The lower seeded Connecticut Sun and Seattle Storm seek second straight road wins vs the Chicago Sky and Las Vegas Aces respectively, as second round WNBA action continues tonight after two off days with no venue change.
Both the Sun and Storm won road openers in the best of 5 WNBA semis, which have a 2-2-1 format.
In first round play both the Sun and Sky had to win decisive road game 3’s to advance. Each did so in decisive fashion, the defending champion Sky at the Liberty and the Sun doing so at Dallas vs the Wings.
The Storm and Aces each won their opening round series by winning two straight home games. The Storm, afforded home advantage, beat the same record, Washington Mystics while Las Vegas, 11 ahead in the 40 game “reg,” beat the Phoenix Mercury.
Last night the Baltimore Ravens (-5) won (17-15) vs Wash to extend their exhibition game win skein to 23, 4 more than the previous record set by Green Bay (Packers) from )1959-1962).
Why win these games and why does Ravens’ coach John Harbaugh “cliche it” in regard to the positive in winning such tilts.
Last year in the record setting game, Dobbins a fine Ravens running back was injured, last night another player, not to mention mascot Poe, who left the field.
The Pack won 2 NFL crowns and played in 3 NFL title games in the span of their streak, Baltimore has yet to play in one during this streak.
Looking ahead, I almost pick the Ravens in their “div,” by a process of elimination (I do not see good things ahead for the others, especially Cincy which was “held” back from a title last season.
“Wash” on the other hand, will surprise and improve, perhaps a great deal.
Certainly the 5/10 year title anniversary “thing”/karma is there as the franchise won titles 85 and 80 years ago led by the great Sammy Baugh and also were crowned NFL champions in strike marred 1982 and 1987 seasons under Joe Gibbs. You do the math.
I posted the post below last year at this approximate time.
Some Thoughts On The Ravens Winning 20 Straight Exhibition Tilts
Poe Park, named for poet Edgar Allen Poe, located in Bronx, New York and pictured above.
A tremendous titles (the “all the way” ’62 AFL and ’69 season Super Bowl) winning quarterback and truly good man, Len Dawson, died days back at age 87.
The memories, so many good ones flow.
Nothing would shock, even surprise me about corruption in football, however it was another Dawson and not Leonard as Coach Stram addressed him in congratulatory fashion after KC (plus 11) (23-7) vs Minnesota (Vikings) in the 4th one.
Len Dawson had endured the cloud all week, the hype then as now.
Anyway, that was his greatest moment he combining with the great, (still inexplicably not in the football “Hall,”) Otis Taylor, for the wrap up touchdown play as the Chiefs made it two straight for the the 10 year old AFL (Jets plus 18–(16-7) vs the Baltimore Colts the year before), justifying? the merger, which though certainly Dawson and K.C. and the no title until ’76 Raiders did-I do not know about the rest, injuries to Joe Namath, the Jets quarterback a factor).
The franchise was still in Dallas as the Texans when they won in the second overtime vs the two time AFL champion Houston Oilers in 1962. Then in the AFL’s 4th season, fateful 1963, they became the Kansas City Chiefs.
They lost (35-10) to Green Bay in the first Supe, as cited bounced back to win the 4th and their last real glory with Len, Otis and that great defense was in defeat in a great Christmas Day/Slot 2, double overtime game vs Miami (Dolphins).
There was Len’s consecutive pass completion streak, his great statistical ranking, his days as a commentator and other.
I choose an iconic photo of Len at the half of that first Supe, before it was called the Super Bowl and with K.C. only down (14-10).
More important, Len Dawson, a true gentleman, came over and talked about Marty Glickman as I had journeyed to Chiefs at Jets, for the purpose of a tribute to Marty show, in 1992.
The hole or as ’69 season/Chiefs title winning coach, Henry “Hank” Stram called it “the soup,” we are in, needs a Len Dawson pass play or two and maybe from above, where he always stood, Len “The Cool” Dawson can provide. (Alas do not hold your breath.)
Yes, do mot hold your breath, but recall Len to Glouster Richardson to get out of the hole in route to (13-6) vs the defending champion Jets and to Otis Taylor (likely Otis was out of bounds) in the last AFL title game win at the Oakland Raiders. Then the Supe win, NFL Films and the “mic’d” Mr. Stram.
Another alas: “Where’s Bobby Stein?” and where did it all go?! Have a cigarette and a Fresca Len, they can not hurt you now.
Maybe at that 1970 point in time the AFL had not yet “caught up,” but oh did they ever in 2 straight AFL/NFL title clashes.
Joe Namath and Len Dawson combined for only 1 touchdown pass, (that to the great, still not in the football “Hall,” Otis Taylor and 3 offensive TD’s (Jim Turner and Jan Stenerud in consecutive years each booted 3 field goals and the Jets and Chiefs defense held the Colts and Vikings to just one touchdown), but oh the cool and efficiency of each in those great victories.
Click below Len to Otis with some John Facenda narration and Chiefs’ network words.
Hoops Cabaret in New York City (48 West 33rd Street), featuring dozens of sexy Hoops exotic dancers, and hailed as “the world’s sexiest sports bar,” will show the Premier Boxing Champions Heavyweight Showdown event on Sunday, Sept 4.
Andy “The Destroyer” Ruiz Jr and Luis “King Kong” Ortiz will headline the card from the Los Angeles Crypto.com Arena.
Ruiz (34-2, 22 KO) last fought in May 2021, beating Chris Arreola in a 12-round battle.
Ortiz (33-2, 28 KO) kicked off this year with a win over Charles Martin, stopping him in the sixth round.
At Hoops Cabaret, fans can view the exciting bouts on the club’s giant Mega-Tron Video Wall and numerous HD TVs and flat screens, giving every seat a clear view of all the action.
Hoops Cabaret combines the fun of a sports bar with the excitement of a gentlemen’s club. Be sure to check out the beautiful Hoops Girls on stage and visit the club’s VIP Man Cave. There are also food and drink specials.
HOOPS CABARET ***Beautiful Entertainers ***Court-side, Mezzanine and VIP seating ***VIP “Man Cave” ***Next door to the world famous Rick’s Cabaret NYC
In the most recent series, there were two World Series rematches and four in which the teams playing had met in an LCS.
Most notable the only two franchises to lose World Series in 3 straight seasons, the Giants and Tigers met in a redux of the 2012 World Series won by the Giants in 4 straight games, just before a major hurricane struck this area.
The Tigers lost in World Series play in 1907, 1908 and 1909. Only two years passed and the Giants lost World Series from (1911-1913). The Cubs (1907 and 1908) and Philadelphia A’s (1911 and 1913) won two each from the Tigers and Giants respectively. The other crowns went to the Pirates and Honus Wagner vs Ty Cobb and the Tigers in 1909 and to the Red Sox in an incredible 1912 entity vs the Giants.
It was a redux of the 2000 World Series won by the Yankees vs the Mets while in LCS rematches, ’twas Baltimore (Orioles) vs the White Sox, the Braves vs the Pirates, the Dodgers/Brewers and Reds/Phillies.
The Orioles in ’83 and Reds in ’76 won best of 5 LCS in 4 and 3 straight games respectively in route to the title.
In both ’91 and ’92 after beating the Pirates in a full 7 game LCS, the latter on Francisco Cabrera’s 2 run hit, the Braves lost World Series to the Twins and Blue Jays.
Meanwhile, after winning at Milwaukee in a game 7 of the 2018 NLCS that the Fox Network did not deem worthy of an over the air telecast, the Red Sox 5’d the Dodgers in the World Series.
The great Honus Wagner, pictured above.
A good thing about the reruns, albeit such “chopped up” entities, is their movement through time.
Today starting at 5 P.M. Eastern Time on MeTV, that will be readily apparent as both the series finale and series premiere of “Adam -12” will be shown in that order.
“Adam-12” starred Martin Milner, (his turn in “Sweet Smell of Success was superb) and Kent McCord. In o the last episode before the two part finale of “12,”, the actress Jo Ann Phlug played police officer “Dana Hall.”
A male Dana Hall, a fine player, picked up a title with a great ’94 Niners team, to date their last such achievement.
“Macbitches,” (at the Chain Theatre, 112 West 36th Street, through September 10th) written by Sophie McIntosh and directed by Ella Jane New, truly dazzles with humor and pathos, opening our awareness about envy/jealousy, and ambition’s exponential presence in fields of entertainment, in this case, college theatre.
The cast is excellent, Caroline Orlando, Laura Clare Bronne, Marie Dinolan, Morgan Lui, and Natasja Naarendorp bringing the myriad, tense, revealing emotions to life.
I was highly entertained and more important, moved into further reality and awareness of these times, the often “not what, but who you know” aspect that haunted and continues to haunt.
“Macbitches” is an eye opening, informative, well performed production.
Click below for more information including ticket purchase.
www.chaintheatre.org › macbitches-worldpremieremacbitches — Chain Theatre
Today a quick post revealing a “names coincidence” involving three child actors.
Christopher Olsen played the Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day character’s (Ms. Day sang her great song “Que Serra” twice to and strategically for Olsen’s “Hank” in the film) son in the Alfred Hitchcock directed “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”
Christopher Knight played “Peter Brady” on the famed show, “The Brady Bunch.”
Susan Olsen, Christopher Knight’s blended family’s sister on “The Bunch” is Christopher Olsen’s much younger sister (15 years), played “Cindy Brady.”
You get rewarded for my coincidences indulgence by clicking below to view Doris singing Que Sera Sera in the film “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” Mr. Olsen (“Mrs.” did coffee ads) is pictured.
The WNBA playoffs with a new format open tonight with two games as the defending champion Chicago Sky face the (16-20) New York Liberty (I read “it” wrong and the Liberty snuck in winning their last 3 tilts) followed by the Las Vegas Aces meeting the (15-21) Phoenix Mercury.
Both the Sky and Aces headed their conferences with (26-10) records.
Tomorrow night the (25-11) Connecticut Sun face the (18-18) Dallas Wings while the Seattle Storm get home advantage vs the also (22-14) Washington Mystics.
The higher seeded team in all 4 series gets the first 2, perhaps only 2 at home in the best of 3 first round series, however, somewhat incredibly a decisive game 3, if necessary would be played in the lower seed’s building. Ouch!
This year in which the Butler (Austin) did it, portraying Elvis so well in the movie “Elvis,” today is the exact 45 year anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on Tuesday August 16, 1977.
Mr. Presley aka “The King,” was so great for so long a period of time, another record breaker, basketball’s Wilt Chamberlain, who also died on a Tuesday, commented that those criticizing, largely out of fear, his “outrageous” style in the 1950’s, were standing on line to buy tickets to see Elvis perform in Las Vegas and other places in the 1970’s.
Time marches on inexorably, so many greats gone, today remembering as great a performer as ever was, while wondering where 45 years disappeared.
The “King” may be dead, but oh how long he has and will live.
Click below to view Elvis sing “Jailhouse Rock” from the 1957 movie of the same name.
Elvis Presley. Jailhouse Rock.( From the movie Jailhouse Rock.1957.)
Andy B Sports 