Basketball: NCAAM has begun! No big upsets. OSU verdict upheld: no post season. Nuggets shove. Timberwolves fined.
Football-NCAAF: 5 Losses in Top 25 but undefeated Oklahoma goes down. Texas has a case of the Mondays. USC Cal postponed.
Football-NFL: Upsets. Cam Newton back in Carolina. Browns worse loss sine 2005. Lions winless. Rodgers is back. Young out for season. Rodgers and Packers fined.
Golf: Kokrak wins 3rd title in 13 months and upsets some Texans in Houston.
Motorsports: #GrazieVale GOAT retires in MotoGP
Olympic Sports: Erin Jackson makes speedskating history. ROC HJers DQ’d. Uno takes gold in skating and USA takes silver.
Basketball:
- NCAAM season started this week…
- Duke beat Kentucky in the first ranked vs ranked showdown of the season on opening day. Remember this is Duke without Coach K now.
- #1 Gonzaga controlled the game against #5 Texas from the beginning, leading by 20 at half and winning 86-74.
- #2 UCLA beat #4 Villanova by a score very similar 86-77.
- No really big upsets this week.
- The NCAA upheld their conviction of a one-year postseason ban on the OSU Cowboys men’s bball program. Former assistant coach Lamont Evans accepted $22k to guide athletes to certain financial advisors. The school cooperated in the investigation into their former employee once he was charged but the NCAA kept the punishment on the school. They have since gotten death threats.
- Nuggets Nikola Jokic has been suspended for a game after this terrible shove. Clearly in retaliation to the hit by Heat’s Markieff Morris, Jokic shoved Morris to the ground after the play was over. Jimmy Butler was also ejected due to the scuffle that followed.
- The Timberwolves have been fined $250k for paying for a offseason practice/ground workouts in a market (Miami) outside their home market (MN).
- AD is back and so are the Lakers’ Ws!
Football-NCAAF:
- There were only 5 loses in the Top 25 but another undefeated team goes down. #8 Oklahoma fell to Baylor this weekend and the Bears went to work in the 4th quarter scoring 17 points. OU HC wasn’t too keen on the last-minute FG. #4 Ohio St put the beat down on #19 Purdue to win 59-31. #6 Michigan handled a good-but-unranked Penn St team. #10 Oklahoma St rolled over TCU. #15 Ole Miss was up 15-0 at half over #11 Texas A&M and never looked back. Final score was 29-19. #12 Wake Forest beat NC St in a close one 45-42. #17 Auburn was upset by Mississippi State 43-34 despite trailing 10-28 at half. Newly re-ranked #25 Arkansas took a FG to beat LSU in OT. Iowa St was on the outside of the ranking looking in but will not be ranked this week after they lost to Texas Tech on a 62 yard FG.
- If you think you’re having a bad Monday… Let’s not forget… Kansas has finally ended its 13-year losing streak to fellow Big 12 teams on the road and they did it in Austin over Texas. Texas was the 31 point favorite and has now lost 5 weeks in a row (first time since 1956).
- Loses: 8. Oklahoma, 11. Texas A&M, 16. NC St, 17. Auburn, 19. Purdue
- USC vs Cal game has been postponed due to COVID. They will now play on December 4th (since its unlikely either team will be playing in the Pac 12 championship game that is scheduled for that same weekend). Cal had ~24 players test positive for COVID last week against Arizona even with a vaccination rate of 99% among players.
- Week 12 3 Top 25 matchups and Cincinnati’s biggest test in SMU. College GameDay is at the Big 10 matchup
- Upset watch: 3. Cincinnati, 4. Oregon, 5. Ohio St, 7. Michigan St, 12. Oklahoma, 18. Iowa, 21. Arkansas,
Football-NFL:
- Week 10 recap: There were some big upsets this week. Cam Newton is back and on the Panthers…again. But whether it was return of the prodigal son that got the tam amped or something else, they upset the Cardinals 34-10. Washington out played the Bucs winning 29-19 after TB 12 had a ehh kinda day. The Browns suffered their worst loss since 2005, losing 45-7 to the Pats. The Lions are still winless after they missed a 48 yard FG to win in OT against the Steelers. Obviously, God doesn’t want this team to win because this kick looked like it was blocked it was such a bad shank but was never actually touched… They tied with the Steelers so technically they didn’t lose yay? Aaron Rodgers was back and playing after his COVID debacle and they shut out the Seahawks 17-0.
- The Titans, Packers and Cardinals lead the league with 8 wins.
- Chase Young, former Ohio St and current Washington DE, is out for the season with a ACL tear on this play. Young only had 1.5 sacks on the year after winning Defensive Player of the Year the prior year.
- Follow up on the Aaron Rodgers COVID story: The team was fined $300k while Rodgers and WR Lazard were each fined $14,650 for breaking protocols. Rodgers was fined for not wearing a mask during press conferences and the team got fined bc they did not report the fact that both Rodgers and Lazard attended a Halloween party. Costly party.
Golf:
- 4 straight birdies in the final round gave Jason Kokrak his 3rd PGA Tour win at the Houston Open this weekend. He beat Scottie Scheffler, who was going for his first victory and Martin Trainer, who has only made 9 cuts in his last 71 tournaments. Kokrak has won in Texas before, taking his 2nd PGA Tour win at Colonial this year. Before his first win, Kokrak had 232 starts without one but now has 3 in the last 13 months.
Motorsports:
- The GOAT is done in MotoGP. #46 Valentino Rossi raced his last MotoGP race on Sunday in Valencia and it was a show to behold. After struggling on the Petronas….. Rossi finished his career with one last Top 10. 2021 was the only season where he failed to get at least 1 podium in his over 20 year career. He is a 7x MotoGP World Champion with 89 wins, 199 podiums and 55 poles in his 372 starts. He raced for Honda, Yamaha and Ducati from 2000-2021. #GrazieVale
Olympic Sports:
- History was made at the World Cup speedskating event in Poland. USA Erin Jackson is the first black woman to win a WC race. She won the 500m in 37.613, beating the defending Olympic champ JPN Nao Kodaira by 0.13. Jackson was the first black woman to qualify for the US Olympic speedskating team in 2018 after just 4 months in the sport (she was a inline skater and roler derby athlete previously).
- 2 ROC HJ-ers have been DQ’d from the London games. The Gold medalist Ivan Ukhov and bronze medalist Svetlana Shkolina have both been caught doping. This causes American Erik Kynard to get his first Olympic gold – congrats Erik!
- JPN men’s figure skater Shoma Uno took home the NHK Trophy in his home nation after landing 4 quads during his free skate. He was in first after his short program and no one could catch him. In fact, 2nd place was 30 points behind. Reigning 2x gold medalist Hanyu WD and Chen were not there. But USA Zhou took second place by less than 1 full point. USA Men’s figure skating looks to be in good hands with those two.
What to watch this week
Basketball-NBA:
- Tues 11/16
- Warriors at Nets @ 6:30pm on TNT
- 76ers at Jazz @ 9pm on TNT
- Wed 11/17
- Lakers at Bucks @ 6:30pm on ESPN
- Mavericks at Suns @ 9pm on ESPN
- Fri 11/18
- Lakers at Celtics @ 6:30pm on ESPN
- Mavericks at Suns @ 9pm on ESPN
Basketball – NCAAM: Only Top 25 on TV are listed
- Mon 11/15
- Bowling Green at 19. Ohio St @ 5:30pm on BTN
- Illinois at Marquette @ 6pm on FS1
- Tues 11/16
- USC at Florida Golf Coast @ 5pm on ESPNU
- Wrights St at 6. Purdue @ 6pm on BTN
- Gardner-Webb at 7. Duke @ 6pm on ACC
- Mount St. Mary’s at 13. Kentucky @ 6pm on SEC
- UVA at 15. Houston @ 7pm on ESPN
- UNC at Charleston @ 7:30pm on CBSSN
- Seton Hall at 4. Michigan @ 8pm on FS1
- BYU at 12. Oregon @ 9pm on ESPN
- Wed 11/17
- George Mason at 20. Maryland @ 6pm on BTN
- Thurs 11/18
- St. Bonaventure at Boise St @ 1pm on ESPN2
- Fri 11/19
- Hofstra at 20. Maryland @ 5:30pm on FS1
- Ohio at 13. Kentucky @ 6pm on SEC
- Lafayette at 7. Duke @ 7pm on ACC
- Michigan at UNLV @ 11:30pm on ESPN2
- Sat 11/20
- Villanova at 17. Tennessee @ 12pm on ESPNEWS
- UNC at 6. Purdue @ 3pm on ESPNEWS
Football- NCAAF:
Tues 11/16 – CFP Rankings Show @ 7pm on ESPN
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| 7. Michigan St | 5. Ohio St | Sat 11/20 | 11:00 AM | ABC | |
| 21. Arkansas | 2. Alabama | Sat 11/20 | 2:30 PM | CBS | |
| SMU | 3. Cincinnati | Sat 11/20 | 2:30 PM | ESPN | |
| 4. Oregon | 24. Utah | Sat 11/20 | 6:30 PM | ABC | |
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Football-NFL:
- Mon 11/15
- Rams at 49ers @ 7:15pm on ESPN
- Thurs 11/18
- Patriots at Falcons @ 7:20pm on FOX
- Sun 11/21
- 9 games on @ 12pm depending on location on CBS/FOX
- FOX:
- Lions at Browns
- Packers at Vikings
- Saints at Eagles
- Washington at Panthers
- 49ers at Jaguars
- CBS:
- Colts at Bills
- Ravens at Bears
- Texans at Titans
- Dolphins at Jets
- FOX:
- Bengals at Raiders @ 3:05pm on CBS
- Cowboys at Chiefs – or – Cardinals at Seahawks @ 3:25pm on FOX
- Steelers at Chargers @ 7:20pm on NBC
- 9 games on @ 12pm depending on location on CBS/FOX
- Mon 11/22
- Giants at Buccaneers @ 7:15pm on ESPN
Golf:
- Thurs 11/18
- RSM Classic – Round 1 @ 11am on Golf Channel
- Fri 11/19
- RSM Classic – Round 2 @ 11am on Golf Channel
- Sat 11/20
- RSM Classic – Round 3 @ 12pm on Golf Channel
- Sun 11/14
- RSM Classic – Final Round @ 12pm on Golf Channel
Hockey:
- Wed 11/17
- Blackhawks at Kraken @ 9pm on TNT
Motorsports:
- Sun 11/21
- F1: Qatar GP @ 8am on ESPN
Olympic Sports:
- Fri 11/19
- Curling: US Olympic Trials @ 5pm on NBCSN
- Sat 11/20
- Curling: US Olympic Trials @ 5pm on NBCSN
- Sun 11/21
- Volleyball: Women’s College St. John’s vs Creighton @ 2pm on FS1
- Curling: US Olympic Trials @ 5pm on NBCSN
Soccer:
- Tues 11/16
- FIFA World Cup Qualifying – UEFA: Wales vs BEL @ 1:45pm on ESPN2
- Sat 11/20
- Premier League: Leicester City vs Chelsea @ 6:30am on NBCSN
- Premier League: Aston Villa vs Brighton & Hove Albion @ 9am on NBCSN
- Sun 11/21
- Premier League: Manchester City vs Everton @ 8am on NBCSN
- Premier League: Tottenham Hotspur vs Leeds United @ 10:30am on NBCSN
- MLS: NYC FC vs Atlanta United @ 2pm on ABC
- MLS: Timbers at MN United @ 4:30pm on ESPN
- La Liga: Santos Laguna vs Altetico San Luis @ 8pm on FS1
Tennis:
- Mon 11/15
- World Team Tennis @ 5pm on NBCSN
- Tues 11/16
- World Team Tennis @ 8pm on NBCSN
- Wed 11/17
- World Team Tennis @ 9pm on NBCSN
- Thurs 11/18
- World Team Tennis @ 5pm on NBCSN
