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count reading all of that, you aren't alone.

All of that has been done in about a decade. But you know, it's not fair to point out just the big three sports and limiting this list to last 10 years. Sports cover far more ground than just football, basketball and baseball, and Hell they go back farther than 1997. How about the all-time list? Where does the Pac-10 stand all time?

Of the top 10 schools with the most national championships, three are in the Pac-10. The schools are UCLA, Stanford and USC with nearly 300 total National Championships between the three schools. In strictly men's sports, UCLA, Stanford, USC and California are all in the top ten and for the women's sports, UCLA, Stanford, USC and Arizona find themselves in the top ten.

So where is this bias coming from? If the Pac-10 is a constant contender why does the East coast try to dissuade the public from the prominence of the Pac-10?

It doesn't. The East coast bias is the biggest misnomer in the history of life. It's not a bias, it's a blatant disregard of facts. And there is only one type of person in the world that has a blatant disregard for facts.

Deadbeat older brothers of siblings that are in college. The East coast has big brother-little brother syndrome. It's jealous.

Think about it. Regardless of how successful the younger siblings become, the older one still thinks they are better. Why? Because they hold true to what life used to be like. When they were bigger, stronger, faster, better. Now they are too busy trying to find ways to prove that they are still top dog instead of looking in the mirror to notice-they aren't.

They, in this case the East coast, are still living in the parent's basement chatting online with RxyQT81, playing PS2, downloading pictures of Jessica Alba and reminiscing about the good old days when they used to own the neighborhood. Meanwhile the younger sibling, the Pac-10, has been in school leaning about physics, math, and psychology.

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