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Required Reading
Last week SI.com launched The Sweep, a college football blog featuring all-day posts from seven writers through the BCS championship game on Jan. 8. Each Saturday on The Sweep don't miss wall-to-wall coverage from writers at the biggest games and those watching matchups on television. Plus....

? Heisman Watch by Gene Menez: West Virginia's Pat White is a front-runner
? Weekend Pickoff by Stewart Mandel on Friday

BREAKING NEWS, ANALYSIS AND PREDICTIONS AT SI.COM/COLLEGEFOOTBALL.

FEATURED WRITERS

PETER KING
Inside the NFL
Monday Morning Quarterback and the Tuesday Mailbag
SI.com/king

JON WERTHEIM
Inside Tennis
Daily U.S. Open news, notes and analysis
SI.com/wertheim

JOE POSNANSKI
Inside Baseball
The hottest story in the majors plus a daily baseball blog
SI.com/posnanski

SPORTS AND POLITICS

Fans of the Language
At the Democratic convention last week Governor Bill Richardson called Hillary Clinton's speech "a huge, 500-foot home run." And MSNBC's Keith Olbermann gave Barack Obama ups as a bona fide NFL fan because the nominee referred to the site of his acceptance speech not as Invesco Field but by its former name, Mile High. SI writer Austin Murphy gives his take on the intersection of sports and politics.