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Wednesday’s six-pack
Records in conference games, NCAA tourney games the last four years:
Wisconsin 52-20 Big 14 games, 13-4 NCAA’s
Maryland 38-16, 3-3 (only in Big 14 three years)
Michigan State 47-25, 8-4
Iowa 43-29, 2-3
Purdue 43-29, 2-3
Michigan 43-29, 6-3
Ohio State 39-33, 1-2
Indiana 38-34, 2-2
Northwestern 30-42, 1-1
Illinois 29-43, 0-0
Nebraska 28-44, 0-1
Minnesota 27-45, 0-1
Penn State 23-49, 0-0
Rutgers 11-61, 0-0
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Wednesday’s List of 13: Mid-week musings……..
13) Revisionist historians were out at the NFL Draft last weekend; Bill Walsh didn’t “find” Joe Montana in the 1979 draft, he didn’t even want the 49ers to take him. Seriously.
49ers had a scout named Tony Razzano who (along with former Denver coach John Ralston) wanted the Niners to draft Montana. Walsh wanted Steve Dils, whom he had coached at Stanford. The scouts won out and since then people have jostled for position to take credit for it.
49ers took Montana in the third round; Dils wound up getting selected by Minnesota in the 4th round, lasted 10 years in the NFL, starting only 27 games (10-17).
12) A football fan in San Francisco paid $30,000 to sit in the 49ers’ draft room last weekend.
11) A 3-star basketball recruit from Georgia was all set to sign with Eastern Kentucky, until Duke jumped in and offered the kid a scholarship, which the kid took.
Huh? Duke doesn’t pursue 3-star recruits, so what gives?
Well, current Blue Devil Frank Jackson hasn’t withdrawn from the NBA Draft yet, and Trevon Duval hasn’t decided where his six months of college will happen— if neither of those two guards plays at Duke next year, then Jordan Goldwire will find himself as Duke’s point guard.
If Jackson/Duval both attend Duke next year, then Goldwire will work hard in practice and never see the light of day in game situations that matter.
10) So far this baseball season, Cubs’ starting pitchers have a 9.69 ERA in the first inning, which is very bad.
9) Boston’s Chris Sale threw behind Manny Machado in the first inning last nite; both benches were warned. Machado later homered in the 7th inning off of Sale.
Orioles turned a triple play in the bottom of the 8th inning of a 5-2 Boston win.
8) Miami’s Edinson Volquez allowed three runs in 4.1 IP last nite; he walked 8, struck out 9 in a Little League-like appearance. Of the 24 batters he faced, 17 walked/struck out. He is only the second pitcher in last 100 years to walk 7+ hitters, strike out 9+ and not finish the 5th inning- he left with a blister problem.
7) Phillies’ pitcher Vince Velasquez has good potential; he struck out 16 Padres in an April game LY, but in order to help the Phillies, he has to get deeper into games.
Philly handed Velasquez a 7-0 lead in 2nd inning Monday, but he still lasted only five innings, throwing 98 pitches. That means the bullpen needed to get 12 outs in a game where they had a huge lead and should’ve been able to relax some.
Over the course of a long six-month season, bullpens need some down time.
6) When he was 11-12 years old. Tampa Bay Rays’ P Alex Cobb was a spring training batboy for the Dodgers in Vero Beach. Sounds like a fun job for a kid.
5) Looks like Valparaiso will be replacing Wichita State in the Missouri Valley Conference; there was some though that the league would add three teams (Omaha, Murray State were mentioned) to get o 12 teams.
4) Indians’ ace Corey Kluber left last night’s game with back discomfort, bad news for Cleveland.
3) ESPN fired Ed Werder even though his contract runs thru April 2019; how does this make any sense? The guy is really good at his job, you have to pay him for two more years anyway, and you still fire him? It makes you wonder what really is in play here.
2) Nick Saban got a contract extension this week. From ESPN.com:
“Saban will receive a $4 million signing bonus and make $6.725 million in salary this year. He gets another $400,000 bonus for completing the season, bringing his total compensation for the year to $11.125 million. He has completion bonuses in each year of the contract, culminating in a $3.6 million payout after the 2021 season before going back down to $400,000 per year in subsequent seasons.”
Saban is the 2nd-highest paid college coach in the country, behind Jim Harbaugh.
1— The wife of talk show host Jimmy Kimmel gave birth to a little boy couple weeks ago; young man was born with some heart problems, but is doing better now. Kimmel started his show Monday nite with a monologue describing what happened and thanking all the people who helped. He had a list and read it, with lot of nurses/doctors’ names on it.
Kimmel is a wealthy guy, but what if it was my kid or yours? Could I afford that kind of health care? Could you? The baby has already had one heart operation; he’ll need two more before the problem is totally behind him.
One of Kimmel’s points in his monologue was this: No parent should have to decide whether he/she has enough money to save their child’s life. Good health care is for all Americans, not just the wealthy ones. Makes a lot of sense.
Records in conference games, NCAA tourney games the last four years:
Wisconsin 52-20 Big 14 games, 13-4 NCAA’s
Maryland 38-16, 3-3 (only in Big 14 three years)
Michigan State 47-25, 8-4
Iowa 43-29, 2-3
Purdue 43-29, 2-3
Michigan 43-29, 6-3
Ohio State 39-33, 1-2
Indiana 38-34, 2-2
Northwestern 30-42, 1-1
Illinois 29-43, 0-0
Nebraska 28-44, 0-1
Minnesota 27-45, 0-1
Penn State 23-49, 0-0
Rutgers 11-61, 0-0
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Wednesday’s List of 13: Mid-week musings……..
13) Revisionist historians were out at the NFL Draft last weekend; Bill Walsh didn’t “find” Joe Montana in the 1979 draft, he didn’t even want the 49ers to take him. Seriously.
49ers had a scout named Tony Razzano who (along with former Denver coach John Ralston) wanted the Niners to draft Montana. Walsh wanted Steve Dils, whom he had coached at Stanford. The scouts won out and since then people have jostled for position to take credit for it.
49ers took Montana in the third round; Dils wound up getting selected by Minnesota in the 4th round, lasted 10 years in the NFL, starting only 27 games (10-17).
12) A football fan in San Francisco paid $30,000 to sit in the 49ers’ draft room last weekend.
11) A 3-star basketball recruit from Georgia was all set to sign with Eastern Kentucky, until Duke jumped in and offered the kid a scholarship, which the kid took.
Huh? Duke doesn’t pursue 3-star recruits, so what gives?
Well, current Blue Devil Frank Jackson hasn’t withdrawn from the NBA Draft yet, and Trevon Duval hasn’t decided where his six months of college will happen— if neither of those two guards plays at Duke next year, then Jordan Goldwire will find himself as Duke’s point guard.
If Jackson/Duval both attend Duke next year, then Goldwire will work hard in practice and never see the light of day in game situations that matter.
10) So far this baseball season, Cubs’ starting pitchers have a 9.69 ERA in the first inning, which is very bad.
9) Boston’s Chris Sale threw behind Manny Machado in the first inning last nite; both benches were warned. Machado later homered in the 7th inning off of Sale.
Orioles turned a triple play in the bottom of the 8th inning of a 5-2 Boston win.
8) Miami’s Edinson Volquez allowed three runs in 4.1 IP last nite; he walked 8, struck out 9 in a Little League-like appearance. Of the 24 batters he faced, 17 walked/struck out. He is only the second pitcher in last 100 years to walk 7+ hitters, strike out 9+ and not finish the 5th inning- he left with a blister problem.
7) Phillies’ pitcher Vince Velasquez has good potential; he struck out 16 Padres in an April game LY, but in order to help the Phillies, he has to get deeper into games.
Philly handed Velasquez a 7-0 lead in 2nd inning Monday, but he still lasted only five innings, throwing 98 pitches. That means the bullpen needed to get 12 outs in a game where they had a huge lead and should’ve been able to relax some.
Over the course of a long six-month season, bullpens need some down time.
6) When he was 11-12 years old. Tampa Bay Rays’ P Alex Cobb was a spring training batboy for the Dodgers in Vero Beach. Sounds like a fun job for a kid.
5) Looks like Valparaiso will be replacing Wichita State in the Missouri Valley Conference; there was some though that the league would add three teams (Omaha, Murray State were mentioned) to get o 12 teams.
4) Indians’ ace Corey Kluber left last night’s game with back discomfort, bad news for Cleveland.
3) ESPN fired Ed Werder even though his contract runs thru April 2019; how does this make any sense? The guy is really good at his job, you have to pay him for two more years anyway, and you still fire him? It makes you wonder what really is in play here.
2) Nick Saban got a contract extension this week. From ESPN.com:
“Saban will receive a $4 million signing bonus and make $6.725 million in salary this year. He gets another $400,000 bonus for completing the season, bringing his total compensation for the year to $11.125 million. He has completion bonuses in each year of the contract, culminating in a $3.6 million payout after the 2021 season before going back down to $400,000 per year in subsequent seasons.”
Saban is the 2nd-highest paid college coach in the country, behind Jim Harbaugh.
1— The wife of talk show host Jimmy Kimmel gave birth to a little boy couple weeks ago; young man was born with some heart problems, but is doing better now. Kimmel started his show Monday nite with a monologue describing what happened and thanking all the people who helped. He had a list and read it, with lot of nurses/doctors’ names on it.
Kimmel is a wealthy guy, but what if it was my kid or yours? Could I afford that kind of health care? Could you? The baby has already had one heart operation; he’ll need two more before the problem is totally behind him.
One of Kimmel’s points in his monologue was this: No parent should have to decide whether he/she has enough money to save their child’s life. Good health care is for all Americans, not just the wealthy ones. Makes a lot of sense.
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