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Bartles

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  1. Bartles

    2019-20 NHL

    The Isles give up a lot of shots, but hardly any really good scoring chances. Then they force a handful of turnovers with their forecheck to score 2-3 per game themselves and that's enough to win against most teams. It's impressive, but Tampa has enough talent to finish their chances and also better discipline to not turn it over. The Flyers can't seem to put away enough of their decent chances. Big injuries last night on both sides, Couturier for PHI (looked like knee-to-knee contact) and Barzal for NYI (stick blade to the eye area). Probably won't know their status until game time.
  2. There are a ton of reasons the B1G presidents can't just reverse course. It was never as simple as getting rapid tests for the players, though that is a big deal and needs to happen either way. There would be an uproar about prioritizing publicly-funded tests. And they've already planted their stake about myocarditis and other unknown complications. This is another flesh wound for Kevin Warren either way. He looks silly for capitulating to Trump after a single phone call, and/or he becomes even more of a pariah to fans if it doesn't work out.
  3. This will probably fizzle like everything Trump does, but if he got them on the field in time to be CFP eligible, it could legitimately gain him several points in the WI, MI and PA polls (he's already safe in OH, IA among others)
  4. WIFE: I still need to hear those three words sometimes ME:
  5. The best would be 9-0 Cincinnati in the Rose Bowl semifinal the same weekend Ohio State trashes Michigan to improve to 6-0
  6. Starting on Thanksgiving would be in line with what NCAA basketball is looking at...most campuses are set to empty out at that time, so conditions would possibly be safer. But we've seen over and over that COVID doesn't respect anyone's timeline. It's a good move in terms of maybe keeping some NFL candidates on the field, since they could still hit the combine on time. It won't do anything in terms of influencing the playoff. No one outside Ohio and Michigan will care if those teams are playing opposite a CFP semifinal on Jan. 1. The by-the-books AP poll would probably go ahead and rank them once they kick off, so everyone would cry, "The No. 2 team in the country isn't in the playoff!" But CFP isn't putting a 5-0 team in over an 8-1 team that started in September.
  7. RE: Big Ten breakthrough Red October guy at desk: Let me understand...Abbott Labs developed ANOTHER 15-minute test?
  8. Between COVID denial and the police, we've lost a lot of sports this year because white people don't give a fuck when black people are killed
  9. We may as well keep using this thread even though the FBI is technically on the sidelines. As expected, the NCAA is using the FBI evidence is pursuing various cases such as LSU. They want to use the new "IARP" penalty system, the one you can't appeal once it rules on the case. ESPN: Wade part of impermissible payments to recruits, others
  10. Again, "little birdies" means it's complete bullshit
  11. VT-NC State might win the prize for first game that has to be bumped to the scheduled open date
  12. I kind of understand why they repeat stuff...a lot of listeners probably aren't on a station day & night so if there's a track they want to feature, they need to drop it in multiple times over a week or so in order to reach the widest audience. You could argue, who cares as long as the station is true to its format, just mix things up. For some reason they really pimp certain songs in a given time...can't count how many times I've heard the same song on 80s then First Wave on the same day. I also think they are beholden to certain artists, presumably for some financial reason. Just like in the days of terrestrial radio, you gotta pay to get airtime. It frequently pisses me off when XMU pounds us with Grizzly Bear and Deerhunter. I've grown to dislike those acts just due to repetition. But I assume they have a deal with Sirius for bonus airings.
  13. Note Riley said it was the test that wiped out the players, not being sick. Presumably asymptomatic and thus just have to wait until they test negative a couple times. If they had more frequent testing capability, that could be pretty soon. The fact it was all the same position would indicate they infected each other, though.
  14. Welcome to Philly! Swoopes signed with Eagles, whose 3rd string TE is banged up at the moment.
  15. I hate to agree about media agenda but in this case it's true. They like positive stories like people getting off ventilators and finally coming home, but they won't report large hopeful trends. They constantly paste the year-long stats on screen with no context, so viewers have no choice but to think everything is awful. My only thought is TV news (and legacy newspapers) knows its audience skews older and those folks are skeptical of good news.
  16. They told voters to do pre-season rankings as if everybody was playing. Once games start, they are only supposed to vote for teams who are playing in the fall. i.e. Ohio State about to go from #2 to unranked 1-Clemson 2-Ohio St 3-Bama 4-UGA 5-OU 6-LSU 7-Penn State 8-Florida 9-Oregon 10-Notre Dame 11-Auburn 12-Wisconsin 13-A&M 14-TEXAS 15-OK State 16-Michigan 17-USC 18-UNC 19-Minn 20-Cincy 21-UCF 22-Utah 23-Iowa State 24-Iowa 25-Tennessee Others receiving votes: Memphis 86, Virginia Tech 85, Boise State 68, Arizona State 66, Miami (FL) 42, Louisville 32, Appalachian State 26, Washington 21, Kentucky 20, Indiana 19, Baylor 15, California 11, TCU 9, Virginia 7, Navy 6, Florida State 6, SMU 3, Mississippi State 3, Air Force 3, Northwestern 1, UAB 1
  17. I can't be the only one who thinks this is a coordinated effort by the entire family to set themselves up for a multi-year Kardashian type contract. Reality show at the center of the business, all kinds of other branding opportunities.
  18. The college football world is in no way ready to delve into accurate COVID stats. Games start two weeks from today, the only numbers we'll hear are reported positive cases, and I guess we'll find out if there's a high enough number to shut down the sport. Or it may not matter if any major teams get too many cases to even practice.
  19. U of Bama clarified that the 29 percent sample was from a small group of people experiencing symptoms and/or those who were in close contact with people experiencing symptoms. So it's good news!
  20. The conferences had already bumped volleyball to spring a couple weeks back. This just confirms the NCAA will try to stage a tournament, which is great if it works out. No idea where it puts them for 2021, they will probably want to get back on their fall schedule to preserve the pre-xmas Final Four on TV.
  21. Guess they are mainly doing it for media attention, which makes some sense from their perspective
  22. This Big Ten parent protest is bizarre. Why would anyone physically be working at the league office these days anyway? Why would the commissioner every really need to go to the office?
  23. Most of your questions have been answered. Eligibility was addressed yesterday. All players get an extra year. They can opt out and still get an extra year. Teams are going out of their way to break up into groups so the entire team isn't in the same closed room at once for any length of time. Sounds like most teams are even splitting the positional groups so that for example the entire WR corps can't all become infected. Who will enforce? What if coaches knowingly play a positive player? What if there are outbreaks and games are called off? There are no great answers to these, teams are expected to self-police and it's in their best interests to be honest and safe. But if you're assuming the worst of CFB/human nature, yeah things can get ugly and the season could abruptly end. But no conference is going to say right now, "We can't play because this is a corrupt sport run by evil assholes."
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