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Saturday’s 6-pack
Six highest-paid coaches in college basketball:
6) Sean Miller, Arizona $4.05M
5) Tom Izzo, Michigan State $4.36M
4) Bill Self, Kansas $4.95M
3) Chris Holtmann, Ohio State $7.15M
2) John Calipari, Kentucky $7.99M
1) Mike Krzyzewski, Duke $8.98M
Quote of the Day
“The locker room is a comfortable space. We’re all cut from the same cloth. You’re sharing this space with people who have a lot of similarities and are very like-minded.”
Raptors’ guard Danny Green, talking about playing in the NBA
Saturday’s quiz
Florida State’s Willie Taggart is coaching his third team in three years; what two other teams did he coach?
Friday’s quiz
Russell Wilson played college football for NC State and Wisconsin.
Thursday’s quiz
Steve Kerr played his college basketball at Arizona.
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Saturday’s List of 13: Clearing out a cluttered mind……..
13) Last summer, CBS Sports polled more than 100 coaches asking them to identify the most powerful person in college basketball; Mike Krzyzewski, John Calipari and Big 14 commish Jim Delany finished 1st-3rd, and a guy I never heard of finished 4th.
Bret Just used to be a high school coach; now he’s an agent for three NBA coaches, two NBA GM’s, Geno Auriemma and a bunch of other college coaches, including Andy Enfield, Chris Beard, Frank Martin. There is a tournament in Kansas City in a couple weeks where all four coaches are Just’s clients.
Influential guy, the Scott Boras of basketball coaches. Now I know his name.
12) Texas 73, Arkansas 71 OT— Longhorns’ Kerwin Roach stuck a 3-ball in transition with 0:01 left to tie the game 63-all, after Texas trailed almost the whole game, which was played on a military base at Fort Bliss in Texas.
11) Ravens’ QB Joe Flacco has a hip injury and may not play next week against the Bengals. Rookie Lamar Jackson would start if Flacco can’t.
10) Dez Bryant signed with the Saints Wednesday, then tore his achilles in practice Friday.
9) Five biggest upsets in college football so far this season:
Old Dominion (+27.5) 49-35 over Virginia Tech
Oregon State (+24.5) 41-34 over Colorado
BYU (+22.5) 24-21 over Wisconsin
Akron (+21.5) 39-34 over Northwestern
Wake Forest (+19.5) 27-23 over NC State
8) Pretty cool Thursday night on the Clippers-Blazers TV broadcast; with TV guy Ralph Lawler retiring after 40 years behind the mike, Lawler’s wife Jo joined her husband and Corey Maggette on TV for a few minutes during the second quarter, which led to a lot of laughter.
It has been great fun listening to Mr Lawler’s good natured broadcasts over the years on NBA League Pass. It helps that the Clippers are improved under new owner Steve Ballmer.
7) Obscure Stat of the Day: Since 2000, 54 NFL teams scored 50+ points in a game; those teams went 52-1-1 against the spread. The ’13 Cowboys (-7) beat Denver 51-48 but did not cover.
6) There is a great article about friendships in the NBA on thescore.com If you follow the NBA or sports of any kind, this is interesting information.
5) JJ Redick plays for the 76ers but lives in Brooklyn with his wife and kids, which seems odd. He must like riding on trains, assuming that is how he commutes.
4) Learned something yesterday about the wild fires in California; fires move faster going uphill because the wind goes with it; not so much going downhill.
Scary stuff, watching houses and towns in danger of being destroyed. Hope everyone is OK.
3) Stony Brook 83, South Carolina 81— Seawolves beat George Washington in their opener, pulled a second upset here. Good news for the America East Conference.
2) Joe Mauer retired after 15 years in the big leagues. I happened to be watching the Twins’ last home game in September; when Mauer went to 1B, his kids went out there too— you kind of figured that was it for Mauer, at least in Minnesota.
1) Jim Calhoun coached his first game for the St Edward’s Bluejays last night; the 76-year old Calhoun is now a D-III coach, six years after he left UConn. St Edward’s beat William Paterson 79-74. Calhoun mustn’t have enjoyed being on TV very much.
Six highest-paid coaches in college basketball:
6) Sean Miller, Arizona $4.05M
5) Tom Izzo, Michigan State $4.36M
4) Bill Self, Kansas $4.95M
3) Chris Holtmann, Ohio State $7.15M
2) John Calipari, Kentucky $7.99M
1) Mike Krzyzewski, Duke $8.98M
Quote of the Day
“The locker room is a comfortable space. We’re all cut from the same cloth. You’re sharing this space with people who have a lot of similarities and are very like-minded.”
Raptors’ guard Danny Green, talking about playing in the NBA
Saturday’s quiz
Florida State’s Willie Taggart is coaching his third team in three years; what two other teams did he coach?
Friday’s quiz
Russell Wilson played college football for NC State and Wisconsin.
Thursday’s quiz
Steve Kerr played his college basketball at Arizona.
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Saturday’s List of 13: Clearing out a cluttered mind……..
13) Last summer, CBS Sports polled more than 100 coaches asking them to identify the most powerful person in college basketball; Mike Krzyzewski, John Calipari and Big 14 commish Jim Delany finished 1st-3rd, and a guy I never heard of finished 4th.
Bret Just used to be a high school coach; now he’s an agent for three NBA coaches, two NBA GM’s, Geno Auriemma and a bunch of other college coaches, including Andy Enfield, Chris Beard, Frank Martin. There is a tournament in Kansas City in a couple weeks where all four coaches are Just’s clients.
Influential guy, the Scott Boras of basketball coaches. Now I know his name.
12) Texas 73, Arkansas 71 OT— Longhorns’ Kerwin Roach stuck a 3-ball in transition with 0:01 left to tie the game 63-all, after Texas trailed almost the whole game, which was played on a military base at Fort Bliss in Texas.
11) Ravens’ QB Joe Flacco has a hip injury and may not play next week against the Bengals. Rookie Lamar Jackson would start if Flacco can’t.
10) Dez Bryant signed with the Saints Wednesday, then tore his achilles in practice Friday.
9) Five biggest upsets in college football so far this season:
Old Dominion (+27.5) 49-35 over Virginia Tech
Oregon State (+24.5) 41-34 over Colorado
BYU (+22.5) 24-21 over Wisconsin
Akron (+21.5) 39-34 over Northwestern
Wake Forest (+19.5) 27-23 over NC State
8) Pretty cool Thursday night on the Clippers-Blazers TV broadcast; with TV guy Ralph Lawler retiring after 40 years behind the mike, Lawler’s wife Jo joined her husband and Corey Maggette on TV for a few minutes during the second quarter, which led to a lot of laughter.
It has been great fun listening to Mr Lawler’s good natured broadcasts over the years on NBA League Pass. It helps that the Clippers are improved under new owner Steve Ballmer.
7) Obscure Stat of the Day: Since 2000, 54 NFL teams scored 50+ points in a game; those teams went 52-1-1 against the spread. The ’13 Cowboys (-7) beat Denver 51-48 but did not cover.
6) There is a great article about friendships in the NBA on thescore.com If you follow the NBA or sports of any kind, this is interesting information.
5) JJ Redick plays for the 76ers but lives in Brooklyn with his wife and kids, which seems odd. He must like riding on trains, assuming that is how he commutes.
4) Learned something yesterday about the wild fires in California; fires move faster going uphill because the wind goes with it; not so much going downhill.
Scary stuff, watching houses and towns in danger of being destroyed. Hope everyone is OK.
3) Stony Brook 83, South Carolina 81— Seawolves beat George Washington in their opener, pulled a second upset here. Good news for the America East Conference.
2) Joe Mauer retired after 15 years in the big leagues. I happened to be watching the Twins’ last home game in September; when Mauer went to 1B, his kids went out there too— you kind of figured that was it for Mauer, at least in Minnesota.
1) Jim Calhoun coached his first game for the St Edward’s Bluejays last night; the 76-year old Calhoun is now a D-III coach, six years after he left UConn. St Edward’s beat William Paterson 79-74. Calhoun mustn’t have enjoyed being on TV very much.
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