Hurricane Ivan forced the postponement of the Cal-Southern Miss football game that was supposed to be on Thursday.

This was taken from the SF Chronicle:

Southern Miss coach Jeff Bower said Cal was premature in announcing the postponement, adding that his school wanted to wait another day before making a final declaration. "They were dead set on not wanting to come,'' Bower said. "Very unprofessional.''

OK, so maybe the Cal athletic deparment could've gone out of their way to make sure that Southern Miss was OK with Cal not having to travel across the country to a place that's expected to have a hurricane... but how did the phrase "very unprofessional" make its way into his comments?

Yes, Cal was dead set on not wanting to come, but that has everything to do with the fact that the school cares about the safety of the team and coaches. I know Southern Miss probably lost out on a lot of money and national recognition by having this game postponed, but so did Cal, a top 10 team that will go 3 weeks until its next game at Oregon State.