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The Pittsburgh Pirates have started the season with a (5-1) record.
They became the first team to start the season with two inter league series.
It is noteworthy that their opponents were the franchises they defeated to win their first two World Series.
The Pirates swept the Tigers, winning all 3 in Detroit, including a wild win in the season opener, in which Detroit tied the game at 10 with a 4 run ninth, matching the Pirates’ output in the top of that frame.
Later, the Tigers appeared to win the game, but a safe call at home was overturned by replay and Pittsburgh eventually won the tilt.
Pittsburgh won their first title 109 years ago vs Detroit in a maximum 7 game series, in which two great stars, the Pirates’ Honus Wagner and Detroit’s Ty Cobb were players.
Pittsburgh opened their home season splitting two games with the Minnesota Twins, nee the Washington Senators.
The Pirates 7’d the defending champion Senators (the lone Washington title) in the 1925 World Series.
While the two N.L. teams that met in the Pirates’ third series (Cincinnati Reds and Pirates of course can not/have not ever met in the World Series), have never met in the World Series, the teams have clashed 4 times at the next highest rung, the LCS, in their case the NLCS.
THE card, the spelling of Pittsburg(h), there is so much history and greatness regarding Honus Wagner.
The title victory by Jay Wright was the eighteenth against but 4 losses (two of those vs another “W” coach), by a coach whose last name starts with “W.” (ode to the giant “W” in the classic comedy, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”).
Of course John Wooden heads the list, going (10-0) in title tilts.
Wright joins Phil Woolpert, who coached the San Francisco Dons to back to back crowns in 1955 and 1956 with the great winners, college and even more so pro, Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, with (2-0) title tilt records.
Coaches named Williams are involved in all the other “w”ins and losses, by “W” coaches, all but one of the remaining 7 games, involving Roy Williams.
The current “N.C.” coach is (3-3) in title tilts, his first title win, all of which are with North Carolina, coming vs the Bruce “W’eber coached Illinois team, a result I gave to Beano Cook, after I made an expensive “sports scores” call from Rome, Italy, where I stood on the street watching Pope John Paul II’s funeral, 4 days hence.
Gary Williams won in his only title tilt, Maryland’s only crown, in 2002.
The other “W” vs “W” final resulted in Villanova coached by “W”right defeating “N.C.” coached by Williams in the ’16 final game.
Jay Wright, pictured above, guided Villanova to its second title in 3 seasons this past Monday night.
Fifty years have passed and I fervently hope as many as possible will take the time and make the effort to hear, understand and perhaps heed the words of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Dr. King felled by a gunshot, lives on with his words and actions.
Hearing and reading about him will take you to a much needed “better place.”
I strongly advise it!
“The stuff dreams are made of” Mr. Bogart, pictured above replied in character re and in “The Maltese Falcon.”
Dr. King had vision and a great dream.
The Villanova Wildcats won their second NCAA Basketball Tournament title in the past three seasons, cruising (81-62) vs Michigan, which fell to (1-6) in title tilts.
Donte DiVincenzo came off the bench for coach Jay Wright’s second title team and led Villanova with 30 points, scoring 12 points in the key Villanova (23-7) run, that gave them a 9 point lead at the half.
‘”Nova,” perhaps was and manifested in not only lox, but “locks,” easily covering the spread in all six tournament games, I believe a rare feat.
It truly was a very impressive tournament for Villanova, as they won easily in all six games to take their second crown in three seasons and made it three title game wins in a row (’85,’16 and ’18).
Also click below on nova and lox differences.
Difference Between Lox and Nova : Lox vs Nova
Arike Ogunbowale, who hit the winning shot, tied, in Notre Dame’s shocking win vs 15 point favorite, Connecticut in the semis, again HIT tied and in so doing, lifted Notre Dame to their second women’s basketball title and first in 17 years.
Their (61-58) victory vs Mississippi State evokes memories of Loyola of Chicago’s (60-58) victory vs Cincinnati, in the ’63 men’s final.
This year Loyola with major links to Catholicism made a nice run to a men’s semis loss and a day later, Easter Sunday, Notre Dame, surely with such “links,” handed Mississippi State a second straight title tilt loss, this a heartbreaking one.
Last season “Miss” St. had shocked top heavy favorite Connecticut in a Friday night semi, but unlike Notre Dame, which did it vs them, did not title.
The Loyola (60-58), ’63 win was vs a two time defending champion, Cincinnati. Vic Rouse’s “put back” shot won it.
Notre Dame’s win with one point total difference on Ogunbowale’s 3 point shot was vs a Miss St. team that lost in last year’s final.
Arike Ogunbowale and Notre Dame won the 2018 women’s basketball title.
After both teams covered the spread as 5 point favorites in their national semi-final tilts yesterday, Villanova has been established as a 7 point favorite vs Michigan, for tomorrow night’s NCAA title game, in San Antonio, Texas.
Villanova, bidding for its second title in three seasons, won the ’16 crown beating the ’17 winner, North Carolina, as Kris Jenkins’ shot was decisive, ripped Kansas, and will be in their fourth final game.
The Wildcats pulled a huge upset vs Georgetown to win the ’85 crown and a slight one, in beating “N.C.” for the ’16 title.
Villanova is (2-1) in previous final games, having lost to the 5th straight U.C.L.A. title team, as an underdog that probably covered in defeat, back in 1971.
Michigan, now (7-1) in national semis with seven straight wins, after dispatching 11 seed Loyola of Chicago, is but (1-5) in previous title tilts. They lost twice to repeat champions, U.C.L.A. in ’65 and Duke in ’92, as well as an Indiana team in ’76, that had two straight undefeated regular seasons, winning the title only once, but that as the last undefeated team to do so.
In losses to North Carolina in ’93 (I do not like to chide any player for a costly bad play, however, after enduring Chris Weber’s horrible babble during this tournament, I note/advise checking his gaffe, in Michigan’s final loss to N.C.). In that tilt, Michigan might have been a slight underdog, while they were big “dogs” (what is a wolverine?) in the ’13 loss, to a powerful one year team, Louisville, under Rick Pitino and all the “snake oil” that entails.
In conclusion, in their previous 9 combined title tilts, neither team has been a clear favorite (though Mich might have been minus 1 plus in its 1 pt. ’89 title tilt win). Villanova (5-0) (5-0) is the favorite this time, but Michigan (5-0) (3-2?) is certainly a viable threat and I predict will at least cover, if not win outright.
The great Gail Goodrich scored 42 points as UCLA beat Michigan in the 1965 NCAA Final.
Friday, Friday–upsets day!
Again in a Friday night national semi (this time Notre Dame, last year it was Mississippi State, the team that will face Notre Dame in the woman’s final tomorrow night) the mighty Connecticut women’s basketball team has fallen.
Two weeks ago on a Friday night, Maryland Baltimore County shocked Virginia and over 38 years ago on a Friday, the United States Olympic hockey team edged the great Soviet team, in an Olympics “semi.”
None of these games had money lines, not a good outcome for someone who would have taken the huge underdogs “small,” but at big odds, in all four cases.
There are more important things, that goes without saying, but these missed, never allowed opportunities hurt, compounded by the massive hype given the upsets, in all four instances.
Yesterday on a busy sports day, Penn State won the N.I.T. (National Invitational Tournament) easily defeating Utah (82-66) in the title game.
Lamar Stevens led Penn State with 28 points and the crowd of over 11 thousand was the largest for an N.I.T. Final since 2005.
Yesterday, I evoked Utah and 1966, led by Jerry Chambers.
In the final Utah lost, scoring 66 points, to a seemingly upstart Penn State team/program, coached by Pat Chambers.
Tonight at Madison Square Garden, Penn State is a four point favorite vs Utah in the championship game of the N.I. T. (National Invitational Tournament).
Penn State eased by Mississippi State in one of last Tuesday’s semi-final games, while Utah battled back to defeat Western Kentucky.
I have fond memories of a Thursday night N.I.T. semi in 1976, that I attended with my father. Both games were close and in the final on the following Sunday, Kentucky, two years away from a title team, defeated the Cedric Maxwell led North Carolina Charlotte team.
In 1981, both Maxwell, the Final round MVP, and Rick Robey of the ’76 and title ’78 Kentucky teams, were members of the title team, Boston Celtics.
When I think of Utah basketball, Jerry Chambers,pictured above comes to mind.
Though on the third place team (they did play consolation/third place games then), Chambers was voted the most outstanding player of the 1966 NCAA national semis and final game(s).
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