Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

My NCAA Rankings 2025-26 After Week One

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 Week One was filled with expected wins and some big upsets. There were marque matchups and there were giants playing against the obscure. W...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

R.I.P Ryan Sandberg

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 When I was younger baseball came to me through the TV superstations like the Braves on WTBS and the Cubs on WGN. One of the baseball diamon...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

My NCAA Rankings 2024-25 After Week 9

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 Oregon remains on top. The rankings shuffled up a bit. A couple of undefeated teams tasted defeat. Only 8 remain.  1) Oregon Ducks (8-0) wh...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

R.I.P Pete Rose

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 Charlie Hustle is perhaps the greatest baseball player not in the Hall of Fame. Pete Rose hit over .300 for his career. He has played in mo...
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Sunday, September 29, 2024

My NCAA Rankings 2024-25 After Week 5

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NCAA Football rolled through week 5. My previous number one and number six fell. The top 6 look solid. After that there is some shuffling. A...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

R.I.P Bobby Hull

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 Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull passed away at the age of 84 on January 30, The legendary skater scored 741 goals in a career that scanned ...
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Saturday, April 30, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: Z is for Ryan Zimmerman

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 Ryan Zimmerman recently from baseball and the Washington Nationals. Fitting to end the A to Z challenge with him. He was a World Series Cha...
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Friday, April 29, 2022

Blogging from A to Z April Challange 2022: Y is for Cy Young

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 They award the best pitchers in the American League and National League the Cy Young Award. However, how great was Cy Young? Cy Young holds...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: X is for Xavi

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 Xavi is perhaps the greatest midfielder to kick a soccer ball. He was on the 2010 World Cup winning team representing Spain.  Xavi scored 8...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: W is for Wayne Gretzky

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Wayne Gretzky is considered one of the greatest hockey players of all time. During this A to Z Challenge I have highlighted a few potential ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: Lindsey Vonn

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 Last week of the challenge and I am bringing up a different sport Woman's Alpine Skiing. Of course that means a new athlete in Lindsey ...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: U is Jose Uribe

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 Jose Uribe played in the Major Leagues for 10 seasons, mostly for the San Fransisco Giants. The shortstop. His life ended in a car accident...
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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: T is for Tim Tebow

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 Today's athlete has played two professional sports. Tim Tebow best known for his college glory days of winning two National Championshi...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: S is for Sammy Sosa

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 During his career Sammy Sosa hit 609 home runs, was an MVP and a 7-time All Star. He was a baseball player and the athlete for S. Sammy pla...
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Thursday, April 21, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: R is for Ronaldo

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 Cristiano Ronaldo is considered to be one of the top players, if not the best player in soccer.  He has scored 800 goals in 1100 games in t...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: Q is for Quick, Mike Quick

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 Today we are going back to the gridiron with the letter Q. Today's athlete is the former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Mike Quick. ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: P is for Pete Rose

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 Pete Rose was a 17-time all-star, a three-time World Series Champion, MVP and rookie of the year. Known as Charlie Hustle as a kid I though...
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Monday, April 18, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: O is for Olaf Kolzig

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 Moving right along with the A to Z Challenge today we are changing to yet another sport hockey. Today's letter is O and Olaf Kolzig, wh...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: N is for Nancy Lopez

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 Keeping on woman athletes and moving from soccer to golf. Today's athlete is Nancy Lopez. She is inducted into the World Golf Hall of F...
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Friday, April 15, 2022

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2022: M is for Mia Hamm

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 Switching sports to soccer or the other football. Let's switch gears even further by choosing our first female athlete. Mia Hamm perhap...
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