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Your ex-husband's team is in BCS contention, playing a heated conference rival who they haven't beaten since 2001. Despite a relatively close score, they're pretty thoroughly dominating said rival and are well on their way to a key victory for the program. Your mind is focused on the celebration plans for that evening, maybe occasionally wandering to thoughts of good hotels in the New Orleans area to start researching.

Not if you're Colleen Bellotti.

The ex-wife of Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti spent her fourth quarter laying into reporter John Canzano for his coverage of her son Luke (who happens to play for the Ducks) and his two DUIIs in the local paper, The Oregonian.
That's the story Canzano shared on his blog last night -- describing it as a "sad, surreal scene" -- when he presumably should have been focused on dispensing coverage of Oregon's important victory over USC:

She leaned in, grabbed by my suit lapel, and lit into me with a string of expletives, asking me if I have children, and telling me, "This is going to come back on you tenfold." And she threatened to slap me, which I thought was not such a nice example to set in front of the kiddies.

I told her that it played especially poorly to me that she would approach me in the press box, with a strong smell of alcohol on her breath, hissing and spitting mad, talking to me about alcohol abuse.

Then, the nanny, still holding the toddler, unleashed a foul-mouthed tirade.

Canzano says the profanity-laden verbal assault continued later in the evening, when he ran into Colleen and she stared him down and yelled "You got something to say to me?!?!"

Inappropriate outburst fueled by too many Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs? Natural maternal instinct and impressive, albeit somewhat misguided, example of a mother (and the family nanny) looking out for a son?

One thing's certain -- the Trojans could have used some of Colleen and her nanny's swagger and in-your-face attitude Saturday at Autzen Stadium.