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Lakers at home, Jokic takes the first three quarters off, Scott Foster's crew in extend-the-series mode... Nuggets still win by double digits. That officiating was a joke.

Not sure. He made a bid for the Blazers, iirc.

Yeah, this guy tried to paint UConn's title run as less-legitimate because they won their games by too many points and surely would have lost if they weren't blowing their opponents out. His posts shouldn't be taken seriously.

Kucherov's LTIR stint was 2021. In 2020 they were without Stamkos save for a few shifts in one of the Finals games. 2019 was such a blessing in disguise for the Lightning. Entirely possible they don't get the next two without the harsh lessons that series gave them.

Congrats to the Leafs. Be pulling for them from here on out. Thought the Lightning played really well this series and got sloppy/lazy a few too many times (late in games 3 & 4 especially). The Lightning saved me a lot of money on pizza this year by winning games the night before my daughter's birthday parties so all-in-all, it was a good season.

It's probably because they opened their season with Orlando twice, San Antonio, and Arlington. Then they played the only three good teams in the league and lost three straight.

This season stinks. Perez couldn't stay within a pit stop of Leclerc early last year when the cars were on more level terms and now here we are. Hope they find a way to nerf this Red Bull.

Not sure I'd trust any QB coming out of Heupel's system, tbh. It's a gimmicky one-read system that requires running plays as fast as possible to exhaust the defense and doesn't require the QB to make NFL reads. Not sure I can think of a single decent NFL QB he has produced. Or one that those prolific Baylor offenses under Briles that inspired Heupel's offense produced outside of RGIII who was just a superior athlete and didn't last in the league long post- injury. Not sure Hooker was even on anyone's draft radar after three years at VT. That Hooker is 25 and coming off of a major knee injury doesn't help.

I dont know how I missed this. So the sprint is completely independent of the GP? If so, I prefer that. What sucks is when you get a wild qualifying session and then the grid sorts itself out in the sprint race and all of the potential drama created by qualifying is gone for the main event. If we have to have sprints (I'd prefer not), why not just reverse the top ten like F2?

It's probably less his deathly fear of milk that made teams pass on him and more that he didn't do anything at Kentucky to make you to think he could be a successful NFL quarterback except be tall, fairly mobile, and have a big arm. And if you're going to draft a guy based off physical traits alone, Anthony Richardson would the obvious choice since he has size, a big arm, is a freak athlete, and put something on tape against SEC programs, at least. Not that I'd bet any amount of money on Richardson being successful but I think it's easier to explain away the deficiencies of a 20-year-old, first-time starter playing in a completely new system, and probably playing injured than a 22-year-old multiple year starter who transferred because he got beat out by Sean Clifford. Also, do we really need analytics for the :censored:ing draft? ESPN with their "according to ESPN analytics, there was a 99% chance he'd be taken by now" bull:censored:. I feel for the kid having to sit there through all of that but I've just never seen what anybody sees in him as a QB.

There's no amount of spin that makes a win over Orlando impressive. Or Dormady a good QB. Or even Perez a good QB. Will never understand the hype that guy's carried since the AAF.

You're "no, they're actually good" point is that they beat an awful, one-win Orlando team 10-9 after they got their great new QB? I'm convinced!

I guess having the structure they have gave us that little bit of drama tonight but that really is the worst way to do it for an 8-team league. It's a bummer Arlington made it. As someone who just happens to catch some games when they're on without making any real effort to watch any particular teams/games, I had the misfortune of catching quite a few Brahmas, Renegades, and Guardians game and the Renegades are a bad football team. Them and the Brahmas are just barely a step above the Guardians and Vipers, who are terrible. Bummed for St. Louis.

I don't know what the hell happened in Minnesota but I took my dog out and the T-Wolves were up by 12 or so with, like, three minutes left. I came back in and Jokic was shooting free throws to tie it.

I didn't get that feeling from the USFL. Granted, I've only watched three or four games and two had Menefee and Klatt and they're probably the cream of the crop as far as spring football announcers so far. Felt like they referenced different rules, etc. mostly when something that happened on the field needed to be explained, and not really in a this way is better kind of way. Maybe USFL rules are just more in line with NFL and CFB in general? I don't know... like I said, I can't quite put a finger on what bothers me about the XFL commentary. I do agree that sideline interviews and lockeroom access and all make it feel gimmicky and really add nothing. I'd say the same about hearing playcalls. It's fine to have the audio but don't focus on it, don't have Greg McElroy explain the terminology before the play, etc. And you're absolutely right about just treating it like a legitimate football league. To me, the appeal to these leagues is just more football, so I want rules/presentation/commentary as familiar feeling to the NFL as possible because whatever the NFL does clearly works. There's things I think most people would like to change about the NFL (make kickoffs relevant again, fix officiating, put a chip in the ball) but beyond those, don't fix what isn't broken (do we really need double forward passes?). Feel like the USFL does this better. But also, like I said, the lack of crowds makes it hard to get into.

I don't know -- it's not even an ESPN-being-cheap thing to me. Maybe it's that I just associate their announcers with mid-tier college football too much for them to seem "professional" to me. It's the guys that do, like, games against FCS teams on the SEC Network or Thursday night ACC games. But at least some of it's the directive. This might be a silly complaint and I can't even quite put a finger on what it is, but they're too excitable and too rah rah XFL. Too much stuff like, if it's a 9 point game late, "this game would be over in the NFL but not in the XFL" that makes the different rules feel gimmicky. Also, they can f*** off with the constant mention of spreads and over/unders.

That was a really good game that didn't feel like it because there was no crowd. Bummer because the actual play feels better than the XFL (imo, anyway) and the broadcasts are better but the empty stadiums just kill my interest.

The AAF would've called it a sellout. They were awful about exaggerating attendance. Ahhh... I do miss the AAF. So far, while I don't like the hub city structure they use and will struggle to really get into games played in empty stadiums, the USFL feels like a step-up from the XFL to me. The presentation, at least. But then, anything would be an upgrade over ESPN's XFL coverage with their second- tier CFB commentators and constant talk about spreads and over/unders.

Tack on an 11-0 win over Oakland just now to this. Through nine games, more homeruns than runs allowed. Their HR pace is insane right now. 57 run differential. 9-0 and not a single save opportunity.

It would be a compelling argument if UConn was eking out wins against Arkansas, SDSU, Miami, etc. Not when they're trouncing them the way they did.

Maybe the teams that couldn't beat the teams that couldn't beat UConn would have beaten UConn. They were undefeated in non-conference play winning, everyone of those games by double digits, all but one by 15+, and by an average of 25 pts. They won all of their tournament games by 13+ and by an average of, like, 20 pts. They had walk-ons playing garbage time during every single tournament game. They were clearly the best team in the country.

The problem was they got into conference play where the opponents are more familiar with them and figured out that if you sag off of Jackson and use his guy to double Sanogo, Jackson's too poor of a shooter to make you pay for it. Hurley figured out he had to be more creative with Jackson as a cutter and screener which turned Jackson into a far more effective player and made Sanogo impossible to defend without opening up the rest of the offense. Pretty good chance UConn will be better next year, too. Sanogo falls into that dominant college player that doesn't have great NBA prospects category, so he may come back (although he can't make NIL, so maybe not), and Jackson said he's coming back. Hawkins will enter the draft, though.

That would be Kevin Ollie, who won with Calhoun's guys and proceeded to run the program into irrelevance . Dan Hurley built this buzzsaw. Nothing random about it.

UConn had zero titles 25 years ago. About to win #5. What a dominant tourney run!

The mood must be real somber in UConn's locker room right now knowing they don't win close games.