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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&lt;strong&gt; In which the Coca-Cola Company is missing out on a vital branding moment:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;\"They said realignment could never be halted, but they also said you can't get great Coke taste and zero calories!\"&lt;/em&gt;\u00A0We need a Verne Lundquist, somebody sublimely skilled at dropping sponsor mentions into game coverage, to get on a mic somewhere and keep us posted on realignment this and conference implosion that. His chortles would be soothing balm to fingertips chafed by typing, erasing and re-typing OMGZ THE BIG EAST IS TEH DOOMT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&lt;strong&gt; This is Dan Beebe's happening, and it freaks him out:&lt;/strong&gt; But anyway, in case you went to bed before the local news flickered off last night, here's what you missed regarding college football's apocalyptic squaredance 2K11: The Pac-12 will remain the Pac-12 for now, and that plan doesn't involve adding or subtracting an untold number of schools but leaving the number the same in exasperating defiance of math, like some other conferences we could name (but not count). Andy Staples thinks the league is serious. George Schroeder says the Longhorn Network was a dealbreaker. Staples has a big bunch of words on the thankless topic here, and that's where we are for the moment. On the off chance anybody needs Dan Beebe today, he's spinning endless circles in a grassy field and\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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