Sports Drought Quiz: Saw this in USA TODAY Sports Weekly. Name the five cities with the longest active pro championship droughts. Must have at least two major sports teams. Answer below.
College Football
—BCS Standings
1. Florida State…995
2. Ohio State .950
3. Auburn .923
4. Alabama .8539
5. Missouri .8428
All of the top five are exactly what their BCS standing denotes in terms of the two human polls and the computer ranking. [FSU is No. 1 across the board, Auburn is No. 3 in all three, etc…]
MAC Championship…Bowling Green at No. 14 Illinois. Huskies just need to win.
Noon ET…No. 17 Oklahoma at No. 6 Oklahoma State…Cowboys gunning for BCS berth
3:30…No. 25 Texas at No. 9 Baylor…Baylor needs Cowboys to lose
4:00…SEC Championship game…No. 5 Missouri and No. 3 Auburn
7:45…Pac-12 Championship game…No. 7 Stanford and No. 11 Arizona State…for the Rose Bowl
8:00…ACC Championship game…No. 20 Durham and No. 1 Florida State…line is something like 29
8:17…Big Ten Championship game…No. 2 Ohio State and No. 10 Michigan State
Man, from 4:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., wall-to-wall potential excitement, particularly if Michigan State gets off to a good start and the defense is holding the Buckeyes in check.
“No doubt the SEC’s been the best conference in college football the past decade, but it’s not that much better than the other power leagues.
“Auburn has the biggest win of the season, knocking off two-time defending BCS champ Alabama. They also have a win over No. 7 (at the time) Texas A&M on the road and No. 24 Ole Miss, and if the Tigers would beat Mizzou on Saturday that’d give them a third win over a Top 10 team and second over a top-five opponent. The bad news: they still have a two-TD loss to LSU. It wasn’t very close. Auburn was down by three TDs in the fourth quarter.
“People rip Ohio State’s schedule, but it’s not like the Buckeyes played a MAC or Sun Belt schedule. The Buckeyes have wins over No. 23 Wisconsin and No. 16 Northwestern, which of course promptly fell apart after that game and didn’t even make a bowl much less stay in the Top 25. OSU’s toughest game will be Saturday against a 11-1 Michigan State team.
“Would the Buckeyes’ wins measure up to Auburn’s? No. But the Buckeyes also haven’t been beaten this year, and certainly not by two TDs.
“Expect to hear a lot more grousing about the caliber of opponents Florida State beat this season. The Noles already have three wins over ranked teams: No. 25 Maryland(63-0); at No. 3 Clemson (51-14) and against No. 7 Miami (41-14). Combined score: 155-28. That’s domination.”
Re the BCS bowl games, understand that with UCF and Northern Illinois (assuming a win Friday) guaranteed spots, some of the contests are going to be weak ones, at least on paper.
–I noted last chat that USC interim coach Ed Orgeron was on thin ice after the Trojans’ defeat at the hands of UCLA, even though Orgeron, a highly popular figure, was 6-2 after taking over for Lane Kiffin.
But I was surprised to see USC replace him so quickly in selecting Washington coach Steve Sarkisian. USC defensive tackle George Uko wrote, “Felt like I just lost my father.” That was emblematic of the players’ sentiments. But, many of them know Sarkisian and like him, too.
Sarkisian, 39, is a former USC assistant under Pete Carroll who has been head coach at Washington for the last five seasons, going 34-29, including 8-4 this season. He grew up in California and went to West Torrance High, before eventually ending up as the quarterback at BYU.
The guy might be good, it’s just that if Orgeron was going to unceremoniously get dumped, fans thought USC was going to replace him with a real heavyweight.
—Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe resigned on Monday. I didn’t think he would. I thought it would be next year, frankly. Wake finished 4-8, but were oh so close to 6-6 and I can’t imagine he’d be gone were that the case.
Grobe finished 77-82 in 13 seasons and the record, for a school with the smallest enrollment of any member of one of the six major BCS conferences, isn’t all bad. I have told you the fifteen years I’ve been writing Bar Chat (15 in a few months), that all us Wake fans want is 5-7, 6-6, with an occasional upset and maybe every few years a bowl game. We aren’t looking for the world.
But what’s clear is the talent has gotten awful thin, and the recruiting class for 2014 appears to be truly pathetic.
That said, Grobe did lead us to the incredible year of 2006, the ACC Championship and an Orange Bowl that Wake may not appear in again, certainly the rest of my life (20 or so years….if I’m lucky….), and for this we are thankful. He is a very good man. A total class act. Some of us just think perhaps the game got away from him the last few seasons.
Grobe should be remembered fondly. He represented the school well. But the man replacing him is being left with nothing. 1-11 for 2014. It’s a lock.
2006…11-3
2007…9-4
2008…8-5
But as Ronald Reagan would have said, all things considered…not bad, not bad at all.
–Another USA TODAY mock NFL draft. Forget the teams matched up with the following because it’s still too early to know how the standings, and thus draft positions, wiill play out. I’ll just list the players.
1. Teddy Bridgewater, QB, Louisville
2. Marcus Mariota, QB, Oregon
3. Johnny Manziel, QB, Texas A&M
4. Jake Matthews, OT, Texas A&M
5. Jadeveon Clowney, DE, South Carolina
6. Taylor Lewan, OT, Michigan
7. Cyrus Kouandjio, OT, Alabama
8. C.J. Mosley, LB, Alabama
9. Louis Nix III, DT, Notre Dame
10. Anthony Barr, LB, UCLA
11. Sammy Watkins, WR, Clemson
12. Tajh Boyd, QB, Clemson
USA TODAY lists a second round and has two more QBs…
47. Zack Mettenberger, LSU
48. Aaron Murray, Georgia…not sure if this list was prior to the knowledge he tore up his knee. Was definitely done before knowledge Mettenberger did, too. As I wrote the other week, I’d still take Murray, but with a mid-round pick. And there are other QBs we’ll be talking about come next spring, like Fresno’s Derek Carr and Northern Illinois’ Jordan Lynch…
–But then Oregon’s Mariota shocked the college football world in declaring on Tuesday he was returning for his junior year! How psyched are Ducks fans?! They better be. He guarantees them another preseason top 3 or 4. Mariota said in part, “I look forward to earning my degree next year and to the rest of my career at this great University.”
[Significantly, All-American center Hroniss Grasu announced he too would return for the Ducks in what will be his senior season. “To be a student-athlete in this community is an honor and an experience I’ll continue to cherish with my teammates.”]
–UCLA’s Myles Jack was incredibly named freshman offensive and defensive player of the year in the Pac-12. He had 70 tackles on defense as a linebacker (and was second-team all-conference), but also finished with 269 yards rushing, averaging 7.2 yards per carry, and scored seven touchdowns.
–After I brought up the 1971 Alabama-Auburn game, and noted ‘Bama went on to lose big to Nebraska in the Orange Bowl for the national title, Dr. W. wrote to say he grew up an Alabama fan though almost his entire family were Auburn fans or alum, and the good doctor (who I’ll be playing the Ocean Course in Kiawah with in a week) got to the Orange Bowl thanks to his father taking pity on him and getting the tickets.
But W. sent me a roster of the 1971 Alabama team and as you’d expect the player weights are almost funny looking back on those pre-steroid, heavy weight-training days. The average lineman is about 225, maybe 230, with one notable exception. Eventual NFL Hall of Famer John Hannah. He was listed at 274. Only three others were remotely close…250-255.
[Running back Johnny Musso was a solid 196 at only 5’11”.]
–And Shu notes that Auburn’s Chris Davis isn’t the only one with an historic runback of a missed field goal.
In Elon’s homecoming game against Catawba in 1960, Catawba was up 12-7 with only 15 seconds to play and the Catawba coach inexplicably attempted a field goal. The kick was short and two-time All-American George Wooten ran it back 108 yards to give Elon a 13-12 win. The Associated Press voted it the “Gridiron Oddity of the Year” for 1960.
NFL Bits
–Yes, Seattle looked awesome Monday night in blitzing New Orleans 34-7, holding the Saints to a whopping 188 yards of total offense and Drew Brees to just 147 through the air. Russell Wilson, perhaps your editor’s best pick for future stardom when he was still in school, continues to rocket up the elite list of QBs with a 22/30, 310, 3-0, 139.6 effort. Wilson is also now 14-0 at home in his less than two-year career.
I thought Jon Gruden had a great comment on Seattle’s budding mega-star. “Wilson has so much confidence in his eyes…it’s contagious.” The guy is the very definition of a leader, making all those around him better.
Anyway, Seattle, with its performance Monday, has established itself as the odds-on favorite to take it all…and what’s not being said (at least from what I’ve seen) is they are perfectly suited to deal with any inclement weather at the Meadowlands. [Assuming the team can make it to the venue, given my forecast, which continues to worsen.]
–Speaking of the Jets, I was very wrong in thinking coach Rex Ryan would go with Matt Simms for this coming week, giving him some practice time with the first team.
“The Jets made Roberto Duran proud on Monday with a collective no mas that eliminates any doubt that the team’s decision-makers have given up on a miracle playoff push.
“The day after Geno Smith was yanked in the midst of his latest debacle that effectively short-circuited the season, the Jets made the unpopular choice to stick with the struggling rookie quarterback. Ryan consulted with general manager John Idzik and his right-hand man, Rod Graves, along with assistant coaches before deciding that Smith, owner of four of the five lowest passer rating games of any quarterback in the NFL through 12 weeks, will start against the Raiders on Sunday.
“ ‘I believe in Geno,’ Ryan said on Monday. ‘His perseverance is impressive to me. He’ll bounce back from this. I’m just waiting for him to have a great game.’”
Here’s the thing. Simms obviously has zero experience and while he has a great arm, he’s not likely to set the world on fire.
But they have an old veteran, David Garrard, on the roster, who told Manish Mehta this week “his troublesome knees haven’t felt better. He says he’s healthy even if it appears that the organization disagrees.”
“Geno Smith keeps telling us that there was never anything wrong with his confidence, and if that’s truly the case, there’s little left between the kid’s ears other than a cave full of bats. He was sacked on his first attempt Sunday, then he overthrew a lonesome, arm-waving David Nelson 30 yards downfield on his second attempt by plunking somebody standing 10 yards out of bounds, and by halftime Rex Ryan decided that this 2013 season – and everything it was supposed to represent – required a hard reboot.
“We’re hesitant to brand Geno as the worst quarterback ever, because we have only watched the NFL since 1967, but it’s clear that the kid has undergone a whirlwind you rarely see on this level. By now, you’ve moaned at the wretched irony: Nobody expected this team to be in the discussion for a playoff spot in Week 12, and that kismet actually worked against Geno. The more legit this team became, the less his incompetence could be tolerated.”
–Denise D. went to Sunday’s Jets game and confirmed what we all know….Jets fans are the worst. She said the behavior in the stands was awful.
–In Sunday night’s Giants 24-17 win over the Redskins in Washington, there was a great deal of confusion in the game’s final two minutes as the Redskins drove close to midfield, hoping for a tying touchdown.
As the Washington Post’s Mark Maske writes (your editor being soundly asleep at this point):
“On a second-down completion from quarterback Robert Griffin III to (Pierre) Garcon, the ball was spotted just shy of a first down by the officials. That set up a third-and-one situation.
“But the Redskins believed they’d gotten a first down. Coach Mike Shanahan said after the game he’d been told by an official that it was a first down, and at least one set of sideline chains was moved as if it indeed was a first down.
“Tight end Fred Davis dropped a third-down pass from Griffin for what would have been a significant gain into Giants’ territory. The Redskins, realizing it was fourth down, got a completion from Griffin to Garcon for what would have been a first down just across midfield. But Garcon lost a fumble when the ball was taken from his hands by Giants safety Will Hill. The Giants gained possession with a little more than a minute to play and ran out the clock with two kneel-downs by quarterback Eli Manning.
“At his postgame news conference, Shanahan said: ‘I told him I wanted a measurement because I knew it was close. It was inches. And he said, ‘No, it’s a first down.’ And he moved the chains. And then after I saw it was fourth down, I asked him, ‘You already told me it was first down.’ …So it was quite disappointing.’
“Shanahan said the confusion ‘did affect our play-calling.’”
Dean Blandino, the league’s vice president of officiating, said in a written statement released on Monday, “In this situation where there is obvious confusion as to the status of the down, play should have been stopped prior to third down and the correct down communicated to both clubs. This should have occurred regardless of the fact that Washington had no timeouts and it was inside two minutes.”
Blandino said the “ball was correctly spotted” by the officials and referee Jeff Triplette correctly ‘signaled third down’ but the head linesman ‘incorrectly motioned for the chain crew to advance the chains, which caused the down boxes to read first down.’
“Following a Washington incomplete pass, the chains were moved back and the down boxes correctly reset to fourth down,” Blandino said.
[I do have to note that Justin Tuck had a nice game for the Giants, four sacks, after just 2 ½ his first 11 games. Tuck’s performance was most timely, seeing as he’s looking for a big contract, from anyone, next year…but would like to stay in New York.]
–Steelers coach Mike Tomlin told FOX Football’s Jay Glazer, “If anybody thinks I or anybody else would do this on purpose they are crazy,” referring to Tomlin’s position on the field in an effort to slow the Ravens’ Jacoby Jones’ clear path to the end zone during their Thanksgiving night matchup. Jones was tackled and the Ravens had to settle for a field goal rather than six points.
But then in his weekly press conference, Tomlin spent the first 20 minutes talking about the play, clearly understanding his job is now on the line.
“It’s been shocking to me that my actions could have been perceived or have been perceived in any way as intentional in regard to my action on that play. I would never do such a thing, I would never consider doing such a thing….
“I can’t be in that space and I was, so I take full responsibility for that. It’s an inexcusable blunder on my part. I understand with my position comes the charge of preserving and protecting the integrity of the game of football, and I think probably my biggest error on Thursday night is not realizing that play jeopardized the integrity of the game from a perception standpoint.”
—Peyton Manning needs just 10 touchdown passes in the final four games to break Tom Brady’s record 50 in a single-season. Manning is on target to barely beat Drew Brees’ yardage mark of 5,476, but I’m guessing Peyton falls short by 100 yards or so.
College Basketball
AP Poll
1. Michigan State
2. Arizona
3. Kentucky
4. Syracuse
5. Ohio State
6. Kansas
7. Louisville
8. Wisconsin
9. Oklahoma State…lost to Memphis on Sunday, 73-68
10. Duke
11. Wichita State
12. UConn
13. Oregon…Duckwear may be pulled out of Probation Sports Drawer…though VCU is still my Pick to Click
14. Villanova…I said they’d get to 16
21. UMass…been a while
24. San Diego State! What? Two of last three years I went with them, only to be disappointed (though it was fun)…I’ve looked at the roster, just don’t see them as top 25. That said, they beat No. 25 Marquette the other day, 67-59, to inject themselves into the conversation.
33. VCU….if you carried out the votes…no problem…come tourney time, Shaka gonna have the Rams back up there (but need a 4-seed).
—Tim Duncan got off to a horrid start this season, even as the Spurs were winning, with Duncan shooting miserably from the floor. But if you thought the 37-year-old, who had a remarkable turnaround last season, was finally running low in the tank, once again Timmy D. has confounded any doubters (I have not been among them), with Duncan going 26 of 41 from the field his last three games (.634) including a 23 point, 21 rebound effort in the Spurs’ Monday night 102-100 win over Hawks; Duncan with the game-winning last second shot to boot. The 20-20 effort made him the oldest to ever do so, beating out by a few months Robert Parrish.
Timmy went to Wake Forest, you know.
—Knicks and Nets are eagerly awaiting Thursday’s contest between the two teams. The 3-13 Knicks…the 5-13 Nets…oh, baby. Just what we’ve all been waiting for.
I actually still have faith the Nets will be fine come playoff time, and they will make the playoffs in the incredibly weak Eastern Conference. You just need to be the 6-seed so that you’re not facing Indiana or Miami in the first round.
As for the other New York team, as CBSSports.com’s Ken Berger put it:
“The Knicks are in free fall, and the headlines are flowing almost as fast as New York basketball is plummeting.
“When you’re 3-13 and on a nine-game losing streak – and you’re clearly trying to do the opposite of tanking – this is what happens. Unrest. Bad blood. Worse press.”
Back to the Nets, they demoted top assistant Lawrence Frank. It was viewed as a big positive when the experienced Frank was signed to help Kidd get through his rookie season as a coach, but then the two had “differences” and Frank is the fall guy for the awful start. Now he’s just an adviser, not on the bench or at practice.
Ball Bits
[Chronological since last chat…for dramatic effect…]
–Action is picking up in baseball’s offseason. The Red Sox signed veteran catcher to A.J. Pierzynski to a one-year, $8.5 million deal. Boston has two strong catching prospects so this is a stopgap. Jarrod Saltalamacchia, this past season’s starter, is not coming back.
–The Tigers and Nationals announced a big deal with Washington acquiring Detroit hurler Doug Fister, who was 14-9, 3.67 ERA in 208 innings last season. The guy is solid. In return Detroit got utility infielder Steve Lombardozzi, a good setup man, Ian Krol, and a solid pitching prospect, Robbie Ray.
–Oakland, another active team this offseason, signed free-agent left-hander Scott Kazmir to a two-year, $22 million contract. I mean this is a guy who was basically out of baseball for two years, 2011 and 2012, but went 10-9, 4.04 ERA, in 158 innings last season for Cleveland.
$22 million! $11 million a year. Guaranteed. Or about 600 McDonald’s workers, not to get political. [$11 million / $18,000]
–Yankees GM Brian Cashman is acting like the team won’t be able to keep second baseman Robinson Cano, as in won’t be able to afford him. The Yankees are reportedly offering $160 million+ over seven years and Cano’s people are at $250 million.
But Cano will be a Yankee, at somewhere around $200 million. The only team said to be remotely in the Cano ‘chase,’ which never was one, is Texas.
–But then late Tuesday, out of nowhere to some of us, the story broke the Yankees were going to sign Boston free-agent Jacoby Ellsbury to a seven-year, $153 million contract! This is nuts. I mean Ellsbury played a total of 92 games combined in 2010 and 2012. He’s fragile. He’s already 30.
And now the story is the Seattle Mariners, not Texas, are getting ready to offer Robinson Cano $200 million over eight years.
Ellsbury would become the third highest paid outfielder in Major League history behind the $160 million contracts of Matt Kemp (2012-19) and Manny Ramirez (2001-08). [Josh Hamilton will make more per year in the latter stages of his contract.]
So have the Yankees given up on Cano? And where will the cash come from to upgrade the starting staff, the Yanks having also signed catcher Brian McCann to an $85 million deal the other week? And it looks like the Kansas City Royals may have an inside track on outfielder Carlos Beltran, another Yankee target.
So Ellsbury and McCann, instead of Cano and Beltran, for starters; or rather Ellsbury and McCann instead of McCann, Cano and Beltran. And you still haven’t addressed the pitching.
Assuming they don’t sign Cano now, the Yanks are said to be targeting Tampa Bay infielder Kelly Johnson, who could play second or third (see A-Rod’s muddled status).
Then again, Cano could lower his contract demands if he wants to stay in New York.
Back to Ellsbury, the signing does certainly send a signal to Yankees fans that management wants to be aggressive and, in the words of a team statement, “a singular and unwavering desire…to play meaningful baseball deep into October.”
So rather than rebuild a pathetic farm system, Hal Steinbrenner and Co. are taking a page from his father.
But imagine the feeling among Red Sox fans! They are livid that Ellsbury chose their hated rival. This will make for some interesting moments when the Yankees come to town next year.
“This is what happens when the Red Sox win their third World Series in a decade, against one for the Yankees in that time, a time when they spend more than $200 million a year on baseball players. So now the Yankees go out and agree to a deal with Jacoby Ellsbury for the kind of insane long-term contract that got them into the kind of fix they are in in the first place.
“They do the only thing they can do: Try to buy their way out of this. If you were running the team, you would do it exactly that way. You have no real assets in the farm system. You have money. So you spend it….
“For now, you know who’s happy when the Yankees get desperate like this? Agents. B-list stars like Ellsbury paid like A-listers.”
Another Shark Attack!
A kayak fisherman off the coast of Maui died when he was attacked by a shark on Monday. Apparently, his foot was dangling off and the shark, unidentified, took it for chum. There have been eight shark attacks off Maui just this year and 13 statewide. Normally, Hawaii sees only four unprovoked incidents per year.
This of course comes right after the two fatal attacks in Australia on opposite coasts.
So as I Tweeted, I am issuing an unprecedented Stage 4 Stay Indoors Alert. The nation’s retailers won’t like the move in the midst of the holiday shopping season, but you can get everything you need online. I just feel badly for the deliverymen and women putting their lives on the line. [Yes, another reason for drones.]
Bear Mauling!
I kid all the time about the thousands of black bears in New Jersey, an estimated 3,000, and while I jog where I know there have been sightings, I myself have never come across one, but it’s inevitable. After all I’ve written, I just don’t want to be the first documented fatal mauling in the state.
And so some of us know there are lots of bears in Florida, but you don’t think of an Orlando subdivision as being a prime area for them. It is, however, and on Monday night, a 54-year-old woman walking her two small dogs in the Wingfield North subdivision was mauled by a black bear in what the Orlando Sentinel calls “the most serious attack (Florida wildlife officials) have seen in documented state history.” The victim is said to have suffered “traumatic” injuries. Residents say they have seen “bolder bears” in the last year or two. As of this writing, the offending bruin is still on the loose.
By the way, two researchers who looked into 92 bear attacks during the past four years in the U.S. and Canada “found an unleashed dog was present in more than half the encounters.”
In the case of the Orlando victim, imagine her terror when her dogs became agitated, she turned to walk back to her house, and was knocked down from behind. The two small dogs escaped the attack.
One last thing. Bears in the fall, as part of fattening up for winter, go from eating 5,000 calories a day to 20,000.
Mikaela Shiffrin
I didn’t know all of Sunday’s ski results before posting last time so I have to note that while America waits with bated breath for Lindsey Vonn’s return to the slopes (she’s been just cleared to practice), we do have 18-year-old budding superstar Mikaela Shiffrin, who finished second in Sunday’s giant slalom race at Beaver Creek, Colo. It was her best performance in the event, but what makes it more significant is her specialty is the slalom which she has already won five times in her brief career, including the season-opener this year. So Shiffrin could be a threat for multiple medals in Sochi. Now if Julia Mancuso would just get back on track (she’s off to a very poor start in the World Cup season), and Vonn comes back, the American women could yet kick butt in the Olympics.
–In the NCAA Men’s Soccer Championship, they are down to the Elite Eight, but No. 1 overall seed UCLA is out, losing to UConn on penalty kicks in the Sweet 16. Wake Forest lost to Notre Dame 4-2 in the same round. So we’re left with:
3 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State; New Mexico vs. 2 Washington; UConn vs. Virginia; Maryland vs. 4 California
—China agreed to sign an international agreement defining the trade of elephant tusks as a serious crime. The deal was reached in Botswana and signed by African countries and “transit states” such as Vietnam and China. The Chinese buy 70% of the world’s illegal ivory.
This is good….now let’s see if the Chinese government enforces it.
–I was just glancing at the local Summit community calendar, holiday events and stuff, and it brought back memories. When I was a kid here, circa 1968-70, we had an Open House among the downtown merchants one evening each Christmas season and I picked up a Don Maynard autographed football card (still have it) and Willis Reed’s autograph on a pamphlet. [Bob P. and Bobby C. If you have any other memories of big-time athletes…I think we had Homer Jones….send me a note.] Summit’s a small community, so appearances by Maynard and Reed were huge for that era and I’m guessing the event organizers forked over $250-$500 to get them to show up. Yup, it was a different time, boys and girls. That was big money for them. Today they’d demand $20K.
–Excuse me…need to find my bib…drooling over the Cheryl’s Christmas Cookie catalogue…”buttercream frosted” cookies, specifically. “Buttercream Frosted Vanilla Fudge” brownie….goodness gracious…. “Cashew Chocolate Chip” brownie…. “Chocolate Peppermint Bark”…preferred by beavers, you know, so it has to be good.
–In a unique arrangement, Billy Joel has signed to do a monthly concert in Madison Square Garden, becoming the venue’s first music franchise. Joel said he was tired of touring and as he lives on Long Island, this is a perfect situation.
“I’m getting a lot of credit for how good I’m supposed to be,” he said. “But I think a good deal of it comes from the audience that comes to the Garden. They’re a great audience, and if you have a great audience, you usually give a better show.”
Top 3 songs for the week 12/2/78: #1 “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (Barbra & Neil…ughh…obviously wasn’t played at my frat’s keg parties…) #2 “MacArthur Park” (Donna Summer…ditto…) #3 “How Much I Feel” (Ambrosia…slow-dance tune…also not allowed…)… and…#4 “Le Freak” (Chic) #5 “I Just Wanna Stop” (Gino Vannelli….he had a good little run at this time…very big hair…) #6 “Double Vision” (Foreigner…popular…) #7 “I Love The Nightlife” (Alicia Bridges…not bad, for this sort of thing…) #8 “Time Passages” (Al Stewart…whatever…I’m short on time….) #9 “My Life” (Billy Joel…I like him, but this is not his best…) #10 “Sharing The Night Together” (Dr. Hook….I mean compare all the preceding to any week 1964-73…it’s a rout!)
Sports Drought Quiz Answer: Five cities with the longest championship droughts and at least two major sports teams.
50 yrs…San Diego…Chargers last title, 1963, AFL
49…Cleveland…Browns, 1964, NFL
48…Buffalo…Bills, 1965, AFL
42…Milwaukee…Bucks, 1971, NBA
34…Seattle…Supersonics, 1979, NBA
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