Welcome Back, Jesse

While my friend Jesse Berney remains an active blogger here, his personal site at wage-slave.org has languished for several months and has finally been taken down. But now he's back with a new cooking site. Jesse has given me a recipe or two in the past, and they've always turned out to be quite tasty, so I'm looking forward to see what else he's got. Now that I'm the primary cook in this house, I need all the help I can get.

College Football Upate

Another weekend, another college football update, another 2-1 collective record.

Turning things around not unexpectedly, USC squashed Troy (who?) 45-20. Proving how hard-fought this victory was, Coach Spurrier played a bunch of freshman and a 40-year-old father of six. The Gamecocks are now 2-2.

UMass made it two in a row by beating Rhode Island 14-6. The defense really shined again:

Rhode Island, which came into the game averaging 495 yards of offense per game, was held to 249 by a UMass defense that has given up just one touchdown and 15 points this season.

And with almost 300 yards in the air, it looks like UMass has a decent offense, too. At 3-1, they have the best record of the three.

You knew it couldn't last, and sure enough, Cornell fell to Yale 37-17. Three interceptions by Yale yielded 14 points on the board and led to Cornell pulling its starting quarterback in the third quarter. The Big Red are 1-1, but if they don't get the offense figured out, it's going to be a long year.