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Dave Glenn, publisher of the ACC Sports Journal and an erudite Raleigh-area radio commentator on all things ACC football and basketball, now has a must-read sports blog. Check it out here, where today he expounds on the recently released, and revised, ACC graduation rates -- you can read N&R reporter Robert Bell's story on the subject here -- and comes down hard on Grinch sports columnists who grouse about 28 being too many college bowl games.

To them, he says:

So whether or not you're a long-fingered, canine-abusing, furry green guy, or perhaps just a sportswriter who's too lazy and unoriginal to come up with a better idea for a column, you probably have more important things to worry about than a handful of mostly meaningless football games. Kiss your wife. Play with your kids. Hug your girlfriend. Heck, introduce the wife to the girlfriend.

And, may I add: Yes, why complain? There are a lot of TV channels to choose from, especially if you have digital cable or satellite. So shut up, turn the channel, sit back and let the free-market economy do its thing. Of course, the BCS cartel isn't exactly a shining beacon of capitalism. And the bowls don't allow us the equal-opportunity excitement the NCAA basketball tournaments do. But I'm not a columnist. And I don't want to be a Grinch. So I'll leave it right there.

As for the wife meeting the girlfriend, that's the kind of halftime entertainment that would likely boost the attendance at such pre-Christmas snoozefests as the New Orleans and GMAC bowls.