i think he s definitely at the top, portman. he s a wealthy guy. pawlenty comes from a middle class background, something that the romney folks value highly. bobby jindal has a great story. marco rubio has that kind of story. chris christie is still in the mix. tucker: whatever happened to rick santorum? you describe the drama during the primaries. he vaulted to the front for quite some time, then sort of disappeared. will he have a speaking role at the convention, play a role in romney s campaign moving into the fall? what s he doing? that s a great question. he just recently earlier in june announced this patriotvoices.org, a sort of pac-10 thapact that he s headin. again, he ll have a role at the convention i think. it s not ironed out what it will be yet. we ll have to wait and see, how santorum will stay relevant. this resurrected his career and
espn reporting that the proposed playoff system would feature two national semifinal games played within the four existing bcs bowl games on a rotating basis. four teams would be selected and seeded bay committee and a-the-national championship game would be offered to the highest bidding city. the bcs presidential oversight committee is expected to consider multiple playoff formats when it meets on june 26, including a plus-one format championed by presidents from the big ten and pac-10, but the headline is it looks like we re getting a playoff at long last. rays and nats facing off a night after ejection of tampa bay reliever joel peralta for having pine tar on his glove, caused a little friction between the two managers. joe maddon told the press the nationals manager davy johnson was cowardly for checking peralta s glove. johnson responding by calling maddon a weird wuss. [ laughter ] to the game, first inning, bryce harper shoots one into center
is. really? you look at a lot of the guys that come out of i m just saying, it s just like duke basketball players. they are great in college because they are great in the system. they don t always dominate in the nba. you look at pac-10 quarterbacks, with elway of course being the exception, come on, look at all the ufc quarterbacks that came out that we knew were going to be successes and just sort of faded away. you disagree? i think most experts on football disagree with you. but time will tell. oh, my god. what a wishy washy answer. well, i mean i agree. but he is looking for your opinion. i like rgiii. i would pick rgiii in a second over andrew luck. john harwood is here. going after duke basketball players? i m just saying, that s all. [ male announcer ] this is genco services
the rest of the unit joins in, shooting wildly. they come under fire. [ gun fire ] an ambulance is hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. they and we are caught in the open. a pot shot. something in the distance. fightered opened up and there was some return fire. cnn producer was hit. i ve been shot. down, down. down. go, go, go! get down! right side. go to the right side of everything. go, go! that s it. good. other way. we start to check his injury. looks like there is a piece of shrapnel inside. you can feel it? i could feel it. when he was moving around, i could feel it inside. reporter: at a nearby field hospital, medics help ian. while dealing with their own grief. a colleague of these men was killed in the same attack just meters away from where the rpg, we think, hit the ambulance that was near us. what was his name? and how old was he? about 27, 28. reporter: tell me about him. about 9:00 he wake up me in my bed and we he came to tus and he s like
never mind seven on seven football. let s have a little bit of first union here. first, my father when i was a kid taught me geography using football and basketball conferences. that of course is out the window now when a school like st. louis university is in the atlantic 10 in basketball and marquette is in the big east. or texas in the big east. now a math issue. why does the big 12 have ten teams and the big ten have 12 teams? amazing question. maybe marketing. you remember what the big ten was originally when it had ten teams, then 11, now 12 with the university of nebraska. now you also have the pac-10 now being called the pac 12, the big ten, we ve heard texas a&m is going to sorry the big 12 see? leave the conference and they will become the big nine? let s talk about that texas a&m thing for a while because it