Sports Notes, 1/6/08: People Were At My Home Until 5 A.M. Edition

-- Y'know, on second thought, Illinois-Hawaii and USC-Georgia would've been more compelling matchups.

-- Switching to basketball, Illinois really, really, really, like seriously really needed to pull out that home game against Penn State that they lost 68-64. Five of the Illini's next seven games are on the road against teams better than them.

-- Then again, this Illini team was destined to play a lot of teams better than them on the road. And at home.

-- Because this is all supposed to be Chicago-related, I have to back into this next one: It was nice to see BEARS' offensive coordinator Ron Turner's brother Norv do what he was hired to do by winning a playoff game with the Chargers. If the Titans had won, Jacksonville and Indianapolis would have had to go head-to-head for the right to play New England. This way, they can both have a shot at shutting up the Patriots.

-- KITT as a Mustang is JUST PLAIN WRONG!