Category: Sports
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Orioles Drop Opener to “Pinstripers”
After beating up the Yankees in New York last week, the Orioles hosted the Bronx Bombers on Thursday, April 4, 2019 for their season opener. A great day in Baltimore before a sellout crowd of 44,182 with Oriole “greats” Cal Ripken, Jr. Eddie Murray, Brooks Robinson and Boog Powell on hand started well as the Orioles took a…
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Three Tulane Basketball Players Announce That They Are Entering the Transfer Portal
It has been a rough 24 hours or so for the Tulane basketball program. Yesterday, within 20 minutes of each other, sophomore Caleb Daniels and freshman Connor Crabtree announced that they would be entering the NCAA transfer portal. The third blow came this afternoon when freshman Moses Wood also announced that he would be looking…
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Tulane Hires Ron Hunter as New Head Basketball Coach
NEW ORLEANS, L.A. — On March 26, Tulane Athletic Director Troy Dannen took the mic in Devlin Fieldhouse to announce the hiring of new Tulane Men’s Basketball Coach Ron Hunter. The move came just eight days after Tulane and former Head Coach Mike Dunleavy Sr. parted ways. Dunleavy’s tenure was mainly marked with individual achievement’s…
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Spartans Dominate the East to Head to Minneapolis
The kelly green and white sea saw rocked back and forth evenly for thirty-nine plus minutes at the Capital One Arena in the nation’s capital. Fans remained on their feet as the Duke Blue Devils adorned in their white uniforms traded scores, with the Spartans of Michigan State University before a missed free throw enabled the…
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Michigan State Dominates the Tigers in DC
Eight-Oh with thirty seven minutes to go is how Michigan State began the evening against the Louisiana State University Tigers. The Spartans never seemed phased in route a 80 – 63 victory in the nation’s capital. “It’s a very good LSU team; scary the way they can shoot the ball,” said Tom Izzo, Michigan State’s head…
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Jake Takes Nats to the Max
The Washington Nationals “maxed out” the attendance, “maxxed” the disdain intensity for their former super star, Bryce Harper and found their maximum level of offensive inefficiency in their home opener, Thursday, Mar. 28, 2019. As Max Scherzer took the mound and broke team records, his team couldn’t find their sticks to support his “max” effort losing…
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Rockets Clinch Playoff Spot with Win Over Pelicans
NEW ORLEANS — During a weekend that is dominated by the NCAA Tournament, there was a professional basketball game being played in New Orleans on Sunday night. Two teams on the opposite ends of the playoff picture squared off in the Smoothie King Arena. The Houston Rockets came to town needing just one more win…
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2019 March Madness Second Round, March 23
#4 Florida State vs. #12 Murray State, March Madness Second Round (Hartford, CT) The Florida State Seminoles (29-7, 13-5 ACC) punched their ticket to the Sweet Sixteen with a dominating 90-62 win over the Murray State Racers (28-5, 16-2 OVC) at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut on Saturday. With senior guard JA Morant likely…
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2019 March Madness First Round, March 21
#4 Florida State vs. #13 Vermont, March Madness First Round (Hartford, CT) Despite an unholy barrage of three pointers from #13 Vermont (27-6, 14-2 AEC), the No. 4 seed Florida State Seminoles (28-7, 13-5 ACC) survived by a score of 76-69 at the XL Center in Hartford, CT to advance to Saturday’s second round matchup…
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Pelicans Can’t Knock Off First Place Bucks
The New Orleans Pelicans hosted the Milwaukee Bucks at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on Tuesday night. The Pelicans, who currently sit at 12th place in the Western Conference, have had a rough couple of months. Pelicans’ superstar Anthony Davis requested a trade on January 28th and the Pels entered the game with…