— Three years ago, 10 NFL teams changed coaches after the season; eight of those ten coaches have already been fired.
— Red Sox signed P Ranger Suarez to a five-year, $130M contract; last two years, Suarez was 24-16 in 53 starts for the Phillies. He pitched for Philadelphia for eight years.
— Tuesday, Cardinals continued their house cleaning, dealing 3B Nolan Arenado to Arizona for a minor leaguer; not only that, but St Louis is paying $31M of the $42M Arenado is owed over the next two years.
Arenado will be 35 in April; his OPS the last two years: .719, .666.
— College/minor league sports are off the rails; few days ago, Nebraska QB Dylan Raiola transferred to Oregon. Wednesday, Ducks’ QB Dante Moore announced he’s coming back to school next year, instead of going to the NFL.
Wednesday night, Raiola’s name went back into the transfer portal.
Oy.
— Alabama QB Ty Simpson is going into the NFL Draft; he had NIL offers:
$4M- Ole Miss, Tennessee
$6.5M- Miami…….he turned those offers down.
Jimmy Garoppolo is the Rams’ backup QB; he made $3M this year.
— NBA has games from Europe this week; Thursday, Grizzlies-Magic are playing in Berlin, Sunday, they’re playing in London.
— Wednesday in beautiful upstate New York, it was rainy and in the low 40’s; I go to the grocery store, and as I’m leaving, a 50-ish guy is walking in, wearing a sweatshirt and shorts. I had a parka on over a sweatshirt, and I wasn’t warm. Wearing shorts outside in January in upstate New York is almost never a good idea.
— Famous birthdays, January 15th
Karen Carlson, 81
Andrea Martin, 79
Bobby Grich, 77
Ernie DiGregorio, 75
Randy White, 73
Ricky Sobers, 73
Marty Lyons, 69
Delino DeShields, 57
Eddie Cahill, 48
Drew Brees, 47
Matt Holliday, 46
Mitch Garver, 35
— Kentucky 75, LSU 74
LSU led by 18 early in second half.
Kentucky hit mid-range jumper at the buzzer for a walk-off win.
LSU slips to 0-4 in SEC after a 12-1 pre-conference mark.
— Texas 80, Vanderbilt 64
First loss in 17 games this year for Vandy.
Longhorns shot 58.8% inside the arc.
Texas out-rebounded the Commodores, 42-24.
— Stanford 95, North Carolina 90
6-2 frosh Okorie scored 36 points, dished out nine assists.
Stanford shot 16-28 on the arc, scored 1.30 ppp.
UNC lost first two ACC road games, giving up 97-95 points.
— SMU 77, Virginia Tech 76
Kid on SMU hit a half-court shot at the buzzer for the win.
Hokies led by 8 with 11:11 left in the game.
Boogie Miller was 11-16 on foul line; Tech’s whole team was 11-18.
— Louisiana Tech 59, Middle Tennessee 58
Blue Raiders led 34-14 late in the first half.
Bulldogs outscored MTSU 38-18 in second half.
Tech won despite shooting 1-12 on the arc.
MTSU was only 9-18 on the foul line.
— Arizona 89, Arizona State 82
Arizona was 21-26 on foul line, ASU was 7-11
Wildcats shot 58.3% inside arc, scored 1.26 ppp
Arizona out-rebounded the Sun Devils, 39-28
— Ole Miss 97, Georgia 95 OT
Georgia led by 4 with 0:48 left in regulation.
Ole Miss scored on an offensive rebound with 0:01 left for the win.
AJ Storr scored 27 points for Ole Miss; he didn’t start.
