Pelicans can’t ride 3s to win
WOULDA Ya Sunday: If I told you that an NBA team would make 23 of 46 — 50 percent — 3-point shots in a game, would you reasonably surmise that team won, and by a lot?
Well, Tuesday the Pelicans hit 23 of 46 and lost to the 12-for-36 Jazz by 29, 153-124. Kinda like the NBA All-Star Game without the stars. Dee-fense!
Charles Barkley ripped the NFL and its team owners as “greedy pigs” for placing the Dolphins-Chiefs playoff game behind a paywall. Couldn’t agree more.
Reminds me of the greedy pig with a profound and admitted gambling problem who had to be chased by a Vegas casino for an unpaid marker in excess of $400,000, but then starred in come-on commercials for suckerbet sports gambling operations.
Goes by the name Barkley, Charles Barkley.
Maybe it’s because I just paid 400 bucks to have my remaining teeth cleaned, but Joey Gallo has not hit above .199 his past four seasons. Since 2021, he struck out 518 times — nearly every two at-bats. He just signed a one-year, $5 million deal with the Nationals, his fifth team in four years. Sanctuary!
Reader Keith Marston wonders why the NHL would choose to compete for TV audiences with late-starting, prime-time NFL playoff games.
Last weekend against the NFL playoffs, eight NHL games were played Saturday night, just four in the afternoon. Sunday, one NHL afternoon game, five at night against Chiefs-Bills.
Reader Brad Behan on the Yankees’ signing of lifetime .188 hitter Jose Rojas: “His exit velocity numbers must be outstanding.” ... We had no idea that the Eagles’ Jason Kelce could be such a classless jerk until we saw him drunk, bare-chested, beer can in hand and nearly falling out of a suite Sunday in Buffalo . ... Reader Mike Mike Soper on last week’s trade between the last-place Pistons and last-place Wizards: “That’s like the Titanic and Andrea Doria swapping deck hands.”
For your Chiefs-Ravens pregame Sunday, I suggest @BackAftaThis to hear Mike Francesa’s authoritative claim that likely NFL MVP Lamar Jackson will never make it as an NFL QB, that he needs to find a different position . ... Finally, reader A. Masliansky asks why Fox found it necessary to have six people speak a few words — no room for complete sentences or useful thoughts — during its NFL studio show last week. Why six? Because there wasn’t room for seven.