Baseball: Jeter and ARod back to together.
Basketball-NBA: LeBron is the new All Time Scoring record holder. 3-team 8-player trade.
Basketball-NCAA: Lots of loses and storming the court.
Football – NCAA: OU and Texas to the SEC next year.
Football- NFL: Super Bowl LVII is a wrap.
Golf: Scheffler back to #1 with back to back WM wins.
Olympic Sports: RUS loses Swim Worlds.
Baseball:
- Derek Jeter and ARod will be back together again this time on TV. Fox Sports announced that Jeter will be joining their studio coverage this season. The two were teammates for the Yankees for 10 seasons.
Basketball – NBA:
- LeBron passes Kareem Abdul Jabaar as the All-Time leading scorer in NBA history. Kareem had the record from 1984 to 2023 with 38387 points. Before him it was Wilt Chamberlin from 1966 to 1984. LeBron also has mentioned that he is not retiring until he can play a year with his son in the NBA. As of tonight, LeBron has 38,390 points.
- Russell Westbrook was traded from the Lakers to the Jazz in a 3-team 8-player trade deal. The deal had the Lakers getting D’Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley and Jarred Vanderbilt. The Timberwolves get Mike Conley and Nickeil Alexander-Walker and 3 2nd round picks (in 2024, 2025 and 2026). The Jazz get Russell Westbrook, Juan Toscano-Anderson and Damian Jones and a 2027 1st round draft pick.
Basketball-NCAA:
- NCAAM Losses in Top 25 this week: We started off the week with a Big 12 ranked match up between #9 Kansas and #5 Texas. The Jayhawks are a basketball blue blood for a reason and they get the W here. Tuesday was a blockbuster day of 4 ranked games! In the ACC, #8 UVA beat #22 NC St after the wolfpack only scored 20 points in 1H. In the Big East, #21 UConn upset #10 Marquette 87-72. In the Big 12, #12 Kansas St destroyed #17 TCU by 21 points. In the Big 10, #16 Indiana beat #24 Rutgers by 6 thanks to F Jackson-Davis hitting 2,000 career points. Busy week so far! 12-12 Vanderbilt sunk a buzzer beater 3-pointer to knock off #6 Tennessee to win by 1. Needless to say, the fans stormed the court. Bad week for the Cyclones as #11 Iowa St lost to West Virginia by 5 and on Saturday to Oklahoma State. Loyola Marymount took #15 Saint Mary’s into OT and ended up beating them by 4. Butler is not having the year they hoped for being 13-13 and 5-10 in the Big East but they did beat #13 Xavier by 3 on Friday, which gave their fans something to cheer for. Saturday was another big day. Stanford, who has a losing record beat #4 Arizona by 9. #6 Tennessee lost again this week, this time to Mizzou (also by 1). #12 Kansas St lost to Texas Tech who is 2-10 in the conference. #17 TCU also lost again this time to #14 Baylor (so not really an upset but still). #20 Providence played a close one but ultimately lost to St. Johns by 5. #21 UConn may have gotten a big win earlier in the week but they lost to #23 Creighton on Saturday 56-53. #24 Rutgers also wont be ranked after losing twice on Saturday it was to Illinois by 9. The only ranked team to play on Sunday was #1 Purdue who lost to Northwestern after a storm back by the Wildcats.
Football – NCAA:
- Oklahoma and Texas will leave the Big 12 next year (1 year early) for the SEC. The news broke this week and the two schools will pay the Big 12 $100MM to do it. Not before adding UCF, BYU, Houston and Cincinnati to the schedule this year though!
- And speaking of Oklahoma, the Sooners had the most players of any school playing in the Super Bowl last night with 6 (4 Chiefs and 2 Eagles).
Football – NFL:
- “Alexa que up ‘We are the Champions’ for Chiefs.” Super Bowl LVII was yesterday. It had everything. This was the first time 2 starting QBs were black. We even had a Kelce brother on each side of the matchup (although both played offense). In the 1H, we had a doinked FG, a defensive scoop and score by the Chiefs and some drama with Mahomes limping off the field. The Eagles led 24-14 at half. Rihanna crushed the halftime show and dropped the bomb that she is pregnant again (she had her first baby in May of last year). But the Chiefs came out from half all fired up and scored on every offensive possession in the half. This led to their comeback putting up 3 straight TDs compared to Phili’s FG. The Eagles scored a TD and two-point conversion to tie it back up at 35-35 with 5 minutes left to go in the game. Couldn’t ask for a better game. But Mahomes earned his MVP award in the final drive taking the KC team from their own 25 to the Phili 9 for the game winning FG with 8 seconds left. The Holding call against Bradberry on 3rd&8 didn’t hurt either. The Eagles could do anything in 8 seconds and SB LVII is KC’s. And as always the commercials were on point (my favs: Boston Lager, Uber One, Bud Lite. Honorable mentions: GM, Pop Corners, Dunkin, Pepsi, Blue Moon and Michelob Ultra).
Golf:
- Scottie Scheffler won the biggest party on grass this weekend at the WM Phoenix Open and reclaimed his spot as World #1. This was his back-to-back victory here at WM and his 5th PGA Tour title overall. Nick Taylor put up a good fight and was tied before Scottie eagled the 13th. Ultimately, Scottie won by 2. Jon Rahm was in 2nd place going into the final round but finished with a 68 to take 3rd.
Olympic Sports:
- Russia has been stripped of its hosting duties for the 2025 Swimming World Championship. Singapore has been awarded the new host. Kazan was the original location chosen in 2019 and was the 2015 host city. Worlds will be for swimming, diving, artistic swimming and water polo. This year’s is in Japan.
What to watch this week
Baseball/Softball – NCAA:
(Similar to NCAAM – one team has to be ranked and on a normal channel for me to include them on here)
- Thurs 2/16
- Softball: 3. Oklahoma St vs Texas A&M @ 9am on ESPNU
- Softball: 19. Duke at 7. Alabama @ 12pm on SEC
- Softball: 24. Louisiana at Indiana @ 12pm on ESPNU
- Softball: 4. Florida St vs 15. Arizona @ 3pm on ESPNU
- Fri 2/17
- Softball: 11. VTech at 3. Oklahoma St @ 9am on ESPNU
- Softball: 19. Duke at South Florida @ 12pm on ACC
- Softball: 6. Arkansas at 4. Florida ST @ 12pm on ESPNU
- Softball: 11. VTech vs Nebraska @ 3pm on ACC
- Softball: 7. Alabama vs 2. UCLA @ 3pm on ESPN2
- Sat 2/18
- Softball: 2. UCLA vs 4. Florida St @ 9am on ESPNU
- Softball: 11. VTech vs 2. UCLA @ 2pm on ESPNU
- Softball: 7. Alabama vs Indiana @ 5pmon ESPNU
- Sun 2/19
- Softball: Nebraska vs 6. Arkansas @ 8:30am on SEC
- Softball: 2. UCLA vs 24. Louisiana @ 9am on ESPNU
- Softball: 4. Florida St vs 7. Alabama @ 4pm on ESPN
- Softball: Mississippi St vs 18. UCF @ 7pm on ESPN2
Basketball – NBA:
- Tues 2/14
- Celtics at Bucks @ 6:30pm on TNT
- Warriors at Clippers @ 9pm on TNT
- Wed 2/15
- Cavaliers at 76ers @ 6:30pm on ESPN
- Pelicans at Lakers @ 9pm on ESPN
- Thurs 2/16
- Bucks at Bulls @ 6:30pm on TNT
- Clippers at Suns @ 9pm on TNT
- Sun 2/19
- Team Giannis at Team LeBron @ 7pm on TNT & TBS
Basketball – NCAA:
- Mon 2/13
- 19. Miami at UNC @ 6pm on ESPN
- 5. Texas at Texas Tech @ 8pm on ESPN
- West Virginia at 14. Baylor @ 8pm on ESPN2
- Tues 2/14
- 18. Creighton at 24. Providence @ 6pm
- 23. NC St at Syracuse @ 6pm on ACC
- 5. Kansas at Oklahoma St @ 8pm on ESPN
- 12. Kansas St at Oklahoma @ 8pm on ESPNU
- Wed 2/15
- 1. Alabama at 10. Tennessee @ 6pm on ESPN2
- 7. UVA at Louisville @ 6pm on ESPNU
- 16. Xavier at 11. Marquette @ 6pm on CBSSN
- 22. TCU at 19. Iowa St @ 8pm on ESPNU
- 14. Indiana at Northwestern @ 8pm on BTN
- 21. San Diego St at Fresno St @ 10pm on CBSSN
- Thurs 2/16
- 3. Purdue at Maryland @ 5:30pm on BTN
- 2. Houston at SMU @ 6pm on ESPN2
- Utah at 8. Arizona @ 9pm on PAC12
- Stanford at 4. UCLA @ 10pm on ESPN2
- 13. Gonzaga at Loyola Marymount @ 10pm on CBSSN
- Sat 2/18
- Notre Dame at 7. UVA @ 11am on ESPN2
- Illinois at 14. Indiana @ 11am on ESPN
- Seton Hall at 20. UConn @ 11am on FOX
- 10. Tennessee at Kentucky @ 12pm on CBS
- Oklahoma at 6. Texas @ 1pm on ESPN+
- 19. Iowa St at 12. Kansas St @ 1pm on ESPN
- Wake Forest at 15. Miami @ 1pm on ACC
- 9. Baylor at 5. Kansas @ 3pm on ESPN
- DePaul ay 16. Xavier @ 3pm on CBSSN
- Villanova at 24. Providence @ 3:30pm on FOX
- Georgia at 1. Alabama @ 5pm on SEC
- 18. Creighton at St. John’s @ 6:30pm on FS1
- Colorado at 8. Arizona @ 7pm on ESPN2
- Cal at 4. UCLA @ 9:30pm on PAC12
- Sun 2/19
- Ohio St at 3. Purdue @ 12pm on CBS
- UNC at 23. NC St @ 12pm on ESPN
- Memphis at 2. Houston @ 2pm on ESPN
Football – XFL:
- Sat 2/18
- Vegas Vipers at Arlington Renegades @ 2pm on ABC
- Orlando Guardians at Houston Roughnecks @ 7:30pm on ESPN & FX
- Sun 2/19
- Louis Battlehawks at San Antonio Brahmas @ 2pm on ABC
- Seattle Sea Dragons at DC Defenders @ 7pm on ESPN
Golf:
- Wed 2/15
- Full Swing debuts on Netflix
- Thurs 2/16
- Genesis Invitational – Round 1 @ 4pm on Golf Channel
- Fri 2/17
- Genesis Invitational – Round 2 @ 4pm on Golf Channel
- Sat 2/18
- Genesis Invitational – Round 3
- @ 1pm on Golf Channel
- @ 2pm on CBS
- Genesis Invitational – Round 3
- Sun 2/19
- Genesis Invitational – Final Round
- @ 1pm on Golf Channel
- @ 2pm on CBS
- Genesis Invitational – Final Round
Hockey:
- Tues 2/14
- Panthers at Blues @ 7pm on hulu
- Wed 2/15
- Blackhawks at Maple Leafs @ 6pm on TNT
- Avalanche at Wild @ 8:30pm on TNT
- Thurs 2/16
- Devils at Blues @ 8pm on ESPN
- Fri 2/17
- Kings at Ducks @ 8pm on ESPN
- Sat 2/18
- Capitals at Hurricanes @ 7pm on ABC
- Sun 2/19
- Oilers at Avalanche @ 2pm on hulu
- Maple Leafs at Blackhawks @ 5pm on hulu
Olympic Sports:
- Fri 2/17
- Gymnastics NCAA W: Alabama vs Georgia @ 6pm on SEC
- Gymnastics NCAA W: Arkansas vs Kentucky @ 7:30pm on SEC
- Gymnastics NCAA W: Florida vs LSU @ 8pm on ESPN2
- Sat 2/18
- Alpine Skiing: World Cup Highlights (W Giant Slalom and Slalom) @ 1:30pm on NBC
- Track & Field: USATF Indoor Championships @ 3pm on NBC
- Sun 2/19
- Alpine Skiing: World Cup Highlights (M Slalom) @ 2pm on NBC
- Figure Skating: ISU Four Continents M&W Free Skate @ 3pm on NBC
- Gymnastics NCAA W: Auburn vs Mizzou @ 5pm on SEC
Soccer:
- Mon 2/13
- Premier League: Liverpool vs Everton @ 2pm on USA
- CONCACAF U17: TNT vs USA @ 6:50pm on FS1
- Tues 2/14
- English League: Burnley vs Watford @ 2pm on ESPN2
- Thurs 2/16
- SheBelieves Cup: USA vs CAN @ 6pm on HBO Max
- Sat 2/18
- Premier League: Ashton Villa vs Arsenal @ 6:30am on USA
- Premier League: Nottingham Forest vs Manchester City @ 9am on USA
- Sun 2/19
- Premier League: ManU vs Leicester City @ 8am on USA
- Premier League: Tottenham vs West Ham @ 10:30am on USA
- SheBelieves Cup: USA vs JPN @ 2:30pm on TNT & HBO Max
