Some stuff to read while you’re enjoying Caturday…

—Epic Carnival on the Patriots this season: You’re either all in or all out with this team - they are the football equivalent of a Karl Rove campaign, only without the subtlety, and with ten times the competence.

—Going to South Bend is normally distasteful under any circumstances, but the USC football team had a particularly bad trip there this week.

—Apparently the Colorado Emergency Operations center has solved all state emergencies.

—Gosh, we went from ecstasy to agony in a very short period of time. I can’t tell you how enraged I am that we’re now going to be force-fed Rick Reilly’s smarmy, self-important bullshit on ESPN on a daily basis.

—Keep yourself entertained throughout the afternoon…check out The Pam Ward Chronicles on Awful Announcing.