It was another great weekend for sports, so let me take a few minutes and get away from politics and current events to talk about it.

If you are a Michigan fan, you are happy. If Notre Dame is your team, you are not. We won’t talk about Montana State playing a nobody and winning 61,000 – 7. Nebraska stayed with USC for a quarter (until USC got over the jet lag) and then lost. USC looks almost unbeatable this year. The Tide is back-Alabama beat Arkansas.

Tiger Woods won again and this time received $10 million. NASCAR had their first “Chase Race” but football was the sport to watch this weekend.

Week two of the NFL season has given us some pretenders, some contenders, and some wait until next year.

I saw two major upsets: Tampa Bay beat New Orleans and Cleveland beat Cincinnati. I am 9-6 this week going into the Monday night game.

Here are my surprise 2-0 teams so far. Some may be pretenders: Detroit, Green Bay, San Francisco and Houston.

Here are the normal, kicks your butt teams: Indy and New England.

I am mildly surprised at these teams being 2-0: Pittsburgh, Dallas, and Denver.

Denver has been in two very close games this year. Fans may remember that the Colts won a bunch of close games last year on their way to the Superbowl.

How about those Chargers? New England made them look very bad. Marty Schottenheimer was fired after going 14-2 last year. That’s looking like a stupid move.

Here are the teams that may start looking ahead to next year, unless they can win game three: Kansas City, Oakland, New York Giants, and Atlanta. By the way, KC was 0-2 last year and made the playoffs.

Last year’s top two rushing leaders: LaDainian Tomlinson has 68 yards and Larry Johnson has 98 yards so far this season.

Looking ahead at week three, there are some good games:
Indy @ Houston – Both teams are 2-0. This is Houston’s first big test.
San Francico @ Pittsburgh – Both teams are 2-0. This is San Fran’s first big test.
Cin @ Seattle – We’ll see who handles the week 2 loss better.
Dallas @ Chicago – We’ll see if Dallas can replace Chicago as the NFC’s powerhouse.