in that capacity. shepard: james rosen, thank you. the afghan president hamid karzai is set to is sit down with president obama in washington this week. according to the analysts the biggest topic of discussion will likely be the u.s. force that remains inside afghanistan after the military starts its drawdown next year. the afghan president has insistd that all remaining american soldiers should follow afghan law while president obama has called that a deal breaker and for are any potential security agreement. robert young peloton is with us. he has just come back from afghanistan. he is an author and filmmaker. he was spending weeks with u.s. special forces hunting taliban militants. good afternoon. hi, how are you doing? shepard: he blames us for everything. why in the world would the president talk to him? you have to watch his game. he is looking forward to releasing all of the 3,000 or so prisoners while u.s. forces
in the bcs national championship game. both teams have an extra motivation. here is abc s josh elliott. reporter: it is the super bowl of the college game, a national championship arguably as anticipated as any in sports history. to be the best, you have to beat the best. reporter: alabama playing for a second straight national title, but standing in their way, a resurgeant notre dame looking for its first national title in a quarter century. a good time there for us to win this championship. reporter: the fighting irish stand on history s doorstep thanks in part to senior captain and linebacker manti te o, the emotional core of the team. earlier this season he lost his grandmother and hours later learned his girlfriend died of
has already announced that he is going, that he is stepping down. he announced that he is stepping down after this bowl game. he cites that he wants to spend more time with his family, wants to pursue other interests. of course, last year he retired and then changed his mind and came back because of health reasons, but he has not said he is retiring because of health reasons, he s just i remember him saying, i missed a couple of game with my daughters, i don t want to do this anymore. but 46 years old, he s one of the premiere coaches in college football. he s got two national chi championships, he could win a couple more his family won t want to hear that! i m a football guy, what do you expect. i m a family girl. what about brett favre, will he or won t he? that s the big question. he has still yet to past his post-concussion test. he suffered that concussion a couple weeks ago on that monday night game against the bears. he has yet to pass those doubts. right now he
night. and if i m a south carolina fan, i want nothing to do with atlanta anymore. of course, a couple weeks ago they lost to auburn in the s.e.c. championship. last night, watch this. their star running back, marcus latimer absolutely leveled by florida state s greg reid. you see latimore fumbled on the play, down for several minutes, left the game, did not return. the official reason given was for a cut lip, but during the broadcast, the head coach also said that latimore suffered a concussion on the play. and florida state beat the game cox won. let s pretend we weren t there. what about the rose bowl? remember back in the day, arizona state/ohio state. it used to be the game! it s not the game anymore? the rose bowl it s lost its emphasis and its prestige, i guess, because there are so many bowl games now and because the bcs game is played a week later, the national championship. but today s matchup very interesting. you ve got wisconsin and tcu.
tcu, so much attention here. they re the little guy trying to compete with the big guys and they have been doing that. they ve got a 25-game regular season winning streak. they haven t lost a game since 2008. last year, they got shut out of the bcs national championship game. this year they got shut out of the bcs national championship game. so they are out to prove that, yes, we belong on the field with teams like wisconsin. and i ve got to be honest, i m going to predict them to win today. you are?! i don t make predictions, i don t make predictions, because usually i m wrong, but i ve got a good feeling. you know this is on tape? let s rewind it. let s rewind it tomorrow so i look good if they win. we re talking about paterno? the outback bowl, penn state and florida. joe paterno coaching in his 37th bowl game. he s been the lion s head coach since 1966. a lot of speculation as to whether or not he is going to retire after the season, but paterno said yesterday, no, i m