Bias In Politics...Bias In Sports

I watched a bit of this game yesterday. I didn't know if USC was going to pull it out. Standford looked really good in the first half and USC didn't. However, USC managed to pull it out at the waning moments of the game. Being somewhat biased myself towards LSU, I was proud of how LSU managed to squeek a win out a couple of weeks ago. They didn't look very crisp the entire game, but they found a way to win. The sporting press however wasn't very kind to LSU even though the inclement weather and bad field conditions had more to do with their close win than anything. Today I'm checking out ESPN to see the first polls and happened to see this headline.
Hmmmm, the mighty #1 USC barely gets by an unranked Stanford and here is what the press has to say.

Reggie Bush was worried the locker room would resemble a funeral. Instead, the top-ranked Trojans seemed thrilled to be in a close game -- and they rode a wave of halftime emotion to a 31-28 victory Saturday night. "I don't think it was anger. It was excitement," said Bush,whose spinning 33-yard punt return set up LenDale White's go-aheadscore with 6:15 left. "These are the type of games that we miss,that we love. It's easy to blow a team out. When you win a gamelike this, you feel so much better. You feel great."

(emphasis is mine...yeah right, they love to almost lose to an unranked team. Yeah it's easy to blow teams out when they're the caliber of most of the PAC10.)

But the final result didn't seem nearly as important to theTrojans (4-0) as the thrill of making an impressive comeback. Sure, USC has a roster stuffed with high school all-Americans and NFL prospects, but even the best individual talents need chemistry
and camaraderie. Freshmen exhorted their upperclassmen counterparts for better efforts. Team leaders spoke up. Coach Pete Carroll made big adjustments to the Trojans' passive zone defense -- and everyone got behind a common goal.

(God, too much sacarrin...going to...hurl. PAC10 love fest. Group hug. Cue inspirational music. Yeck.)