What SPORTS Did You Watch Today? - 2017

Watched the Hurricanes beat the Islanders last night 8 to 4.

I'm watching Mt. St. Mary's vs New Orleans in the first play-in game of the tournament. 

Holy crap, MSM has the shortest player in D1 basketball with Junior Robinson at 5'5" and the kid can dunk!!!!  They showed some footage of his dunks and it looks freakish; like something done with CGI or something.  How does someone that small dunk?

March Madness naturally. 

I'm already doing better than last year because we're almost halfway through the day and my brackets aren't completely busted yet.

Wow.  WTF was Vandy doing????   They had a one point lead with about 15 seconds left and their guy intentionally fouled the Northwestern player.  The announcers think either the player thought Vandy was losing or they had a foul to give.  That was really dumb.

Michigan vs Louisville.  Michigan is hanging in there but they just can't seem to close the gap.  They were trailing by 8 at the half and a third of the way through the second half they're trailing by 9.  That's the way the whole game has gone.

EDIT:  Wow.  I hopped on the elliptical because I figured this game was over.  I come back and Michigan is up by 4 points with a minute left.


And the Wolverines upset #2 Louisville.

Watched the Penguins beat the Panthers 4-0.

Watched Wichita State lose to Kentucky in a competitive game.  Now watching Michigan State vs Kansas.  Sparty was hanging in there but now late in the first half Kansas has opened an 8 point lead.

Islanders and Rangers

Watching the Hurricanes vs the Canadiens

Michigan vs Oregon

Well other than Kansas squashing Purdue by 32 points, the Sweet Sixteen is off to a great start.  The other three games last night were decided by a combined total of 6 points.

Watched the Penguins lose to the Senators in a shootout

So far the second night of the Sweet Sixteen isn't as exciting as last night.  North Carolina throttled Butler (it wasn't as close as the final score) and thankfully South Carolina is clobbering Baylor by 22 with 2 minutes left.

tohostudios wrote:

So far the second night of the Sweet Sixteen isn't as exciting as last night.  North Carolina throttled Butler (it wasn't as close as the final score) and thankfully South Carolina is clobbering Baylor by 22 with 2 minutes left.

South Carolina has been playing great this tournament.

Glad the Tarheels won.

So far tonight I watched Gonzaga annihilate Xavier (boo!) and now I'm watching Oregon vs Kansas.  I guess Oregon is my team in the tournament now.  After they lost their forward Boucher I figured the Ducks would be an early exit in the tournament.  Now here they are in the Elite Eight.

Wow.  Oregon has an 11 point lead over Kansas at the half.

 EDIT: ...and it wasn't even close.   Both of today's Elite Eight games were basically blowouts.

Watched South Carolina take care of Florida.  Good, Florida had no business getting to the Elite Eight in the first place.  Hell, Vandy beat them 3 times!

tohostudios wrote:

Watched South Carolina take care of Florida.  Good, Florida had no business getting to the Elite Eight in the first place.  Hell, Vandy beat them 3 times!

Frank Martin has SC playing some great basketball. I'm glad UNC put out Kentucky.

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I'm glad UNC put out Kentucky.

I didn't have any strong feelings about that matchup but it turned out to be a fun game to watch.

I would have liked if both teams could have lost so I didn't really care either.  Good game though.

tohostudios wrote:

I would have liked if both teams could have lost so I didn't really care either.  Good game though.

I was happy when Duke lost.

...And another city loses its NFL team.  This is getting ridiculous.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nfl-owners-approve-raiders-move-oakland-las-vegas-181547998--nfl.html

tohostudios wrote:

...And another city loses its NFL team.  This is getting ridiculous.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nfl-owners-approve-raiders-move-oakland-las-vegas-181547998--nfl.html

Yup! I'm all for a couple expansion teams, but hate it when they move to different cities.

Oh, and keeping on topic, I watched my lousy Arizona Diamondbacks get beat by the Angels today. Is football season here yet? Baseball is going to be another long hard season to watch I fear.

Bellator MMA

Tonight featuring "Rampage" Jackson vs King Mo. Every time I see Rampage I can't help but remember Midnight Meat Train.  This is the scene where we realize the "killer" is starting to lose his touch.

Well it finally happened.  The UConn women lost last night.