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Armadillo: Saturday's six-pack
-- Nets dropped from 40-1 to 10-1 to win NBA next season after trading for Garnett/Pierce Thursday night.
-- Atlanta Braves retired Larry Wayne Jones’ #10 Friday night. Chipper could’ve gone to the AL and hung on as a DH for few more years, but opted for retirement.
-- Shelby Miller threw 51 pitches in the second inning alone Friday, most pitches thrown by any pitcher in any inning this season.
-- My friend John submits two more sets of look-alikes: Bronx C Chris Stewart and the Joker on Batman; Rangers 1B Lance Berkman and NASCAR’s Tony Stewart.
-- Stan Musial had 3,630 hits in his career; 1,815 at home, 1,815 on road.
-- Congrats to Juniata College on signing Trevor Clune to play basketball next year; young Clune played for Meadville HS-- if he has dad's ability and his mom's smarts, he has a bright future.
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13) 26 of the 60 players drafted in last year’s NBA Draft played in the D-League, and this year’s draft was even weaker. Am curious to see some summer league games in Las Vegas in a couple weeks.
12) Chip Kelly went 46-7 in four years coaching Oregon; I’m thinking he loses more games than that in his first year with the Eagles.
11) 166 poker players ponied up $111,111 each to get in what is really the most elite tournament of the World Series of Poker, because the steep buy-in pretty much eliminates amateur players. That’s a prize pool of over $18M, so it’ll be interesting to follow who wins that. Think Antonio Esfandiari won last year’s event.
10) Why wasn’t Jeff Van Gundy on ESPN’s draft coverage? Unless he didn’t want to be, it makes no sense for a network not to have your top analyst with a role in the broadcast.
9) New Memphis Grizzlies’ coach Dave Joerger paid his dues, coaching several years in pro hoops’ minor leagues, winning the ’07 D-League title with the world-famous Dakota Wizards. Phil Jackson/George Karl coached in the CBA in the 80’s; that’s how you learn your craft.
Joerger is a no-name, but am betting he’ll wind up being a damn good coach. Plus from the team’s standpoint, obscure guys get paid less than big names, at least until they win.
8) Former Nets’ head coach Lawrence Frank is back with the Nets, as Jason Kidd’s top lieutenant. You’d think a former head coach would have too big an ego to make a move like that, but Frank was a student manager as a college student at Indiana so despite being a former head coach, his ego is probably somewhat smaller than most.
7) Rodney Hood is expected to make a splash at Duke this winter after transferring from Mississippi State, but he hurt his Achilles this week while playing for USA Basketball, and his people are holding their break that it isn’t a torn Achilles.
6) D1scourse.com points out that over the last five years, 19 players from the teams in the new AAC were drafted by NBA teams; only 15 players from current Big East schools were selected.
5) Celtics-Clippers aren’t allowed to make any more trades with each other until the end of next season.
4) Sharpshooter Jordan Price has transferred from Auburn to LaSalle, where he’ll have three years to play starting in 2014-15. Price made 11 treys in a row at one point last season, before injuring his foot.
3) Friday was a day for undrafted players to scramble for a summer league team to play on. One kid I think will wind up being a good pro is UNLV’s Anthony Marshall, who will play for Miami’s summer league team in Las Vegas next month.
2) 33 of the 125 Division I-A college football coaches were quarterbacks in their playing days; only three were running backs.
1) In 1975-76, George Seifert went 3-15 as the head football coach at Cornell, and the Ivy League school fired him.
13 years later, Seifert was hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy as head coach of the Super Bowl champion 49ers. Life is funny, it goes in cycles. Have to hang in there through the rough patches.
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-- Nets dropped from 40-1 to 10-1 to win NBA next season after trading for Garnett/Pierce Thursday night.
-- Atlanta Braves retired Larry Wayne Jones’ #10 Friday night. Chipper could’ve gone to the AL and hung on as a DH for few more years, but opted for retirement.
-- Shelby Miller threw 51 pitches in the second inning alone Friday, most pitches thrown by any pitcher in any inning this season.
-- My friend John submits two more sets of look-alikes: Bronx C Chris Stewart and the Joker on Batman; Rangers 1B Lance Berkman and NASCAR’s Tony Stewart.
-- Stan Musial had 3,630 hits in his career; 1,815 at home, 1,815 on road.
-- Congrats to Juniata College on signing Trevor Clune to play basketball next year; young Clune played for Meadville HS-- if he has dad's ability and his mom's smarts, he has a bright future.
*****
Armadillo: Saturday's List of 13: Clearing out a cluttered mind.......
13) 26 of the 60 players drafted in last year’s NBA Draft played in the D-League, and this year’s draft was even weaker. Am curious to see some summer league games in Las Vegas in a couple weeks.
12) Chip Kelly went 46-7 in four years coaching Oregon; I’m thinking he loses more games than that in his first year with the Eagles.
11) 166 poker players ponied up $111,111 each to get in what is really the most elite tournament of the World Series of Poker, because the steep buy-in pretty much eliminates amateur players. That’s a prize pool of over $18M, so it’ll be interesting to follow who wins that. Think Antonio Esfandiari won last year’s event.
10) Why wasn’t Jeff Van Gundy on ESPN’s draft coverage? Unless he didn’t want to be, it makes no sense for a network not to have your top analyst with a role in the broadcast.
9) New Memphis Grizzlies’ coach Dave Joerger paid his dues, coaching several years in pro hoops’ minor leagues, winning the ’07 D-League title with the world-famous Dakota Wizards. Phil Jackson/George Karl coached in the CBA in the 80’s; that’s how you learn your craft.
Joerger is a no-name, but am betting he’ll wind up being a damn good coach. Plus from the team’s standpoint, obscure guys get paid less than big names, at least until they win.
8) Former Nets’ head coach Lawrence Frank is back with the Nets, as Jason Kidd’s top lieutenant. You’d think a former head coach would have too big an ego to make a move like that, but Frank was a student manager as a college student at Indiana so despite being a former head coach, his ego is probably somewhat smaller than most.
7) Rodney Hood is expected to make a splash at Duke this winter after transferring from Mississippi State, but he hurt his Achilles this week while playing for USA Basketball, and his people are holding their break that it isn’t a torn Achilles.
6) D1scourse.com points out that over the last five years, 19 players from the teams in the new AAC were drafted by NBA teams; only 15 players from current Big East schools were selected.
5) Celtics-Clippers aren’t allowed to make any more trades with each other until the end of next season.
4) Sharpshooter Jordan Price has transferred from Auburn to LaSalle, where he’ll have three years to play starting in 2014-15. Price made 11 treys in a row at one point last season, before injuring his foot.
3) Friday was a day for undrafted players to scramble for a summer league team to play on. One kid I think will wind up being a good pro is UNLV’s Anthony Marshall, who will play for Miami’s summer league team in Las Vegas next month.
2) 33 of the 125 Division I-A college football coaches were quarterbacks in their playing days; only three were running backs.
1) In 1975-76, George Seifert went 3-15 as the head football coach at Cornell, and the Ivy League school fired him.
13 years later, Seifert was hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy as head coach of the Super Bowl champion 49ers. Life is funny, it goes in cycles. Have to hang in there through the rough patches.
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