Sports Notes, 11/26/06

-- Tony Romo sure has made a mess out of my prediction in this space that the Cowboys will finish 5-11 under his stewardship. What a jerk.

-- Since I reported on the Blackhawks’ mini win-type streak, they lost their next three games, scoring one goal in each. I told you not to look!

-- Are the Bulls NBA champions yet?

-- Don’t look now, but former Illini Deron Williams is leading the Utah Jazz to the best record in the NBA. Williams has 18 points and 9.3 assists per game, with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.2 to 1, and in his team-leading 36 minutes a game he is no doubt playing the kind of stifling defense Illinois fans knew and loved. Utah has ridden an eight-game winning streak to a 12-1 record. So don’t look. DON’T LOOK!

-- Looks like Notre Dame woke up the echoes of Bob Davie.

-- I hope you didn’t have the under in the Purdue at Hawaii football game Saturday night, in which the number was a tantalizingly high 74.5. The score at halftime was Rainbows 17, Boilers 0; after three quarters it was Hawaii 20-14. Here’s today’s lesson in It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over: Fifteen minutes and six touchdowns later, the final score was 42-35 Hawaii, for a total of 77 points.

-- Some more tidbits from the South Pacific: The scoring plays in the fourth quarter alone went for a total of 121 yards; Purdue rolled up 472 yards of offense and Hawaii (653) beat them by nearly 200; there were 63 complete passes (30 for Purdue, 33 for Hawaii), and there were 138 plays from scrimmage. It almost makes me wish that game had been on TV.

-- Did anybody know Chicago has a professional indoor soccer team? Well, we do. It’s called the Storm, and it plays at the new Sears Center in Hoffman Estates. That’s about as interesting as this item gets.

-- Driscoll Catholic High School won its sixth straight state football championship with a 4A win on Friday. Yep, another Catholic football dynasty in Illinois (see Joliet Catholic and Mt. Carmel). There’s something about 12 years of Catholic education that makes a young lad just want to punish people.