Some observations as we enter the final few days of college football’s bowl season:

• THE STORY LINE: Is Monday night’s Fiesta Bowl supposed to be another shot at redemption for an Ohio State team that has lost the last two BCS title game

What is it about the start of a new year that makes us again resolve to put a stop to our bad habits and embrace the things we knew all along we should have been doing?

Force of habit, probably.

Being a last-minute kind of guy, here is my Christmas wish list for the year.

Here’s hoping Santa Claus gets this in time.

If it’s a Sunday in December, and it is, the Pittsburgh Steelers must be playing a football game that means something.

And they are.

First place in the AFC North will be at stake when the Steelers and Ravens play in Baltimore.

Ten years ago, CC Sabathia signing with the New York Yankees would have been just cause for us to rattle the keyboard with feverish indignation.

But we’ve gone through this before. There is nothing new here. It’s just more of the same.