Good morning, all and Happy Halloween!
It’s already Week 9 for the NFL season and the video contains my weekly Picks for Kicks segment.
Here are some other thoughts as another Halloween arrives:
There are so many things to like about this Toronto Blue Jays team, as they try to win their first World Series in 32 years, but here are a couple: 1. Vlad Guerrero Jr. is not only the best player on that team but he is also a leader. 2. Regardless of what happens for the remainder of this series, the Blue Jays are going to be a team to be reckoned with for some time.
That said, I really believe Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto will win tonight’s game, sending the Series to a deciding seventh game on Saturday night.
Remember, the Seattle Mariners were up 3-2 on the Blue Jays in the ALCS. One difference, however, is that the Blue Jays were going home. The Dodgers will be on the road.
Nice to be Dodgers owner Mark Walter. NBA owners unanimously approved his deal to buy the LA Lakers for a record $10B.
Former Giants coach Tom Coughlin is among the nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. If he doesn’t get in, there should be an investigation.
The Mets may have disappointed their fan base by not making the playoffs but signing Juan Soto turned out to be a win for the franchise. The Mets hauled in a record $308M in revenue at Citi Field this season.
Because ESPN is so into betting, it is taking heat for how it is covering the NBA betting scandal, but the all-sports network is defending its coverage of the scandal, as you might imagine.
As predicted here, another top name college football coach has benefited from the Penn St. coaching vacancy. Matt Rhule has received a two-year contract extension at Nebraska. Earlier Indiana coach Curt Cignetti received a whopping contract extension through 2031.
If you told me Jim Mora will not be UConn’s football coach after this season, you wouldn’t get an argument from me. Mora is acting testy with the media over his 5-3 team’s lack of coverage. With all these head coaching vacancies around, it would not surprise me if Mora is sniffing around. He is under contract through 2028 at UConn with $10.01M left on his deal. That’s a mere pittance the way they are throwing money at these coaches, these days.
That is going to do it for today’s newsletter. Enjoy your Halloween and thank you for subscribing!
DAN
