Posted on October 29, 2018

Weekly Updates – Week of October 29, 2018

Baseball – MLB: Boston Red Sox are World Series Champions.

Basketball – NBA: Cavs fire their coach. MJ’s challenge.

Football – College: 11 Losses in the Top 25. CFP Rankings Tues. #1 vs #4 GameDay.

Football – NFL: Coaching Changes.

Golf: Xander Schauffele wins WGC-HSBC. Rookie wins Sanderson Farms.

Olympic Sports: Gymnastic World Championships. Skiing. New Half Marathon WR.

Baseball

The Boston Red Sox are World Series Champions
- They beat LA Dodgers in Game 5 (4-1) in LA. This is the 2nd year in a row that the Dodgers have lost the World Series at home. They are having a rough day.

The Cavs fired their coach, Lue, after a 0-6 start.
Giannis Antetokounmpo was placed on concussion protocol after Saturday’s game vs the Magic. He will miss today’s game vs the Raptors.
MJ did a commercial for Saturday Night Football’s game of the Patriots vs the Packers, making a reference of how you make a call on who is the greatest of all time (i.e. Patriots QB Brady or Packers QB Rodgers). However, plenty of people are asking LeBron if he wants to settle this once and for all, he replied via twitter: “IM READY!!!! ”
- View the tweet on my twitter account.
College Basketball returns Tuesday Nov 6th with notable games of Duke vs Kentucky and Kansas vs Michigan St.

11 teams went down in the Top 25 including 2 in the Top 10. Texas went down after a close battle with Oklahoma St and Florida lost to Georgia.
To no one’s surprise, GameDay will be live from Baton Rouge, LA for the #1 Alabama/#4 LSU game. So we are guaranteed a loss in the Top 5.
College Football Playoff rankings get announced on Tuesday (10/30) for the first time this season. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Check out the football vocab page.
Kansas football beat TCU on Saturday. Yes you did read that correctly. No I did not mean to say basketball. Jayhawk football now has 3 wins this season, that’s the same number they had over the last 3 years combined!
Appalachian St, who got ranked for the first time ever at #25, lost by 20 to Georgia Southern. It was a short-lived ranking but nice to break that barrier.

Other losses in the top 25:

Browns fired their coach, Hue Jackson, and OC this weekend after a 3 game losing streak after a promising start to the season. The Browns are 2-5-1 this season; Cleveland’s previous 2 seasons were 1-15 and 0-16.
Buccaneers will start Ryan Fitzpatrick this week against the Panthers over Jameis Winston. Winston was benched after he threw his 4th interception in the game this weekend vs the Bengals. Fitzpatrick brought the Buccaneers back from 18 points down to tie the game, however the Bengals managed to pull out the win.
The Cowboys fired O-line coach Alexander after bye week.

Xander Schauffele won the WGC – HSBC Champions in Shanghai. After he began the tournament by turning 25, he beat Tony Finau in a sudden-death playoff on Sunday with a birdie to win the whole thing. His win moves Xander up to 12th on the Official World Golf Rankings. This WGC event saw 35 of the top 50 golfers playing. Justin Rose finished 3rd which was enough to move him to #2 in the World, moving Dustin Johnson down to 3rd. Brooks Koepka remains #1 for another week.
Cameron Champ won the Sanderson Farms Championship. This is his first PGA Tour win which guarantees him a spot on the PGA Tour until 2020-2021 season.
Kelly Korda earned her first LPGA Tour win in the Taiwan Championship.
The Tiger-Mickelson PPV prices looks like it will be priced at $20, according to Turner Sports.

Simone Biles has the potential to bring home 6 medals in the World Gymnastics Championships after she suffered a kidney stone before qualifying. Finals will be competed this week!
- Team Qualifying – Tues 10/30
  - USA, RUS, CHN, CAN, BRA, JPN, FRA, GER
- All – Around – Thurs 11/1
- Apparatus finals – Fri 11/2 & Sat 11/3
  - USA has 2 in every event except the vault
Men’s World Cup Giant Slalom race was canceled due to excessive snowfall and strong winds over the weekend and is set for another Austrian report in December. This makes it 4 days after another GS event and 2 days before a slalom event.
France’s Tessa Worley won the season-opening women’s World Cup Giant Slalom. ITA Federica Brignone got second and USA Mikela Schiffrin got third.
Kenya’s Abraham Kiptum set the World Record half marathon record of 58 min 18 seconds.

Wed 10/31
- Pacers at Knicks @ 7pm on ESPN
- Spurs at Suns @ 9:30pm on ESPN
Thurs 11/1
- Bucks at Celtics @ 7pm on TNT
- Pelicans at Trail Blazers @ 9:30pm on TNT
Fri 11/2
- Thunders at Wizards @ 7pm on ESPN
- Timberwolves at Warriors @ 9:30pm on ESPN