Weekly Update – Week of January 7th
Basketball – College: Penn St’s coach pushed someone. Kansas injured player.
Basketball – NBA: Rose apologizes. Timberwolves fire their coach. Love out.
Football – College: National Championship tonight! WV coach to Houston. Ohio St’s QB to the draft.
Football – NFL: Wild Wild Card games. Divisional playoffs next.
Golf: Xander Shauffle wins in record fashion.
Olympic Sports: Vonn returns. Felix had a baby. Franklin retires. Cycling gets a new CEO
Basketball – College:
- Kansas Center Udoka Azubuike is out for the remainder of the season after he tore ligaments in his right hand at practice. Surgery date will be set later this week.
- Penn St coach Patrick Chambers has been suspended for 1 game for pushing one of his players during a timeout in Thursday’s loss to Michigan.
Basketball – NBA:
- Timberwolves fired coach Thibodeau. Their record was 19-21.
- Timberwolves Guard, Derrick Rose, had to issue a public apology after saying doubters should kill themselves. This was in response to how Rose would move on after the Timberwolves’ coach was fired.
- Kevin Love is still weeks away from returning after having surgery on his left foot. The Cavs forward is making good progress.
Football – College:
- Clemson vs Alabama part 4 will commence on Jan 7th for the National Championship.
- Alabama won the last match up in last year’s semifinal but Clemson won the National Championship against them in 2017.
- Tickets are still available for the game tonight (for quite a bit below face value) as this is rumored to be one of the most poorly attended National Championship games in some time.
- Dana Holgorsen, now former coach of WV Mountaineers, has moved to Houston. He will coach the Cougars after taking a $20MM deal for 5 yrs.
- Ohio St QB and Heisman candidate, Dwayne Haskins, declares for the NFL draft.
- #1 ranked WR, Jadon Haselwood, declares for Oklahoma.
- North Dakota St wins 7th FCS National title since 2011.
Football – NFL:
- Wild card week provided some wild games:
- The Cowboys barely beat the Seahawks 24-22.
- The Eagles managed to hold off the Bears 16-15. The kicker missed a last second FG to win the game. To be fair, he made it the first time but the Eagles called a time out and he hit the crossbar. And the upright.
- Chargers beat the Ravens 23-17
- Colts destroyed the Texans 21-7. It was 21-0 at half.
Golf:
- Xander Schauffle won the Sentry Tournament of Champions on Sunday and did it record fashion. Schauffle tied the course record at 61 and won with 23 under par.
Olympic Sports:
- Lyndsey Vonn returns to action this weekend after hurting her knee. She sat out 6 weeks.
- Allyson Felix had a baby with her husband Kenneth. This is their first. And yes, Felix plans on trying to make the 2020 Olympic team.
- USA Cycling hired new CEO Rob DeMartini. DeMartini has spent time with P&G, Tyson Foods and most recently New Balance.
- ICYMI: Missy Franklin retires from swimming at age 23.
What to watch this week:
Basketball – College:
- Tues 1/8
- Duke at Wake Forest @ 6pm on ESPN
- Tennessee at Mizzou @ 6pm on ESPN2
- Purdue at 6. Michigan St @ 8pm on ESPN2
- Oklahoma at 8. Texas Tech @ 8pm on ESPNNEWS
- UNC at 15. NC St @ 8pm on ESPN
- Wed 1/9
- VTech at Georgia Tech @ 6pm on ACC
- UVA at Boston College @ 8pm on ESPNU
- TCU at 7. Kansas @ 8pm on ESPN2
- San Jose St at 10. Nevada @ 10pm on CBSSN
- Thurs 1/10
- Michigan at Illinois @ 7pm on FS1
- Pacific at 5. Gonzaga @ 10pm on ESPN2
- Sat 1/11
- UVA at Clemson @ 11am on ACC
- Duke at 13. Florida St @ 1pm on ESPN
- Texas Tech at Texas @ 1pm on LGN
- TCU at 23. Oklahoma @ 1pm
- Kansas at Baylor @ 3pm on ESPN
- Tennessee at Florida @ 5pm on ESPN
- Nevada at Fresno St @ 7pm on ESPNU
- Gonzaga at San Francisco @ 9pm on ESPN2
- Sun 1/12
- Michigan St at Penn St @ 3:30pm
- Northwestern at 2. Michigan @ 6:30pm on BTN
Basketball – NBA:
- Wed 1/9
- Bucks at Rockets @ 7pm on ESPN
- Pistons at Lakers @ 9:30pm on ESPN
- Thurs 1/10
- Celtics at Heat @ 6pm on TNT
- Thunder at Spurs @ 8:30pm on TNT
- Fri 1/11
- Pacers at Knicks @ 6:30pm on ESPN
- Lakers at Jazz @ 9pm on ESPN
Football – College:
- National Championship Game – #1 Alabama vs #2 Clemson @ 7pm on ABC
Football – NFL:
- Sat 1/12
- Colts at Chiefs @ 3:35pm on NBC
- Line: KC -5.5 57 O/U
- Cowboys at Rams @ 7:15pm on FOX
- Line: LAR -7 5 O/U
- Sun 1/13
- Chargers at Patriots @ 12:05pm on CBS
- Line: NE -4 5 O/U
- Eagles at Saints @ 3:40pm on FOX
- Line: NO -8 5 O/U
- Chargers at Patriots @ 12:05pm on CBS
- Colts at Chiefs @ 3:35pm on NBC
Soccer:
- Sat 1/12 – FC Juarez vs U. de G. @ 7pm on ESPN3
