Good morning, all! It is a good morning for Detroit Tigers, two-time defending Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal!
Skubal has won his arbitration award hearing, winning a record $32M. Good for him. In the above video - recorded before Skubal’s arbitration hearing - I talked about why the Tigers might be my choice to win the A.L. pennant.
Here are some other thoughts as a Super Bowl weekend looms:
I confess. I have not read or watched one story dealing with the Super Bowl. I will pay attention at kick-off. That’s just me. I understand if others get into the pregame hype. For me, the hype is not my bag. The game is the thing.
Latest numbers show the SEC has hauled in $1.03B in revenue for the 2025 fiscal year and distributed it to its members. Can you imagine if Division I college sports was about the money?
Did I read that correctly? Connecticut sports writer of the year Dom Amore of the Hartford Courant wrote that new UConn football coach Jason Candle has hired 32 assistant coaches? We live in different times.
Count me in. I will be watching UConn-St. John’s men’s college basketball from MSG tonight. It is one of the few regular season college basketball games that matter.
Not surprised that the New York Knicks nor the Golden State Warriors ransomed the house to acquire Giannis Antetokounmpo from the Bucks. The asking price was too much and the red-hot Knicks do not need him. You can now wake me up when the NBA playoffs start. That is when the real season starts. Everything else is just a dress rehearsal.
As I produce this newsletter, here is a link to some of the other NBA trade deadline news.
Word is there is no issue at the Winter Olympics hockey opener in Milan. And all I read on social media was about how the arena would not be ready and the hockey competition would be in trouble. Now these same influencers are doing acrobatics to explain why the games are going on as scheduled, despite their doom-and-gloom predictions. We live in interesting, click-bait times.
In case you are wondering, the controversial Winter Olympics games in Germany opened #OTD in 1936. And also #OTD in 1926, the NFL ruled college students were ineligible to play in the NFL,, until they completed their college careers.
That is going to do it for today’s newsletter. Thank you so much for subscribing and enjoy your Friday.
DAN
