BYU vs. NAIA Team in Disguise: Episode 6

The price of actually having a good football team again: the games are all boring. Watching CSU's anemic offense get shut down by BYU's new "Neither Bend nor Break" defense was like watching me and my roommates trying to talk to girls: Our perseverance is admirable--cute, even--but in the end, you have to question if we even think it's worth the effort. It doesn't help that every other team in the conference seems to be competing more for last place than for first. Seriously, this could be the worst year for the MWC in its history. No team in the Mountain West has beat a single team currently ranked in the top 25, with BYU's home win over Tulsa remaining the conference's marquee non-conference win. Mountain West teams have managed to lose to such powerhouses as UTEP, Portland State, and Div 1-AA Cal-Poly. As it is, BYU's magic number for clinching the conference is 2, but a win next week against Wyoming will seal the deal. And don't get me wrong: I am as glad as anyone to see the Cougars back on top of the conference. Let's just make sure we don't make a Mountain out of what's really a molehill.

- The Cougars cracked the AP rankings this week at #25

- The basketball season opened with a bang this Thursday with the Y's exhibition victory over Brock University of Ontario, thanks to the Brock Badgers shooting 6-37 from behind the arc. This year's new battle cry? VUK!!!!!!!!!

Worst Episode Ever

Just a few thoughts on the WORST EPISODE EVER:

1. Eko is dead. Come on, who wanted this? As soon as I heard that someone was going to die before the end of the "fall season," I immediately hoped it would be Charlie. But no, it was Eko, probably the best, least developed character on the show. And the worst part is that the show didn't offer any sort of closure on his life before snuffing it out, totally shaking my feeling that the island was somehow helping these people work their shiz out. My sister Lauren is wearing all black to school today to mourn.

2. I hate the new characters, and everyone I have spoken to feels the same. And then they have them say crap about how they want to be "included" for a change. Note to Lost-maker people: We were willing to suspend our belief. Bringing them into it and trying to explain why they weren't involved doesn't fix the whole problem with there being so many useless people on the island that are completely uninvolved in the plot; it just accentuates it and keeps us from ignoring it. If you're not even going to use Rose, Bernard, Claire, or Rousseau, don't give us any crappy new people that we want to die.

3. Juliet is a lying biznatch. Both her and Benry know that Jack won't be able to "accidentally" chop up his spine, with his whole Messiah complex thing. Benry was telling the truth when he said that he wants Jack to want to help him. If they get him on the table and Jack ends up not being able to kill the dude, then he'll be choosing, for himself, that he wants him to live. It's just another trick to try and break his spirit.

4. That dude with the eye patch? That's messed up. And the part where that new stupid witch character tells them to check the tvs, and John says, "Well, I'm feeling stupid" is the worst single moment in the history of the show.

5. What's up with all the missing bodies? I've always wondered what exactly was the deal with Jack's dad. So far, both the missing bodies have appeared to their loved ones. Is the smoke monster possessing them to test the castaways? Or is he just trying to kill them (remember how Jack almost died when he followed his dad off the cliff)? The crazy guy in Hurley's head almost made him kill himself (but he was never on the island). Also, how in the heck does the smoke monster work? Magnets?

6. Are the lost creators trying to get all the minorities off the show?

7. "He said we're next." Isn't that kind of a lame thing to say right before you die? Did John just make it up? Or did he derive it from something more eloquent that Eko said? Was he just trying to warn his friends about the smoke monster's methodical serial plot? Maybe he told John to finish the church--or was he kind of done with penitence?

8. Desmond was lame in this one. Why didn't he foresee Eko's death and save him? Maybe he's racist too.

9. I will not watch this gay "Daybreak" show. Also, The Nine sucks big time.

10. I fear the worst: the writers have added so much intrigue to create episodial dramatic effect that they have lost control over the beastly web of connections and intricate revelations necessary to resolve all of the questions they've raised. The show will eventually slip into chaos and be canceled because no one will be able to handle it.