For RU, stat’s a real head-scratcher
QUESTIONS: Was Big Ten Network playbyplayer Scott
Graham kidding? During KansasRutgers he gave RU’s offensive and defensive Big Ten rankings. RU, this season, has played
one Big Ten game, yet its accomplishments in its 6313 win against Norfolk St. qualified.
On a fourth down for KU, Graham enlightened us with word that RU leads the Big Ten on stopping fourth downs. It was
fourthand7 in RU’s third nonconference game!
Q: While TV and radio’s “It’s all about getting it right” chorus continues to chant approval of replay rules, why do teams hurry to snap the ball after iffy plays and calls that benefit the offense?
A: To prevent officials from getting it right!
Think Yoenis Cespedes will be any more inclined to run to first during the postseason?
Does local TV news ever have a better idea? With the death of Yogi Berra, Ch. 4 sent a crew to solicit manonthestreet memories from outside new Yankee Stadium — while the Yanks were in Toronto. No one outside of The Bronx had ever heard of Yogi Berra?
Perhaps the funniest sight of the weekend was from BTN’s KansasRutgers. After an RU defender was flagged, BTN showed a terrific downtheline shot: An RU DB was lined up at least 4 feet inside KU territory. Never saw anything like that. The official took it easy on him, announcing “a neutral zone infraction.”
Another rehearsed TD celebration skit? Or maybe a puton? Michigan St. TE Josiah Price caught a TD, handed the ball to the nearest official, then his teammates gathered — to just shake his hand. Neither Nike nor ESPN can be happy with this.
Those were the Duke Blue Devils wearing black uniforms, Saturday — on and for ESPN — vs. Georgia Tech. Columbia, school colors “Columbia Blue” and white — but only since 1852 — wore black against Georgetown.
We knew Eagles RB DeMarco Murray would be out, the moment Mike Francesa, Sunday, reported that he’d play.
Every timeout called — even if it makes sense — FOX’s Kevin Burkhardt classifies a “burn.”
He also noted suspended Jet Sheldon Richardson’s “speeding incident.” No mention he was nailed doing 143 mph with weed, a child and a loaded gun in his car.
Reader David E. Schwartz: “Failure to maintain ‘lane integrity’ is the main reason people are gored and trampled when running with the bulls in Pamplona.”