to New England whether Houston wins. It does to Houston, but the Texans need a various combination of planet alignment and voodoo for the team to head towards its first playoff game ever.

Jim Caldwell, a name which will live in infamy

And what is up with Indianapolis Colts coach taking out his stars including QB Peyton Manning with a slight lead and an ultimate loss to the New York Jets? That was, of course, the end to a possible perfect season for the Colts. Caldwell, the coach, didn’t want Manning and other stars to hurt a pinky or something. Team president Bill Polian is now wondering why most of Indianapolis wants to mount his coach on a fiery stick. Hmm. That’s a tough one Billy Boy.

And finallllllllllllllllllllllllllly I’m hidden inside this bowl

Not too many days longer until the national college title game between Texas and Alabama. It seems many who know what they are talking about when it comes to football pick the Crimson Tide. Sorry, I have to go with Mack Brown and his boys, not to be confused with Johnny Mack Brown.

But before the BCS championship, we’ve got the Tampa Tampax Bowl, the Preparation H Herbert Hoover Bowl, the Snap-on-Tools Idaho Bowl, the Watts 40-Oz. Bull Bowl, the Smith and Wesson Cut and Shoot, Texas, Bowl, the Flaming Gay Bowl at San Francisco, the I-Shot-the-Sheriff-Rastafarian Bowl in Kingston, Jamaica and so forth …