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I’m eager to play chess Saturday, because I haven’t completely been at the board on Friday nights. I’ve played three draws against three lower-rated opponents so I could get home to watch basketball. It occurred to me that Coach Rob would talk to me about this. When you’re not playing hard, you don’t want the […]
The four best teams in the Pac-12 played amongst themselves last Sunday, though I’m loath to say that doesn’t include Utah. USC 73, UCLA 65 was so critical to the state of our dissolving conference that I watched that game despite knowing the score already. My takeaway from last weekend’s games — whereas you might’ve […]
I contacted Southern Cal’s media department, because holy shit, have you looked at the Trojans’ schedule through the first week of February?! In three days, USC hosts UCLA, who look like a national finalist. Next week, USC visits the Rocky Mountains for their hardest in-conference road trip. End of January, USC hosts the Washingtons, the […]
#14 Indiana hosts #3 Iowa Feb. 22 in a game that’s already sold out. IU’s media department reported that half of Assembly Hall’s 17K seating went to Indianans who want to see what the WNBA Indiana Fever are getting with #1 draft pick Caitlin Clark. Which strikes me as odd. IU is telling us that […]
All 12 teams in the terminal Pac-12 are playing another this weekend. The mountain teams should skunk the Arizonas in Arizona. The southern California teams should handle the Oregons more handily than that, at home. The Washingtons at the Bay Bridge schools are toughest to call. If I didn’t want to get off to a […]
During one of northern California’s coldest, wettest spells of the year, I spent Friday night in the garage. Around midnight, while I was compiling numbers from Stanford at Cal — Stanford 78Cal 51 Stanford was better and Cal was worse while Cameron Brink was on the floor. After factoring out the last five minutes of […]
I read the media statement more carefully, and it was that outlet’s opinion that Utah coach Roberts is always quotable, and worthy of its personal award “state sportsperson of the year”. I think Coach Roberts evolved as “always quotable” around the time UConn visited. Record lot of media attention on that game, and Coach Roberts […]
Andy Kaufman was a performance artist at the turn of the ’80s. Whether you thought Kaufman comedian or anti-comedian, brilliant or ‘what the fuck’, was up to you. The producers of the classic sitcom “Taxi” so enjoyed Kaufman’s “foreign man” persona, they offered him a role based on the character. Kaufman never liked the idea, […]
Both Washington teams lost today; for the Huskies, it was their first loss. Washington at Louisville was one of the best games I’ve seen. Louisville played more bothersome defense, and effectively attacked the Husky defense (2nd in the nation in FG% allowed before this game). Auburn 69 Washington St. 62 The fast break when the […]
Did the Crimson Coalition give her a new car for that? If not, the Utah sportsperson of the year award still puts Coach Roberts in the ballpark with TIME magazine’s person of the year Taylor Swift. A Zone Sports Network broadcaster said Coach Roberts is “always quotable”. That’s fair-weather media for you — that guy […]