Weekly Update February 10, 2025

Baseball/Softball – NCAA: Seasons begin this week!

Basketball – NBA: This week’s games. Trade deadline brought some craziness.

Basketball – NCAAM: This week’s game. #1 goes down and plenty others.

Basketball – NCAAW: Texas breaks SC streak.

Football – NFL: Super Bowl LIX was not the most exciting game but it was surprising.

Golf: PGA, LIV and TGL all in action. Detry wins first PGA Tour title.

Olympic Sports: Skiing and luge dominated by other countries but Breezy claims W Downhill. T&F updates with 2 WRs going down at Milrose and new LJ rules.

Quick Headlines: NHL and MLB.

Baseball/Softball – NCAA:

• Softball season started Wednesday and Baseball season starts Friday!

Basketball-NBA:

• This week’s games:
  • The Wizards won their 8^th game of the season on Monday against the Hornets though so it kinda counts. CLT only had 12 wins on the season so this was a battle of the bottom of the league. The Trail Blazers and Suns both had 31 points after the 1Q and the game was back and forth. The Suns outpaced Portland in the 2Q but the Trail Blazers came back big in the 3Q. We ended regulation tied before TBs would win by 2. In this game, Devin Booker became the Sun’s franchise leading scorer.
  • Joel Embiid returned to the 76ers on Tuesday and it showed as they beat the Mavs by 2. The Cavs started off slow only scoring 15 in the 1Q and that was enough for the Celtics to win by 7 in the battle for the top of the Eastern conference. The Nets stole a win from Houston by 2. The Lakers won the battle of LA over the Clippers 122-97.

• • Fox made his debut for the Spurs and he and wemby made a great team both notching a double-double in their win over the Hawks by 1. Speaking of good duos, Porter and Jokic combined for 77 points for the Nuggets 144 point win over the Pelicans (119). The Wizards crushed the Nets 119-102 to get their 9^th win of the season. Guess who was the highest scorer of the week, SGA from the Thunder (again) with another 50 point game. The Thunder killed the Suns 140-109.

• • The Celtics had that big win over the Cavs earlier in the week but then they lost to the Mavs by 7 on Thursday. Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves upset the Rockets (not having a great week) by 13. But Anthony also made his 1,000^th career 3-pointer in this game. LeBron won the better of Steph and the Warriors with a 42-point game.
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  • The Spurs were upset by the Hornets on Friday. That snapped CLT’s 6 game losing streak. The Suns needed OT to beat the Jazz to break a losing streak of their own but they have still lost 4 of their last 5 games.
  • Not a lot of upsets on Sat. The Rockets lost again! This time to the Mavs on Sat by 11. That was their 6^th straight loss. Talk about a tumble as they have 32 win son the season (14 to 20 losses now). They would break that streak on Sunday beating the Raptors. Sunday there were only 3 game total. The other two were the Bucks beating the 76ers by 8 and the Pistons beating the Hornets by 10.

• Trades on trades. Obviously last week we had some blockbuster trades. If you missed some, here is where you can find them. Jimmy Butler has found a home, the Warriors. Also PJ Tucker was traded 3xs in a week but he is now part of the Raptors. Both Luka and AD are out of their new teams on injury this week.

Basketball – NCAA:

• NCAAM:
  • Monday started with a great matchup in the Big 12 between #8 Iowa St and #16 Kansas. The Jayhawks started out hot outscoring the Cyclones 35-19 in the 1H and they were able to hold on from there to win a lower scoring game.
  • Tuesday had more games in action but only 1 upset that wasn’t a ranked matchup. That was #9 Michigan St losing a close on to UCLA who has now beaten 3 ranked teams in a row (5 in the season). The Big East ranked matchup was a close game between #12 St. John’s and #11 Marquette. The game had 46 fouls called and the largest lead any team had was 8. That was St. John’s and they would win by 6. There was also a SEC matchup between #14 Kentucky and #25 Ole Miss. The Rebels came out scoring 54 in the 1H to take the lead. KT would return the favor in the 2H but Ole Miss didn’t roll over and won by 10.
  • #4 Tennessee came back in a big way in the 2H, scoring 57. They would only win by 4 over #15 Mizzou. Rutgers Freshman outstanding player Dylan Harper had 28 points in their upset over #23 Illinois winning by 11.
  • Thursday only had 1 ranked team in action #18 Maryland and they would lose a lose on to Ohio St by 3. #12 St. John’s won their 2^nd ranked win of the week, this time beating defending champs #19 UConn by 6.

• • 20 of the top 25 teams were in action on Sat. #1 Auburn fell to #6 Florida who just played a better game and took the lead starting with 4:24 to go in the game. #2 Duke also went down on the same day to Clemson by 6. That was Clemson’s 5^th straight win over a Top 5 team (longest active streak in D1). #10 Texas A&M led at halftime over #15 Mizzou by 9. But the Tigers would comeback in the 2H. We were tied in the final seconds of the game until the Aggies hit a 3-pointer with just 2 seconds left to take the W. #11 Marquette would lose their 2^nd game of the week to Creighton on Sat by 10. #20 Arizona got an upset on #13 Texas Tech by winning both halves. #16 Kansas would lose to K St for the 3^rd year in a row and the wildcats are only 6-6 in conference play. No upsets on sun.
• Dick Vitale returned to the mic this week to call the upset of Duke by Clemson. He has been treated for a couple of different cancers over the last 2 years. Nice to see him back!

•  NCAAW:
  • #1 UCLA got a new school record with their 22nd win over #8 Ohio St on Wed. Ohio St lost again on Sat, this time to #7 USC by 21.
  • #9 TCU and #10 Duke both went down to lower ranked teams this week.
  • #5 UConn got upset by #19 Tennessee in a big ranked matchup on Thursday.

• • Texas ended South Carolina’s 57 SEC regular game winning streak (which dates back to 2021).

Football:

• Super Bowl VIX: Although the Chiefs dominated the headlines, the Eagles dominated on the field. This was one of the most lopsided SBs in my memory! LV’s score ended more lopsided but I think the score in this one looks better than it was. It was 24-0 at halftime for Phili. 2 INTs in the 1H help. Eagles rookie Carter DeJean got a pick-6 for the Eagles in the 2Q on his 22^nd bday for 7 of those points. Then the Eagles got another pick in the final 2 min of the 1H to get the ball on the 14. 2 plays later, the Eagles scored again. The Cheifs were completely shutdown on offense. They only had 1 first down the entire 1H. The first time KC passed mid field, which led to the first Chiefs TDs, was in the final 34 seconds of 3Q. By that time the score was 34-0. Travis Kelce also didn’t get a pass until 3 min to go in that same Q. The Chiefs scored 2 TDs on their final 2 drives but man damage was done and the Eagles kept tacking on FGs. Final score of this one was 44-20 but again that doesn’t tell the story as 2 TDs were in garbage time (final 3 min). The only other Super Bowl win for the Eagles was SB LII (2017 season in 2018) over the Patriots.

• But of course a lot of people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. UWyoming paid for a SB ad! And Ram was the new hot star (Glen Powell aka Goldilocks) and Jeep went old school with the classic action star (Harrison Ford). I have linked some of the best.

• • Ultra Hustle pickleball 
  • Mountain Dew Seal
  • Instacart commercial blitz
  • Uber Eats football constirpacy to sell food
  • Pringles Call of the mustache commercial
  • Budweiser’s cute new star with the foal Clydesdales

• Josh Allen won MVP for the first time over Lamar Jackson. Commanders QB Jayden Daniels on RoY.
• The Jets have told QB Aaron Rodgers that they will be moving in a different direction so have we seen him pay his final NFL game?

Golf:

• PGA: BEL Thomas Detry won his first PGA Tour tournament at the WM Open in PHX. Detry had a 3-shot lead almost the entire round on Sunday. His shot at 16 in the stadium hole was fantastic. In his 4 rounds, he averaged a 65 and only had 1 bogey per round for the entire tournament. Its no wonder he won. He birdied the final 4 holes to seal it and win by 7! Detry is the first Belgian to win on the PGA Tour. Michael Kim and Daniel Berger tied for 2^nd. Rickie Fowler WD after illness hit him hard. Wyndham Clark took the lead after round 1 with no bogeys in his entire round. Justin Thomas finished his final round with a 65, an eagle on the 18^th hole helps (he’s only the 6^th to do that).

• TGL: LA crushed Boston in their match this past week 6-2. This win put LA at the top of the league. The only points Boston got was both by Keagan Bradley. LA’s team is Colin Morikawa, Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood.

• LIV: Adrian Meronk won the opening tournament for the LIV tour in Riyadh by 2 strokes over Jon Rahm. He won in wire-to-wire fashion. But Rahm’s team Legion got the team win handily beating the next closest team by 11 strokes.

Olympic Sports:

• Correction: 28 of US Figure Skating family was aboard the DC flight.
• SUI skiers dominated the men’s WC circuit this week. Marco Odermott won gold in the Super-G Friday and then Franjo von Allmen won the downhill in AUT on Sunday. On the women’s side, USA Breezy Johnson took the downhill by 0.15 seconds, leading the race from start to finish. She was injured for the last Olympics. Vonn took 15^th.
• No surprise but GER dominated luge worlds, they won 5 of the 7 events this weekend. Emily Sweeny of the USA took 3^rd in the women’s single.
• What sounds like a small chance to the LJ is actually a big difference maker was tested out this weekend for the first time in competition in GER. The old take-off board (20”) would be replaced with a take-off zone (40”). The athlete’s jump would be measured from the athlete’s foot in the zone not a stationary board. This is controversial to say the least, the reigning world indoor champ (from GRE) said he would quit. In this meet, distances were measured in the new and old way. The winner under the new system would’ve been 3^rd under the old.

• Sticking with T&F, the Milrose games was competed in the Armory this weekend. The track was newly surfaced and you could tell as we saw 2 WRs go down! The 3K was one of the best races to watch of the evening (coming from a sprinter). Reigning OLY gold medalist in the 1500m, Cole Hocker went up to the 3K and he was confident in his training. He took the lead with 3 laps to go (600m) against 2x OLY bronze medalist from Paris, Grant Fisher in this event (Fisher’s events 5K and 10K). Fisher outkicked Hocker who is known for his kick and both would go under the old WR almost by a full second. In the mile, Yared Nuguse competed in the Wannamaker Mile and came in under WR time that was set 6 years ago by 0.38 seconds.

Some quick highlights:

• MLB: Enrique Hernandez has joined the Dodgers for the 4^th time in his career. He has been acquired twice by a trade and twice by being a free agent.
• NHL: This week will look a little different as there are no NHL games but the 4 Nations Face-Off between USA, CAN, FIN and SWE. It has been since 2016 World Cup of Hockey since we have seen this kind of competition. NHL players have not been allowed to partake in the Olympics for almost a decade either.
• NCAAW GYM: Fisk had the first HBCU perfect 10 in women’s gymnastics this past week on the uneven bars!

What to watch this week

Baseball/Softball – NCAA:

• Thurs 2/13
  • Softball: 12. Florida St vs 15. Mizzou @ 9am on ESPN2
  • Softball: Clemson vs 15. Mizzou @ 12pm on ESPN2
  • Softball: 22. Michigan vs 14. UGA @ 5pm on SEC+
• Fri 2/14
  • Softball: SD St vs 11. Alabama @ 11am on SEC
  • Softball: Ohio St vs 12. Florida ST @ 1pm on ACC
  • Softball: 4. Oklahoma St vs 6. UCLA @ 2pm on ESPN2
  • Softball: 8. Duke vs 2. Florida @ 6pm on SEC+
  • Softball: 10. Texas Tech vs 1. Texas @ 6:30pm on SEC+
• Sat 2/15
  • Softball: 7. Texas A&M vs 4. Oklahoma St @ 9am on ESPN2
  • Softball: Liberty vs 15. Mizzou @ 9:30am on SEC
  • Softball: 3. Oklahoma vs 19. Baylor @ 2:30pm on ESPN+
  • Softball: 6. UCLA vs 11. Alabama @ 3pm on ESPNU
  • Softball: 20. Northwestern vs 9. LSU @ 4pm on SEC+
  • Softball: Vtech vs 9. LSU @ 6:30pm on SEC+
• Sun 2/16
  • Softball: Charlotte vs 7. Texas A&M @ 8am on SEC
  • Softball: 6. UCLA vs UVA @ 9am on ACC
  • Softball: 10. Texas Tech vs 1. Texas @ 12:30pm on SEC+
  • Softball: 18. Vtech vs 9. LSU @ 12:30pm on SEC+
  • Softball: 3. Oklahoma vs 19. Baylor @ 3pm on ESPN+
  • Softball: 11. Alabama vs 4. Oklahoma St @ 5pm on ESPN
  • Softball: 12. Florida ST vs UCF @ 7pm on ESPN
  • Softball: Liberty vs 15. Mizzou @ 7:30pm on SEC

Basketball – NBA:

• Mon 2/10
  • Jazz at Lakers @ 9:30pm on ESPN
• Tues 2/11
  • Knicks at Pacers @ 6:30pm on TNT
  • Grizzlies at Suns @ 9pm on TNT
• Wed 2/12
  • Spurs at Celtics @ 6pm on ESPN
  • Warriors at Mavericks @ 8:30pm on ESPN
• Thurs 2/13
  • Thunder at Timberwolves @ 7:30pm on TNT
• Fri 2/14
  • Rising Stars Semi: TBD at TBD @ 8:15pm on TNT
  • TBD at TBD @ 8:55pm on TNT
  • TBD at TBD @ 9:35pm on TNT
• Sun 2/16
  • ASG 1: TBD at TBD @ 7:20pm on TNT
  • ASG 2: TBD at TBD @ 8:10pm on TNT
  • ASG Championship: TBD at TBD @ 9pm on TNT

NCAAM: (only ranked teams and on normal TV)

• Mon 2/10
  • Baylor at 5. Houston @ 8pm on ESPN
• Tues 2/11
  • 1. Auburn at Vanderbilt @ 6pm on SEC
  • 4. Tennessee at 14. Kentucky @ 6pm on ESPN
  • 6. Florida at 22. Mississippi St @ 6pm on ESPN2
  • 7. Purdue at 24. Michigan @ 6pm on Peacock
  • UCLA at 23. Illinois @ 7pm on Peacock
  • DePaul at 11. Marquette @ 7:30pm on Peacock
  • 3. Alabama at Texas @ 8pm on ESPN
  • Indiana at 9. Michigan ST @ 8pm on Peacock
  • Georgia at 10. Texas A&M @ 8pm on SEC
  • Colorado at 16. Kansas @ 8pm on ESPN2
  • 19 UConn at Creighton @ 8pm on CBSSN
• Wed 2/12
  • 12. St. John’s at Villanova @ 5pm on FS1
  • 25. Ole Miss at South Carolina @ 6pm on SEC
  • Cal at 2. Duke @ 8pm on ACC
  • Arizona ST at 13. Texas Tech @ 8pm on CBSSN
  • Oklahoma at 15. Mizzou @ 8pm on SEC
• Thurs 2/13
  • 18. Maryland at Nebraska @ 7:30pm on BTN
  • 17. Memphis at South Florida @ 8pm on ESPN2
• Fri 2/14
• Sat 2/15
  • Arkansas at 10. Texas A&M @ 11am on ESPN
  • Vanderbilt at 4. Tennessee @ 12pm on sec
  • 21. Wisconsin at 7. Purdue @ 12pm on CBS
  • 5. Houston at 20. Arizona @ 1pm on ESPN
  • 19. UConn at Seton Hall @ 1:30pm o FOX
  • 1. Auburn at 3. Alabama @ 3pm on ESPN
  • Stanford at 2. Duke @ 3pm on ABC
  • Cincinnati at 8. Iowa ST @ 3pm on ESPN2
  • 22. Mississippi St at 25. Ole Miss @ 5pm
  • 9 Michigan St at 23. Illinois @ 7pm on FOX
  • 14. Kentucky at Texas @ 7pm on ESPN
  • South Carolina at 6. Florida @ 7:30pm on SEC
  • 16. Kansas at Utah @ 9pm on ESPN
• Sun 2/16
  • 24. Michigan at Ohio St @ 12pm on CBS
  • Creighton at 12. St. John’s @ 2pm on FS1
  • Iowa at 18. Maryland @ 4pm on FS1

NCAAW:

• Mon 2/10
  • 11. Kentucky at Ole Miss @ 6pm on ESPN2
  • Auburn at 15. Oklahoma @ 7pm on SEC
• Tues 2/11
• Wed 2/12
• Thurs 2/13
  • Miami at 14. NC St @ 5pm on ACC
  • Nebraska at 16. Maryland @ 5:30pm on BTN
  • Florida at 2. South Carolina @ 6pm on SEC
  • 4. Texas at 11. Kentucky @ 6pm on ESPN2
  • 3. Notre Dame at Pitt @ 7pm on ACC
  • Mississippi St at 24. Vanderbilt @ 8pm on SEC
  • 1. UCLA at 7. USC @ 9pm on Peacock
• Sun 2/16
  • Wake Forest at 17. Georgia Tech @ 11am on ACC
  • Ole Miss at 19. Tennessee @ 11am on SEC
  • 5. UConn at 2. South Carolina @ 12pm on ABC
  • 14. NC St at 13. UNC @ 1pm on ESPN
  • 15. Oklahoma at Mizzou @ 1pm on SEC
  • 22. Florida St at Miami @ 1pm on CW
  • 6. LSU at 4. Texas @ 2pm on ABC
  • 24. Vanderbilt @ Auburn @ 3pm on ACC
  • Syracuse at 21. Cal @ 5pm on ACC
  • 7. USC at Washington @ 6pm on BTN
  • 20. Michigan St at 1. UCLA @ 8pm on BTN

Golf:

• Thurs 2/13
  • PGA: Genesis Invitational – Round 1 @ 3pm on Golf Channel
  • LIV: AUS – Round 1 @ 10pm on FS1
• Fri 2/14
  • PGA: Genesis Invitational – Round 2 @ 3pm on Golf Channel
  • LIV: AUS – Round 2 @ 11pm on FS1
• Sat 2/15
  • PGA: Genesis Invitational – Round 3
    • @ 12pm on Golf Channel
    • @ 2pm on CBS
  • LIV: AUS – Round 3 @ 10pm on FOX
• Sun 2/16
  • PGA: Genesis Invitational – Final Round
    • @ 12pm on Golf Channel
    • @ 2pm on CBS

Hockey:

• Wed 2/12
  • CAN vs SWE @ 7pm on TNT
• Thurs 2/13
  • USA vs FIN @ 7pm on ESPN
• Sat 2/15
  • FIN vs SWE @ 12pm on ABC
  • USA vs CAN @ 7pm on ABC

Olympic Sports:

• Fri 2/14
  • NCAAW Gymnastics: 15. Arkansas vs 11. Georgia @ 6pm on SEC
  • NCAAW Gymnastics: 12. Auburn vs 3. Florida @ 7:30pm on SEC
  • NCAAW Gymnastics: 1. Oklahoma vs 2. LSU @ 8pm on ESPN2

Soccer:

• Wed 2/12
  • Premier League: Everton vs Liverpool @ 1:30p on USA
• Fri 2/14
  • Premier League: Brighton vs Chelsea @ 2pm on USA
• Sat 2/15
  • Premier League: Leicester City vs Arsenal @ 6:30am on USA
  • Premier League: Fulham vs Nottingham @ 9am on USA
• Sun 2/16
  • Premier League: Liverpool vs Wolves @ 8am on USA