Coming Up this Month: February
Basketball – NBA: This week’s games.
Basketball – NCAAM: This week’s games
Football – NFL: Super Bowl weekend.
Golf: Rose wins at Torrey and sets records.
Olympic Sports: Opening Ceremonies this week!
Tennis: Australian open finals.
Coming Up This Month: February
Milan and Cortina Olympic Games Feb 6-22, Super Bowl 60 Feb 8, Daytona 500 Feb 11-16, NBA All Star Game Feb 15, MLS season begins Feb 21-Nov 7
Basketball-NBA:
- This week’s games: The Hornets had a good week. They got the win over the 76ers on Monday 130-93, the Grizzlies on Wed, the Mavericks on Thurs and the Spurs on Saturday. So they now sit at 6 wins in a row and play tonight.
- On the flip side, the Mavericks Cooper Flagg put up 80+ points in their last two games and in both of those games, Dallas lost. They have lost 4 in a row (and 1 was postponed).
- The Wizards got their 11th win of the season, beating the Trail Blazers by 4 and the next night #12 beating the Bucks by 10. The Pacers got their 12th on Wed over the Bulls by 3.
- Despite, SGA scoring 30 points, the TWolves beat OKC by 12 on Thurs. The Pelicans got their 13th with the Grizzlies only managing 15 in the 3Q. The Nets were consistent in their game Friday to beat the Jazz by 10. The Pacers put up 45 points in the 2Q to take the win over the Hawks by 5.
- The Clippers got a nice win on Sunday after the Suns started off a little slow. PHX never scored 30 points in any Q.
- On another NBA note, Paul George has been suspended for 25 games for breaking team drug rules.
Basketball – NCAA:
- This week’s games: Monday was a good start with 2 ranked matchups. #1 Arizona vs #13 BYU was a good one. It started off with the Wildcats winning 44-31 at the end of halftime. But the cougs came back with a vengeance, outscoring the #1 team by 10 but that was still 3 points short. Then we headed to the ACC, #4 Duke vs #20 Louisville. This game was not a good one. Duke kicked the Cards ass and won by 30. Then on Tuesday, we had a top 5 matchup between undefeated #5 Nebraska and #3 Michigan. The 1H was back and forth and high scoring with Nebraska taking the lead by 2 scoring 50. Things calmed down in the 2H with both teams scoring almost half of their first half score. But Michigan came back to win by 3 and hand the Cornhuskers their first loss. #12 Purdue loss again this time to Indiana who grabbed enough of a lead in the 1H to stay the course 72-67. Michigan bounced back against their in-state rival #7 Michigan St on Friday. The Wolverines had an even game putting up 42 and 41 to win by 12.
- On Saturday, there was a lot of action with 15 teams playing. #11 Texas Tech played UCF and weirdly both teams scored the same amount in both halves 44-40 but UCF would be the higher and thus won by 8. Then you had a matchup of NBA prospects in #13 BYU AJ Dybansa vs #14 Kansas’ Darren Petersen. The Jayhawks came out swinging leading 53-33 at half. And although BYU would come back in the 2H, it was not enough beat KU. Another basketball blue blood, Kentucky, upset #15 Arkansas beating them in both halves.
- On Sunday, there was another top 10 matchup #9 Illinois vs #5 Nebraska. Nebraska had the upper hand after halftime leading the Illini by 6. However Illinois won its 11th straight game putting away the Huskers outscoring them 15 points in the 2H to win by 9. That’s Nebraska’s 2nd loss of the season and the week. The reigning champs, #19 Florida put up 100 points on #23 Alabama. The Gators put the Tide away easily winning in both halves.
Golf:
- Brooks Koepka teed it up back on the PGA Tour this weekend at the Farmers Insurance Open and it was good to see him back. But he wasn’t the headliner after the weekend. Justin Rose broke his own course record after 36 holes by 2 strokes. He then continued domination over the weekend to win by 7 shots. His final score of -23 broke Tiger Woods record at Torrey Pines from 1999. He is the first wire to wire winner since 1971.
Tennis:
- Australian open:
- The men’s Quarterfinals there were no upsets. Everyone who was supposed to win won although #25 USA Tien gave Zverev a tougher 4-set match compared to the other 3-set sweeps. In the Semis, things were much closer. Djokovic and Sinner rotated winning sets until the Serbian finally broke the ITA in the final set 6-4. #1 Alcaraz and #3 GER Zverev’s match was a battle! 3 of the sets were to tie breakers and another (and the final one) went to 7 sets. That set up Djokovic and Alcaraz in the final and Carlos is not undefeated against Novak for nothing. He made it 3-0 after this one, winning in 4 sets, only dropping the first one. He is now the youngest player to obtain the Career Grand Slam.
- On the women’s side, despite having half the field of Americans (4 of 8), only 1 would advance past the Quarterfinals. The only one to do so was Pegula who faced off another American but upsetting Anisomova. There were 2 other upsets though. #3 Coco Gauff fell badly to Svitolina 1-6, 2-6 – yikes. Hard to find a worse score than that. #5 Rybakina had a tough 2-setter with #2 Swiatek but managed to upset the Polish player to advance. Sabalenka made quick work of Svitolina and Rybakina defeated Pegula with tiebreakers in the 2nd set. That set up a rematch fo the 2023 Australian open and this time Rybakina gets her revenge. In a three set thriller, the KAZ player wins her 2nd Grand Slam (her first was 2022 Wimbledon).
Quick Highlights:
- Skiing: Vonn took a hard fall and is TBD for the Olympics. This would be gut wrenching as she has made so far such a great come back.
What to watch this week
Basketball-NBA:
- Mon 2/2
- 76ers at Clippers @ 9pm on Peacock
- Tues 2/3
- Celtics at Mavericks @ 7pm on NBC
- Suns at Trail Blazers @ 10pm on NBC
- Wed 2/4
- Nuggets at Knicks @ 6pm on ESPN
- Thunder at Spurs @ 8:30pm on ESPN
- Sat 2/7
- Rockets at Thunder @ 2:30pm on ABC
- Warriors at Lakers @ 7:30pm on ABC
- Sun 2/8
- Knicks at Celtics @ 11:30am on ABC
- Clippers at TWolves @ 2pm on ESPN
Basketball-NCAAM:
- Mon 2/2
- 11. Kansas at 13. Texas Tech @ 8pm on ESPN
- Tues 2/3
- Xavier at 3. UConn @ 6pm on NBCSN
- BC at 4. Duke @ 6pm on ACC
- Ole Miss at 25. Tennessee @ 6pm on ESPN2
- Pitt at 18. UVA @ 8pm on ACC
- 19. St Louis vs Davidson @ 8pm on CBSSN
- Wed 2/4
- UCF at 8. Houston @ 6pm on FS1
- 10. Michigan St at Minnesota @ 6pm on BTN
- Notre Dame at 24. Louisville @ 6pm on ESPN2
- Northwestern at 5. Illinois @ 8pm on BTN
- 16. BYU at OSU @ 8pm on FS1
- 20. Clemson at Stanford @ 9pm on ACC
- Thurs 2/5
- Penn St at 2. Michigan @ 5:30pm on FS1
- Fri 2/6
- 3. UConn vs 22. St. Johns @ 7pm on FOX at MSG
- Sat 2/7
- 9. Nebraska at Rutgers @ 11am on BTN
- Syracuse at 18. UVA @ 11am on ESPN
- 21. Arkansas at Miss ST @ 11am on eSPN2
- 24. Louisville at WF @ 11am on ACC
- Oregon at 12. Purdue @ 12pm on CBS
- Baylor at 7. Iowa St @ 1pm on ESPN
- Utah at 11. kansas @ 1:30pm on FOX
- Oklahoma at 15. Vanderbilt @ 2:30pm on SEC
- OSU at 1. Arizona @ 3pm on ESPN
- 4. Duke at 14. UNC @ 5:30pm on ESPN
- 5. Illinois at 10. Michigan St @ 7pm on FOX
- 20. Clemson at Cal @ 7pm on ACC
- 17. Florida at Texas A&M @ 7:30pm on SEC
- 25. Tennessee at Kentucky @ 7:30pm on ESPN
- 8. Houston at 16. BYU @ 9:30pm on ESPN
- Sun 2/8
- 2. Michigan at Ohio St @ 12pm on CBS
- 13. Texas Tech at WV @ 12pm on FOX
Football – NFL:
- Tues 2/3
- Pro Bowl Games: NFC vs AFC @ 7pm on ESPN
- Sun 2/8
- Seattle Seahawks vs New England Patriots @ 5:30pm on NBC
Golf:
- Wed 2/4
- LIV: Riyadh – Round 1 @ 9am on FS1
- Thurs 2/5
- LIV: Riyadh – Round 3 @ 9am on FS1
- Waste Management – Round 1 @ 2:30pm on Golf Channel
- Fri 2/6
- LIV: Riyadh – Round 3 @ 9am on FS1
- Waste Management – Round 1 @ 2:30pm on Golf Channel
- Sat 2/7
- Waste Management – Round 3
- @ 11am on Golf Channel
- @ 2pm on CBS
- Waste Management – Round 3
- Sun 2/8
- Waste Management – Round 4
- @ 11am on Golf Channel
- @ 2pm on CBS
- Waste Management – Round 4
Hockey:
- Tues 2/3
- Penguins at Islanders @ 6:30pm on TNT
- Kraken at Ducks @ 9pm on TNT
- Wed 2/4
- Bruins at Panthers @ 6pm on TNT
- Blues at Stars @ 8:30pm on TNT
Olympic Sports:
- Fri 2/6
- Olympics:
- Team Rhythm Dance @ 11am on NBC
- Team Pairs Short @ 11:30am on NBC
- Team Women’s Short @ 12pm on NBC
- Olympic Opening Ceremonies @ 1pm on NBC
- Olympics: Prime Time @ 7pm on NBC
- Olympics:
- Sat 2/7
- Olympics:
- W Skiathlon @ 6am on NBC
- W 3000m @ 9:05am on NBC
- M Single Luge Run 2 @ 11:45am on NBC
- General Coverage @ 12:30pm on NBC
- Team Mens Short @ 12:45pm on NBC
- M Snoboard big Air Final @ 2:15pm on NBC
- Team Free Dance @ 3pm on NBC
- W Skiathlon @ 4pm on NBC
- Olympics Primetime @ 7pm on NBC
- Olympics:
- Sun 2/8
- Olympics:
- M Skiathlon @ 6am on NBC
- M & W Parallel Giant Slalom Finals @ 6:30am on NBC
- Mixed 4x6km Relay @ 7:45am on NBC
- W Downhill @ 8:20am on NBC
- M 5k @ 9am on NBC
- General Coverage @ 10:45am on NBC
- Olympics: Primetime @ 9:45pm on NBC
- Olympics:
Soccer:
- none
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