Gators Football: In college football the Florda Gators bounced back from their LSU defeat last week by coming from behind on the read against a touch South Carolina team and winning on the road 38-27 yesterday afternoon. Now they'll get a week off before their showdown against Georgia on November 2nd in Jacksonville. Meanwhile, the other team challenging so far in the Southeastern Conference East Division, Missouri, lost to Vanderbilt this week and will face Kentucky the next...they may or may not have a good team this year, it's hard to say until they are tested against Georgia November 9 and the Gators a week later...and the Tigers are currently appealing an NCAA ruling that would keep them from playing for the conference championship anyway this year. If Florida wins out it won't matter...but they have to win out...
Dolphins Football: The Dolphins showed signs of rebellion against the derision cast upon them across the country for their management-induced tanking season by nearly beating Washington last week before bowing after missing a late two-point conversion, 17-16. I've written before that I understand that teams have to rebuild from time to time...but deliberately trying to finish in last place in order to get higher draft picks is despicable and demeaning, especially to the fans as well as the players. But it looks as if Coach Brian Flores and his players haven't accepted the tanking strategy concocted by Dolphins management: they're actually trying to win, bless them. It's got to be tough working against the wishes of your own bosses. In today's game against an improved Buffalo team on the road, Miami actually maintained a 14-9 lead through three quarters before the Bills took over in the last to win 31-21...
Baseball Playoffs: I was gratified to see the Washington Nationals handle St. Louis so well, sweeping them in four games, to make it to the first World Series in franchise history (they were originally the Montreal Expos) and the first time since the American League Senators in 1933 that a major league Washington team will play in that championship series. Last night in the American League New York had a chance to force a game seven in their series at Houston, but although the Yankees outhit the Astros 10-6, the latter were able to pull off two incredible outfielder catches in the later innings, robbing NY of extra bases and the runs they desperately needed to come back. Houston won the game and thus the series in the bottom of the ninth with a walk-off homer by Jose Altuve...so now its Houston vs. Washington in the 2019 World Series, to commence next Tuesday...
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