Pioneer Pure Vision, Insight, Fed Ex Orange...Motor City, Auto Zone, and nothing rimes with orange. Dan Wetzel, who writes about college football for Yahoo Sports, joins Bill from some place bound to feature a bowl any minute now.

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The remarkable number of bowl games about to transpire notwithstanding, not all the post-season college football spectaculars have proved to be spectacular. Bill investigates a few college bowl games that, for various reasons, were spectacularly short lived.

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It's never too early to root for your local team.

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Next month is St. Louis, the best U.S. figure skaters compete to determine which of them will travel to Torino for the Olympics in February. Among the female contenders is Emily Hughes, whom Jesse Green has profiled for tomorrow's Sunday New York Times Magazine. Jesse Green joins Bill from NPR's New York bureau.

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It's easy to see why cyclo-cross has been compared to the steeplechase. When organizers planned the Liberty Mutual US National Cyclo-cross Championships for December in Providence, Rhode Island, they knew the winter in New England had the potential to add even more difficulty to the mix. As Karen Given reports, they weren't disappointed.

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Bill and "Only A Game" analyst Charlie Pierce discuss: new advances in football betting, soccer's World Cup, and Alex Rodriguez' torn allegiance.

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At the risk of encouraging dependency, for 13 years now, we've been providing desperate shoppers with last minute suggestions for the sports fans on their holiday gift lists. Bill presents this year's collection.