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Armadillo: Thursday's six-pack
-- Arkansas 74, Texas A&M 71-- First SEC loss for the Aggies.
-- Clemson 73, Pitt 60-- Tigers won six of last seven, are heading towards bubble.
-- East Carolina 64, Temple 61-- Owls stumble after knocking off SMU.
-- Georgia Tech 90, NC State 83-- Bottom half of ACC doesn't have much form.
-- Baylor 69, Oklahoma State 65-- Gritty road win for the Bears.
-- UNLV 87, Boise State 77-- Rebels are now 4-1 since changing coaches.
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Armadillo: Thursday's List of 13: Doing some thinking out loud.......
13) Teams wearing white won 10 of the last 11 Super Bowls; Denver chose to wear white next week, since they're 0-4 in Super Bowl with orange jerseys on.
12) There were a total of 14,073 walks in in 2,430 major league baseball games LY; in those 2,430 games, the leadoff hitter in the game walked 144 times. There were four bases-loaded walks that ended games, walk-off walks.
11) Salaries of basketball coaches at some lesser-known successful programs:
Xavier coach makes $1.2M, Richmond's coach $700K, Northern Iowa's $600K.
10) In the NBA, Houston-Portland-Sacramento have all played 12 sets of back/back games, the most in the league so far. Minnesota has played seven, the least- they are 0-7 in the second game of back/backs, 3-4 vs spread.
9) Under is 110-96 this season in NBA games when a team playing the second night in a row faces a team that had the previous night off.
8) Home teams playing the second night in a row are 52-38 vs spread this year.
7) Nikola Mirotic of the Chicago Bulls will be out for a few weeks after he had an appendectomy; he should be back after the All-Star break.
6) Watching San Diego State-Nevada game Tuesday night, Nevada players did some interesting pre-game drills, one of which was dribbling a basketball and a tennis ball at the same time-- sharpens your hand/eye coordination
5) Someone voted for David Eckstein for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Why?
4) Gas is $2.23 a gallon here in beautiful upstate New York; I am told that down in Daytona Beach, it is $1.72. Lot of greedy bastards here in New York State.
3) Texas A&M's loss at Arkansas last night was 22nd loss this season by a top 5 college basketball team- there were 21 of those all of last season.
2) Kansas hoop coach Bill Self has a career record of 200-9 at Allen Fieldhouse.
1) Happy birthday this week to the great Bob Uecker, the former major league catcher and current analyst for the Milwaukee Brewers. Uecker made himself famous with self-deprecating humor, but he did homer off Sandy Koufax, Gaylord Perry. He once joked that he hit a HR and the other team's manager came to the mound, with the pitcher's suitcase-- Uecker's career batting average was exactly .200.
-- Arkansas 74, Texas A&M 71-- First SEC loss for the Aggies.
-- Clemson 73, Pitt 60-- Tigers won six of last seven, are heading towards bubble.
-- East Carolina 64, Temple 61-- Owls stumble after knocking off SMU.
-- Georgia Tech 90, NC State 83-- Bottom half of ACC doesn't have much form.
-- Baylor 69, Oklahoma State 65-- Gritty road win for the Bears.
-- UNLV 87, Boise State 77-- Rebels are now 4-1 since changing coaches.
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Armadillo: Thursday's List of 13: Doing some thinking out loud.......
13) Teams wearing white won 10 of the last 11 Super Bowls; Denver chose to wear white next week, since they're 0-4 in Super Bowl with orange jerseys on.
12) There were a total of 14,073 walks in in 2,430 major league baseball games LY; in those 2,430 games, the leadoff hitter in the game walked 144 times. There were four bases-loaded walks that ended games, walk-off walks.
11) Salaries of basketball coaches at some lesser-known successful programs:
Xavier coach makes $1.2M, Richmond's coach $700K, Northern Iowa's $600K.
10) In the NBA, Houston-Portland-Sacramento have all played 12 sets of back/back games, the most in the league so far. Minnesota has played seven, the least- they are 0-7 in the second game of back/backs, 3-4 vs spread.
9) Under is 110-96 this season in NBA games when a team playing the second night in a row faces a team that had the previous night off.
8) Home teams playing the second night in a row are 52-38 vs spread this year.
7) Nikola Mirotic of the Chicago Bulls will be out for a few weeks after he had an appendectomy; he should be back after the All-Star break.
6) Watching San Diego State-Nevada game Tuesday night, Nevada players did some interesting pre-game drills, one of which was dribbling a basketball and a tennis ball at the same time-- sharpens your hand/eye coordination
5) Someone voted for David Eckstein for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Why?
4) Gas is $2.23 a gallon here in beautiful upstate New York; I am told that down in Daytona Beach, it is $1.72. Lot of greedy bastards here in New York State.
3) Texas A&M's loss at Arkansas last night was 22nd loss this season by a top 5 college basketball team- there were 21 of those all of last season.
2) Kansas hoop coach Bill Self has a career record of 200-9 at Allen Fieldhouse.
1) Happy birthday this week to the great Bob Uecker, the former major league catcher and current analyst for the Milwaukee Brewers. Uecker made himself famous with self-deprecating humor, but he did homer off Sandy Koufax, Gaylord Perry. He once joked that he hit a HR and the other team's manager came to the mound, with the pitcher's suitcase-- Uecker's career batting average was exactly .200.
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