Eagles, Ducks soar

All's well in Perth, Western Australia, after the West Coast Eagles won the third Australian Football League Grand Final in the club's history. The Eagles edged last year's champions the Sydney Swans, 12.13 (85) to 12.12 (84), today for the first grand final to be decided by a single point since 1966 (the year I was born!), when St. Kilda famously defeated Collingwood.
The result was not nearly as close this afternoon, when my BELOVED Oregon Ducks traveled to the Valley of the Sun (where I went to high school!) and dismissed the Arizona State Sun Devils, 48-13. Dennis Dixon passed for 215 yards and three touchdowns -- including a pair to Jaison Williams. The Ducks' defense registered six sacks and limited ASU to 175 yards.
The game wasn't on TV here in Iowa, of course, so I read "The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies," sipped red wine and glanced up at the computer every so often to see that Oregon had scored again. I'm not complaining.