Jazz injury woes continue

The Utah Jazz have played 43 games, have a record of 25-18, and are currently 7th in the West. This is remarkable considering the amounts of games their players have missed:

Carlos Boozer - 31 games
Deron Williams - 13 games
Mehmet Okur - 8 games
Paul Millsap - 6 games
Andrei Kirilenko - 5 games
Ronnie Brewer - 1 game
CJ Miles - 3 games
Kyle Korver - 4 games
Matt Harpring - 14 games
Brevin Knight - 6 games

Boozer and Williams have only played two games together. They have yet to play a game with their top seven players all healthy.

Now their pattern now seems to be following what it's been the past year or two. Win at home (17-4), lose on the road (8-14). They'yre still only 3 games out of 2nd int he West, and this is a team that need home-court advantage. If Boozer can come back for the last 25-30 games of the season, they'll be a force, and with half of their roster becoming free agents this summer, this is the year they need to make a splash.

Utah beats Alabama, exposes BCS

NOW can we get a playoff system for college football? Can you imagine the NFL looking at the teams that made the playoffs and just saying, "Okay, we'll have the Titans play the Giants, and that will be the champion. The rest of you, thanks for your efforts."

The Utah Utes are the only undefeated college football team out there. They beat schools from three different BCS conferences. They deserve to at least be co-champions with whoever wins the Florida-Oklahoma game. It still amazes me that the champion for college football more closely resembles judging for ice-skating than the NFL.

Every year there's debate over who the best teams are, who should be national champions. End the debate and have a playoff system. It's stupid every year we say "This team should have had a shot" and then someone who disagress can bring up stats and tradition and whatever, but that's just it. It's debate. It's an intellectual exercise. It's not a real way to determine a football champion.