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Armadillo: Monday's six-pack
College basketball conferences #13-18, according to kenpom.com
18) Sun Belt-- Wide-open as always; Georgia State is banged up right now.
17) CAA-- Wm&Mary was down 20 at half, won last week; they're tied for 1st.
16) C-USA-- Former Sun Belters La Tech/Western Kentucky are both 5-0.
15) Horizon-- Green Bay/Valparaiso/Cleveland State all tied at the top.
14) Ivy-- Haven't really started yet; Harvard is the heavy favorite.
13) Big West-- Cal-Davis has Hersey Hawkins' son, is in first right now.
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Armadillo: Monday's List of 13: Wrapping up a sports weekend.......
13) Seahawks 28, Packers 22 OT-- Green Bay had the ball and a 19-7 lead with 5:04 left. From that point on, Seattle ran 17 plays for 206 yards, scoring three TDs as they pulled a rabbit out of a hat and won the NFC title with this unlikely win. Seahawks' first TD scored on a freakin' fake FG after they had converted a 3rd-and-19.
Its going to be a longer, colder than usual winter in Wisconsin.
12) Green Bay kicked 18 and 19-yard FGs in the first quarter, meaning they had two drives that stalled inside the 3-yard line; lot of people are criticizing McCarthy for kicking those FGs instead of going for TDs, but he had a 19-7 lead and the ball in the last 5:00-- things that went on in the first quarter aren't why they lost this game.
11) Seahawks are first team since the '82 Jets to win a postseason game in which they turned the ball over five times. Teams had lost 45 consecutive playoff games in which they turned the ball over five times.
10) Patriots 45, Colts 7-- These teams play again next season; please TV gurus, keep it off national TV, so I don't have to watch this carnage again. New England won its last six games against Indy, scoring 42.3 ppg in last four. This was an awful game.
9) As I type this late at night (did you know its summer in Australia and quite warm there today?), Super Bowl line has both teams favored by a point in various sports books, while other have game pick 'em.
This will be third time in last five years Super Bowl spread was less than three points, when there hadn't been any such games in the decade before that.
8) NFC won four of last five Super Bowls, if that matters to you.
7) Pete Carroll went 28-23 as coach of the Patriots from 1997-99, making playoffs two of three years, going 8-8 the third year, but he got fired, so New England could hire......Bill Belichick. I know its the Super Bowl and you don't need extra motivation, but how sweet would it be for Carroll to keep the Pats title-less since 2004?
6) This is only second time in last 20 years (Saints-Colts in '09) that both #1 seeds made it to the Super Bowl.
Hey, there's other stuff going on........
5) Last night I mentioned Martin Kaymer jogging to an easy win in Abu Dhabi; he had a 10-stroke lead with 13 holes to play. He lost.
After going 47 holes without a bogey, Kaymer went +6 in one 8-hole stretch. Oy.
4) Last week, Gary Kubiak issued a statement about how happy he was in Baltimore, helping John Harbaugh and the Ravens; then the Broncos lost and John Fox got fired. Now, Kubiak is the new coach of the Broncos. Go figure.
Baltimore at Denver would be a fun primetime game next season.
3) Washington Nationals signed Max Scherzer to a 7-year contract, meaning they will probably be trading Jordan Zimmerman/Ian Desmond soon.
2) DePaul 71, St John's 67-- Blue Demons are 4-2 in Big East, after going 10-98 the previous six conference seasons. Not sure if DePaul is that much better or of the Big East is that much worse, but good for Oliver Purnell.
1) Major League Baseball is bizarre; they named Mets' owner Fred Wilpon head of baseball's finance committee; this is same guy who was in bed with Bernie Madoff and has been running the Mets like they were the Toledo Mud Hens ever since. Oy.
College basketball conferences #13-18, according to kenpom.com
18) Sun Belt-- Wide-open as always; Georgia State is banged up right now.
17) CAA-- Wm&Mary was down 20 at half, won last week; they're tied for 1st.
16) C-USA-- Former Sun Belters La Tech/Western Kentucky are both 5-0.
15) Horizon-- Green Bay/Valparaiso/Cleveland State all tied at the top.
14) Ivy-- Haven't really started yet; Harvard is the heavy favorite.
13) Big West-- Cal-Davis has Hersey Hawkins' son, is in first right now.
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Armadillo: Monday's List of 13: Wrapping up a sports weekend.......
13) Seahawks 28, Packers 22 OT-- Green Bay had the ball and a 19-7 lead with 5:04 left. From that point on, Seattle ran 17 plays for 206 yards, scoring three TDs as they pulled a rabbit out of a hat and won the NFC title with this unlikely win. Seahawks' first TD scored on a freakin' fake FG after they had converted a 3rd-and-19.
Its going to be a longer, colder than usual winter in Wisconsin.
12) Green Bay kicked 18 and 19-yard FGs in the first quarter, meaning they had two drives that stalled inside the 3-yard line; lot of people are criticizing McCarthy for kicking those FGs instead of going for TDs, but he had a 19-7 lead and the ball in the last 5:00-- things that went on in the first quarter aren't why they lost this game.
11) Seahawks are first team since the '82 Jets to win a postseason game in which they turned the ball over five times. Teams had lost 45 consecutive playoff games in which they turned the ball over five times.
10) Patriots 45, Colts 7-- These teams play again next season; please TV gurus, keep it off national TV, so I don't have to watch this carnage again. New England won its last six games against Indy, scoring 42.3 ppg in last four. This was an awful game.
9) As I type this late at night (did you know its summer in Australia and quite warm there today?), Super Bowl line has both teams favored by a point in various sports books, while other have game pick 'em.
This will be third time in last five years Super Bowl spread was less than three points, when there hadn't been any such games in the decade before that.
8) NFC won four of last five Super Bowls, if that matters to you.
7) Pete Carroll went 28-23 as coach of the Patriots from 1997-99, making playoffs two of three years, going 8-8 the third year, but he got fired, so New England could hire......Bill Belichick. I know its the Super Bowl and you don't need extra motivation, but how sweet would it be for Carroll to keep the Pats title-less since 2004?
6) This is only second time in last 20 years (Saints-Colts in '09) that both #1 seeds made it to the Super Bowl.
Hey, there's other stuff going on........
5) Last night I mentioned Martin Kaymer jogging to an easy win in Abu Dhabi; he had a 10-stroke lead with 13 holes to play. He lost.
After going 47 holes without a bogey, Kaymer went +6 in one 8-hole stretch. Oy.
4) Last week, Gary Kubiak issued a statement about how happy he was in Baltimore, helping John Harbaugh and the Ravens; then the Broncos lost and John Fox got fired. Now, Kubiak is the new coach of the Broncos. Go figure.
Baltimore at Denver would be a fun primetime game next season.
3) Washington Nationals signed Max Scherzer to a 7-year contract, meaning they will probably be trading Jordan Zimmerman/Ian Desmond soon.
2) DePaul 71, St John's 67-- Blue Demons are 4-2 in Big East, after going 10-98 the previous six conference seasons. Not sure if DePaul is that much better or of the Big East is that much worse, but good for Oliver Purnell.
1) Major League Baseball is bizarre; they named Mets' owner Fred Wilpon head of baseball's finance committee; this is same guy who was in bed with Bernie Madoff and has been running the Mets like they were the Toledo Mud Hens ever since. Oy.
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