Celtics first round draft pick Terry Rozier isn't known as a three-point shooter, but he's demonstrated early on that he has the "clutch" gene (notice the score and time on the clock in each clip).
Thursday:
Terry Rozier says that he has the "ultimate eye of confidence to take big shots."
Shrewsberry is an assistant who served as the Boston's head coach in Vegas. And while I'm posting all these vines, I might as well include this one of two other promising C's rookies, R.J. Hunter and Jordan Mickey:
The "second half" of the MLB season starts tonight. When the Red Sox started playing better ball a few weeks ago, I came to the conclusion that if they got within five games of the division lead by the All-Star break they'd have a chance. Well they did, but then they dropped two of three to New York to fall 6.5 back.
The Yankees are leading the A.L. East with a 48-40 record, good for a .545 winning percentage that puts them on pace for 88 wins. Just to be safe, I'll say 90 is what'll take to make the playoffs (the Wild Card leading Twins, 49-40, and Astros, 49-42, ate both within half a game of New York).
Boston is 42-47 with 73 games remaining. To finish with 90 victories, the Sox will have to go 48-25 from here on out. Unlikely, but within the realm of possibility. I mean, if Brock Holt can make the All-Star Game...
Spain's Real Madrid (soccer) is No. 1 at $3.26 billion. The Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees are tied for second at 3.2 billion. Here's how the Boston teams rate:
New York is the only city with more teams in the top 20 (Yankees, Knicks, Giants and Jets) than Boston. Chicago (Bulls, Cubs and Bears) has three as well.
Sorry Bruins/hockey fans, just one NHL team made the top 50--the Toronto Maple Leafs, tied for No. 37 at $1.3 billion.
I'm a bit late on this blog since the show debuted a month ago, and to be honest, I haven't yet had the chance to watch an episode of Altered Course.
But, here's what I know:
Dating back to the very first time I ever played golf (probably about 20 years ago), I've always though that it should be a race--rather than keeping track of the number of strokes, record how long it takes to finish instead.
There could be marathons, where you have one running time for the entire course, or sprints, where you stop and take a break between each hole. As with regular golf, you could calculate a total score by adding up the times from every hole, or play each one head-to-head as 18 individual races. The possibilities are endless...
Here's the Altered Course trailer:
Two things jump out at me: One, I wish they'd taken it to a more extreme level and ditched the traditional golf clothes and bags. I want to see the players in specially deigned athletic suits with custom-made holsters/backpacks for whatever smaller-than-usual number of clubs they elect to carry for optimal speed and efficiency.
And two, that place where the show is filmed looks pretty awesome, I think I'll have to go there sometime.
Brock Holt might play. He also might not. Chances are Holt will be the last guy on the end of the bench that Ned Yost holds onto in case of an emergency (Yost kind of said as much when he selected him). For me, I'd say the MLB All-Star Game ranks about right on par with the Celtics Summer League contest tonight in Las Vegas.
I'm sure that's on an extreme end of the spectrum for sports fans, but I feel as though nobody cares about the "Midsummer Classic" anymore. I think in part, it's a dying product left over from a time when you read about baseball exclusively in the newspaper and saw only your local team on television.
With interleague play, fantasy baseball and the overall prevalence of cable TV and the internet, it's now possible to see (and know everything about) all of these guys all the time. An appearance in one single game just doesn't have the clout that it used too...
In 1995, the Goo Goo Dolls' album A Boy Named Goo put them on the pop culture map due to the success of the single Name.
I remember being shocked when Name came out and my freshman year college roommate (who was from music-loving Austin, Texas and not a fan of pop) told me that he'd been listening to the Goo Goo Dolls for about five years already and their new hit single was garbage.
He be happy to know that rather than pick the obvious choice for this blog, I went with one of the more underrated songs from the disk, Naked, instead.
