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Saturday’s 6-pack
Six leading scorers in college basketball:
25.7— Jordan Walker, UAB
23.9— Sam Sessoms, Coppin State
23.5— Jordan Dingle, Penn
23.2— Zach Edey, Purdue
23.1— Antoine Davis, Detroit
22.4— Bowen Born, Northern Iowa
Quote of the Day
“It’s as intense as it gets. I had relatives that were rooting against me!”
Former Xavier coach Chris Mack, on the Cincinnati-Xavier rivalry
Saturday’s quiz
Who was the Rams’ QB, the first time they played in a Super Bowl?
Hint: Warren Beatty in Heaven Can Wait doesn’t count
Friday’s quiz
Daryle Lamonica was the Raiders’ QB, the first time they played in a Super Bowl.
Friday’s quiz
In The Natural, Roy Hobbs wore number 9 while playing for the New York Knights.
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Saturday’s Den: Random stuff with the weekend here…….
— Army-Navy game is Saturday afternoon. The last 16 Army-Navy games stayed under the total, an impressive streak of low-scoring games.
Total on this year’s game is 32.5; neither team throws the ball much.
— Biggest pointspread in a bowl this year: UAB is -11.5 over Miami OH in the Bahamas Bowl.
— Last year, Liam Coen was offensive coordinator at Kentucky when the Wildcats went 10-3, beating Iowa in the Citrus Bowl. After the season, Coen moved to the NFL, he is offensive coordinator for the Rams this year, but next year, he’s going back to his old job at Kentucky.
— As of Friday afternoon, there were 69 quarterbacks in the college football transfer portal; there are only 130 I-A teams. Everyone who isn’t starting is looking for a school where he can start. Very little patience in the world these days; strange world we live in.
— There is a Division III college basketball team, Grinnell College in Iowa. The other night, Grinnell won a game 124-67; they took 111 shots, all of them 3-pointers!!!
40-111 on the arc, 4-6 on the foul line, no 2-point shots the whole game. Unique way to play the game; Grinnell is 4-6 so it doesn’t always work, but ESPN should toss one of their games on TV sometime, so we can see what it is like.
— Minnesota Vikings are 10-2, but they’ve been outgained by 63 yards/game. Opponents are averaging 6.2 yards/play, Minnesota 5.2, but Vikings have won all the close games so far.
— Atlanta Falcons are giving rookie QB Desmond Ridder his first NFL start next week against New Orleans. Falcons are 5-8 and going nowhere this year; makes sense to give their rookie QB his first NFL playing time.
— Before Thursday night’s comeback by the Rams, NFL teams were 70-2 this season when leading by 13+ points in the last 5:00 of a game. Now they’re 70-3.
Raiders have led four games this season by 10+ points at halftime; they lost all four. Before this season, the Raiders’ all-time record when they led by 10+ points at the half:
156-15-1. Yikes.
This is Derek Carr’s ninth year in the NFL; he’s thrown 14 red zone interceptions, tied for most in the league during that time.
— San Diego Padres gave SS Xander Bogaerts $280M for 11 years; the Red Sox last known offer to Bogaerts was six years, $162M. Big difference.
I mentioned during baseball season but it bears repeating; the owner of the Padres is Peter Seidler, whose grandfather was Walter O’Malley., the guy who moved the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
— Baylor Bears won/covered four of their last five bowl games; they were the underdog in all five of those games.
— Since 2018, SEC football teams are 30-15 ATS when playing an ACC team.
— I did a double-take when it came across the screen that the Mets gave Brandon Nimmo $162M for eight years. His on-base numbers are impressive for sure, but he’s only played in 100+ games twice in his career.
— Purdue football coach Jeff Brohm bolted the Boilermakers to go back to his alma mater, Louisville. Brohm is 66-44 as a college coach; he also coached in Arena Football and also played some minor league baseball.
Purdue was 12-6 in conference games the last two years; Louisville is getting a good coach.
— If you don’t have Amazon Prime (it is worth the $$$) NFL Network replays the Thursday night NFL games at midnight and again at 3am.
— You look at all the $$$$ that’s been thrown at baseball’s free agents the last few weeks, then you realize that Shohei Ohtani is going to be a free agent at this time next year. He is going to break the freakin’ bank. All the big $$$ teams are going to be in on him.
Saturday’s 6-pack
Six leading scorers in college basketball:
25.7— Jordan Walker, UAB
23.9— Sam Sessoms, Coppin State
23.5— Jordan Dingle, Penn
23.2— Zach Edey, Purdue
23.1— Antoine Davis, Detroit
22.4— Bowen Born, Northern Iowa
Quote of the Day
“It’s as intense as it gets. I had relatives that were rooting against me!”
Former Xavier coach Chris Mack, on the Cincinnati-Xavier rivalry
Saturday’s quiz
Who was the Rams’ QB, the first time they played in a Super Bowl?
Hint: Warren Beatty in Heaven Can Wait doesn’t count
Friday’s quiz
Daryle Lamonica was the Raiders’ QB, the first time they played in a Super Bowl.
Friday’s quiz
In The Natural, Roy Hobbs wore number 9 while playing for the New York Knights.
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Saturday’s Den: Random stuff with the weekend here…….
— Army-Navy game is Saturday afternoon. The last 16 Army-Navy games stayed under the total, an impressive streak of low-scoring games.
Total on this year’s game is 32.5; neither team throws the ball much.
— Biggest pointspread in a bowl this year: UAB is -11.5 over Miami OH in the Bahamas Bowl.
— Last year, Liam Coen was offensive coordinator at Kentucky when the Wildcats went 10-3, beating Iowa in the Citrus Bowl. After the season, Coen moved to the NFL, he is offensive coordinator for the Rams this year, but next year, he’s going back to his old job at Kentucky.
— As of Friday afternoon, there were 69 quarterbacks in the college football transfer portal; there are only 130 I-A teams. Everyone who isn’t starting is looking for a school where he can start. Very little patience in the world these days; strange world we live in.
— There is a Division III college basketball team, Grinnell College in Iowa. The other night, Grinnell won a game 124-67; they took 111 shots, all of them 3-pointers!!!
40-111 on the arc, 4-6 on the foul line, no 2-point shots the whole game. Unique way to play the game; Grinnell is 4-6 so it doesn’t always work, but ESPN should toss one of their games on TV sometime, so we can see what it is like.
— Minnesota Vikings are 10-2, but they’ve been outgained by 63 yards/game. Opponents are averaging 6.2 yards/play, Minnesota 5.2, but Vikings have won all the close games so far.
— Atlanta Falcons are giving rookie QB Desmond Ridder his first NFL start next week against New Orleans. Falcons are 5-8 and going nowhere this year; makes sense to give their rookie QB his first NFL playing time.
— Before Thursday night’s comeback by the Rams, NFL teams were 70-2 this season when leading by 13+ points in the last 5:00 of a game. Now they’re 70-3.
Raiders have led four games this season by 10+ points at halftime; they lost all four. Before this season, the Raiders’ all-time record when they led by 10+ points at the half:
156-15-1. Yikes.
This is Derek Carr’s ninth year in the NFL; he’s thrown 14 red zone interceptions, tied for most in the league during that time.
— San Diego Padres gave SS Xander Bogaerts $280M for 11 years; the Red Sox last known offer to Bogaerts was six years, $162M. Big difference.
I mentioned during baseball season but it bears repeating; the owner of the Padres is Peter Seidler, whose grandfather was Walter O’Malley., the guy who moved the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
— Baylor Bears won/covered four of their last five bowl games; they were the underdog in all five of those games.
— Since 2018, SEC football teams are 30-15 ATS when playing an ACC team.
— I did a double-take when it came across the screen that the Mets gave Brandon Nimmo $162M for eight years. His on-base numbers are impressive for sure, but he’s only played in 100+ games twice in his career.
— Purdue football coach Jeff Brohm bolted the Boilermakers to go back to his alma mater, Louisville. Brohm is 66-44 as a college coach; he also coached in Arena Football and also played some minor league baseball.
Purdue was 12-6 in conference games the last two years; Louisville is getting a good coach.
— If you don’t have Amazon Prime (it is worth the $$$) NFL Network replays the Thursday night NFL games at midnight and again at 3am.
— You look at all the $$$$ that’s been thrown at baseball’s free agents the last few weeks, then you realize that Shohei Ohtani is going to be a free agent at this time next year. He is going to break the freakin’ bank. All the big $$$ teams are going to be in on him.
