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TGS BOWL PREVIEW...RECALLING THE ACID BATH FOR TEXAS
Rest assured they haven’t forgotten about the days of the “Wishbone T” at Texas.
Among the glorious eras of Longhorn football, the span from the late ‘60s into
the early 70s when the Darrell Royal “Wishbone” ran wild remain among the
all-time favorites for the countless “Texas Ex-es” and college football
historians. The high-water mark, we have always believed, of that great Wishbone
era might continue to be mostly overlooked by college sports historians and the
modern-day media. In fact, looking back
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT... BEST OF BELICHICK IN BUFFALO
Weather conditions, more specifically gale-force winds, forced Biil Belichick
into a buttoned-down approach last Monday night vs. the Bills, with rookie QB
Mac Jones adhering to a gameplan so conservative that it might have as well have
been devised by Pat Buchanan. It was hand-off after hand-off, Belichick not
wanting to risk passes with strong gusts blowing more across the field at
Orchard Park than either in the face, or from behind, each offense. Until their
second-to-last possession of the night, when Jones would try two passes, Josh
McDaniels called runs on every single play save one. By the time the survival
test mercifully concluded
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...THE PANTHEON OF THE WINLESS
Forgive us for once upon a time thinking the pro football world revolved around
Detroit. In the 50s, it mostly did, and certainly 1957, the TGS debut season,
when the Lions would win the NFL title, bombing Paul Brown’s Cleveland Browns
59-14 to win the title at old Briggs Stadium, before they would change the name
to Tiger Stadium a couple of years later. Four TD passes by QB Tobin Rote
highlighted the Motown party that also featured seven takeaways from the
careless Browns. The napalm job on Cleveland followed a dramatic Western
Conference playoff win at old Kezar Stadium against the 49ers, a game the Liosn
trailed 27-7 at the half before rallying to win, 31-27.
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT... THANKSGIVING FB NOTEBOOK
Mention of the Lions on Thanksgiving often recalls the classic 1962 game vs. the
Packers, who were the annual Turkey Day opponent of the Lions thru the following
season in 1963. Perhaps Vince Lombardi’s best-ever Green Bay side rumbled into
old Tiger Stadium on Thanksgiving Day 1962 (a year after the big ballyard
changed its name from Briggs Stadium) with a 10-0 record and appearing en route
to unbeaten gridiron immortality. But the ‘62 Lions were formidable, just two
lengths back at 8-2,
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...WHEN THE RIVALRY RAGED IN L.A!
Though given consideration in the early-season rankings, projected 14th
nationally by Sports Illustrated in its preview issue, and 16th in AP’s
preseason poll, there were numerous skeptics about the prospects of UCLA in ‘68.
After all, Heisman winner Gary Beban had graduated after the Bruins had won 23
games under his direction the preceding three years. Among them the doubters
was the shrewd HC, Tommy Prothro, who naturally fretted about the upcoming
post-Beban era. Not as much because of a lack of confidence in the anointed
successor at QB, junior Bill Bolden
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...CHECKING THE COLLEGE HOT SEAT!
There was once a time when college administrators went about pushing out coaches
with subtlety. Hard as it is to believe, there was a period when Notre Dame was
actually trying to de-emphasize football in the late 1940s, fearing the school
was getting too much of a reputation as a gridiron factory. But firing
uber-successful HC Frank Leahy, whose success approached that of his coach,
Knute Rockne, would have invited public relations disaster. Instead, the school
simply decided to make it tougher for Leahy to win. First, scholarships were
cut down from 33 to 18 in the late 1940s, though by 1951, with the Korean War
underway and freshman
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...TGS COLLEGE HOOPS TOP 25!
1-GONZAGA... No longer going out on such a limb with these sort of predictions
for the Zags, with two final-game appearances in four years. It stung a bit
more last April when Baylor ended the unbeaten dream in Indianapolis, and that
was before Jalen Suggs and Corey Kispert both departed for the NBA. But fear
not for Mark Few, who landed arguably the nation’s top recruit in 7-foot unicorn
Chet Holmgren, plus another 5-star recruit, 6-4 G Hunter Sallis, perhaps this
season’s Suggs. Important, too, are holdovers 6-10 Drew Timme, who provides a
scoring dimension in the post, and PG Andrew Nembhard, who can show the ropes
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...COL STRETCH DRIVES AND STREAKS!
“It’s not always about how you begin a season, but rather how you finish it.”
That old time-worn sports bromide might not be an absolute, but darned if we
don’t see examples time and time again. Most recently, and prominently, the
Atlanta Braves have qualified for the World Series out of the National League,
something that would have seemed pretty far-fetched for most of the summer. As
late as August 4, the Braves were still sitting below .500; as late as August
13, still in 3rd place in the NL East. A bit more than two months later, playing
in the World Series. NHL fans can relate, too; how about the St. Louis Blues
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...NBA SEASON WINS TO WATCH!
That was a different Atlanta Hawks (46.5) last season after vet HC Nate McMillan
replaced the well-meaning but overmatched Lloyd Pierce at the end of February.
The transformation was immediate, as the Hawks began to play with more structure
and ceased to take off possessions on the stop end. The defense could be even
stickier this season if lengthy wing DeAndre Hunter can stay healthy; while on
the floor with John Collins and Clint Capela, ATL posted some eye-opening
defensive numbers while outscoring foes by 15.6 poitns per 100 possessions. All
of it seemed to help Trae Young blossom into a superstar, and if the Hawks
maintain anything near the win rate they had after McMillan took over
Read more...
TGS SPECIAL REPORT... NHL SEASON WINS TO WATCH!
Seattle Kraken (89.5)...Let’s say the obvious that the bar has been raised for
all expansion teams, especially in the NHL, based upon what the Vegas Golden
Knights did in their maiden voyage four years ago, making it all of the way to
the Stanley Cup Finals. So, should the brand-new Kraken consider it a failure
not to match the feats of the Golden Knights? Hardly, and no one expects as much
in the Northwest. But at this same time four years ago, nobody really knew what
Vegas had, either; comparably speaking, Seattle’s roster looks as good as the
Golden Knights’ did entering the 2017-18 season. Kraken GM Ron
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT... MLB PLAYOFFS PREVIEW!
Atlanta Braves (13/2)... The Braves come in a bit more under-the-radar than last
season when they posed an acknowledged threat to the Dodgers and were in
position to knock the Blue out of the NLCS until some unforgivable baserunning
blunders proved costly. Blowing that series seemed to put the Braves into a funk
they didn’t shake until August when they finally moved above .500, blew past the
fading Mets and held off the Phillies in the AL East. Across the past two
months, Atlanta’s performance suggests it cannot be overlooked, with pitching
really on the upswing as the Braves posted the third-best ERA in MLB past the
trade deadline. The bullpen also improved as the season progressed. The offense
was a bit erratic all season, however, even
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TGS SEC RETROSPECTIVE... AUB-GA AND "HUNKER DOWN!"
Last week, while guesting with local Auburn alum Tex Morris as part of Jimmy
Ott’s Game Time Show on ESPN 104.5 FM in Baton Rouge, we had a reminiscing
session about the Auburn-LSU rivalry that might be soon to disappear as an
annual fixture whenever Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC. Like many in the
region, Ott knows the connection such rivalries have with fan bases and laments
their possible disruptions, which prompted our nostalgia tour on radio last
Thursday morning.
We suppose we have to start wondering, too, about the future of the “Deep
South’s Oldest Rivalry” between Auburn and Georgia, which renews again at
Jordan-Hare Stadium this Saturday.
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...WSJ AND FOOTBALL'S BIG BET
For those of us who remember a sports gaming marketplace that mostly existed in
the shadows outside of Nevada, events of the past 42 months have been enough to
make our collective heads spin. We’ve already touched upon some of this in
earlier featured pieces in our new 2021 TGS publishing season. As we should;
sports gaming has evolved from being a “sophisticated diversion” operating
outside of the media mainstream, to newsworthy stuff. The sector’s explosion was
reflected in some new information recently highlighted by Carlo Santarelli, a
New York-based analyst for Deutsch Bank.
As reported last week in the Las Vegas Review-Journal,
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT ...FIRST-YEAR COACHES TO WATCH!
One of our recurring features in TGS Football is a look at College Football’s
“Coaches on the Hot Seat,” which we plan to highlight in an upcoming issue.
Throughout the years, we have often found this a useful exercise for a variety
of reasons, mainly as it often helps identify trouble spots before the
situations can deteriorate. Though, on other occasions, teams have rallied
around their under-fire coaches and unfurled extended positive streaks to help
save their boss. In truth, however, almost every coach not named Nick Saban or
Dabo Swinney enters the new season on a potential hot seat
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT....HIP HIP HOORAY FOR NEW JERSEY!
Walking around the sports books in Las Vegas, and interacting with those
involved in various aspects of sports gaming, since the repeal of PASPA in May
of 2018, one gets the feeling that the Nevada folk are taking credit for the
boom in the industry that has followed. If one didn’t know any better, and spent
all of their time in Vegas, it would be easy to assume that the sports betting
explosion, which seems to reverberate more and more across the country each
week, is Nevada’s doing.
Except that it’s not, at least beyond the extent that some of the sports gaming
operations that are based overseas
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...2021 NFL SEASON WINS TO WATCH!
In a much watered-down NFC East a season ago, the Philadelphia Eagles
(6.5) could only get to 4 wins. And adding another game to the schedule in 2017
might just mean an extra loss. Things do not look pretty at the Linc, not after
meddling from owner Jeffrey Lurie and GM Howie Roseman losing his magic touch
made one-time miracle worker HC Doug Pederson decide that enough was enough, and
we wonder if successor Nick Sirianni knows what he's getting into. (The war
drums are also already beating on WIP after the Birds' winless preseason.) Will
what was one of the NFL's worst offenses last year really upgrade with Jalen
Hurts, who played to mixed reviews at best in a brief late-season audition
Read more...
TGS SPECIAL REPORT...2021 FOOTBALL KICKOFF!
“You’ve come a long, way, baby...”
–Virginia Slims advertising slogan
The cigarette advertising jingle above from the late 60s (when cigarette
commercials could still air on TV) could just as easily apply to the recent
sports betting boom in the states. It’s still hard to believe for those of us
who had all but given up the ghost on the chances of sports wagering ever
becoming institutionalized outside of Nevada and those few locales (Oregon,
Montana, and Delaware) that were offering parlay-card betting. Not that we
hadn’t been talking about it for years. In fact, those readers with long
memories might recall TGS founder Mort Olshan railing almost incessantly against
the anti-sports gambling mindset, pointing out the inconsistencies
Read more...
TGS 2021 COL FOOTBALL...SEASON WIN WAGERS TO WATCH!
AIR FORCE OVER 6.5 wins… Underestimate Falcons HC Troy Calhoun at your own risk!
With the exception of 2013, when injuries decimated his roster, Calhoun’s teams
with the Force have usually punched above their weight. Including a year ago
when splitting six games despite almost the entirety of the projected defense
opting out (“turnbacks” in academy parlance as opposed to “redshirts”). Several
starters from the 2019 stop unit thus resurface to compete with many who stepped
into their roles a year ago, with the result likely a highly-combative D. That’s
usually been the ingredient to the most-successful Calhoun teams, as longtime
o.c. Mike Thiessen is usually able to cobble together a functional option-based
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...NFL OFFSEASON/DRAFT PREVIEW!
JACKSONVILLE ...Sweeping changes for sure that were telegraphed more than one of
George Foreman’s roundhouse rights aimed at Ali during the Rumble in the Jungle
in Zaire. Though even with knowledge that a clean sweep was forthcoming, the
ability of mustachioed owner Shad Khan to present Urban Meyer an offer he
couldn’t refuse to return to the coaching ranks is a signal that the Jags mean
business. Trent Baalke, ex of the 49ers, was also brought in as GM. The rebuild
begins with the certain selection of Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence and the hope he
can vault J’ville into contending status much as Andrew Luck was immediately
able to do with the Colts nine years ago
Read more...
COL HOOPS SPECIAL REPORT...TGS ALL-NEWCOMER TEAM!
NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR: Jalen Suggs, Gonzaga...For much of the season it looked as
if Ok State’s Cade Cunningham was going to win this honor by acclamation. As the
campaign progressed, however, it become more and more difficult to overlook the
do-everything Gonzaga phenom Suggs. Especially if listening to many of those who
project the upcoming NBA Draft and are forecasting Suggs as the top pick. In the
Big Dance, the 6-5 Suggs surely outshined Cunningham, who by the end of the
season was generating some doubters about his ability to succeed at the next
level, pointing to a shooting percentage barely at 42% inside of the arc, while
speculation grew about his level of
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TGS HOOPS SPECIAL REPORT...A LOOK BACK AT UNBEATEN IU!
Gonzaga’s recent run to the brink of an undefeated season prompted the latest
bit of national curiosity regarding spotless campaigns. The last time we heard
similar chatter was six years ago when John Calipari’s Kentucky, featuring
Karl-Anthony Towns and others, took an unbeaten mark into the 2015 Final Four
before Bo Ryan’s Wisconsin took out the Wildcats in the semifinals. As for Mark
Few’s Bulldogs, they took their challenge all of the way to the title game
before hitting the wall against Baylor. In the end, however, like Kentucky of
2015, or UNLV in 1991, Gonzaga couldn’t complete the undefeated deal at the
Final Four.
Read more...
TGS MLB UPDATE... MID-APRIL HOT AND COLD REPORT!
San Francisco Giants... Is Gabe Kapler’s team as good as its 8-4 start
suggests? If there is one surprise development to follow closely, it’s improved
work from the bullpen, which has posted a serviceable 2.57 ERA in the first two
weeks and has confounded recent foes with various different looks and styles,
including sidearmer Tyler Rogers, who looks like a reincarnation of Kent
Tekulve, or further back Ted Abernathy, almost scarping his knuckles in the dirt
with his unorthodox delivery and slow-speed fastballs that rarely clock above
84 MPH on the radar gun. Which also sets up devastating breaking balls that had
Cincinnati batters flailing helplessly in the recent series at Oracle Park.
Rogers usually sets up Jake McGee, Kapler’s designated closer
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PLAY BALL! TGS 2021 MLB PREVIEW AND SEASON WINS TO WATCH!
A bit better bullpen (any bullpen, really) and the Philadelphia Phillies (80.5)
would have climbed above .500 and into the expanded playoffs in the shortened
season. Not surprisingly, the new front office combo of President of Baseball
Ops Dave Dombrowski and GM Sam Fuld tried to make some offseason upgrades to the
relief corps. And while we’re not totally sure about Archie Bradley as a closer,
he's better than what they had last year, and set-up men look to have been
upgraded as well. Aaron Nola-Zack Wheeler-Zach Elfin is also not a bad 1-2-3
combo at the top of the rotation, and keeping top-shelf C J.T. Realmuto happy
with a nice contract extension was a good bit
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TGS NCAA TOURNEY UPDATE...LOW-MAJORS HISTORY IN DANCE!
SUMMIT (SUR 5-24, PSR 12-15-2): 1996-Valparaiso (+18) 51-90 L vs. Arizona;
1997-Valparaiso (+10) 66-73 W vs. Boston College; 1998-Valparaiso (+12) 70-69 W
vs. Ole Miss, Valparaiso (+7½) 83-77 OT W vs. Florida State, Valparaiso (+8)
68-74 W vs. Rhode Island; 1999-Valparaiso (+20) 60-82 L vs. Maryland;
2000-Valparaiso (+25½) 38-65 L vs. Michigan State; 2001-Southern Utah (+14)
65-68 W vs. Boston College; 2002-Valparaiso (+7½) 68-83 L vs. Kentucky;
2003-IUPUI (+26½) 64-95 L vs. Kentucky; 2004-Valparaiso (+18½) 49-76 L vs.
Gonzaga; 2005-Oakland (-6) W 79-69 play-in vs. Alabama A&M; Oakland (+27½) L
68-96 vs. North Carolina; 2006-Oral Roberts (+12) 78-94 L vs. Memphis; 2007-Oral
Roberts
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TGS HOOPS SPECIAL REPORT...BIG DANCE BRACKET UPDATES!
SUNDAY UPDATE (March 14): The bubble remained fluid all of the way to Selection
Sunday this March, with bid thieves Georgetown and Oregon State surfacing from
nowhere to claim their respective conference tourney titles. Poignant, perhaps,
as en route to their Final Four appearance in Patrick Ewing’s frosh year of
1982, his Hoyas faced Ralph Miller’s Beavers in the West Regional final. Now
Ewing is back in the Dance as Georgetown’s coach. Meanwhile, what would have
been the odds at the outset of the season that Rick Pitino would make the Dance
with his new Iona team, and John Calipari and Kentucky wouldn’t?
Read more...
TGS SPECIAL REPORT...UPDATED SUPER BOWL RANKINGS!
31-XL, Pittsburgh 21 - Seattle 10 (at Detroit)...Although there was considerable
drama for a time well into the 4th quarter, XL was a bit of a disappointment and
hardly a shining hour for the referees, whose series of extremely questionable
calls (coincidentally almost all favoring the Steelers) at crucial moments
distorted the proceedings. Pittsburgh did capitalize when presented
opportunities, however, using big scoring plays by Willie Parker & Hines Ward to
shift the momentum in the second half.
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NEW TGS COVER STORY..."SUPER" LV & MORE SEASON REVIEWS
That we have arrived at Super Bowl LV having completed a full NFL season ranks
as perhaps the biggest accomplishment of the 2020 campaign. Most amazing was
that this mostly resembled a normal NFL year on the field, even considering the
various hurdles and mostly fan-free venues during the pandemic. In a year in
which some sort of normalcy was most welcomed, the NFL delivered. In retrospect,
the handful of postponements only provided a minor nuisance to the schedule,
which compared to other sports was able to proceed without comparable
interruptions. All that’s left is the “Supe” which is something special for
those of us in the TGS generation because we have witnessed the Super Bowl from
its birth. In fact, TGS had
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TGS CONF. TITLE NOTEBOOK...BACK TO THE BEGINNING!
As the Super Bowl approaches, we at TGS are always apt to move into reminiscing
mode. Especially as we just passed the 54-year anniversary of the first Super
Bowl (Jan. 15, 1967) last Friday. After all, we were not only completing our
first decade of publishing when that matchup occurred between the Packers and
Chiefs, but we were there to watch it live and in person at the L.A. Coliseum.
(And, yes, that game was referred to as the “Super Bowl” by all of the media of
the day, even though it would not be until Super Bowl III that Pete Rozelle
would officially change the name of the game pitting AFL and NFL champs). We
also must admit to some nostalgic tugs
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...DIV. ROUND & SEASON-END REVIEWS
Denver (5-11)... We’re tempted to drill a bit deeper into the Broncos’ plight
which we have been able to follow closely thanks to our involvement with Denver
sports radio. But the date to watch across the Front Range is July 12, when the
trial to clarify future ownership of the franchise is slated to begin. At the
center are the feuding heirs of Pat Bowlen and a trio of trustees led by Joe
Ellis that have been operating the Broncos since Mr. B first became
incapacitated in 2014 before finally passing in 2019. A template for dysfunction
has ensued, complicated by GM John Elway’s ongoing errors in choosing
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...NFL WILD CARD NOTEBOOK!
Back in Thanksgiving week, we recalled one of our favorite Turkey Day football
memories, a pulsating encounter between the Colts and the Lions, from the great
year of 1965. We hinted at the time of a book project we have embarked upon
called “December 1965" in which we recall in detail what was the best NFL race
of our lifetime as the Western Conference thundered down the stretch in what
became an epic three-horse battle between the Packers, Colts, and Bears, with
compelling supporting acts provided by the remainder of the old West (Lions,
Vikings, 49ers, and Rams). It was in those weeks beginning at Thanksgiving and
into December of ‘65
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...WHEN CLEMSON WENT BIG-TIME!
We’ve become used to seeing Clemson in the mix for playoff berths and national
championships in recent years. While fellow Final Four participants Alabama,
Ohio State, and Notre Dame have been living at or near the tops of the college
football polls for generations, the Tigers are a relatively new entry to the
power mix, having effectively supplanted the likes of USC, Michigan, Texas, and
some other old, familiar names in the old college hierarchy. Clemson’s
rather-recent inclusion into the elite class of college football, however, is
part of a larger narrative that has fascinated us at TGS for many years.
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...NBA SEASON WINS TO WATCH!
The pieces have looked greater than the sum for a while now with the Phoenix
Suns (38 ½). We wonder, however, if this season marks the turnaround. Chis Paul
can still be an enormous help, as he was last year with the Thunder, and his
presence on the perimeter should remove some of the pressure from Devin Booker.
Deandre Ayton also might be ready to emerge as a beast on the blocks, while the
useful and versatile Jae Crowder is another serviceable NBA vet who has helped
at every stop in his career. It’s the “Paul factor,” however, that makes us
think it’s finally time for an “over” in the Valley of the Sun.
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...WHAT'S UP IN THE EMPIRE STATE?
Of all of the states that are entering the sports gaming market since the repeal
of PASPA in May of 2018, perhaps none has generated the sort of buzz as has New
York. It’s not all normal buzz, either, more inquisitive, as the marketplace
wonders what the next move might be from the Empire State.
The storyline intrigues, as New York has entered the fray...sort of, with its
legal sports betting limited to a few locales well upstate from New York City.
For Big Apple bettors, their best alternative (if they don’t want to play
offshore) is a quick hop to New Jersey, where mobile devices are within the
Garden State’s “geo-fencing” to place bets. Indeed, in pre-coronavirus times,
lunchtime got crowded
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...GOOD OLD COL FB CONTROVERSY!
Anyone who needed convincing that college football still ruled the Los Angeles
sports scene in the mid 60s should have taken the next flight to LAX and sampled
some of the local coverage. Even in the days long before ESPN or sports talk
radio, college football had the capacity to captivate the masses. Especially in
Los Angeles.
Even when the games weren’t being played. As in December, 1964.
If only ESPN and other sports networks had been around then to capture the
fireworks!
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...CALIFORNIA STILL SPINNING ITS WHEELS
One of the more intriguing storylines in the post-PASPA repeal era is how soon
California might jump on board and begin to offer sports gaming within its
boundaries. With dozens of states already having legalized sports wagering in
one form or another (a full list will appear soon on these pages) since the
PASPA repeal in the spring of 2018, there has been much anticipation on when the
Golden State will join the fray.
Not too soon, apparently. While it looked for a while as if 2021 would be the
year in which sports betting would open for business in Cali, best estimates now
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...TIME FOR A DETROIT THANKSGIVING!
Like almost everything else about 2020, Thanksgiving might not feel quite the
same this year. To the rescue in a much-needed nod to good old normalcy,
however, comes an odd hero in the form of the Detroit Lions. At least having the
Lions to watch on TV this Thursday, against the Texans, will make Thanksgiving
seem a little more natural. We’ve written about Thanksgiving football history
before, and one of these years ought to opt for a college angle and a
retrospective on one of several “Games of the Century” that might actually have
lived up to the hype, the 1971
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...A LOOK AT COLLEGE HOOPS
In the expansive “who knows” category of 2020 is college basketball, which when
last seen had abruptly halted its season a week before the NCAA Tournament eight
months ago, with March Madness limited to the handful of early conference
tournaments that had completed a week before others. Perhaps nothing summed up
the oddities of mid-March 2020 better than a Big East Tourney quarterfinal game
between Creighton and St. John’s, the first game of Thursday, March 12, called
off at halftime with St. John’s leading 38-35. The last completed game of the
2019-20 season came the night before in the late game of the Pac-12 Tourney at
the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...TANKING FOR TREVOR?
Every decade or so, it seems as if there is a can’t-miss prospect at the top of
the NFL draft board whose mere presence seems to distort the preceding pro
season. The last time we at TGS recall such gyrations came in 2011, with
Stanford QB Andrew Luck the expected prize at the top of the upcoming draft.
Now, much of that same Luck-like hysteria is surrounding Clemson QB Trevor
Lawrence. Before we go much further, it’s worth noting that, for the moment, at
least, Lawrence
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...CHASING INFAMY WITH THE JETS
We suppose there would be nothing more appropriate in the crazy year of 2020
than for an NFL team to complete the rare lose-‘em- all schedule. We have
witnessed such a few times in recent memory. And, counting teams that did not do
better than one tie, we’ve actually done the winless thing a bit more during the
64-season history of TGS (dating to 1957) than some might realize. Five times,
to be exact. A new entrant to that pantheon of the absurd, however, might be
seeking entry, as the New York Jets hit the half-mile pole of 2020 well on their
way to a winless, 0-16 slog. (That particular feat of 16 losses in a season has
only been achieved by the 2008 Lions and 2017 Browns).
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...JETS-CHIEFS & NFL BIG NUMBERS
They’re talking about this week’s Jets-Chiefs game in the national sporting
press, but not for the sort of reasons that once captivated the national
football audience when these sides would face one another. Now, here in late
October of 2020, about the only thing noteworthy about the upcoming clash at
Arrowhead Stadium is the uncommonly high pointspread. More on that in a moment.
Jets-Chiefs, however, recalls some different memories for us at TGS and anyone
who was around for the later days of the old AFL. Given that some of our
modern-day readers might not be able to fathom a Jets game having much intrigue,
allow us to digress for a moment and recall when a New York-Kansas City
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...STYLE POINTS IN COLLEGE FB
Rewind to October 23, 1982. Bo Schembechler’s Michigan was not expected to have
a tough time with Dennis Green’s Northwestern that afternoon in Evanston. Heck,
during those days, no one had much trouble with the Wildcats, who earlier that
season had seen a debilitating losing streak grow to 34 games before finally
beating Northern Illinois, 31-6, prompting NU fans to dismantle the goal posts
at Dyche Stadium. A couple of weeks later, NU then broke a 39-game Big Ten
losing streak when it shocked Minnesota, 31-21. Oddsmakers, however, were not
getting fooled by this new-found Wildcat prowess. The Wolverines were made
29-point favorites as they rumbled into Dyche in late October.
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...COMING ATTRACTIONS IN STATES-PART I
As it has become part of our “business” nowadays at TGS to pay close attention
to the evolving sports gaming marketplace in the states, we think it’s a good
time for a reminder to all who partake in these related exercises to have a
better idea of how the sports gaming industry is regulated and policed in other
parts of the world.
Policed? Isn’t it anything goes overseas, especially in the UK, with its
long-enlightened view on gaming, and where bets are taken on almost everything?
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...THAT'S BILLIONS--WITH A "B"
While the coronavirus pandemic does its best to impact sport in all corners of
the world, one grouping within the extended industry continues to bop along.
Sports gaming has indeed had to juke and jive to stay afloat and relevant during
COVID-19, but the sector continues to move forward and make news. In one sense,
however, it is definitely not business as usual in the sports gaming arena.
While conventions are not the lifeblood of the industry, they have emerged as
important markers as the business continues to evolve. Sports gaming has long
been
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...MLB PLAYOFFS PREVIEW!
Tampa Bay Rays (3/1)... With the thought of a “Title Bay Triple” (Lightning NHL,
Rays MLB, and Bucs NFL) dancing in the minds of all fans in Tampa-St. Pete, the
Rays have secured the top seed in the AL and will be able to unfurl their deep
and versatile pitching staff to great effect, we suspect. Blake Snell is already
lined up to start the first playoff game at the Trop and manager Kevin Cash has
myriad options including several “openers” which mostly fared well this season.
Did we mention pitching depth? Into last weekend, twelve different bullpen Rays
recorded saves this season, trying an MLB record, and this was only a 60-game
season. Lots of contact hitters in the lineup
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...COLLEGE FB HISTORY RE-SET
Once in a while, we at TGS are motivated to set the record straight. Often, it’s
because the modern sports media will peddle a narrative that while not
altogether inaccurate, can be somewhat misleading. And as we have just passed an
important anniversary of one of the most-memorable days in college football
history, we are reminded once again how it helps to have been around to
experience events that are being reviewed decades later.
So it goes for the much-discussed USC-Alabama season opener from back on
September 12, 1970, a landmark game from 50 years ago
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NEW TGS...TIME CAPSULE: PREDICTORS, NOT TIPSTERS!
As you might have been able to tell from our first two issues, a lot has changed
with TGS since last season, and none of it is pandemic-related. In fact, our
switch to an all-online publication in a more easy-to-read format has been in
the works for well over a year. With the kinks still needing to be worked out,
we continued to produce our publications in a traditional manner last season,
always with an eye to 2020. Eyes, important things...something we and our many
longtime readers knew would benefit from our new look. Squinting at smallish
type is no longer required!
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We think it’s important, however, readers know that, even through management
changes, TGS at its core essentially remains the same publication it was when
launched by Mort Olshan way back in 1957.
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...2020 NFL SEASON-WINS TO WATCH!
AFC BEST BET... Are we really going to recommend the...New York Jets (6 ½)? Why
not? It might surprise that the J-Men would actually have to regress from last
season’s 7-9 mark to not clear the win number in 2020. Indeed, the Jets did win
7 a year ago, as HC Adam Gase saved a job that looked precarious at midseason by
winning 6 of the last 8 in 2019. Included were wins in the last two, amid rumors
of internal strife, one of those effectively knocking the Steelers out of the
playoffs. Will there will be as much adversity to deal with this season? Likely
not, especially if they avoid another 0-4 start, which coincided
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THE BEST OF TGS..."THE GAME" THAT STILL RESONATES
In this latest "Best of TGS" installment, we recall the following feature which
ran in Issue 12 of our 62nd edition in November of 2018, when we honored the
50th anniversary of an epic matchup that continues to resonate...
We’re about to enter the peak of college football “rivalry season” in the next
two weeks as various regional bloodbaths will once again renew. In our 62
seasons of TGS publishing, however, one of these rivalry games remains
singular. And we’re not sure we’ve ever lived through a game quite like...well,
The Game.
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THE BEST OF TGS...IT'S TIME FOR NOTRE DAME-USC WEEK!
Among our favorite weeks each autumn is the run-up to the annual Notre Dame-USC
grudge match. Though this clash has lost some of its luster in recent years, it
remains college football's quintessential intersectional rivalry, and one we at
TGS have had a front-row seat to observe throughout our six-plus decades of
publishing. And one of our favorite Fighting Irish-Trojans "Retrospective"
pieces was this one from October, 2017 when we went back to review two of the
more memorable Notre Dame-Southern Cal battles from the TGS era...
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