— Bears 30, Patriots 24
Both teams scored a TD in last 0:15 of first half.
Chicago led 20-14 at halftime.
QB Williams threw for 289 yards, two TD’s.
Chicago scored 59-27-23-31-30 points in their wins; 3-7 in losses.
Patriots’ first three drives: 12 plays, 30 yards, no points.
Bears’ first six drives: 41 plays, 288 yards, 27 points.
New England converted only 2 of 7 third down plays.
Patriots are minus-7 in turnovers this season.
— 76ers 114, Cavaliers 106
Cleveland led by 29 in first half; it was 69-45 at halftime.
Tyrese Maxey scored 32 points, had six assists.
Four subs who played for Philly were a combined minus-40.
— Liberty 34, Kennesaw State 6
6-1 Liberty led 14-3 at halftime.
Flames ran ball 41 times for 215 yards.
Liberty outgained Kennesaw, 402-297
— Memphis 41, East Carolina 34 OT
East Carolina led 16-3 at halftime.
ECU threw an INT in the end zone in OT.
Memphis QB Stokes threw for 320 yards, three TD’s.
— Appalachian State 34, James Madison 31 OT
App State QB Singleton threw for 271 yards, two TD’s.
JMU drove 71 yards, scored TD with 0:03 left to force OT.
JMU converted 2-15 on 3rd down, 3-3 on 4th down.
— Famous birthdays, October 23
Weird Al Yankovic, 67
Mike Tomczak, 64
Doug Flutie, 64
Al Leiter, 61
Keith Van Horn, 51
Ryan Reynolds, 50
John Lackey, 48
Kyle Gibson, 39
Jordan Crawford, 38
— NBA’s Washington Wizards are 1-0, first time they’ve been over .500 since November 28, 2022.
— Shooting is marketable:
Duncan Robinson plays for the NBA’s Detroit Pistons; when he came out of high school, he went to Williams College, which plays Division III basketball. In other words, Robinson was paying to go to college at Williams.
John Beilein was coaching Michigan; he needed shooters, so he poached Robinson from the small college, and he shot 41.9% behind the arc in his three years at Michigan.
Robinson landed with the NBA’s Miami Heat; this is his ninth year in the NBA. He is a career 40% shooter behind the NBA’s arc. After this year, Robinson will have banked $106M in salary.
Like we said, shooting is marketable.
— There are 27 players on NBA rosters who played for John Calipari in college; no other college coach has more than 12 of his players on NBA rosters.
— Maryland fired football coach Mike Locksley, who was 39-54in nine years coaching the Terrapins. Locksley had previously been 2-26 in three years coaching New Mexico.
— Teams with highest %age of their drives ending in punts:
51.6%- Eagles
49.1%- Titans
48.5%- Broncos
44.6%- Vikings
— Rams signed K Brandon McManus, who was with Denver when they won the Super Bowl McManus will be the Rams’ third kicker in three weeks.
In college football this week:
— Hawai’i-Northern Illinois play football this week; for whatever reason, they’re in the same league, despite the fact that the two schools are 4,200 miles.
— Houston visits Utah for the first time since 1977.
— Indiana is favored to win at Michigan this week; they haven’t beaten the Wolverines in Ann Arbor since 1967.
— Virginia Tech visits Clemson for the first time since 2012; they’ve been in ACC together since 2004.
— Oklahoma-Mississippi State are playing each other for the first time ever.
— Iowa State plays at Arizona for the first time since 1966.
