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Bar Chat

09/28/2017

College Basketball's Black Eye

[Posted Wed. a.m.]

College Football Quiz: Easier one for older folks.  Ricky Bell became college football’s all-time single-season rushing leader with 1,957 yards for USC in 1975.  Who then was the first to rush for 2,000 yards (including bowl games), and who was the second...both big names, both in the 1970s.  Answer below.

MLB

--Monday afternoon at Yankee Stadium, New York’s Aaron Judge hit home runs No. 49 and 50, thus breaking Mark McGwire’s 30-year-old rookie record of 49, as the Yankees routed the Royals 11-3.  [Catcher Gary Sanchez hit his 33rd.]

But what a strange, terrific season for Judge, who set the baseball world on fire in hitting 30 home runs by the All-Star break, then fell into a deep six-week funk, striking out in a record 37 straight games, only to find his groove again and get white hot in September, with 13 home runs this month.

So thru Monday, Judge had 50 home runs, 108 RBIs, 124 runs scored, 120 walks, a .418 on-base percentage and a 1.038 OPS, the latter two categories exceeded only by Mike Trout.

He’s also gone down swinging 203 times.

So is Judge the A.L. MVP?  It’s probably between him and Jose Altuve of the Astros, who is winning the battle title and is the sparkplug for them.

Tuesday, the Yankees clinched home-field for the wild card game with a 6-1 win over the Rays, moving to just three behind Boston, as the Red Sox and Chris Sale fell to the Blue Jays 9-4; Sale giving up 5 runs in 5 innings as he is now 17-8, 2.90 ERA.  Boston shouldn’t have overused him last outing!

Boston 91-66
New York 88-69

--The Dodgers clinched home-field advantage throughout the NLCS with a 9-2 win over the Padres last night, Alex Wood improving to 16-3, 2.72.  L.A. is 101-57.

--As for home-field in the A.L. it’s Cleveland by a game.

Cleveland 98-59
Houston 97-60

--In the race for the second wild card in the N.L. ....

Colorado 85-73
Milwaukee 83-74... 1.5

--I do have to note an individual effort on Tuesday.  Pittsburgh’s Andrew McCutchen went 4-for-4, with two homers and 8 RBIs, as the Pirates beat the Orioles 10-1.

NFL

--Monday Night, Dallas got back on the beam with a 28-17 road win at Arizona, the Cowboys now 2-1, the Cardinals 1-2.

For Dallas, Dak Prescott had an impressive, controlled performance, 13/18, 183, 2-0, 141.7 passer rating, with a 10-yard TD run, while Ezekiel Elliott was solid...80 yards on 22 carries and a touchdown.

Carson Palmer also had a fine night for Arizona, 29/48, 325, 2-0, 94.5.

--New York Giants fans are in a state of shock after their 0-3 start.  As James Kratch of NJ.com wrote:

“Turn out the lights.  The party is over – and it never really started.  The Giants’ season is all but kaput” after their 27-24 loss to the Eagles on Jake Elliott’s 61-yard game winner.

“There’s a lot of blame to go around for a team that, after three weeks, has had its Super Bowl aspirations all but nuked and may now find itself in the mix for a top-5 pick against a schedule that won’t get any easier. But it starts at the very top....

“Not only did (head coach) Ben McAdoo keep calling the plays, but he continued to do so rather defiantly.

“An NFL Network report stated McAdoo never even considered giving up play call duties to offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan, despite the fact he told reporters all week it was on the table.”

And the first three quarters the Giants offense was punchless.

But blame also has to go to GM Jerry Reese.

“He bought the groceries, and failed to get the most important ingredient. The Giants’ offense is clearly limited by its offensive line.”

And then there is star receiver Odell Beckham Jr.

Steve Politi / NJ.com

“What the hell was he thinking? He wasn’t, of course, and that’s exactly the problem with (Beckham), because if you thought another year would solve his maturity issues, you can forget that.

“The Giants had scored exactly 13 points in 11 quarters and counting on Sunday when – finally – they found the end zone in Philadelphia.  It was a perfect throw from Eli Manning and an even better catch from Beckham to keep his feet in bounds.

“That was enough of a statement.  But it wasn’t for Beckham, who embarrassed the Giants and the NFL with his crude touchdown celebration.  Beckham, on all fours, lifted his leg like a dog and pretended to pee on the turf. I mean, really, Odell?  Really?

“ ‘I was in the end zone.  I scored a touchdown,’ he said when I asked him a variation of that question after this crushing 27-24 loss.  ‘I’m a dog so I acted like a dog.  I don’t know if the rulebook said you can’t hike your leg.  He said I peed on somebody, so I was trying to find the imaginary ghost that I peed on.  But I didn’t see him.

“ ‘Either way it goes, you play football.  I wear red and white, I don’t wear black and white.  I don’t make calls.  I just play football.’

“Beckham was beyond unapologetic.  He essentially promised that, penalties be damned, there were more celebrations to come.  ‘I’m going to do what I do to spark the team, and the consequences are going to be what they are,’ he said, as if the celebration – and not the play itself – was the spark.

“The touchdown cut the lead to 14-7, and Beckham made an even better touchdown catch a few minutes later after an Eagles fumble to tie this game in stunning fashion for the Giants. He gave them exactly the boost the team needed, and still, the nonsense overshadows it.

“Stupid.  Unacceptable. Disgusting. And on this day, of all days in the NFL, after the Tweeter In Chief turned the eyes of the country on stadiums from coast to coast by condemning the players who have decided to exercise their First Amendment rights with anthem protests....

“The Giants lost six games last season. Beckham had some outburst during or after five of them.”

Coach McAdoo, when asked if he spoke to Beckham about the dog act, which cost them 15 yards for unsportsmanlike-conduct, said, “We keep our personal conversations personal.”

Only five teams since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger have started 0-3 and made the playoffs, per Elias Sports Bureau.

--Talk about an awful break, and more, the Eagles lost running back Darren Sproles for the year as on the same play he broke his wrist and tore his ACL.  A devastating blow for Philadelphia.

--The New England Patriots had to apologize to their fans for charging them at least $4.50 for a cup of tap water, after they ran out of bottled water, amid an unseasonably high 86 degrees Sunday in Foxborough.

The Patriots did the right thing...allot four times the normal inventory of bottled water for the contest, but the individual food stands could hold only so much, so then when fans started asking for cups of tap water, they were charged.

A Patriots spokesperson said, “We apologize.  That should not have happened.”

--NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” matchup between the Redskins and the Raiders saw an 11 percent dip in ratings compared with the same week last year, but CBS enjoyed an 11 percent ratings boost in its Sunday double-header.

Fox’s afternoon game had 16 percent fewer eyeballs compared with last year.

--Dr. W. had a good point, regarding the younger generation and football.  “They don’t really root for teams anymore (unless they’re trying to appease their old man). They root for the highlights and individuals.  And they sure as hell don’t want to sit through 3 ½ hour games.”

--And this...from the Chicago Tribune:

“Whitney Young, one of Chicago’s top academic high schools, is done fielding a football team this fall, canceling the season with three games left to play because it cannot field enough eligible players.

“State regulations require a 22-member roster for a varsity team.  While the Whitney Young Dolphins were at that level the beginning of the season, the roster has since dropped to 19, according to the magnet school’s principal, Joyce Kenner.”

Gee, that doesn’t exactly bode well for the sport.

College Football Preview

--Two big games Friday night... 14 Miami at Duke (4-0); 5 USC (4-0) at 16 Washington State (4-0).  Too bad the latter one is on at 10:30 ET!  C’mon.

7 Georgia (4-0) is at Tennessee (3-1), while the biggest contest is Saturday night... 2 Clemson (4-0) at 12 Virginia Tech (4-0).  If Clemson passes this test, it should be clear sailing rest of the way, at least until the ACC title game.

And we have 0-2 Florida State at 4-0 Wake Forest!  Go Deacs!

--Nine Florida players, including standout receiver Antonio Callaway and running back Jordan Scarlett, face felony fraud charges on accusations that they transferred money from a stolen credit card to their campus bookstore accounts and used it to buy electronics.

All of the players were suspended from the team but remain enrolled at the university. 

One player, offensive lineman Kadeem Telfort, faced 30 separate charges.  Most of the players made one charge each with the stolen card number, ranging in value from $500 to $2,000.

The National Anthem

[Again, this is all for the archives.  I am holding some material back for my next “Week in Review,” such as comments from Charles Barkley and Bryant Gumbel.]

--The entire Dallas Cowboys team – along with owner Jerry Jones – locked arms and took a knee on the field before the Monday Night Football game, but then they retreated to the sidelines and locked arms again during Jordin Sparks’ rendition of the anthem. The Arizona Cardinals also locked arms during the anthem in a show of unity.

Trump tweeted Tuesday morning: “Ratings for NFL football are way down except before game starts, when people tune in to see whether or not our country will be disrespected!

“The booing at the NFL football game last night, when the entire Dallas team dropped to its knees, was loudest I have ever heard. Great anger...

“But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all stood up for our National Anthem.  Big progress being made – we all love our country!”

Trump later tweeted Tuesday, “The NFL has all sorts of rules and regulations. The only way out for them is to set a rule that you can’t kneel during our National Anthem!”

Monday night, had Trump tweeted: “Tremendous backlash against the NFL and its players for disrespect of our Country.”

--Meanwhile, the fallout from the Steelers game continued, with Alejandro Villanueva, who stood alone with his hand over his heart during The Star-Spangled Banner, while his teammates stayed in the tunnel, per their agreement, later felt compelled to apologize to the team.

“This national anthem ordeal has sort of been out of control, and there’s a lot of blame on myself,” the West Point grad and Army Ranger said Monday.  “I made coach Tomlin look bad, and that is my fault and my fault only. I made my teammates look bad, and that is my fault.”

Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said he isn’t on board with the Steelers’ decision to remain in the tunnel for the anthem.

After coach Mike Tomlin said he didn’t want players to feel forced into taking a stance, Roethlisberger wrote Monday that he wishes “we approached it differently” and that he believes the playing of the song is not the right time for any protest.

“I was unable to sleep last night and want to share my thoughts and feelings on our team’s decision to remain in the tunnel... The idea was to be unified as a team when so much attention is paid to things dividing our country, but I wish we approached it differently. We did not want to appear divided on the sideline with some standing and some kneeling or sitting.

“As a team, it was not a protest of the flag or the Anthem. I personally don’t believe the Anthem is ever the time to make any type of protest. For me, and many others on my team and around the league, it is a tribute to those who commit to serve and protect our country, current and past, especially the ones that made the ultimate sacrifice.”

Later, during a press conference, Roethlisberger said, “I just felt like I wish that we would have been on the field... That’s what’s great about this country and what the troops are for.  I wish we could have stood out there. What was important was being united as well, and that’s what we showed.  We showed unity.  Because that’s what we need in this country right now.  There’s so much division.  We need to stay together.”

--As reported by the Baltimore Sun, some Ravens fans said they were selling game tickets and burning jerseys to protest the protests – players who knelt during the national anthem.

One longtime Ravens fan said, “It’s not about the right to free speech.  It’s about the right not to disrespect...the armed services and what this country stands for.”

--NASCAR didn’t have any issues with drivers or team members demonstrating during the national anthem, with Richard Petty saying, “Anybody that don’t stand up for the anthem ought to be out of the country. Period.  What got ‘em where they’re at? The United States.”

When asked if a Richard Petty Motorsports team member who protested during the anthem would be fired, Petty replied, “You’re right.”

Richard Childress, another team owner, said of anyone on his team protesting, “It’ll get you a ride on a Greyhound bus.”

So Monday morning, President Trump tweeted: “So proud of NASCAR and its supporters and fans. They won’t put up with disrespecting our Country or our Flag – they said it loud and clear!”

Dale Earnhardt Jr., though, quoted John F. Kennedy in offering support for peaceful protests.

“All Americans R granted rights 2 peaceful protest...Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

--San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who has ripped President Trump in the past, said he would never tell his players what to do during the playing of the anthem.

“Each one of them has the right and the ability to say what they would like to say, and act the way they would like to act. They have our full support.  No matter what they might want to do or not do.  It is important to them to be respected by us, and there is no recrimination no matter what might take place unless it’s ridiculously egregious.”

--Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker, one of MLB’s two African American managers and Marine Corps reservist, on the Oakland A’s Bruce Maxwell, who knelt during the national anthem at Oakland Coliseum with his right hand over his heart both Saturday and Sunday.

“How I feel is that a person should be allowed to do whatever they want to do, but they have to suffer the consequences for their actions.  Had I not been former military or had I been a whole lot younger like those guys, who knows what I would’ve done at the same time?

“The bottom line is there’s a problem. There is a problem.  And so we have to adjust and try to figure out how to find a solution to the problem....And we’re talking the same problem I had when I was 18, 19 years old.  So have we made progress, or have we regressed?....

“To me, I got more respect for the guys that did it, however they fell, in the beginning than those who joined in later,” Baker said.  “Because usually it’s the first guy that has to suffer the repercussions, which is happening in this situation.”

--Golfer Peter Malnati was the first in his sport to weigh in on the anthem debate.

“Though athletic rivalries divide us playfully, sport unites us,” he wrote on Twitter.  “It has an amazing power to transcend differences that everyday life cannot.”

Malnati added: “Those who kneel during the national anthem aren’t disrespecting the heroes who sacrificed to defend the United States. Those who kneel are pointing out that as a nation, we are not doing a good job of upholding the values for which people sacrificed.”

And this: “The current administration in Washington has made it very clear they don’t want the United States to be a nation that cares for those on the margins of society.  Or a nation that celebrates freedom and equality....

“I stand for freedom.  I stand for ‘justice for all.’ I stand for equality, for empathy, and for compassion.

“I kneel to hubris and greed. Therefore, I take a knee for the flag that represents this administration.  Not because I don’t love this country, but because I do.”

--Basketball legend Michael Jordan, who in the past has been reluctant to weigh in on social issues (“Republicans buy shoes too”):

“One of the fundamental rights this country is founded on was freedom of speech, and we have a long tradition of nonviolent, peaceful protest.  Those who exercise the right to peacefully express themselves should not be demonized or ostracized,” he said in a statement.  “At a time of increasing divisiveness and hate in this country, we should be looking for ways to work together and support each other and not create more division. I support Commissioner Adam Silver, the NBA, its players and all those who wish to exercise their right to free speech.”

--Back to the NFL, Sunday night, after I posted, prior to the Redskins-Raiders game, NBC announcer Mike Tirico asked analyst Cris Collinsworth, “If you could talk to the president, what would you say to him about all this stuff?”

“I would say he should apologize,” replied Collinsworth. “They’re not S.O.B.’s, they’re smart thoughtful guys, they really are.”

NFL players “want exactly what the president wants,” Collinsworth asserted.  “They want a better America.

“Their version of howo to get there is different than the president’s, I understand that, but I guarantee you if the president invited – I can make a list of 10 guys – to the White House and heard their stories, and heard their thoughts and heard how concerned they are about America, they would find the common ground, and they would move this forward.”

“And I think an apology for the S.O.B. comment, right off the top, would go a long way,” Collinsworth said.

Separately, amid a string of tweets disparaging NFL players, President Trump retweeted another user’s post that invoked former NFL star Pat Tillman, an Army Ranger after 9/11, killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004.  Trump endorsed the message that honoring Tillman should encourage athletes and others to “stand for our anthem.”

But Tillman’s widow took issue.

“Pat’s service, along with that of every man and woman’s service, should never be politicized in a way that divides us,” Marie Tillman said, in comments to CNN.  “We are too great of a country for that.”

“Those that serve fight for the American ideals of freedom, justice and democracy,” she continued.  “They and their families know the cost of that fight. I know the very personal costs in a way I feel acutely every day.”

Jason Gay / Wall Street Journal

“(The) president of the United States drove a monster truck onto the sports world’s front lawn, and blasted the horn until he woke up the entire neighborhood.

“In a loud, impossible-to-miss speech, Donald Trump assailed NFL players who have been protesting during the national anthem... He also lamented what he sees as football’s over-penalizing of aggressive hits – an odd choice at a moment where there is widening scientific concern about the long-term impact of head injuries.  ‘They’re ruining the game!’ Trump said.  ‘They want to hit.’

“He didn’t stop with Alabama. By now, you know that the president spent the weekend on his Magic Twitter Machine taking on not only the NFL, but the NBA....

“The president basically took American professional sports in 2017 and set its pants on fire. And it wasn’t long before Trump was getting blowback from athletes, coaches, owners, and leagues for being unnecessarily divisive....

“The president has plenty of supporters on this issue.  I don’t dispute that for a second.  This is a jet fuel topic for him and anyone who wants a quick burst of attention.  Long before Donald Trump repurposed the presidency into a morning sports radio talk show, there were a great many Americans who did not agree with the athlete protests... This rancor predates Trump’s victory, and I am certain that there are plenty of people who think the president is right on, and I have the hate mail to prove it....

“But a protest isn’t a popularity contest.  Trump, a creature of television, is habitually obsessed with ratings, and seems to equate success or failure with Nielsen points and how many people can be stuffed into a stadium....

“This is hard, painful stuff.  And that’s the other thing: We can either sit here on the surface of this topic and bicker glibly on social media, or we can drill deeper into what it’s really about. To make this about Trump actually does a disservice to the protesters, because these protests are not a referendum on Trump.  They’re not about the flag, or the anthem, either. This has always been a protest intended to provoke a much broader and harder-to-have conversation about racial and other mistreatment in this country, and what all of us can do to get better....

“It’s also a conversation that a president of the United States can have a constructive role in, but after this weekend, I’m not sure he’s eager.  ‘Son of a bitch’? What is going on?”

Presidents Cup

Play at Liberty National begins Thursday...five matches each of Thursday and Friday, eight on Saturday, and the 12 singles Sunday.

While the U.S. leads the series 9-1-1, including the last six, in 2015 the U.S. beat the International squad by just 15 ½-14 ½.

As for the U.S. team, six of the 12 are rookies for the event (Justin Thomas, Daniel Berger, Brooks Koepka, Kevin Kisner, Kevin Chappell and Charley Hoffman).

The Internationals have four rookies (Jhonattan Vegas, Si Woo Kim, Adam Hadwin, Emiliano Grillo).

--Back to the FedEx Cup final, one big loser was Paul Casey, who has quite a reputation at this point for not being able to close...at least in the United States...with just one win on the PGA Tour in his long career.

--A big winner was East Lake, with flipping the nines making all the difference in supplying some great drama down the stretch, including a reachable par-5 18th, vs. the old par-3 18th.

--Boy, after a super year, Hideki Matsuyama sure flamed out in the playoffs.  He had a T-26 finish Sunday, after a MC, T-23 and T-47 in the previous three playoff events.

College Basketball Scandal

In a wide-ranging federal investigation into corruption in college basketball, the Justice Department unsealed indictments Tuesday charging basketball coaches at four Division I schools with accepting bribes to steer athletes toward the professional services of several business managers, financial advisers, and representatives of a major international sportswear company.

“The picture painted by the charges brought today is not a pretty one,” Joon Kim, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a midday news conference.  “Coaches at some of the nation’s top programs soliciting and accepting cash bribes.  Managers and financial advisers circling blue-chip prospects like coyotes. And employees of one of the world’s largest sportswear companies...secretly funneling cash to the families of high school recruits.”

The assistant coaches named in the indictments are Lamont Evans of Oklahoma State, Chuck Person of Auburn, Emanuel Richardson of Arizona and Tony Bland of Southern California.  They are charged with accepting bribes in exchange for steering athletes to use the services of a marketing director at Adidas, and the chief executive of financial advisory company Princeton Capital.

Jim Gatto, the head of sports marketing at Adidas, paid recruits to sign with Adidas-sponsored schools and then sign with Adidas once they turned professional.  Others were involved in brokering the payments, with the promise that the players sign agreements with one business manager and Munish Sood, the CEO of Princeton Capital.

The family of one recruit, for example, was paid $100,000, while another family was paid $150,000, the complaint alleges. 

Two other unnamed universities – whose descriptions match Louisville and Miami – were implicated as landing top basketball recruits thanks to the illicit payments outlined in the indictments. 

Louisville, last month, announced it had agreed to extend its apparel agreement with Adidas through 2028.  The above-noted $100,000 payment supposedly went to an all-American there.  The scheme was set in motion after this player announced he was looking at other schools back in May, and then in June, he announced he intended to attend, err, Louisville. “At least one coach” there was involved, according to the indictment, with cellphone conversations tapped by the FBI...the FBI having a key informant for the whole case, a guy who was being pinched in a different matter.

The charging documents also allege an assistant coach from the Kentucky school devised a plan to pay a recruit from the high school class of 2019, at a meeting in a Las Vegas hotel room that was videotaped by the FBI.  The coach said the scheme would have to be “low key” as the school was already on NCAA probation.  The coach also handed an AAU official an envelope containing $12,700 in cash.

So I wrote the above after the Fed’s made their announcement of the indictments, and Louisville then acknowledged it was part of it.  The NCAA had previously handed down sanctions to the basketball team on June 15 for violations involving former assistant coach Andre McGee.

That case involved McGee and Katina Powell’s allegations of a prostitution ring surrounding the recruiting of Louisville players.  But this case is viewed as separate from any additional NCAA case stemming from Tuesday’s announcements.

Will the NCAA levy the “death penalty” on the program.  One thing is for sure...head coach Rick Pitino’s days are numbered.  What a blow to the city of Louisville if the program is shut down.

Myron Medcalf / ESPN

“During his time with Louisville, the Cardinals basketball coach Rick Pitino has survived multiple scandals.

“In 2010, he testified in a federal extortion trial involving Karen Sypher, who went to prison after trying to get money and gifts from Pitino in exchange for silence.

“In 2015, the NCAA launched an investigation into a sex-for-pay scandal organized by former Louisville assistant coach Andre McGee that could force the Cardinals to vacate their 2013 national title and dozens of victories. For that, Pitino will serve a seven-game suspension this season.  This all came after the school, hoping to soothe the NCAA and temper the sanctions, self-imposed a 2016 NCAA tournament ban.

“Despite all this, Pitino kept his job.

“But what was revealed Tuesday, if true, seems insurmountable....

“If the FBI’s allegations are validated, Louisville has only one option: Remove Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich.”

And hope the NCAA spares the program beyond sanctions and a lengthy post-season ban.

Meanwhile, Chuck Person, an All-American out of Auburn and fourth player selected in the 1986 NBA draft, after which he had a long, solid career, before going into the college coaching ranks, is accused of accepting $91,500 from an unnamed financial adviser who was cooperating as an informant with the FBI.  Bottom line, Person is involved in numerous separate incidents in this case and is clearly an all-time dirtball...including his use of Charles Barkley’s name to try to convince one of the player’s mothers to work with the financial adviser.  Barkley is not involved.

Yeah, this is big.  We await more details.  And of course this goes far beyond the schools named, and implicated thus far.   

Stuff

--Dwyane Wade is signing a one-year, minimum deal with Cleveland, reuniting him with old buddy LeBron, after he accepted a buyout from the Bulls on Sunday.

--Champions League play on Tuesday....

Tottenham 3 Apoel Nicosia 0...Harry Kane with a hat trick
Real Madrid 3 Borussia Dortmund 1...Cristiano Ronaldo two goals
Liverpool 1 Spartak Moscow 1
Manchester City 2 Shaktar Donetsk 0

--This is an amazing story, via USA TODAY:

“Rachel Myrick, of Fredericksburg, Va., was walking through the foyer of a Long Horn Steakhouse in Spotsylvania County [Ed. think Battle of Spotsylvania] earlier this month when she felt a sharp pain in her left foot, according to local media.

“Her first thought was that she’d been stung by a bee or a hornet, she told the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star.

“She tried to brush it off and keep going, she told the paper, but felt such a sharp pain she dropped her cellphone and her wallet.

“ ‘I had my fingers under my foot and that’s when I felt something moving,’ Myrick, a real-estate agent, told the newspaper.

“Myrick had been bitten twice on her toes and once on the side of her foot by a roughly 8-inch-long copperhead. The bites left her in the hospital for 11 days.

“ ‘I freaked out,’ said Myrick, who recalled yelling, ‘I got bit! I got bit!’

“ ‘It hit the floor between my son, Dylan, and my boyfriend, Mike. Both of them instantaneously stepped on it, stepped on its head and killed it right in that foyer area,’ Myrick told Washington, D.C., radio station WTOP.”

While in the hospital, Myrick was given anti-venom shots and other treatments to reduce the swelling, which spread up to the top of her leg.

But the after-effects have still severely limited her mobility and she remains in considerable pain.

Geezuz...all this from a junior copperhead.

Top 3 songs for the week 9/28/63: #1 “Blue Velvet” (Bobby Vinton)  #2 “Sally, Go ‘Round The Roses” (The Jaynetts)  #3 “Be My Baby” (The Ronettes)...and...#4 “Heat Wave” (Martha & The Vandellas)  #5 “My Boyfriend’s Back” (The Angels)  #6 “Then He Kissed Me” (The Crystals)  #7 “Wonderful! Wonderful!” (The Tymes)  #8 “Mickey’s Monkey” (The Miracles)  #9 “Cry Baby” (Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters)  #10 “If I Had A Hammer” (Trini Lopez...Beatles were on the way...but this wasn’t a bad week at all....)

College Football Quiz Answer: In 1976, Pitt’s Tony Dorsett became the first to rush for 2,000 yards...2,150...as the Panthers won the national title.  In 1979, USC’s Charles White rushed for 2,050.  Barry Sanders remains the single-season leader at 2,628 for Oklahoma State in 1988.

Next Bar Chat, Monday.

 

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