Dear Sporting Gods

Why is it that every team I root for consistently snatches defeat from victory?

Need an example?

Roughing the punter.
Fumbled punt.
Dumb penalties.

And I think they could have survived the roughing the punter without the fumbled punt.

Why do the announcers always describe the guy who just fumbled the punt as usually sure-handed?

I knew I shouldn't have watched.

"If you think about the last time we beat Michigan here, nobody on our football team was even born," Zook said. "I think that I had just gotten married. It's been a long, long time."

The Illini (5-2, 3-1 Big Ten) haven't defeated the Wolverines (5-2, 3-0) in Champaign since 1983, and haven't beaten them at all since 1999.

Still haven't won.

Thanks so much.

-steve

Dear Sporting Gods