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Mike's Sports Shots My page is intended for sports in general to discuss or complain about football,basketball,dodge ball,whatever.Hint I'm a college sports junkie.

12/21/2022

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11/27/2017

Haven't been on here in a while. Been busy with other stuff but here we go. Miami Fla lost to Pitt and Auburn beat Alabama to throw the college football playoffs into shambles. The new rankings will be out Tuesday and conference championships this weekend so it's untelling who will end up in football's final 4. I don't do much concerning high school football but I want to give a big shout to the Harlan County Black Bears. Going 8-6 and reaching the state semi finals in class 5A is nothing to be ashamed of. Way to go Bears. Write me back and let me know who you think will win it all. Coaching changes are already gearing up to a fever pitch. Florida has hired Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen to be their next head football coach. Mullen was an assistant to Urban Meyer in the Tim Tebow days when the Gators was highly successful. Tennessee was going to hire Ohio State assistant Greg Shiano but UT fans protested the fact that Shiano was an assistant at Penn State with Jerry Sandusky. You get the picture, he was gone from Tennessee before he got there. Kevin Sumlin is gone from Texas A&M, Mike Riley got canned from Nebraska. When was the last time the Cornhuskers won just 4 games in a season? Chip Kelly looks like he will end up at UCLA. Their game with USC might be interesting in a couple of years. That's all for now. Tell me what you think. Till next time.

11/03/2017

Congratulations to the Houston Astros on their first World Series title. Congratulations to the L.A. Dodgers for a fine season.

10/30/2017

Last week I wrote about Army coach Red Blaik. This week I will look at the winningest coach at Notre Dame Knute Rockne. Knute Rockne was born March 4th 1888 in Voss Norway. A long way from South Bend Indiana. His family emigrated to Chicago when he was 5 years old. Knute learned the game of football and was a standout at West Division High also running track. After graduating high school he worked earning and saving till he finally enrolled at age 22 to the University of Notre Dame. Knute went on to have a good college career as an end and made the All American team in 1913. In addition to being an assistant coach at Notre Dame, Rockne played professional ball for the Akron Indians in 1914,and the Massillon Tigers from 1915-1917. In 1918 Rockne took the head coaching job at Notre Dame and held that position until 1930. He coached his teams to 3 National Championships, 5 unbeaten seasons and 29 future head coaches. Some of the great that played for Rockne include George Gipp, Curly Lambeau, the famous Four Horsemen backfield of Harry Stuhdreher,Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden. His 1924 team won not only the National Championship but beat Stanford in the Rose Bowl for Rockne's only bowl appearance and victory. Sadly Knute Rockne died in a plane crash en route to Los Angeles for production of the film The Spirit of Notre Dame. Though many great coaches have come and gone for the Fighting Irish, Rockne remains the winningest coach at Notre Dame with a record of 105 wins,12 losses,and 5 ties. One of his quotes is "Win or lose, do it fairly". Truly one of the all time great coaches one can only wonder abd imagine what success he would've had if he had not passed away when he did. Most of my information comes from Wikipedia. I'm just passing it to a younger generation. Let me know what you think. Till next time.

10/25/2017

I'm going to venture and do something different. I'm going to introduce the younger generation to some of the coaches that have helped shape college football. First up Earl Henry "Red" Blaik. Blaik was born in Detroit Michigan February 15 1897. His family moved to Dayton Ohio when he was young. Blaik excelled as an athlete and went to The University of Miami in Oxford Ohiofor 3 years. He then transferred to the United States Military Academy at West Point and played 2 years there earning 3rd team All American honors. After serving 2 years in the U.S. Calvery, Red served as an assistant coach at Miami Ohio, Wisconsin and USMA. In 1934 Blaik became the head football coach at Dartmouth . In 7 years he compiled a 45-16-4 record with a 22 game unbeaten streak. He took the same position at West Point where he spent 18 years winning 121 games while losing only 32. Under Blaik's leadership Army won 3 straight National Championships in 1944,1945,and 1946. He also coached 3 Heisman trophy winners, Doc Blanchard in 45, Glenn Davis in 46 and Pete Dawkins in 1958. Blaik was one of the first coaches to use game film to scout opponents and to analyze his own team. He also used a two platoon system with players for offense and defense. Most teams had players that played both back then. All total Red Blaik won 166 games lost 48 and tied 14. 7 of those seasons were unbeaten, 1 with Dartmouth and 6 with Army. Few coaches have had the success as Red Blaik has had. He is truly one of the best to play and coach college football.

10/09/2017

Let's start with the baseball playoffs.As of this writing,in the AL Boston stayed alive with a 10-3 victory over Houston who still leads the series 2-1. The Yankees are at home hosting Cleveland who holds a 2-0 lead in that series.In the NL the Dodgers lead the Diamondbacks 2-0 and the Cubs and Nationals are tied1-1. Now to NCAA football and what a great day it was.Most notable was the biggest upset that #3 Oklahoma has had in over 40 years when Iowa State beat them 38-31. The Cyclones did it with backup QB Kyle Kempt throwing for 343 yards and 3 touchdowns. Maybe he should be in the running for the Heisman. Alabama and Clemson both won convincingly but no blowouts this week as Bama beat Texas A&M and Clemson won against Wake Forest. A lot of games were decided by a touchdown or less which makes for some exciting football. LSU continues to be a team of mystery.They lose at home to Troy last week then go into one of college football's toughest places to play and beat Florida 17-16.Another great game had hated rivals Michigan and Michigan State at the Big House in Ann Arbor.The Spartans scored their 14 points in the first half and held on during a torrential rain storm to pull out the victory and take the Paul Bunyan trophy back to East Lansing. Miami Fl beat Florida State in another heated rivalry game with a last second TD pass to beat the Seminoles. Even Kentucky held on to a 40-34 victory over Missouri so it was truly a good weekend. The best game had to be the 7 overtime(you read that correctly 7) contest between Western Michigan and Buffalo. Let's take a look back at last year's game when Western blanked Buffalo 38-0.My how things can change in a year. Western won this year's game 71-68.Yep 7 overtimes and the stats are ridiculous.The Broncos had 645 yards of total offense while Buffalo had 683 yards.Buffalo's QB Drew Anderson went 35 for 61 for 597 yards and 7 TD's.He also ran for another touchdown.The dude was killing it. The military schools also got into the close game act as Navy held off a late charge by Air Force to win 48-45. Army beat Rice in a blowout 49-12. While I'm not doing much with the NFL I'm slowly getting into hockey and while I've always liked the Red Wings,the St. Louis Blues has a nice ring to it. Detroit beat Ottawa 2-1 and St.Louis beat Dallas 4-2 in Saturdays action.May have a story on some of the history of these 2 teams in the future. That's all for now and till next time.

10/06/2017

Well for the last 2 weeks I've survived without watching anything related to the NFL. There is a void though that I just have to fill.Hello NHL! Hockey is something I know very little about but I do know who Wayne Gretsky is.I know the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup last year. I know that Gordie Howe was probably the greatest hockey player ever.And there is my knowledge in a nutshell.But I do plan on following it a lot closer and learn more about the game. Other than that it's still college football season. Number 1 Alabama goes to Texas A&M and a victory over Bama would go a long way for Kevin Sumlin to keeping his job. I expect another Bama blowout. Another interesting matchup is when Navy plays at Air Force.It's the first game in which the military schools including Army play each other for the chance to win the Commander's in Chief Trophy. Another great game may be between Florida State and hated rival Miami Fla. These two teams have a long history of close games and this one should be the same. But for tonight I am going to watch history be made when Las Vegas plays their first hockey game. Also the baseball playoffs are going strong.Houston and Cleveland are looking good early but anything can happen in the playoffs. I'm kinda leaning toward the Indians this year. Which team do you support? Are you like me and like more than one? Write back and let me know.Till next time.

10/03/2017

The race is on between Tennessee's Butch Jones and LSU's Ed Orgeron to see who is going to get fired first in the SEC.Tennessee is 3-2. A heartbreaking loss to Florida,a less than impressive victory against UMass and a blowout loss 41-0 to Georgia has UT fans wanting someone other than Jones coaching UT.LSU has had a blowout loss to Mississippi State and a loss to Troy at home,that's right Troy beat LSU at Baton Rouge.Coach O might want to go back to being an assistant coach. Some in Tennessee have a bet going as to who UT's next coach will be. Bob Stoops Chip Kelly are two big names being mentioned.Lane Kiffen's name even showed up(LOL) but I doubt that will happen.LSU will probably have the same list of names. Great game between Washington State and USC with the Cougars winning 30-27. You could count on one hand how many times that has happened. Top teams Alabama,Clemson,Penn State,Wisconsin,Michigan,Ohio State all won pretty easy.My feel good teams Army and Navy won also but my other team Air Force lost to New Mexico 56-38. Where was the defense? As you can see 4 of the top 10 teams come from the Big 10 which I think is going to make for some interesting games. Who is your favorite team or teams? How did they do? Big or small I want to know so yell back at me and let me know how your team did.Till next time.

09/27/2017

So much happening in sports I don't know where to start. Let's start with college football. Dating back to 1985 including The University of Tennessee and The University of Florida, in football Kentucky has had the distinction of having the longest losing streak to one school. They finally broke the one with the Vols in 2010 after 26 years. The current streak with Florida is at 31 years beginning in 1987. When will it end? Probably when UK has 11 men on defense and they don't leave Florida's receivers wide open in the end zone. Vanderbilt players learned Saturday that you don't trash talk Alabama. LOL, ROLL TIDE! Tennessee beat UMass in a laugher 17-13. Most folks were laughing at Tennessee. USC, Michigan, Ohio St., Clemson, Oklahoma were some of the top teams that won this past week. One thing that has captured everyone's attention is the kneeling of NFL players during the playing of the National Anthem. I'll say this much because I want to keep away from politics. If you don't stand for our flag I don't want anything to do with you pro,collegiate or otherwise. Another bit of shocking news is the FBI investigation of money being funneled by NCAA basketball assistant coaches and other sports related persons to recruits to play at certain schools. Schools named so far,there could be more,are Arizona, Auburn, USC, and Oklahoma State. Miami Florida is being investigated. A bunch of bad stuff going on in college basketball. And if that wasn't enough, Rick Pitino is out as Louisville 's head basketball coach. Seems like 100,000 dollars went from someone with the University of Louisville to the family of a 5 star recruit to come to Louisville, which he did. One would think that Pitino would be on top of everything to do with his now former program seeing as how he knew more better than anybody except maybe Eddie Sutton what happened at Kentucky. Either he was up to nogood himself or he is the most gullible person in the world. A once illustrious coaching career with over 700 victories, 2 NCAA championships, 7 final fours and he could very well be remembered as the coach who led Louisville to the death penalty in college basketball. What a shame! Till next time.

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