UCONN Football

Ok I was a little slack in posting a review of last week’s UCONN football game versus Wake Forest. Well I will sum it up right now. UCONN sucked. Theres no way they should have lost that game but some questionable play calling by Randy Edsall and some sucky quarterbacking by DJ Hernandez led to the UCONN loss.

So now on today’s game. Scoring updates after the jump. Continue reading →

Big Papi breaks record

In last nights game versus the Minnesota Twins, David Ortiz hit 2 more homeruns breaking the Red Sox team record set by Jimmie Foxx 68 years ago. Big Papi also broke his own record for homeruns by a DH hitting his 44th and 45th homeruns from the DH position.

Papi Update

David Ortiz has set the Boston Red Sox single season home run record with his 51st HR off of Johan Santana of the Minnesota Twins.

Congratulations again Big Papi and keep them coming!!!

Simply the Best

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In some good Red Sox news, David Ortiz hit his 50th homerun of the season last night in a losing effort rounding the bases to the tune “Simply the Best”. Big Papi tied the 68 year old franchise record held by Jimmie Foxx for most homeruns in a season. Ortiz also tied his own MLB record of 43 hrs as a designated hitter. Look for Big Papi to break the record before the end of the season as he build on his career high in homeruns.

CONGRATULATIONS BIG PAPI!

Welcome to the Hall of Fame

Kinda like the luck of my dating life being a day late and a dollar short, I’d like to offer a belated congratulations to UCONN Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma on his induction to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Geno was inducted to the Hall of Fame this past Friday night with along Charles “Round Mound of Rebound” Barkley, Dominique “Human Highlight Film” Wilkins, Joe “Good Boy of the Bad Boys” Dumars, Dave “The Commish” Gavitt, and Italian National Team Coach Sandro Gamba. He joins UCONN Men’s Coach Jim Calhoun, who was inducted last season, in the Hall of Fame. To my knowledge, they are the only two coaches from the same school that are in the Hall of Fame.

Geno started his coaching career as an assistant coach at Virginia before taking his first and only head coaching job at UCONN in 1985. In 1991, Geno had his team in the Final Four and after 10 yrs as a coach at UCONN had his first national championship in 1995. The team went a record 35-0 to win it all that year. In 2001-2002 season, Geno’s Huskies achieved another perfect season amassing a 39-0 record. Overall Geno’s Huskies have won a total of 5 National Championships.

In 21 seasons, Auriemma has an overall record of 589-116. In those 21 seasons, Geno has had only one losing record and that came in his first year of coaching the Huskies (12-15 in 1985-86).

Look for Mel Thomas, Keita Swanier, Renee Montgomery, Brittany Hunter and the rest of Lady Huskies to get Geno to his 600th career victory this upcoming season.

Once again, congratulations to Coach Geno Auriemma.

CORRECTION: Auriemma and Calhoun are the only two active coaches from the same school in the Hall of Fame.

Amazing Stat of the day

Taken from Rotoworld.com,

“Derek Jeter didn’t put a ball in play in four trips to the plate, yet somehow left the contest with his career-best 21-game hitting streak intact. With three walks and one hit by pitch, he did not actually record an official at-bat, so according to the rules, the hit-streak is still alive. Talk about a case of ‘you know things are going you’re way when…'”

That has to be one of the strangest occurrences during a hit streak. If my memory serves me correctly and no i am not that old, didn’t Pete Rose have the same thing happen to him during one of his hit streaks.

Sorry to my fellow Red Sox fans and readers for posting something about the Yankees. As a true baseball fan, this was something I had to point out.