Kansas City Chiefs vs. Indianapolis Colts: On The Way To 4-0

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Who: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Indianapolis Colts

When: Noon, Arrowhead time

Where: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana

Colts on SBN: Stampede Blue

Listen to the Chiefs on the radio: 101.1 The Fox (Click listen live in the upper right hand corner)

And finally, the game you've been waiting patiently for two weeks for: Chiefs vs. Colts. On our way to 4-0.

Get your predictions in before the game starts. I'm guessing somewhere in the area of 60 total points, with a Chiefs win of course.

You ready to be 4-0? GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CHIEFS!!!!!!

The Indian Pirate League: Royals and Kings thrown overboard

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) may well be ushering in a new era of transparency and accountability. It has terminated the franchise agreements of Shane Warne’s Rajasthan Royals and Tom Moody’s Kings XI Punjab.

Warne the player/captain/coach and his sidekick Darren Berry may both be out of jobs. Tom Moody, who relinquished the WA coaching job, may also be out of a job.

The BCCI has terminated the agreement with the two franchises for reasons described as “transgressions of shareholding” and “ownership norms”.

This can be translated in common speak to “financial irregularities” and this in itself cloaks a multitude of sins.

To recap, earlier this year, the IPL was racked by allegations of just about every conceivable rort that businesses were capable of: insider trading, facilitation fees for TV rights, and kickbacks.

A junior parliamentary minister was forced to resign because it was alleged his girlfriend had shares in one of the new bidding franchises.

The Income Tax Directorate in India is conducting investigations into undeclared income and money laundering.

The IPL’s darling Modi is now an outcast and is in London and refuses to return to India for interrogation. He cites security fears and threats on his life if he returns.

The BCCI has meanwhile divested him of all connection with its running of cricket. There is a new Chairman of the IPL, Chirayu Amin, and he seems from the old school and has already indicated his desire to clean up the IPL.

The previous members of the IPL Governing council were reportedly paid the equivalent of $220,000 a year to govern. Shastri, Gavaskar and Pataudi, all former Indian Captains, were part of this council.

They all admitted they had taken their eye off the ball, so to speak, but in their own defense said they were only there to look at matters pertaining to cricket.

Surely when you are paid almost a quarter of a million dollars you should at least ask a few pertinent questions.

There is now doubt about the next IPL auction scheduled for November, and the fourth season of the IPL is in jeopardy.

Australian players, coaches and support staff contracted to these two franchises may have to put their mortgages on hold.

Adam Voges, Finch, Warne and Tait play for the Rajasthan Royals. Shaun Marsh, James Hopes and Brett Lee are contracted to Kings XI. Tom Moody is the coach.

Also affected are Graeme Smith, the South African Captain and Sangakkara the Lankan captain.

The IPL, which was being touted as a $4 billion business, is looking as shaky as Lehman Brothers and it is a timely reminder that all the glitters is not gold.

If in fact, this is an attempt by the BCCI to put its house in order then we must all applaud it, because in the past the BCCI has been less than pristine.

Cowboys Blow Another Game; Lose To Titans 34-27

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The Titans celebrate their win over the Cowboys.

Same as it ever was. The Dallas Cowboys blew another game that they could have won because they play stupid football. This team is wasting a talent-laden roster by proving that brains count just as much as brawn in football. The Tennessee Titans played a good game, they were a terror in the pass rush, and their receivers and Vince Young took advantage of the Cowboys secondary. They deserve a lot of credit for the 34-27 victory. But they can thank an error-prone, mistake-filled Cowboys team that can't get out of its own way.

From the very first series of the game, Dallas proved what kind of team they are. Mike Jenkins was flagged twice for pass interference, and not just routine inteference, but blatant interference that seemed like he wasn't even interested in covering the receiver. The Titans converted those gifts into a touchdown.Things continued to go downhill as the cowboys offensive line struggled to deal with the Titans pass rush. They were beat several times on straight-up one-on-one moves, other times they succumbed to the blitz.

Later, the Cowboys had the Titans stopped on third down, but a Stephen Bowen hands to the face penalty allowed the drive to continue, and the Titans eventually scored a touchdown. On offense, the Cowboys had a goodMarion Barber run wiped out by a Marc Colombo personal foul, then a long Miles Austin catch was brought back on a Doug Free hold. To punctuate that series, Colombo proceeded to give up a sack.

The Cowboys did have a stretch from late in the second quarter to early in the third quarter when they looked like the team they could be. Roy Williams and Miles Austin put together some great catches that resulted in touchdowns. Felix Jones also had a credible rushing day.

Then the mistakes started again. David Buehler missed a 44-yd field goal. Dallas wasted a timeout because they couldn't get set on offense. They managed to drive the ball to the Titans redzone, then Tony Romo forced a pass high into traffic that tipped off Martellus Bennett's hands for a Titans interception.

Even with all of that, the Cowboys were at the Titans 3-yd line poised to take a seven point lead. But Doug Free missed a second-level block that got Felix Jones decked, then Free had a false start that backed the Cowboys up to the 8-yd line. They settled for a field goal. Free wasn't done with his bad game, he missed a cut block on the Titans defensive end, the defender tipped Romo's pass for an interception and the Titans scored the go-ahead touchdown.

Dallas rallied, drove the ball down the field and eventually scored on a Jason Witten catch. Then the most maddening mistake of all appeared. Witten gave the ball to Colombo who spiked it, resulting in a celebration penalty. The penalty was enforced on the kickoff, meaning Buehler kicked from the 15-yd line. The Titans took advantage and returned the ball to the Cowboys 5-yd line, and scored the game-winning touchdown.

There's not much you can say for this team. They have everything you need to win, except the smarts to get it done. Sure, they made physical mistakes in the game, and the Titans played a very good football game. Still, if the Cowboys would quit shooting themselves in the foot, they may actually win games.

It's hard to have any confidence that could happen.

Packers Game Ball: Packers Fall In Overtime to Redskins, 16-13

I could have gone with a poll asking who was the most valuable player on the Green Bay Packers to have been injured and not returned during the game (TE Jermichael Finley, DE Ryan Pickett, LB Clay Matthews and TEDonald Lee would have been my choices), but I'm keeping it positive and handing out a game ball instead. Matthews is still nominated for what he did before he injured his hamstring in the middle of the second half.

One thing I'm upset about (besides the injuries) was the bad decision by Mike McCarthy to call a QB sneak on 3rd and goal, and then go for it on 4th down instead of kicking a FG. I hate walking away from points (and any decision that leads to QB Aaron Rodgers getting hit) and he did them both. It could have turned this loss into a win.

Braves Vs. Giants, NLDS Game 3: Tim Hudson Snaps Jonathan Sanchez No-Hit Bid

When you're a pitcher, and you're working on a terrific start, and your lineup isn't giving you any help, sometimes you just need to take things upon yourself. That's exactly what Tim Hudson did in the bottom of the sixth. After Rick Ankiel led off against Jonathan Sanchez with a fly out to right, Hudson stepped in and dropped a base hit in front of Cody Ross - the first hit the Braves have managed all game.

We'll see now whether they're able to build off this and mount some kind of rally. For the first time all day, the crowd has life, but Sanchez remains as difficult to square up as ever.

Swimmers sick at Commonwealth Games

Questions are being asked about the water quality at the New Delhi pool as 15 swimmers have caught a virus.

In the latest embarrassment to hit India’s troubled Commonwealth Games, English and Australian team doctors are blaming poor water quality for a stomach virus that has swept through their teams. Australian Andrew Lauterstein had to pull out of the 50-meter butterfly race yesterday. Commonwealth Games Federation president Mike Fennell said that officials are urgently looking into the conditions of the both the main pool and the warm-up pool at the Dr. S.P. Makherjee Aquatic Complex. The competition has been dogged by set-backs, including construction delays, security concerns, poor ticket sales, and an outbreak of dengue fever.

Boston Red Sox Buy Liverpool: Tom Hicks To Fight On, Says "Board Does Not Approve"

In an email exchange with the BBC's Brian Alexander, Liverpool FC co-owner Tom Hicks indicated ownership intends to stand in opposition as chairman Martin Broughton seeks a High Court's declaratory judgment approving the club's sale to New England Sports Ventures (NESV).

According to Hicks, NESV's offer should have never been approved, as the board of directors he put in place did not vote on the deal.

However, Hicks and Gillett claim Purslow and Ayre were replaced - believed to be by Hicks's son, Mack Hicks, and Lori Kay McCutcheon, a vice president at Hicks Holdings - giving the owners a majority on the board and with it the ability to block any sale.

When asked about the takeover by Alexander, Hicks replied: "We legally reconstituted the board and the board does not approve of this transaction."

Then asked how he and Gillett could block the move, Hicks added: "We have removed Christian Purslow and Ian Ayre."

That removal was rejected by Broughton, who claims to have been given the sole power to reorganize the board when he was appointed chairman in April.

Hicks attempted to place son Mack and business associate Lori Kay McCutcheon into Purslow and Arye's director position; however, Broughton rejected the move, claiming "written undertakings" made at the time of his April appointment gave him sole power to reorganize the board.