Posted on 03/18/2020 3:34:38 AM PDT by C19fan
As essentially everyone in the world is being asked to stay indoors and away from others during the coronavirus pandemic, we no longer have the one thing that could reliably bring us together and keep us from vacating our couches: live sports. Nearly every active sports league has suspended games, including the NCAAs marquee, March Madness.
Instead of spending this week pretending to be busy at work while secretly watching college basketball games at our desks and checking our brackets on our smartphones during meetings, many of us are stuck indoors with our pets, roommates, partners, and children and there are no live sports to escape to. With normalcy gone in every corner of our lives, its even harder for us to do what we absolutely need to do: stay indoors and distance ourselves from people outside our households.
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A great game!! Alcindor was damn near blind with a double vision eye injury. (Check out his shooting % stats). The game score, (A slaughter), and the Hayes/Alcindor personal duel stats of their next match up, at that season’s NCAA tourney’s semi-finals, was just a wee bit different...
52-20!
One of the five he won or his incredible ‘91 run? JIMMY!!!!!!!
2001 World Series games 4, 5 and 7. Stanley Cup game 7’s. Isner/Mahut Wimbledon marathon.
Then, let each of those networks show their 20 or 30 "greatest" games in their respective sports. I know that MLB has started rerunning their "20 greatest games" series. Watched the Eagles beat the Bears 23-22 in OT last night on MLB. (Oops, it was the Phillies over the Cubs 23-22 in 10 innings).
The regular over the air and basic cable (ESPN, TNT) also have college and other sports games they can show. NBC showed last year's "Player's Golf Tournament" in place of the cancelled 2020 matches. ABC could show a classic Indy 500 on Memorial Day, and CBS could rerun a classic Masters.
If they are making everyone "shelter in place", like here in the Bay Area, give us some alternatives to the infomercials on the weekend!
You can find the 1980 Holiday Bowl on the BYUtv website. And while we’re on Utah centric games, I want to know if Bryan Russel was pushed. :-)
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