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Armadillo: Saturday's six-pack
Phil Steele's great college football magazine arrived in the mail today. Here are the top six teams in his pre-season ranking.........
6) Auburn-- Were 12-2 last year, didn't have positive turnover ratio (even).
5) Oklahoma-- Lost six starters on offense; former QB Bell is now a TE.
4) Oregon-- Covered 11 of last 13 regular season road games.
3) UCLA-- 17 starters back, including 3rd-year starting QB Hundley.
2) Alabama-- Biggest question revolves around quarterback; who will it be?
1) Florida State-- Won last five bowl games by an average of 9.8 points/game.
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Armadillo: Saturday's List of 13: Nobody asked me, but.........
13) Martin Kaymer is now 4-7 to win the US Open, meaning you would have to risk $70 for every $40 you win; no one else is in the field is lower than 20-1; if only players within ten shots of the lead made the cut, a mere 19 players would be teeing off Saturday. NBC needs Kaymer to collapse to have an interesting finish.
12) Charlotte Bobcats cut Boris Diaw on March 21, 2012, maybe best thing that has ever happened to him; he had nine assissts for the Spurs Thursday night, and is on the verge of winning an NBA championship.
11) Speaking of Charlotte (now the Hornets), Michael Jordan shuffled some of the responsibilities in the front office, which resulted in Rod Higgins leaving the team. He had been president of basketball operations; not anymore.
10) Before this week, 1977 Portland Trailblazers were last team to win consecutive NBA Finals games by 19+ points.
9) Oakland Grizzlies of the Horizon League picked up a couple transfers from high major programs; Percy Gibson from Iowa State, Max Hodder from St John's. When kids wash out of top 50 programs, the mid-majors swoop in.
8) Then there are the major programs who poach good players from mid-majors; Michigan State grabs transfer Bryn Forbes away from Cleveland State; Forbes had 22 in a game against Kentucky this year, scored 15.6 ppg for the Vikings.
7) There are nine former Georgia Bulldog golfers in US Open this week, which is thought to be an Open record for one college.
6) Friday was just third sub-par round out of 39 in US Open for Adam Scott.
5) Saw some highlights of Payne Stewart's win US Open win at Pinehurst 15 years ago, and Dick Enberg was NBC's lead golf voice. Now its 2014 and Enberg is still going strong, doing play-by-play on Padres' telecasts.
4) 14 of the Cardinals' 35 wins this season have been shutouts.
3) Going into Friday night's game, 12 of the 16 position players in the Padre-Met starting lineups were hitting .230 or less.
2) Gregory Polanco homered in the 13th inning as Pittsburgh survived blowing a 6-2 ninth inning lead in Miami- they beat the Marlins 8-6.
1) RIP coach Chuck Noll, probably the most underrated coach in the history of American team sports; he led the Steelers to four Super Bowl titles, when they had been 18-49-3 in the five years before Noll took over- they made the playoffs in his 4th year, the Super Bowl in his 6th year, then won three more. He never promoted himself, just won an awful lot of games. RIP, sir.
Phil Steele's great college football magazine arrived in the mail today. Here are the top six teams in his pre-season ranking.........
6) Auburn-- Were 12-2 last year, didn't have positive turnover ratio (even).
5) Oklahoma-- Lost six starters on offense; former QB Bell is now a TE.
4) Oregon-- Covered 11 of last 13 regular season road games.
3) UCLA-- 17 starters back, including 3rd-year starting QB Hundley.
2) Alabama-- Biggest question revolves around quarterback; who will it be?
1) Florida State-- Won last five bowl games by an average of 9.8 points/game.
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Armadillo: Saturday's List of 13: Nobody asked me, but.........
13) Martin Kaymer is now 4-7 to win the US Open, meaning you would have to risk $70 for every $40 you win; no one else is in the field is lower than 20-1; if only players within ten shots of the lead made the cut, a mere 19 players would be teeing off Saturday. NBC needs Kaymer to collapse to have an interesting finish.
12) Charlotte Bobcats cut Boris Diaw on March 21, 2012, maybe best thing that has ever happened to him; he had nine assissts for the Spurs Thursday night, and is on the verge of winning an NBA championship.
11) Speaking of Charlotte (now the Hornets), Michael Jordan shuffled some of the responsibilities in the front office, which resulted in Rod Higgins leaving the team. He had been president of basketball operations; not anymore.
10) Before this week, 1977 Portland Trailblazers were last team to win consecutive NBA Finals games by 19+ points.
9) Oakland Grizzlies of the Horizon League picked up a couple transfers from high major programs; Percy Gibson from Iowa State, Max Hodder from St John's. When kids wash out of top 50 programs, the mid-majors swoop in.
8) Then there are the major programs who poach good players from mid-majors; Michigan State grabs transfer Bryn Forbes away from Cleveland State; Forbes had 22 in a game against Kentucky this year, scored 15.6 ppg for the Vikings.
7) There are nine former Georgia Bulldog golfers in US Open this week, which is thought to be an Open record for one college.
6) Friday was just third sub-par round out of 39 in US Open for Adam Scott.
5) Saw some highlights of Payne Stewart's win US Open win at Pinehurst 15 years ago, and Dick Enberg was NBC's lead golf voice. Now its 2014 and Enberg is still going strong, doing play-by-play on Padres' telecasts.
4) 14 of the Cardinals' 35 wins this season have been shutouts.
3) Going into Friday night's game, 12 of the 16 position players in the Padre-Met starting lineups were hitting .230 or less.
2) Gregory Polanco homered in the 13th inning as Pittsburgh survived blowing a 6-2 ninth inning lead in Miami- they beat the Marlins 8-6.
1) RIP coach Chuck Noll, probably the most underrated coach in the history of American team sports; he led the Steelers to four Super Bowl titles, when they had been 18-49-3 in the five years before Noll took over- they made the playoffs in his 4th year, the Super Bowl in his 6th year, then won three more. He never promoted himself, just won an awful lot of games. RIP, sir.
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