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Posted on October 5, 2020

Weekly Update – Week of October 5, 2020 (COVID Week 30)

Baseball/ Basketball/ Football/ Golf/ Olympic Sports/ Tennis/ Weekly Update

Baseball: Postseason! 3 Dodgers deaths. 2 more deaths and a retirement.

Basketball: Lakers lead series 2-1. Hawks honor MLK with jersey. Rivers to the 76ers. NBA not break for the Olympics. WNBA Finals

Football-NCAAF: 8 Losses in Top 25 (2 in Top 10). VTech wins without 21 players. SMU student section ousted. Pac 12 schedule begins Nov 7. Monday Motivation: Don’t’ celebrate early.

Football-NFL: Newton has COVID. 2 MNF games tonight! Titans test positive. Punches thrown at Chargers/Giants game. HC Rivera coaches through chemo.

Golf: Sergio Garcia wins Sanderson.

Olympic Sports: Armstrong leads ‘Bike for Beirut’ tour. Jakobsen jaw surgery. Congress has power to dissolve USOPC BoD. London Marathon winners.

Tennis: Williams withdraws. Nadal and Djokovic still in.

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Posted on July 11, 2019

Berets, baguettes and bikes – oh la la!

Olympic Sports

I have never watched the Tour de France

Explain this to me     s  l  o  w  l  y  .

  • Over 23 days (from July 6th – July 28th), 176 riders will race over 2,000 miles for a series of 21 ‘stages’ through mountains, hills, towns and sprint days. At the end of each stage, every cyclists’ individual time is added to his previous stage times. The cyclist with the lowest cumulative time wins the Tour de France and iconic yellow jersey.
    • 22 teams of 8 riders who use varying strategies to win
    • 28 riders in the young rider classification this year
  • There will be 7 flat stages, 5 hilly stages, 7 mountain stages (with 5 mountain top finishes), 1 individual time trial stage, 1 team time trial stage and 2 rest days
  • Who is in the lead? Here are the updated standings.
    • One of the favorites, GBR’s Chris Froome is not competing this year after a serious cycling accident earlier in the year. He won the TdF in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017
  • It will be televised everyday on NBCSN live at ~7am CT and replays most days @ 8pm
    • Every year the TdF has ~3.5Bn views (now granted that is over 21 days) which is a similar figure as the World Cup. The most viewed Super Bowl had ~111MM

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