Author: Michael

No. 17 Miami had a win all but locked up Saturday night against visiting Georgia Tech.
Holding possession and a 20-17 lead over the Yellow Jackets, Miami needed only to take a knee and let the final 30 seconds tick off the clock. Georgia Tech was out of timeouts and had no way to stop the clock.
Instead, Miami called a run, fumbled the ball, and on the ensuing possession, let Georgia Tech score to win the game, 23-20.

All Miami had to do was kneel and the clock would have run out.
Instead, they inexplicably ran the ball. Fumbled. Then Georgia Tech marched down the field and won.
MADNESS.

Tigran Petrosian became a world chess champion in the 1960s by playing such a deeply defensive style that he flummoxed opponents into draws or, worse, decisive mistakes. He was the Greg Maddux of grandmasters.
“Chess,” he said, “is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it.”
Petrosian had no idea with that observation he also nailed the maddening appeal of postseason baseball from the perspective of the dugout, or at least from the rest of us who follow along with them.

The 21-year-old phenom was virtually unknown when the Rangers took him in the second round of the 2020 MLB Draft.

Miami’s unforgivable clock management blunder cost the Hurricanes their undefeated season.
Everything had gone so well for Miami football to start the 2023 season. The Hurricanes were 4-0 for the first time since 2017, and the team had scored at least 38 points in each of its first four games for the first time since 2002. With a marquee game next week against undefeated North Carolina looming, the Hurricanes first had to get past a middling Georgia Tech team at home.
Georgia Tech stunned Miami, 23-20, to end the Hurricanes’ unbeaten season.

Football has seen its share of odd endings. Miami is responsible for a few of them.
However, none have unfolded quite like the No. 17 Hurricanes’ 23–20 loss to Georgia Tech on Saturday evening.
All Miami had to do was kneel out the clock on third-and-10 with 33 seconds left at the Yellow Jackets’ 30-yard line. Instead, the Hurricanes ran a play and all hell broke loose.
Running back Donald Chaney Jr. fumbled, handing the ball to Georgia Tech.

The Yellow Jackets scored a 44-yard TD with one second left.

The Twins joined a list of teams that have fallen victim to the mighty Alvarez in the postseason.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Notre Dame’s already slim hopes for making the College Football Playoff ended Saturday night here, felled by another sluggish offensive performance.
Undefeated No. 25 Louisville’s 33–20 victory over the No. 10 Fighting Irish was powered by an explosiveness that Notre Dame lacks. Louisville running back Jawhar Jordan ripped off touchdown runs of 45 and 21 yards, while through the first 56 minutes of the game the Irish had no runs gain more than 13 yards and only one pass gain more than 15 yards.

Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw was pulled from Saturday’s playoff start after allowing six runs and recording only one out in the first inning against the Diamondbacks.

Colorado is back in the win column.
The Buffaloes’ game against Arizona State was a back-and-forth, nip-and-tuck affair. The Sun Devils tied the game on a 15-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Trenton Bourguet to wide receiver Troy Omeire with 50 seconds left, only to watch Colorado kicker Alejandro Mata nail a 43-yard game-winning field goal 38 seconds of game time later.
Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders completed 26 of 42 passes for 239 yards and a touchdown, performing ably after a week in which he was criticized for his performances against Oregon and USC.