We lead with a sad story today. Florentino Fernandez, one of the top middleweight contenders and popular local fighters of the 1960s, died yesterday morning in Miami. “Floro” was 76.
Read more here, thanks to my good friend Santos Perez: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/29/3205786/boxer-florentino-fernandez-dies.html#storylink=cpy
The Miami Heat were at the White House yesterday, where they were honored by President Obama for winning the NBA title last season. They are now in the Big Apple, where they have a date tomorrow night, in Brooklyn, against the Nets. Game time is 8:00 pm, and you can watch the game on Sun Sports or ESPN on your cable or satellite system. This road trip continues in Indianapolis on Friday, and Super Bowl Sunday in Toronto. The Heat still have the best record in the Eastern Conference, 28-13, while the San Antonio Spurs lead the Western Conference with a 36-11 mark.
In the rest of the NBA yesterday,
Memphis 103 Philadelphia 100
Rudy Gay scored the game winning basket with 13.3 seconds left.
Golden State 114 Toronto 102
David Lee led the way with 21 points, 12 rebounds, and seven assists.
Sacramento 96 Washington 94
Isaiah Thomas scored 22 points, including the game winning basket with one second left in the contest.
Brooklyn 97 Orlando 77
Deron Williams had 20 points and nine assists.
Chicago 93 Charlotte 85
Jimmy Butler scored 19 points, Joakim Noah added 13 and pulled down 18 rebounds
Denver 102 Indiana 101
Danilo Gallinari had 27 points, Ty Lawson added 18.
Houston 125 Utah 80
James Harden scored 25 points, Jeremy Lin had 12 points and dished out seven assists.
TONIGHT’S GAMES:
Golden State @ Cleveland 7:00 pm
Milwaukee @ Detroit 7:30 pm
Dallas @ Portland 10:00 pm
New Orleans @ LA Lakers 10:30 pm NBA TV
After winning seven games in a row, including a thrashing of #1 Duke last week, the University of Miami basketball team went up 11 positions in the national polls, all the way up to #14. The Canes travel to Blacksburg to take on Virginia Tech tomorrow night, then continue on to Raleigh for a game against #19 North Carolina State on Saturday.
The FIU basketball team has won 7 out of their last 9 games and they will be at home this week, taking on Middle Tennessee Thursday night and will host Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday at the US Century Bank Arena on campus.
Spotlight on Golf and Tiger Woods, who was back in the winner’s circle yesterday after winning the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines.
In Las Vegas, the San Francisco 49ers remain a 3 1/2-point favorites to win the Super Bowl over the Baltimore Ravens. The over-under on total points scored is now down to 47. The opening lines were 5 points and over/under of 49.
Today’s featured article is from numberFire, via ESPN, on their analysis of the game and prop bets on the game from a betting perspective.
This article is from Grantland, also via ESPN, with their perspective on all the prop bets.
Let’s also take a look at Fox Sports’ take on some wild and crazy prop bets for the big game.
TODAY’S TRIVIA QUESTION: In this Super Bowl game on Sunday, we may see a running back (or a running QB) threaten the all time Super Bowl record for rushing yards in a game. Who holds that record? Tell you later, alligator.
We again want to take a minute to congratulate the Marlins ownership for causing us to lose out on another All Star game. Everyone had their sights set on getting the 2015 midsummer classic, but thanks to the dismantling of the team this winter, MLB has again decided to punish Miami and will award the 2015 game to Cincinnati. If this sounds familiar to you all, it should. We were supposed to also host the 2000 All Star game, but after the 1998 dismantling of the 1997 world championship team, MLB also dissed South Florida.
Dear Santa Claus Tooth Fairy Cupid Easter Bunny Jeffrey Loria and minions:
What do you mean, you still haven’t sold the team? You’re still here? What are you waiting for? The Super Bowl? Valentine’s day? Easter? Next year’s HOF election?
Your inept management allowed the Marlins farm system to deteriorate to the point of being horrible, and now have dismantled the major league roster while pissing off the players on the roster and the entire South Florida community. This latest dismantling now cost Miami the 2015 All-Star game. You really didn’t think that MLB would award you the game after this offseason, did you?
How soon before you get rid of Giancarlo Stanton for another group of so-called prospects, as you continue to allow your management to “sell low and buy high”. Please sell the team so we can once again enjoy baseball in Miami.
All kidding aside, your window of opportunity to get out of town is opening up in just a few weeks. The five-year anniversary of the Marlins and Miami-Dade County agreement for the baseball stadium is coming up on February 21, 2013. After that time, the “penalty” for selling the team is only 5%, a mere pittance, based on a $250 million value of the team. You’ve already saved much more than that on the salary dump this season alone. Of course, you and your minions have already decided not to field a quality major league roster this coming season, hopefully setting up the sale of the team.
We’ll continue to keep our fingers crossed and light a candle in the meantime.
Here’s the answer to today’s question: In this Super Bowl game on Sunday, we may see a running back (or a running QB) threaten the all time Super Bowl record for rushing yards in a game. Who holds that record? The record is held by Timmy Smith, a rookie running back with the Washington Redskins who ran for 204 yards in Super Bowl XXII against the Oakland Raiders. He broke the old record of 191 yards, set by Marcus Allen of the Raiders in Super Bowl XVII.
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