Chris Kirk breaks his winless drought, LIV kicks off its second season, the major organizations all announce their intentions and more in this week’s edition of the Monday Scramble.
Author: Michael
It sounds like the Big Ten might still come calling for more PAC-12 teams.
UCLA and USC will join the B1G in 2024, and while expansion talk has cooled, the belief has always been the Big Ten wouldn’t stop there.
It doesn’t make much sense to add just two west coast teams. The belief has always been Cal, Stanford, Oregon and Washington would likely follow. Now, a new report indicates the Big Ten will almost certainly do more raiding.
“If anyone thinks the Big Ten isn’t coming back for more, they’re not following along,” an unnamed source told Saturday Out West.
Iowa coach Fran McCaffery was back to behaving in strange fashion during a Saturday win over Michigan State.
The Hawkeyes pulled off an awesome comeback win over the Spartans to shock fans. Despite being down 13 with less than two minutes to go, the Hawkeyes started to light it up to force OT and ultimately earned a 112-106 win in overtime.
However, that wasn’t the most interesting part of the game. The most interesting part of the matchup was when McCaffery, who has a history of bizarre behavior, decided to have a legit staring contest with a ref near the end of regulation.
Wisconsin basketball coach Greg Gard’s job is likely safe.
The Badgers are currently 16-11 with a Sunday afternoon matchup against the Michigan Wolverines. If the NCAA Tournament started today, the Badgers would be right on the bubble. Some projections have the team in. Others do not.
Given the disappointing season, some fans have wondered whether or not it’s time for the Badgers to fire Greg Gard. I even tweeted after the Nebraska loss that the time for making excuses was over, and I’m historically a big defender of Gard.
Boston and Philly are old rivals and two of the top three Eastern Conference contenders. Thanks to Jayson Tatum’s heroics, the Celtics maintain the upper hand.
Thiago Almada’s brace and St. Louis City SC’s debut victory made for a memorable opening day for MLS.
Joel Embiid’s desperation heave from 70 feet hit nothing but net, but it came just a tick too late, giving the Celtics a wild 110-107 victory over the Sixers.
We’ve got a goalie goal courtesy of Boston Bruins netminder Linus Ullmark.
Goalie goals are one of the most exciting feats in hockey, but they don’t come around all that often. It’s been three years since Pekka Rinne of the Nashville Predators drilled a near 200-footer, but now we’ve got a new, newest goalie goal.
The Bruins were up 2-1 late in a rematch of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final. The Canucks pulled their goalie for the extra attacker which gave Ullmark a yawning cage to shoot at.
Ullmark corraled a loose puck, dusted it off, and launched it the length of the ice.
The Niners’ OL had the perfect reaction to his new deal.
The 49ers and long-snapper Taybor Pepper agreed to a new contract on Saturday, but the veteran offensive lineman had fans thinking his time in San Francisco was up, at least for a short moment.
In a video Pepper produced and posted to social media, he made it seem as if if he was bidding the organization farewell before quickly changing the tune with a Leonardo DiCaprio Wolf of Wall Street clip and announcing that he’s staying in town on a new three-year deal.
Freshman Jalen Hood-Schifino’s 35 points outpaced everyone in No. 17 Indiana’s resounding 79-71 victory over No. 5 Purdue.