Sports Notes, 1/7/07

-- Watching the Seahawks’ fight their way back into the lead last night, it was clear that this team plans to play with the intensity of a defending conference champion until someone knocks them off their perch. You know, like the BEARS next week at Solider Field.

-- I think I finally figured out how Tony Romo got the third quarterback spot on the NFC All Pro team. It has to be for his stellar place-kick-holding abilities.

-- I-L-L … I-N-I-T.

-- The Illini haven’t lost by as many as 18 at home since … well, since the jokes about Assembly Hall looking like a UFO stranded on the plains were still funny.

-- Juan Uribe now says he will play for the White Sox in 2007 despite legal issues stemming from an October shooting in the Dominican Republic. Then again, he also said he had nothing to do with it. Good thing his numbskullery will only cost the Sox a .235 hitter.

-- Hey, look -- I did White Sox coverage!

-- Forget about the Ben Wallace angle. I still like seeing the Bulls beat the Pistons because of guys like Isiah Thomas and Bill Lambier.

-- Because the Big Ten went 2-0 straight up against the SEC in bowl games, one-loss Big Ten runner-up Michigan was in a great position to defend its claim that the Wolverines deserved to play in the title game more than one-loss SEC champ Florida. Until they gave up four second-half touchdowns to USC, anyway.