Here’s what you need to know today:<\/p>\n
1. Rich Rodriguez — the just-fired Michigan football coach — is going to the University of Pittsburgh, where the brand-new Pitt coach allegedly beat up a woman and just got fired. \u00a0(This is speculation, the Rich-to-Pitt bit.)<\/p>\n
2. The Big Ten has 12 teams.\u00a0 The league should add the University of Toledo and put a lid on new powerhouses. <\/p>\n
3. I told my sons<\/strong><\/span> I was going to watch the Mississippi State – Michigan game on New Year’s.\u00a0 They laughed at me.\u00a0 Who cared about that game, they said.\u00a0 (I didn’t dare watch.)<\/p>\n 4. My Ohio State-alum dad, of blessed memory, is breathing easy for another year; Ohio State beat Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl.<\/p>\n 5. The Sugar Bowl is the Allstate Sugar Bowl. \u00a0Next year take a charter flight to the Manischewitz Borscht Bowl.\u00a0 Everybody wears pink and knocks back “l’chaim” vodka shots.\u00a0 It’s in Pinsk.<\/p>\n 6. My former neighbor,<\/strong><\/span> a rabid Michigan fan, lit a votive candle after every Wolverines touchdown.\u00a0 The candle triggered a music box that played the Michigan fight song.\u00a0 Those were the days.\u00a0 Michigan won a lot.\u00a0 (About four years ago.)<\/p>\n 7. What’s Michigan going to do for a coach? \u00a0You tell me.<\/p>\n 9. Maybe you don’t want to see football.\u00a0Then please see the Weekend Klezmer Report, 10. Klezmer star<\/strong><\/span> Michael Winograd is bar-storming<\/a> <\/a> the West Coast, \u00a0playing nearly every bar and bar mitzvah between Los Angeles and Oregon. \u00a0Tomorrow The Wino is at Havurah Shir Hadash in Ashland, Oregon.\u00a0 Kikhl<\/em>-off is 8 p.m.<\/p>\n [Kikhl<\/em> is “sugar cookie.”]<\/p>\n —- In the Midwest, you need to know something about football.\u00a0 You don’t need to know much. Here’s what you need to know today: 1. Rich Rodriguez — the just-fired Michigan football coach — is going to the University of Pittsburgh, where the brand-new Pitt coach allegedly beat up a woman and just got fired. \u00a0(This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-pages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8754,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/8754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"midwest-football\"](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/midwest-football-300x208.jpg\" "\\"midwest-football\\"")
8. If you want to see real, quality, cheatin’ football, go down south.<\/p>\n
item #10:<\/p>\n
\nThanks to journalist Stan Urankar for the Rich Rod–to-Pitt tip. <\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"