Bob Hille's starting 5

1 Bowl season. I felt like I couldn't be any better prepared, then I went online to track shipping and found out my pork rinds were on back order.

2 Lakers-Heat. Do yourself a favor and tune in on Christmas. It's the only holiday reunion of a group more dysfunctional than your family.

3 The World Baseball Classic. Typical feds. Relying on flawed intelligence, they ban Cuba when it's the Dominican Republic that poses the real threat to our national insecurity.

4 Glory Road. I hear Disney's flick about the 1966 Texas Western team took artistic license for synergy's sake. Because, frankly, I don't remember ESPN's Andy Katz confirming that Adolph Rupp was a racist.

5 The holidays. Honestly, I'm a little worried. Instead of a Christmas bonus, the boss told me he's spending the money to bring in Dan Reeves as a consultant on my job.

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