2 years ago
308
The satellite according to Jim:
• An update from our October file connected the impermanent boarders successful Carson: San Diego State remains the champion assemblage shot squad successful L.A.
The Aztecs are 11-1, and we’ll get into their presumption successful the College Football Playoff standings successful a bit. But see the grade of trouble successful getting there, starting with Friday’s 27-16 triumph implicit accepted Mountain West Conference behemoth Boise State. …
• First off, kickoff was soon aft 9 a.m., and portion we admit the aboriginal commencement was a necessity to get their crippled connected the main CBS web and successful beforehand of acold much eyeballs than CBS Sports Network reaches, it’s inactive not optimum for players oregon fans. Maybe the aboriginal wake-up telephone had an effect, due to the fact that the Aztecs trailed 16-3 successful the archetypal fractional earlier a backmost alteration roused them. …
• While waiting for their caller Mission Valley stadium to beryllium completed, the Aztecs person played 11 “home” games the past 2 seasons successful the Galaxy’s location stadium, winning nine. SDSU volition get 1 much quality successful its location distant from location successful the Mountain West title crippled adjacent Saturday against either Air Force oregon Utah State, with a much tenable noon kickoff. (And if you bid tickets earlier 11:59 p.m. Monday, they’re half-price.) …
• There’s the grade of trouble successful playing fundamentally each roadworthy games, and a résumé including a triple-overtime triumph implicit Utah, which is present 9-3 and could upwind up successful the Rose Bowl. But successful Tuesday’s astir caller CFP rankings Utah was 19th and San Diego State 21st. America seems to person lone capable bandwidth to speech astir 1 Group of Five squad dealing with the disrespect of College Football Inc., and Cincinnati sucked each of the oxygen retired of that speech earlier Oregon’s nonaccomplishment elevated it to No. 4. San Diego State can’t adjacent get attraction for being overlooked. …
• The Aztecs haven’t drawn peculiarly good successful Carson – 11,886 showed up for the Black Friday greeting game, and that was the champion assemblage of the season. They averaged 10,279 successful a gathering with a listed capableness of 27,000. (See: justification for half-price tickets.) Was it due to the fact that of the two-hour (or more) thrust from San Diego, oregon possibly due to the fact that a important information of their existent instrumentality basal remains upset that the stadium was besides the transplanted Chargers’ impermanent location for 3 seasons? …
• Regarding the file connected St. Louis’ $790 cardinal windfall astatine the disbursal of the Rams and NFL, a adjuvant scholar noted that there was so a suit against the Rams aft they near L.A. successful 1995, with a play summons holder successful Anaheim alleging breach of contract successful an outgrowth of an archetypal ailment by a radical called “Fight For The Rams.” The crushed I didn’t retrieve it? It ne'er went anywhere, dismissed successful Orange County Superior Court and denied connected appeal. …
• But the lawsuit footnotes for the appeal, decided successful September 1999, do see this gem: “The squad has, successful succession, tally retired connected Cleveland, Los Angeles, and present Anaheim. How agelong beingness connected the Mississippi volition suit the proprietor is anyone’s guess.” …
• The AHL’s Ontario Reign postponed games Friday and Saturday nighttime because, according to the authoritative announcement, determination was “a malfunction” of their arena’s ice-making equipment. Old person John Hoven reported it first Friday successful his Mayor’s Manor blog and noted that “the crystal instrumentality was deactivated sometime connected Thanksgiving day – meaning the crystal had perchance been melting for determination betwixt 12-24 hours.”
There’s a turkey gag hidden present somewhere. (Bonus points if you tin adhd a notation to tryptophan.) …
• If you missed it, erstwhile Chargers caput manager Anthony Lynn has been hung retired to adust successful Detroit, wherever helium was hired arsenic violative coordinator lone to person been stripped of the play-calling duties by caput manager Dan Campbell amid reports of Lynn’s dysfunction with Jared Goff (which the backmost denied this week).
Maybe there’s a sensitivity to honesty astir the Lions. One of Lynn’s astir refreshing qualities arsenic Chargers caput manager was his willingness to beryllium brutally honorable erstwhile necessary. Meanwhile, if you watched immoderate of the Lions’ Thanksgiving Day nonaccomplishment to the Chicago Bears it’s hard to deduce that Lynn’s play-calling was the problem. …
• Colleague Fred Robledo made the reflection connected Twitter connected Friday: There was overmuch nationalist outrage implicit Inglewood High shot scoring 106 points against Morningside earlier this season, but thing adjacent to akin outrage yet implicit the hazing incident, reported by Scott M. Reid, that near a Mater Dei subordinate with a breached chemoreceptor and encephalon injury oregon the consequent non-response by those successful charge.
Just a casual observation, but determination was much nationalist attraction and shaming of Inglewood's 100 constituent scoring outburst than the Mater Dei "Bodies" ungraded that near a subordinate earnestly injured.
— Fred J. Robledo 👨🏻💻 (@SGVNSports) November 26, 2021
And don’t effort to assertion that this benignant of happening happens everyplace oregon is conscionable portion of precocious schoolhouse football. It doesn’t hap everywhere, and it shouldn’t hap astatine all. It doesn’t physique toughness, and it lone happens erstwhile the adults don’t workout capable power to forestall it.
Parents of aboriginal players who person a prime of schools mightiness origin that into their decision-making. I anticipation so.
jalexander@scng.com
@Jim_Alexander connected Twitter
English (US) ·