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Thursday?s 6-pack:
NBA rebounding leaders:
15.9? Rudy Gobert, Utah
13.9? Jonas Valanciunas, NO
13.6? Nikola Jokic, Den
12.0? Jusuf Nurkic, Port
11.8? Christian Wood Hst, Bam Adebayo Mia
11.6? Jarrett Allen, Clev
Quote of the Day
?We don?t ever want a system that rewards being a lesser team. We have got a real cancer in this game. Now we know clubs will sacrifice seasons.?
baseball agent Scott Boras
Thursday?s quiz
Before moving to Oakland in 1968, what two cities did the A?s call home?
Wednesday?s quiz
Florida Gators won NCAA Tournament in 2006 and 2007, last time a college basketball team won consecutive national titles.
Tuesday?s quiz
Rex Grossman played QB for the Chicago Bears, last time they played in a Super Bowl.
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Thursday?s Den: Doing some thinking out loud??.
13) Replay official for the Wake Forest-North Carolina game last week was a guy named Peter Vaas; he is also a football coach, working in the XFL as that league works towards a return to he field in 2023. Don?t see lot of coaches become officials.
Vaas was head coach at D-III Allegheny College from 1986-89, then at Holy Cross from 1992-95.
Since then, he was a coordinator in the CFL, a QB coach at Notre Dame/South Florida, and an offensive coordinator at Duke, Miami OH and in the WLAF.
Interesting resume; unusual for a coach to become an official.
12) Russell Wilson got the pin taken out of the injured finger on his passing hand, will start for the Seahawks when they visit Lambeau Field Sunday.
11) I?ll sound like the old guy preaching here, but that?s OK.
When Wilt Chamberlain was 35 years old, he played in every Lakers game that season, and he played 42.3 minutes/game that year.
Chamberlain shot 64.9% from the floor, grabbed 19.2 rebounds a game. No nights off for ?load management? and teams played lot more back/backs in those days.
First eight years Artis Gilmore played in the ABA/NBA, he didn?t miss a game; 35.1 minutes/game was the least he played during that time. Again, no load management, no nights off, and his teams didn?t fly around the country on their own airplane.
10) Saturday?s Cal-USC football game was moved from this week to December 4th; Cal program has COVID issues, so the game has been pushed back.
9) AFC went 7-1 against the NFC this past weekend, now leads season series 24-22 in games between the two conferences.
8) Texas Rangers named Tim Hyers their new hitting coach; he spent the last five years at the Red Sox? hitting coach. Hyers worked with Texas manager Chris Woodward, when both were coaching on the Dodgers? staff in 2016-17.
7) Texas Tech hired 51-year old Baylor assistant Joey McGuire as their new football coach; McGure was in his fifth year at Baylor. McGuire signed a six-year contract worth $20.2M. He was a highly successful high school coach in Texas.
13) Replay official for the Wake Forest-North Carolina game last week was a guy named Peter Vaas; he is also a football coach, working in the XFL as that league works towards a return to he field in 2023. Don?t see lot of coaches become officials.
Vaas was head coach at D-III Allegheny College from 1986-89, then at Holy Cross from 1992-95.
Since then, he was a coordinator in the CFL, a QB coach at Notre Dame/South Florida, and an offensive coordinator at Duke, Miami OH and in the WLAF.
Interesting resume; unusual for a coach to become an official.
12) Russell Wilson got the pin taken out of the injured finger on his passing hand, will start for the Seahawks when they visit Lambeau Field Sunday.
11) I?ll sound like the old guy preaching here, but that?s OK.
When Wilt Chamberlain was 35 years old, he played in every Lakers game that season, and he played 42.3 minutes/game that year.
Chamberlain shot 64.9% from the floor, grabbed 19.2 rebounds a game. No nights off for ?load management? and teams played lot more back/backs in those days.
First eight years Artis Gilmore played in the ABA/NBA, he didn?t miss a game; 35.1 minutes/game was the least he played during that time. Again, no load management, no nights off, and his teams didn?t fly around the country on their own airplane.
10) Saturday?s Cal-USC football game was moved from this week to December 4th; Cal program has COVID issues, so the game has been pushed back.
9) AFC went 7-1 against the NFC this past weekend, now leads season series 24-22 in games between the two conferences.
8) Texas Rangers named Tim Hyers their new hitting coach; he spent the last five years at the Red Sox? hitting coach. Hyers worked with Texas manager Chris Woodward, when both were coaching on the Dodgers? staff in 2016-17.
7) Texas Tech hired 51-year old Baylor assistant Joey McGuire as their new football coach; McGure was in his fifth year at Baylor. McGuire signed a six-year contract worth $20.2M. He was a highly successful high school coach in Texas.
6) Tuesday night in Montreal, LA Kings scored a goal 0:06 into the third period, the quickest the Kings have ever scored a goal at the start of a period.
5) Los Angeles Angels fired their first base coach, third base coach and catching coach; must be their fault that the Angels? pitching sucks.
4) JD Martinez declined to opt out of his Red Sox contract, will make $19.35M playing for Boston next season. Martinez hit .286 with 99 RBI this past season; he hit 42 doubles.
3) Dallas kicker Greg Zuerlein went on the COVID list Monday. Cowboys need a kicker.
2) Coppin State?s basketball team has a busy first week:
Tuesday? lost 103-45 at Loyola Chi
Wednesday? lost 97-72 at DePaul
Friday? at Rider
Saturday? at UConn
Guarantee games at DePaul/UConn help pay the bills.
1) Ivy League basketball teams didn?t play last season; Harvard basketball coach Tommy Amaker was put to work elsewhere? he was on a search committee that hired the next police chief for the Harvard campus police.
