Top 10 2008: Utes' Sugar Bowl run is year's top local sports story
1. Utah football: Pour some Sugar Bowl on me
From the Big House to the Bayou with a bashing of BYU and a whole lotta wins in between now that, sir, is a football season a Utah man can be proud of. No ifs ands or fuss in the muss about it.
While many people call the 12-0 Utes "BCS Busters" for earning a Sugar Bowl invitation to play Alabama on Jan. 2, that's kind of a misnomer. After all, Utah the Gonzaga of the gridiron has now earned two BCS bowl berths in five seasons, which is more than the vast majority of teams in the six supposedly super-duper conferences can claim. Right, Miami? Indiana? Baylor?
Keeping Paul Kruger and other defensive players open in the regular-season finale was helpful, too.
And to think it all started with that down-to-the-wire win at Ann Arbor, which wasn't the first time in this state's football history an undefeated Beehive State squad was thrust into the national spotlight after eking by a subpar Michigan team. Right, 1984 BYU Cougars?
The exciting thing for the jolliest of Utah fans is that the best part of this dream-come-true-again story may still be yet to come.
Winning the Sugar Bowl would certainly be a sweet way to end this year and kick off a new one.
2. Utah Jazz: Where stars sizzle, fizzle and get raises while going similar yet so-separate ways
It was quite a year for the Jazz's talented point guard/power forward combination and just to make sure we're on the same page, we're talking about Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer here, not D-Will and Paul Millsap.
Though their paths were similar for the basketball stars, they were often oh-so-far apart, too. Consider:
Boozer was named an All-Star sub again; Williams made a statement by winning the Skills Challenge after being snubbed again.
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