Saturday?s 6-pack
More over/under baseball totals for 2019:
59? Baltimore Orioles
65.5? Miami Marlins
67? Detroit Tigers
69? Kansas City Royals
70.5? Texas Rangers
73? San Francisco Giants
Tweet of the Day
?It?s a mantra I?ve had since high school. To not complicate things, to sort of keep things in perspective. The best way to live is to keep things simple and enjoy every day.?
Malcom Brogdon of the Milwaukee Bucks
Saturday?s quiz
Which NBA head coach is a graduate of the Air Force Academy?
Friday?s quiz
Jets beat the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III, the AFL?s first win in a Super Bowl.
Thursday?s quiz
Drew Brees CAUGHT one TD pass in his career; Hall of Fame RB LaDanian Tomlinson threw the pass, when the two were teammates in San Diego.
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Saturday?s List of 13; Clearing out a cluttered mind??.
13) A quick story from my college days:
At U of Albany, or whatever it was called back then, we would make our own class schedule, but as an English major, I had to have an English professor sign off on the schedule, so off I went to get my last semester of college approved. This was November, 1981.
Not being a good student, doing the exact minimum to get by, the professor was unimpressed as she looked over my transcript. ?You?ve never taken any olde English classes. No Shakespeare, what do you think of Dryden?,? referring to John Dryden, the English poet/playwright.
I was a big hockey fan back then, so for some unknown reason, I say, ?I?m glad he retired; the Bruins could never beat him,? referring to Ken Dryden, the retired goalie from the Montreal Canadiens. Timing wasn?t my forte.
The professor glared at me a little, reluctantly signed off on my schedule, and I was outta there. On my down the hall, I pass an office door that said ?Dr Anne Weinberg, Head of English Dept?
Whoops, but I still somehow got my diploma. Later on I found out they changed the requirements for future English majors, to include olde English classes. Glad I could help!!!!
12) If I had to do it all over again, would?ve gone to college at Cal-Santa Barbara or Pepperdine, a a place where I?d never be cold. UNLV would?ve been a complete disaster, would?ve been back home within a year 🙂
Hell, I was lucky to graduate from a school in the frozen northeast.
11) This, from an excellent article on Alabama football by Bruce Feldman in The Athletic:
?The reality is there is more of a grind coaching at the college level than in the NFL, which does not tie its coaches to recruiting 52 weeks of the year.?
10) Mel Kiper Jr?s latest mock draft on ESPN.com had the Miami Dolphins taking QB Kyler Murray with the 13th pick in the first round.
9) Dallas Cowboys told offensive coordinator Scott Linehan to take a hike Friday; they fired their offensive line coach during the season, now this. From the statement Jason Garrett put out that praised Linehan, I?m guessing this was the front office?s decision, not Garrett?s.
8) My three favorite Susan Sarandon movies:
a) Bull Durham b) White Palace c) The Client
7) When Washington Huskies swept their Utah/Colorado road trip last week, it was first time in six years the Huskies swept a 2-game Pac-12 road swing. Mike Hopkins is building a solid program in the Pacific northwest.
6) Trent Dilfer played in the NFL for 14 years in the NFL, winning Super Bowl XXXV with the Ravens; he was on ESPN for nine years after that, but got laid off two years ago. Now Dilfer is the new football coach at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville. Not too many high schools have a former NFL quarterback as their football coach.
5) Pat Sajak was a TV weatherman in Los Angeles for five years before becoming the host of Wheel of Fortune, where I?m guessing he makes a little more money than he did while doing the weather.
4) Surprising stat: Miami Hurricanes are 7-6 in their last 13 games against North Carolina.
3) Non-basketball thing I learned from listening to Bill Walton call the Oregon-Arizona game Thursday: the Nile River flows through 11 different countries in northeast Africa.
By the way, at halftime of this game, there was a guy on the court, balancing a large ladder on his chin.
Why does someone start doing that?
How many times did the ladder fall and hit him on the face, before he mastered his craft?
Is balancing a ladder on your chin a craft?
2) Arizona Cardinals WR Larry Fitzgerald shot a hole-in-one Friday while playing golf with former president Obama at Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach, FL. He hit an 8-iron from 162 yards on the 13th hole; the ace was witnessed by Tim Rosaforte of the Golf Channel.
1) The Bodyguard is an old Kevin Costner movie where he is a retired Secret Service agent who protects a singer (Whitney Houston) who has received death threats; the movie is 2 hours, 9 minutes long, but when it showed up on channel 330 on DirecTV this week, it was put into a 3 hour, 30 minute window. That adds up to 129 minutes of movie, 81 minutes of commercials.
No bueno.
