Subject: Recent sports oddities
Date: Sat Jan 15 00:33:14 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Warriors were down 39 at the half Thursday night. Tonight they were *up* 31 in crushing da Bulls. That 70-point at-halftime swing is the largest since the initiation of the shot-clock era. So says Elias. I have a hard time fathoming it *ever* happened - but that's why we have Hop checking on these things. :)
Date: Sat Jan 15 09:50:21 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:The Warriors are still playing musical chairs with their lineup. Klay Thompson just returned after missing over a year with injuries. Dramond Green is out with a calf injury. The Bulls are missing players due to the cause that cannot be named. Regardless, that's a wild flip from one game to the next.
Date: Sat Jan 15 09:56:34 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Staying with the NBA, Luka Doncic attained 40 triple doubles in the second fewest games in NBA history. He got there in 226 games; Oscar Robertson got there in 92 games.
Doncic has 40 career triple doubles for the Mavericks; over the entire history of the Mavericks franchise, the team has accumulated 80 triple doubles.
Date: Sat Jan 15 10:43:54 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Like The Big O, Luca Doncic appears born to be doing what he's doing. Dude is 22. The assist which got him last night's (I think) triple double was a ho-hum, in-traffic, behind-the-back bounce pass to his teammate cutting down the lane for an easy basket. Like some of the very greatest players of various sports.........he often can make very difficult feats look easy. And his body really doesn't fit the 'standard' NBA template. His almost looks like a large "dad bod". A remarkable talent, as an understatement.
Date: Sun Jan 16 10:39:12 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:"But there was one thing that the Bills did that no team has ever achieved in the 102 year history of the National Football League.
The Bills had seven drives on offense. And on each and every drive, the Bills scored a touchdown. They didn’t punt, allow a turnover, or kick a field goal all game and the Bills are the first to ever do that."
Link: Bills offensive marching machine
Date: Sun Jan 16 11:38:03 2022
User: JackK
Message:Don't rub it in.
Date: Sun Jan 16 11:41:43 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well........I wasn't rubbing it in. Was only reporting a fairly amazing stat. But............if you're a fan of the cheaters..............then, oh well. But mostly, haven't the Pats won enough for like 30 years? Let some other teams have some chances.
[I do find it surprising that they only had 7 possessions for the entire game. I didn't watch much of it, but that must have been methodical drive after methodical drive.]
Date: Sun Jan 16 11:52:06 2022
User: redberet
Message:I found this site that has quite a few articles that are fascinating in regards, to the history of football. I only posted the homepage instead of any single article. I was searching for the tearaway jersey and found it here and also the lard jersey that was banned.
Link: Antique Football
Date: Sun Jan 16 14:44:39 2022
User: JackK
Message:Jealous people often call others success cheating
Date: Sun Jan 16 15:18:06 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well, I know, and we've discussed this issue here in some depth before. But for me it's certainly not that, as I'm not really a fan of any NFL team. I used to (sorta) be of the Redskins because of their moniker, but can't be now. And I *Iike* Beantown - a lot. It's just a matter of spreading the wealth. Mostly. But the cheating helps say let others have their chances.
Date: Sun Jan 16 15:22:58 2022
User: Klepp
Message:I don't foresee TB scoring >24pts. on the GB defense, unlike PHI Swiss cheese.
Date: Sun Jan 16 20:12:13 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:The 49ers were begging the Cowboys to win that game. SF gave them one opportunity after another, and Dallas could not get out of its own way.
Date: Sun Jan 16 20:15:25 2022
User: Klepp
Message:If Dak had merely slid five yards earlier, McCarthy would have gotten what he wanted...
Date: Mon Jan 31 21:42:54 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:So earlier this evening, on "Antiques Road Show", they had a collection of memorabilia concerning the first unassisted triple play, from 1909, performed by Neal Ball of the Cleveland Naps. Apparently Cy Young was the pitcher. Ball's neice was the owner, and the major piece was a silver vase/cup presented by The Plain Dealer, but there was also a large newspaper cartoon sketching out how the play took place. Pretty cool.
And yeah, I realize that 1909 isn't "recent", but since this thread is our triple play thread......
Date: Mon Jan 31 22:58:28 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Oh - meant to include that there was a disputed occurrence in 1878. The rules were slightly different then, but apparently it is not accepted as a valid example.
Date: Mon Jan 31 23:11:45 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:A further quirk concerning the chronology of history's 15 triple play occurrences: two occurred on consecutive days in 1927; then it was 41 years before the next one. Kinda like some of the odd freecell statistical events, no?
Link: MLB's 15 unassisted triple plays
Date: Tue Feb 1 02:06:30 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Pretty much all stats considered "Modern Era" are record book valid, I believe...that is, 1901-present...
Date: Tue Feb 1 15:54:32 2022
User: redberet
Message:I just saw how they recently held the world pillowfighting championship, an offshoot of mud wrestling. That compares to the drone racing where they have all these pocket protectors reliving their space invader glory days in 3d.
Date: Tue Feb 1 17:07:53 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Watch out for the people who put shoes in the pillowcase.
Date: Wed Feb 2 22:31:08 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:The USMNT (men’s soccer) played Honduras outdoors today in Minnesota. Three degrees. Wind chill -20.
Date: Mon Feb 7 00:23:40 2022
User: Kaos
Message:Lucked into clicking on the Winter Olympics yesterday and caught the skate of Kamila Valieva. She landed a triple axel smooth as a baby’s bottom. Most men struggle on a triple axel. The few women who have ever done so have always looked like they were birthing a baby (Tonya Harding being the only exception). Apparently (and I should say very apparently) Kamila is the skating goddess. She skated again tonight and she landed three quads (and looked great landing them). She crashed on the last quad but d**n - most guys don’t land quads. She is so dang good, she’d threaten to medal in the Men’s competition. She won’t skate again until the end of the week but worth watching.
History in the making.
Date: Mon Feb 7 01:06:36 2022
User: Kaos
Message:Of course, if you have HBO Max, be sure to watch Blades of Glory shortly before or after watching Kamila
Date: Mon Feb 7 10:58:55 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:I guess this is ok to put this here instead of "Interesting sports tid-bits:". Close call. Could be either, methinks. Or even in some thread involving supernatural powers; or even hell and brimstone. But certainly the ability to make fire spring forth from one's palm is an "oddity", even if one is only reporting on sports, not engaging in same.
Link: Be very afraid of my powers!
Date: Mon Feb 7 11:56:00 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:What dark magic is this? She's a witch!
Date: Wed Feb 9 00:11:09 2022
User: Kaos
Message:OK, maybe not the best thread to take this tact but Valieva clearly makes almost all past women’s figure skaters look obsolete. She’s a fantastic athlete and she’s extremely graceful and artistic. But, she’s competing in a very small pond. It takes lots of money to get good at ice skating. She had state-sponsored support since she was three. The Nancy Kerrigan’s of the world no longer have a chance. (Money, but not athletic enough). Nor do the Tonya Harding’s (athletic, but not graceful enough and not enough money to get there)
Date: Sat Feb 12 14:04:21 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ok, here's an utterly astonishing one.......................Feb. 8 - Evansville vs. Indiana St. - ZERO offensive rebounds for either team. Like, ZERO. And altho the link I provide doesn't mention it, Indiana St. also was 0/17 from deep. That makes it even more amazing, because when you shoot and miss a lot of long shots, there will tend to be some long caroms, and *surely* you'll gather some of those boards. But no, not in this case. This stretches the limits of credulity, but apparently it's true.
Link: college hoops game with ZERO offensive rebounds!!
Date: Sun Feb 13 11:48:58 2022
User: Klepp
Message:It'd be wild to see a game like that (0 off. reb.) with a team like LIU (I think it was), and how they used to play...run run run run, averaging 110 pts. in the 40 min. college game...
Date: Sun Feb 13 11:56:06 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:You're probably thinking of Loyola Marymount, who had Hank Gathers (who died late in the season on the court), and Bo Kimble. I think they averaged something like an astonishing 120 ppg. Well more than the great UNLV teams who came before them. And they weren't just high scorers; they were very, very good in general.
Date: Tue Feb 15 22:54:16 2022
User: Kaos
Message:Well, the ROC are clearly still cheats. Valieva still gets to skate (partially because she’s not 16 yet). The biggest tragedy is that she still might be the best female skater ever even if she hadn’t been using drugs. Sigh.
Date: Thu Feb 17 19:58:07 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:The 'ville's men's basketball team has now lost 7 straight games - for the first time in 81 years. Amazing.
Date: Sun Feb 27 03:28:42 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:A pretty incredible day for U.S. college basketball.......
"The final Saturday in February turned out to be a historic day in college basketball. Each of the top six teams in the AP Top 25 lost, the first time that has ever happened on a single day in the history of the poll. A total of seven members of the AP top 10 fell, also a single-day record."
-- ESPN
Date: Sun Feb 27 09:23:04 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:ESPN carried many of those games. Some of the highly ranked teams lost in close, competitive games against other ranked teams and on the road. But Gonzaga looked awful against St Mary’s, and Arizona’s loss to Colorado was really bad.
Date: Sun Feb 27 13:32:53 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:St. Mary's often (or more often than otherwise one would expect) seems to be able to have the Zags number in Moraga. And what an atmosphere for college hoops!
Date: Sun Feb 27 20:53:10 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:The fall of the Georgetown men’s basketball program is astonishing. They are currently sitting on a 6-22 record and an 18-game losing streak.
Date: Sun Feb 27 21:07:10 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:I'm sure you likely know this.............but it's the ultimate result of an incident or two back 2+ years ago that caused several players to leave the program rather suddenly. Sad story. Feel sorry for Mr. Ewing.
Date: Sat Mar 26 03:37:05 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:The last previous March Madness thread I can find is from 2013. Dang how time flies........
So.....instead of posting a couple of items there, I'll just put them here:
1. When Duke won in S.F. last night over Texas Tech, it was Duke's first tourney win west of the Mississippi - at least I'm pretty certain I heard them say that. They had previously been 0-5. That's a rather startling, incredible stat right there.
2. Most here know this, but worth stating: St. Peter's glorious win tonight make them the first 15 seed (or lower) to make the Elite 8. Although I can't claim I predicted they'd beat KY, I did think they'd win tonight over Purdue.
Date: Sat Mar 26 03:44:27 2022
User: _.!._
Message:Lost that one too. Hate this.
Date: Tue Apr 5 03:05:27 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well..........as always.........lots of incredible-ness in this tournament. Just a few things:
Unbelievably.............................Saturday's game between UNC and Duke was the first time they've ever met in the NCAA tournament. That's a quite stupefying factoid. But remember, until sometime in the '70s, only conference tournament champions could be in the tournament. But that still leaves 50 years or so of both being eligible, and the very vast majority of times both those teams were both in it. It's hardly believable, but true. And this meeting didn't disappoint. Back-and-forth haymakers and drama the whole game, with EIGHTEEN lead changes. Coach K's final coaching game. As a footnote, almost all Duke's players left after the game without shaking hands with the opponents, which is customary. Deep disappointment, but still poor sportsmanship.
Kansas's comeback tonight (16 pts.) was the largest ever in an NCAA final game, topping the 15-pt. comeback by Loyola (Chicago) to best Cincy in 1963.
Armando Bacot had his 31st double double of the year, tying mega-stud David Robinson for most ever in a season. He's also the first to score 6 double doubles in one tournament. Pretty amazing, but obviously a player would have to be on a team that at least played for the championship, therefore limiting competition. But sadly............re-injuring his ankle with 49 seconds left in the game allowed Kansas the opportunity to score another basket inside, thereby almost assuring the outcome.
Date: Tue Apr 5 03:09:39 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Oh........and how even was the game tonight? Each team led for 18:32.
Date: Wed May 4 13:04:50 2022
User: Klepp
Message:The donee's dad better have bought the donor a nicely sized concession meal with alcoholic beverage (if desired)...yeah, nice to see ballpark detente...
Date: Fri May 6 11:43:25 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:There's a nice follow-up to that story, in which the next day, Judge (the hitter of the HR), met with the young fan in the Blue Jays(?) dugout, and the kid was just all tears.
Last night................the (Amazin'!) Mets entered the ninth down 6 to the Phillies. The previous 330 times the Mets entered the ninth down 6 or more, they lost. But not last night. They came back to win 8-7. Only the third time in their history they've pulled that off. I guess there was no fat lady available to sing.
In general............................for MLB teams, that ends a streak of *857* losses in a row by teams entering the ninth down 6 runs of more.
And all that's besides this:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/sport/shohei-ohtani-angels-red-sox-mlb-spt-intl/index.html
That's a little bit of a "made-up" stat because it's so park-specific, but still...........
Date: Fri May 6 21:44:16 2022
User: _.!._
Message:Hoping someone got Toronto fan. Thanks again,BuzzClik.
Date: Sun May 15 16:38:45 2022
User: _.!._
Message:Youre too fast,TnMountainman. Beat me to it. Now thats just way too much swingin-n-missin & a whole lotta pitchin.
Date: Sun May 15 16:48:23 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:And I'm thinkin' possibly not every single player on the losing team may be major-league material. 😄
Date: Sun May 15 19:58:00 2022
User: _.!._
Message:Very true. Know absolutely nothing about computers but if I could actually do it,thered be a Cincinnati no-hitter vs Pirates game in MLB today in which Pittsburgh actually won after being no hit by 3 pitchers.
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