Last night, the Detroit Tigers traded first baseman Prince Fielder to the Texas Rangers for second baseman Ian Kinsler. Continue reading
Farewell, sweet Prince
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Tuesday Afternoon Inside Linebacker
Since “Monday Morning Quarterback” and “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” are taken and uninspired, and because I’m preempting my own exhaustion of “Monday“-themed alliterations, ALDLAND’s regular football/weekend roundup will move to Tuesday afternoons, which also permits incorporation of the Monday night NFL game. With week two of college football and week one of the NFL in the books, here goes:
College Football
Pregame:
- There’s still time to vote in ALDLAND’s week 1 college football poll. The week 2 poll will open soon.
- Brendan and Physguy were in Ann Arbor for ESPN College Gameday, and the only evidence is a couple cryptic tweets from Brendan.
The games — No surprises:
- I was able to find Michigan State’s game against South Florida on television in the Southeast, which may be thanks to USF’s participation in the game, but which also felt like finding a unicorn in the wild. MSU’s defense continues to outscore their offense, and that’s with three quarterbacks! Even Sparta only ever had two kings at once. Michigan State 21, South Florida 6.
- I also found Vanderbilt-Austin Peay on TV, which is a reminder that it’s week two for the broadcasters as well. VU had no problem with its Middle Tennessee neighbors, winning 38-3.
The U.S. Open men’s final is eye-opening
Rafa Nadal currently has a 2-1 lead over Novak Djokovic in the first set of the men’s final of the U.S. Open. You can watch live NFL Quick Hits 2013: The Fans
The NFL season begins tonight, when the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens travel to Denver to play the Broncos.
In 2013, NFL fans have so many ways to follow the game, it can be easy to lose track of the notion that this is all supposed to be leisure-time entertainment. The following are suggestions on how to cut through the volumes of NFL-fan-experience accessories and have fun this season: Continue reading
A dozen thoughts on the NCAA national championship game: Louisville defeats Michigan 82-76
Last night, Louisville outlasted Michigan to win the national championship game. A few thoughts as we awake from our Rick-Pitino-is-getting-a-tattoo nightmares: Continue reading
NCAA Tournament: Your second round gambling guide, courtesty of CBSSports.com
In a world in which we all kid Brent Musburger for alluding to Vegas-relevant information during his football broadcasts and supposedly place restrictions on (particularly, amateur) sports gambling, should we find it odd that the primary information CBS Sports (the very network contracted with the NCAA to broadcast the tournament) features about the NCAA basketball tournament games is the betting line for each game? This is Chris Christie panache without the volume, right? Or is this just what happens when we have reason to tear our eyes away from the Worldwide Leader and discover that there are established sports media networks capable of operating without ESPN’s illogical pretensions?
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As for today’s games, we have our first pairing of traditional powerhouses, an underrepresented bunch this March, when Kansas and UNC meet this evening. Expect Florida and Minnesota to be sloppy, and Florida Gulf Coast and San Diego State to be silly.
Navy and Notre Dame, featuring Jungle Bird
I didn’t want to have to write anything about the Notre Dame/Navy game in Dublin– it’s 40-10 in disfavor of the Midshipmen right now– but then Jungle Bird showed up, and the environment demanded a digital response. Here’s the video:
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The U.S. Open golf tournament turned interesting shortly after it ended
Jim Nantz’s Celebrity Hot Tub Party, feat. John Stockton
Many people are familiar with the show James Brown’s Celebrity Hot Tub Party. Until recently, however, very few knew about the CBS spinoff, Jim Nantz’s Celebrity Hot Tub Party. Here’s a clip from the first episode, featuring members of the 1985 Utah Jazz:
Special teams Monday
On Friday night, the Minnesota Timberwolves hung around long enough and took advantage of a Los Angeles Clippers’ offense that, despite dominating most of the game even without Chris Paul, stagnated after Mo Williams, who couldn’t miss, got himself ejected. Minnesota won the game on a Kevin Love 3-pointer off an in-bounds play with 1.5 seconds remaining. The 101-98 game-winning margin was the T-Wolves only lead of the night after going up 2-0 to start the game.
In college action, Michigan State was all over Purdue in East Lansing, 83-58, the Boilermakers being a much better team in West Lafayette than on the road. Vanderbilt, meanwhile, hasn’t quite been able to right its ship, dropping a tough one in overtime to #15 Mississippi State, 78-77. Other notable games included Virginia Tech upsetting UVA in a low-scoring affair (47-45), Notre Dame upsetting previously undefeated #1 Syracuse, and Florida State salvaging its season with an upset of Duke in Durham just a week after it blew out free falling North Carolina. There also was this neat fact:
Sometime Saturday night or Sunday morning, former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died after a battle with lung cancer. Beyond the longevity of his tenure, recent information about his handling of the Jerry Sandusky situation has obscured and clouded Paterno’s legacy. One has to wonder, though, whether Paterno would be alive today if he had been allowed to remain in his post. It isn’t a sensational suggestion: he and others addressed this very question in years past (in an article, probably in Sports Illustrated, for which I spent a good amount of time unsuccessfully searching on Sunday). The other footnote on this story right now is the mishandling of the death announcement by the media– particularly CBS Sports, which lifted a premature story without attribution from Onward State, a PSU student site, and then attempted to blame that site when the error was revealed.
Sunday featured the NFL playoffs’ final four and saw New England and New York advancing to the Super Bowl. In each game, the losing team appeared to be in control at the end, only to commit crippling special teams errors that delivered the victory to their opponent. When the teams meet in the Super Bowl, Eli Manning will have the opportunity to double his brother’s championship total, while Tom Brady could join Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana as the only quarterbacks to win four Super Bowls. Super Bowl XLVI will be a rematch of Super Bowl XLII, which the Giants won 17-14, thanks in large part to a fourth-quarter catch by WR David Tyree.
In the Australian Open, Serena Williams lost 6-2, 6-3 to Ekaterina Makarova. Williams was the last American alive in the tournament.
11|11|11: A three-for-one holiday
Rare is the day that is three holidays in one. Thinking about it for zero seconds, I can’t think of another day like this one.
First up is Veterans’ Day. It’s tough if not impossible to say something that seems really genuine on the internet, much less in a blurb on a silly site like this, but here we are, so I’ll say a thank you to my friends, family members, and the multitude of strangers who have served or currently are serving this country in the armed forces and whose service makes it possible for, among many other infinitely more important things, me to comfortably spend some of my spare time typing off-hand thoughts on here. More importantly, thanks to those of you who read about, and even donated to the documentary To Them That’s Gone. It’s about running, and running is a sport, so it’s cool. For today in particular, read Matt Ufford’s piece for The Classical preview, entitled “38 seconds.” It might literally be the least you could do.
Second, today is Corduroy Appreciation Day, and indeed it is the most important of such days in most of our lifetimes. A dear friend brought this to my attention, and he had a brief cameo in CBS’ report on last year’s day. Hail the wale!
Third, today is Nigel Tufnel Day, and like this instance of Corduroy Appreciation Day, today’s Nigel Tufnel Day is the most important of our lifetimes, as no day will go to eleven to the extent today does. Yahoo!’s Movie Talk has the background for the uninitiated, but this clip should show you all you need to know:
(HT: @cpramsdell)
What to do on this unprecedentedally celebratory day of days? My best advice is to rock it on your Les Paul in some red, white, and blue corduroy duds.
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