Looking at today’s bowl game schedule, it occurs to me that the only people not happy with the NFL’s decision to allow CBS and NBC to simulcast today’s Patriots-Giants game must be the managers at ESPN. The pro game is scheduled for 8:00pm EST, the same time that the Penn State-Texas A&M matchup in the Alamo Bowl kicks off. So there ESPN was, thinking that it had the only primetime football broadcast on this Christmas week Saturday, and suddenly the NFL backed down in its fight with the big cable companies to get its network into the basic package they offer to their customers.

Oh well. A network which bills itself as “The Worldwide Leader in Sports” should know all about winning and losing, right?