Already a member of the Carl Everett’s Crazy Hall of Fame here on the site for a fight while a member of the Long Island Ducks, Jose Offerman has once again done something asinine.
He punched an umpire during a Dominican winter league game.
Something tells me that Offerman may need to take some anger management classes. Either that or be locked up a in a padded cell for a very long time.
Update 1/18: Offerman has been suspended by the Dominican winter league for life.
It’s game day for the UConn Huskies men’s basketball team as they are in Ann Arbor, MI for a non-conference matchup with Michigan Wolverines. The game is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. and will be nationally televised on CBS. If you can’t catch the television broadcast, you can listen to the game on the WTIC/UConn Radio Network.
This game was supposed to be another challenge for the No. 1 UConn Huskies. Instead it turned out to be another laugher in the national spotlight.
Tina Charles scored 17 of her game-high 23 points in the first half to lead the Huskies past the No. 3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish in front of 10,167 and a nationally televised audience at Gampel Pavilion on Saturday night.
It’s the 56th straight win for the Huskies who improve to 17-0 (5-0 in the Big East). Notre Dame’s head coach Muffett McGraw will have to wait another day to get her 600th career win as her squad falls to 15-1 (2-1). These two teams will meet up again to close out the Big East regular season on March 1st in South Bend, IN.
Charles nearly had a double-double in the first half pulling down nine of her 13 rebounds. Maya Moore had a double-double as well as she finished with 20 points, 11 rebounds, three assists and two blocked shots. Kalana Greene had a good all-around game as she had 13 points, four rebounds, two assists, three steals and a blocked shot.
Devereaux Peters paced the Irish with 12 points and had eight rebounds. Ashley Barlow was the only other member of the Irish in double-digits with 10 points. Their leading scorer, freshman Skylar Diggins, only had six points and they came on two 3-pointers in the second half. Lindsay Schrader led the Irish with nine rebounds.
The game was pretty much over in the first six minutes of the game as the Huskies started out on a 17-2 run. During that span, the Huskies forced the Irish to take two timeouts just thirty seconds apart.
A 7-2 run pushed the lead to 20 points at 20-4. Charles scored all seven of those point on her way to the 17 first half points. Notre Dame just looked defeated in the first half as they trailed 42-19 at the break.
The Irish played a little better in the second half but they were never able to crack being down by less than 20 points. The highest the Huskies got the lead to was 26 points in the second half.
It was definitely a memorable day for the Huskies and women’s basketball in general as ESPN held it’s first ever Women’s College GameDay in Storrs. Hopefully this event becomes a staple on ESPN’s schedule whether it be at UConn or another women’s venue in years to come.
The Huskies have a quick turnaround as they will board a plane tomorrow and head to Durham, NC as they will take on the No. 7 Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium in a Martin Luther King Day matchup. The game will start at 7 p.m. and will be broadcast nationally on ESPN2.
Given that UConn Huskies women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma is in his 25th season coaching in Storrs, you would figure that one of the local papers would know how to spell his first name.
But that’s not the case as evidenced by this picture from The Day:
I expect this from out-of-state papers but not from a paper that covers the team on a regular basis.