This made me smile.
Big fan of the small-world concept and degrees of separation.
Cooper Vest playing baseball and Jesse Cook calling baseball, two things that make all the sense in the world ❤️
Normally, we save our @longbeachcoast interviews for our Beach Ball Pre-Game Report, but for @Austin_Barach's sake and the @ABLMiners, I had to share a piece of my interview with fellow 2023 Mat-Su Miner Cooper Vest!
“The highest level of basketball you can find” and Tirico is 100% right.
San Antonio-OKC was supposed to be, has been so far, and will continue to be for this series, some of the best basketball ever.
And the Knicks would push San Antonio to at least 6 games and maybe win.
Brad Stevens: "I thought we really struggled to generate good looks against Philly. I thought they deserved to win."
Stevens said he would have signed up for most of what happened this season. However...
"We were also 3-11 against the top-three seeds in the West and the other top-two in the East. So we have to get better."
Annual March Madness spreadsheet, a thread.
First, general thoughts:
- Sports games are obviously not determined on a spreadsheet, as it should be. You got to play the game.
- The NCAAB tournament inherently engineers randomness (pardon the jargon there).
So I made five (5) tweaks to this year’s spreadsheet.
You could say that if I needed to make that many tweaks, last year’s process sucked. Maybe it did.
At least the critical thinking evolved this year.
This year!
- Gonzaga at #3. (Despite adding a SOS stat to the spreadsheet)
- Michigan was tracking to be #1 but one stat totally derailed them. Maybe that’s a flaw in my process. We’ll see.
- Vandy and Iowa State in the Final Four
- Zero double digit seeds in R32. Sheesh
Drake Maye’s focus was always football.
But then he’d show up in basketball season and dominate on the hard wood.
Here are the stories from Drake Maye’s basketball career: nytimes.com/athletic/6966097…
The Cornell/Dartmouth rivalry dates back to 1900.
@DartmouthFTBL is enjoying another good season (6-2, 3-2).
@BigRed_Football feels like ‘99 riding a 4-game win streak.
Thrilled to be filling in today!
💻 dartmouthsports.com/watch/?L…
⏰ 1 pm
It’s the opener for @DartmouthMBB!
Coming off their best season since 1999, the Big Green host a @MaristMBB team that hung right with Xavier on Monday.
Super excited to be calling college basketball!
⏰ 2 pm tip/ with Bill Murphy
💻 dartmouthsports.com/watch/?L…
Drake Maye takes I’ll finally share here:
- Easily a top 8 QB right now
- Was clearly good in the NFL dating back to the ‘24 preseason game at WSH
- Was good as a rookie but had a brutal group around him
- Already closer to Mahomes than league average
- Doesn’t slide well
For four seasons Kyle Zenoni and @RiverHawkMSOC have been building for a night like tonight.
It’s Win and In for UML to the America East conference tournament.
Lowell against a hungry @UMBCMensSoccer at 6 pm.
📺 ESPN with @_brendanlocke