Armadillo: Monday's six-pack
-- Former Texas football coach Mack Brown is joining ESPN as an analyst.
-- NBA Finals are back to a 2-2-1-1-1 format, after years of 2-3-2.
-- Mets/Phillies played 14-14-11 innings the last three days. Puts a lot of strain on both pitching staffs, with teams playing again on Monday.
-- Last time teams played consecutive 14+ inning games against each other was in 2003, when Indians-Pirates did it.
-- Phillies lost seven of Cole Hamels' eight starts this season.
-- In Chris Sale's last four starts, opposing hitters are 4-78 against him.
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Armadillo: Monday's List of 13: Wrapping up a sports weekend.........
13) Los Angeles Kings win Game 7 in OT at Chicago; they're first team in NHL history to get to the NHL Finals after winning three seven-game series.
12) Nothing in sports is as dramatic as overtime in Game 7 of an NHL series.
11) There was an earthquake (3.8) in the Los Angeles near the end of the hockey game; ESPN announcers at the Pirate-Dodger game said they didn't feel it.
10) Think about Milwaukee Bucks selling for $550M, the Clippers for $2B; only three years ago, the Philadelphia 76ers sold for $280M. What a bargain.
9) I'm not fond of Phillies batting Ben Revere leadoff; he's walked four times in 194 plate appearances. Leadoff hitters have to get on-base. Revere's OB% is .299.
8) Former LSU backup QB Hayden Rettig is transferring, leaving Les Miles with only two QBs on his roster; Philip Rivers' brother also transferred out of Baton Rouge earlier this spring. Rettig could wind up at Boston College, where his brother Chase just graduated after playing QB for the Eagles.
7) Kyle Lohse is 7-1, 2.60 this season, headed to the All-Star Game; he threw a 93-pitch complete game against the Cubs Sunday.
6) Under was 14-1 in the Brewers' first 15 home games this season; it is 3-11-1 in the last fifteen games at Miller Park. Go figure.
5) TCU beat San Houston State in 22 innings in the NCAA baseball tournament late Saturday night; both teams lose there-- lot of strain on the pitchers.
4) Dr James Andrews probably cringed when he heard that the kid who threw 99 pitches for Sam Houston Saturday also pitched in relief Sunday. Oy.
3) Hideki Matsuyama birdied 18th hole at Muirfield Village all four days of the Memorial tournament, first-ever player in 39 years to do that, but his par on 18 on the first playoff hole won him his first tournament on American soil.
2) Matsuyama broke his driver teeing off on 18 first time he played it Sunday, he used a 3-wood on the playoff hole. Kevin Na then hit his tee ball in the water, which was the deciding mistake in the tournament.
1) PGA Tour was saying yesterday that this week was the first time in the last 40 years that the final twosome on a Sunday (Bubba Watson/Scott Langley) were both lefthanded. Neither played very well Sunday.
-- Former Texas football coach Mack Brown is joining ESPN as an analyst.
-- NBA Finals are back to a 2-2-1-1-1 format, after years of 2-3-2.
-- Mets/Phillies played 14-14-11 innings the last three days. Puts a lot of strain on both pitching staffs, with teams playing again on Monday.
-- Last time teams played consecutive 14+ inning games against each other was in 2003, when Indians-Pirates did it.
-- Phillies lost seven of Cole Hamels' eight starts this season.
-- In Chris Sale's last four starts, opposing hitters are 4-78 against him.
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Armadillo: Monday's List of 13: Wrapping up a sports weekend.........
13) Los Angeles Kings win Game 7 in OT at Chicago; they're first team in NHL history to get to the NHL Finals after winning three seven-game series.
12) Nothing in sports is as dramatic as overtime in Game 7 of an NHL series.
11) There was an earthquake (3.8) in the Los Angeles near the end of the hockey game; ESPN announcers at the Pirate-Dodger game said they didn't feel it.
10) Think about Milwaukee Bucks selling for $550M, the Clippers for $2B; only three years ago, the Philadelphia 76ers sold for $280M. What a bargain.
9) I'm not fond of Phillies batting Ben Revere leadoff; he's walked four times in 194 plate appearances. Leadoff hitters have to get on-base. Revere's OB% is .299.
8) Former LSU backup QB Hayden Rettig is transferring, leaving Les Miles with only two QBs on his roster; Philip Rivers' brother also transferred out of Baton Rouge earlier this spring. Rettig could wind up at Boston College, where his brother Chase just graduated after playing QB for the Eagles.
7) Kyle Lohse is 7-1, 2.60 this season, headed to the All-Star Game; he threw a 93-pitch complete game against the Cubs Sunday.
6) Under was 14-1 in the Brewers' first 15 home games this season; it is 3-11-1 in the last fifteen games at Miller Park. Go figure.
5) TCU beat San Houston State in 22 innings in the NCAA baseball tournament late Saturday night; both teams lose there-- lot of strain on the pitchers.
4) Dr James Andrews probably cringed when he heard that the kid who threw 99 pitches for Sam Houston Saturday also pitched in relief Sunday. Oy.
3) Hideki Matsuyama birdied 18th hole at Muirfield Village all four days of the Memorial tournament, first-ever player in 39 years to do that, but his par on 18 on the first playoff hole won him his first tournament on American soil.
2) Matsuyama broke his driver teeing off on 18 first time he played it Sunday, he used a 3-wood on the playoff hole. Kevin Na then hit his tee ball in the water, which was the deciding mistake in the tournament.
1) PGA Tour was saying yesterday that this week was the first time in the last 40 years that the final twosome on a Sunday (Bubba Watson/Scott Langley) were both lefthanded. Neither played very well Sunday.
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