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Posted on August 1, 2022

Weekly Update – August 1, 2022

Weekly Update

Baseball-MLB: Detmers immaculate inning. Debuts.

Basketball: OG GOAT Russell dies. Steph needs to stick to bball.

Football: Football is coming. Watson suspended for 6 games. Cowboys most valued sports franchise.

Golf: Finau wins again. Stenson wins LIV. Bubba to the LIV. Barley is not.

Olympic Sports: Commonwealth Games. Women’s TdF.

Soccer: ENG > GER for Women’s Euro Championship

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Posted on July 25, 2022

Weekly Update – July 25, 2022

Weekly Update

Baseball-MLB: ASG American> National. Soto wins HR Derby. New HoF class. Mariner’s streak ends in Houston.

Basketball: Harden in Phili for 2 more years.

Football: Turnover chain is gone. Metchie has leukemia.

Golf: Finau wins 3rd PGA Tour title at 3M.

Olympic Sports: Tour de France ends with Vingegaard victorious. Worlds ends with USA on top and dominant. 3 WRs fell. 4 Sweeps.

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Posted on July 18, 2022

Weekly Update – July 18, 2022

Weekly Update

Baseball: All Star break which means Home Run Derby and the National vs American League. Mariners win 14th in a row. Sale broken pinky. MLB draft results.

Football: Oregon TE Webb died. FL QB needs a new nickname.

Golf: Champion Golfer of the Year Cam Smith. Woods MC. Rory disappointed. LIV tour drama.

Olympic Sports: Tour de France through Stage 15. World Athletics Championships – USA goes on a tear.

Soccer: Messi to ‘Merica?

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Posted on July 11, 2022

Weekly Update – July 11, 2022

Weekly Update

Baseball-MLB: Grossman ends errorless streak. Orioles get 8 Ws and 1st draft pick this week. Blue Jays bad luck.

Football: Raiders new female Black pres. Steelers new stadium name. Condy one of the Bronco owners.

Golf: Schauffle wins 2nd tourney in a row. Mullinax wins first. Nicklaus honorary member of St. Andrews. Open Champ this weekend. DOJ looking into PGA tour.

Olympic Sports: Tour de France – rest day! World T&F Championships this weekend.

Tennis: New Wimbledon champs. First timer on the women’s side and a vet on the men’s.

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Posted on July 6, 2022

Berets, baguettes and bikes – oh la la! 2022 Version

Olympic Sports

I have never watched the Tour de France

Explain this to me     s  l  o  w  l  y  .

  • Over 24 days (from July 1st – July 24th), 176 riders will race over 2,000 miles for a series of 21 ‘stages’ through mountains, hills, towns and sprint days. At the end of each stage, every cyclists’ individual time is added to his previous stage times. The cyclist with the lowest cumulative time wins the Tour de France and iconic yellow jersey.
    • 22 teams of 8 riders who use varying strategies to win
    • 28 riders in the young rider classification this year
  • There will be 6 flat stages, 7 hilly stages, 6 mountain stages (with 5 mountain top finishes), 2 individual time trial stage, 2 rest days and 1 transfer day
    • Each stage gives its own points and prize money.
      • If you finish 1-3rd in a stage, you get a time bonus of 10, 6 and 4 seconds respectively.
    • Stage 1 started in Copenhagen (you’re not crazy that is in NED not France)
    • Every year the route changes but it always ends the same
    • Stage 21 will end on the Champs-Elysees
    • Rest days are 7/11 and 7/26 and the transfer day was 7/4 (for us Americans – that’s so nice of them)
  • Who is in the lead? Here are the updated standings.
    • Julian Alaphilippe, 2x champ, and Mark Cavendish, who tied the record of number of stage wins will both be absent. Julian is recovering from a crash 2 months ago and Mark did not make the cut.
  • Who is supposed to win?
    • The 109th TdF is supposed to be a showdown between Tadej Pogacar and Primoz Roglic but there are always surprises. Pogacar is the 2x reigning TdF winner while Roglic came in 4th last year but seems to be the best person to unseat his compatriot.
  • It will be televised everyday on USA live at ~7am CT
    • Every year the TdF has ~3.5Bn views (now granted that is over 21 days) which is a similar figure as the World Cup. The most viewed Super Bowl had ~112MM

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