[Posted Sunday p.m. before late sports action.]
Brief Add-on up top by noon, Tuesday.
College Football Quiz: How many of the 13 who rushed for 4,000 yards in their Pac-12 career can you name? [Hint: 2 are from Oregon, 3 Washington, 2 Stanford, 2 USC, and one each from UCLA, Arizona, Oregon State and Utah. Three started their careers in the 1970s. None in the ‘60s.] Answer below.
MLB
Entering play this weekend, we still have some playoff spots up for grabs.
A.L. Wild Card
Yankees 86-67…+3
Houston 84-69…+1
Boston 83-70…–
Cleveland 81-71…1.5
N.L. Wild Card
Chicago 88-65…+9
San Diego 83-70…+4
Mets 79-74…–
Cincinnati 77-76…2
Arizona 77-76…2
San Francisco 77-77…3
Friday night, the Yankees lost to the Orioles in Baltimore, 4-2; Boston defeated the Rays in Tampa, 11-7; Houston fell to the Mariners, 4-0; and Cleveland defeated the Twins 6-2, the Guardians remaining 1 ½ back of both Boston and now Houston.
In the N.L., the Mets had a nice 12-6 win over Washington at Citi Field after falling behind 4-1 early, Juan Soto with a career-high 42nd home run, Francisco Lindor with four runs scored; Cincinnati beat the Cubs 7-4; Arizona lost to Philadelphia, 8-2, as the Phillies’ Walker Buehler picked up the win with 3 2/3 of scoreless relief, his second solid outing since the Phillies signed him; and the Dodgers beat the Giants, 6-3, as Clayton Kershaw made his last regular-season start at Dodger Stadium, going 4 1/3, 2 runs, with Shohei Ohtani hitting No. 52. More on Kershaw later.
The Mets thus remained 2 games up on Cincinnati for the final wild card spot, Arizona 3 back (the Giants basically out of it…4 back).
The Dodgers are now 4 up on the Padres in the N.L. West, while in the A.L., the Mariners, with their win over the Astros, pulled one game ahead in the A.L. West.
Saturday….
Mets fans were treated to another horror show, as the fielding was beyond atrocious, including what should have been a fly ball double in the top of the 11th by Washington’s rapidly rising star, Daylen Lile, that center fielder Cedric Mullins misplayed into a 2-run inside-the-park home run, the Mets falling 5-3.
Earlier in the game, Juan Soto misplayed a single and Pete Alonso made two awful throws. The Metsies were 3 for 16 with runners-in-scoring-position, wasting another solid effort from rookie starter Nolan McLean, who allowed 3 runs in 5 innings but only one run was earned.
Of course the Reds then beat the Cubs again, 6-3, to move to within one game of the Mets.
One more…the Mets still haven’t won a game all year after trailing in the 8th inning.
The D’Backs beat the Phillies 4-3, so Arizona is 2 back in the WC.
The Dodgers beat the Giants 7-5, Ohtani with No. 53.
In the A.L., the Yankees beat the Orioles 6-1, Carlos Rodon with his 17th win, Aaron Judge with No. 49.
The Red Sox beat the Rays 6-3.
The Tigers’ collapse continued, falling to the Braves 6-5, now losers of 8 of 9, while the Guardians continued their epic run, 8-0 over the Twins, making it 14 of 15, Cleveland now just one back of Detroit in the A.L. Central.
Cleveland pitchers have given up 2 or fewer runs in 13 of 15. Amazing.
On July 8, the Tigers were 59-34, up 14 in their division, and they’ve gone 26-36 since. They were 12 ½ games ahead of the Guardians on Aug. 25.
–Earlier in the week, Seattle’s Cal Raleigh hit home runs No. 55 and 56 on Tuesday in Kansas City, his 55th breaking Mickey Mantle’s record for most home runs in a season by a switch-hitter. No. 56 tied Raleigh with Ken Griffey Jr. for the most in a season by a Mariners player. Raleigh already owns the single-season home run record for a catcher.
He then hit No. 57 Saturday in a 6-4 win over the Astros that dropped Houston into a tie for the final wild card spot with Cleveland.
Sunday….
The Mets suffered an absolutely crushing 3-2 loss, Washington center fielder Jacob Young with two spectacular catches, one robbing the Mets of a double or triple, the other in the bottom of the ninth, taking away a home run from Francisco Alvarez.
But the Mets lost 2 of 3 to a dreadful team and were just 4-5 on a critical final home stand.
And once again, the Mets’ fielding was atrocious!
They are 35-52 since starting the season 45-24. The fans, and generous owner Steve Cohen, deserved far better.
And the Reds tied the Mets, shutting out the Cubs 1-0, but Cincy holds the tiebreaker over the Metropolitans.
This coming week could really, really suck for some of us; the Mets traveling to Chicago to play the Cubbies, and then down to Miami and the pesky Marlins for the final three.
Cincinnati takes on the Pirates at home and goes to Milwaukee.
And Arizona could be just one game back, winning 6-0 early against the Phillies late this afternoon.
—In the A.L., the Tigers fell to the Braves, 6-2, but the Twins defeated the Guardians by the same score, so Cleveland remains one game back of the Tigers.
The Guardians now await tonight’s big Houston-Seattle game to see if they are still tied for the final wild card spot.
The Yankees beat the Orioles 7-1 in 10 innings, Ben Rice with a grand slam in the top of the 10th. New York is locked into the wild card.
–The aforementioned Clayton Kershaw announced his retirement this week, a day ahead of what ended up being his 228th and final home start at Dodger Stadium. The 37-year-old, who has been with the organization since being selected in the first round of the 2006 MLB Draft, became the 20th member of the 3,000-strikeout club in July.
Between 2011 and 2017, Kershaw won three Cy Young Awards and was never out of the top five in the Cy Young vote. He was also league MVP in 2014, when he went 21-3 with a 1.77 ERA.
Kershaw won four straight ERA titles from 2011 to 2014, and a fifth in 2016.
As of today, he is 222-96 for his career with a sensational 2.54 ERA. His winning percentage of .698 is second in baseball history in the modern era next to Spud Chandler (109-43, .717, 1937-47).
Kershaw is simply one of the best ever.
But Kershaw has been beset by non-stop injuries the past six seasons, and he does have that career 4.49 ERA in the playoffs.
College Football
With Nos. 1 and 2 Ohio State and Penn State idle this week….
No. 3 LSU (4-0) rolled over SE Louisiana (2-2), 56-10. No. 4 Miami (4-0) whipped in-state rival Florida (1-3) 26-7.
6 Oregon (4-0) won its civil war with Oregon State (0-4) 41-7, the Ducks having their way with the Beavers, outgaining them 585-147; Dante Moore with four touchdown passes.
7 Florida State (3-0) destroyed Kent State (1-3) 66-10, piling up 775 yards in the process, with a school-record 498 on the ground.
8 Texas (3-1) annihilated Sam Houston (0-4) 55-0, as Arch Manning was 18/21, 309, 3-0.
And in a shocker, 19 Indiana (4-0) romped all over 9 Illinois (3-1) in Bloomington, 63-10, as quarterback Fernando Mendoza stamped himself as a Heisman contender, 21/23, 267, 5-0.
The IU defense held the Illini to just two yards rushing.
11 Oklahoma (4-0) had an important win over 22 Auburn (3-1), 24-17, though the SEC had to admit after its officials blew it on some key calls that certainly cost Auburn. The OU defense had a school-record 10 sacks!
13 Ole Miss (4-0) beat a solid Tulane (3-1) squad, 45-10.
15 Tennessee whipped UAB (2-2) 56-24.
17 Texas Tech had a surprisingly easy win at 16 Utah (3-1) 34-10, the Utes committing four turnovers. Backup Red Raiders QB Will Hammond passed for 169 yards and rushed for 61 yards after starter Behren Morton exited with a head injury.
18 Georgia Tech (4-0) beat Temple (2-2) 45-24. Next up for the Yellow Jackets, Wake Forest, which was idle this week.
21 Michigan (3-1) had a good road win at Nebraska (3-1), a missed opportunity for the Cornhuskers to get a big one and show the nation they have finally turned the corner.
23 Missouri (4-0) had an important win over South Carolina (2-2) 29-20, Mizzou rushing for 287 yards. The Gamecocks’ LaNorris Sellers did play, despite suffering a head injury last week, and he was solid, 18/28, 302, 2-0.
24 Notre Dame (1-2) picked up its first win after two tough losses to open the season, 56-30 over Purdue (2-2), as Jeremiyah Love and Jadarian Price combined for 28 carries, 231 yards and five touchdowns.
25 USC (4-0) beat Michigan State (3-1) 45-31, Waymond Jordan rushing for 157 on 18 carries.
In other games….
Clemson is 1-3 for the first time under Dabo Swinney, falling at home to Syracuse (3-1) 34-21, despite 363 yards passing from Cade Klubnik (though on 60 attempts) and Adam Randall’s 130 yards rushing.
But Clemson committed some egregious penalties, gave up an onside kick, and had two costly turnovers.
The Bill Belichick ERA is off to a dismal 2-2 start, the Tar Heels falling on the road to UCF (3-0) 34-9, North Carolina with just 217 yards of offense.
Duke (2-2) had an important 45-33 win over N.C. State (3-1), Darian Mensah, the high-priced Tulane transfer, finally playing well with three touchdown passes, while the Wolfpack’s CJ Bailey, who has played so well at QB early this season, was picked off 3 times and lost a fumble.
—Friday night, Rutgers (3-1) suffered its first loss, falling to Iowa (3-1) at home, 38-28, despite Athan Kaliakmanis’ 330 yards passing, Ian Strong with eight receptions for 151 and a TD for the Scarlet Knights.
But Iowa got a 100-yard kickoff return from Kaden Wetjen and quarterback Mark Gronowski rushed for three touchdowns, plus was a solid 12/18 for 186 yards through the air.
—The fall of the Oklahoma State football program under long-time coach Mike Gundy has been stunning. After winning its first three games in 2024, it lost its next nine to finish 3-9.
This season, after beating Tennessee-Martin just 27-7 in its opener, the Cowboys fell to Oregon in humiliating fashion, 69-3, and then lost Friday night to Tulsa, 19-12, as the home crowd chanted “Fire Gundy.”
Tulsa hadn’t defeated OK State on the road since 1951.
—College football has drastically shortened the transfer portal to just ten days, beginning on Jan. 2, though this could be tweaked at the administrative committee’s October meeting. The spring transfer portal was eliminated.
Graduate transfers will also be subject to the new winter window under the current proposal. Last year, grad transfers were able to enter the portal as early as Oct. 1 and as late as the conclusion of the spring window.
Players on teams that endure head-coaching changes will still get an immediate 30-day transfer window, which begins the day after the coaching change is made.
—And now…the new AP Poll!
- Ohio State (52) 3-0
2. Miami (7) 4-0
3. Penn State (5) 3-0
4. LSU 4-0
5. Georgia 3-0
6. Oregon (1) 4-0
7. Oklahoma (1) 4-0
8. Florida State 3-0
9. Texas A&M 3-0
10. Texas 3-1
11. Indiana 4-0…up 8
12. Texas Tech 4-0
13. Ole Miss 4-0
14. Iowa State 4-0
15. Tennessee 3-1
16. Georgia Tech 4-0
17. Alabama 2-1
18. Vanderbilt 4-0
19. Michigan 3-1
20. Missouri 3-1
21. USC 4-0
22. Notre Dame 1-2
23. Illinois 3-1…down 14
24. TCU 3-0
25. BYU 3-0
Next week…three potentially great games…4 LSU at 13 Mississippi (there will be some talent at this one); 6 Oregon at 3 Penn State (a rematch of last year’s Big Ten championship game, won by the Ducks 45-37); and 17 Alabama at 5 Georgia (see LSU-Ole Miss).
NFL
—Thursday, Buffalo moved to 3-0 with a 31-21 win over winless Miami (0-3). At least the Dolphins showed up for this one.
But the Bills have Josh Allen (22/28, 213, 3-0, 134.1), while James Cook had 19 carries for 108 yards and a TD.
—Today, I started out watching my Jets at Tampa Bay but switched to the Mets when their game started, that being far more important, so I was following the Jets almost solely online and they were down early, 20-6 at the half, and then 23-6 in the third.
But the Jets and backup QB Tyrod Taylor (subbing for Justin Fields who remains in concussion protocol) rallied back and then, out of nowhere, Will McDonald IV recovered a blocked field goal attempt and went 50 yards for the score, Jets up 27-26 with 1:49 to play.
And then the “Jets happened.” Their defense, as so often happens, had a chance to step up, didn’t, and Baker Mayfield drove the Bucs 48 to set them up for a winning 36-yard field goal, 29-27. As with the Mets, a crushing loss…New York 0-3…Tampa Bay 3-0.
–The Eagles (3-0) had a miracle win of sorts, 33-26 over the Rams (2-1). Trailing 26-7 early in the third, Jalen Hurts rallied Philadelphia back to a 27-26 lead, throwing three touchdown passes.
And the Eagles then blocked the Rams’ winning field goal attempt, returning it for a TD as time expired, 33-26.
–The Commanders moved to 2-1, defeating the Raiders (1-2) 41-24. Marcus Mariota, subbing for the injured Jayden Daniels, proved why he is one of the 2 or 3 best backups in football, 15/21, 207, 1-0, 118.6 passing, plus 40 yards and a touchdown on the ground.
Washington also got a 90-yard punt return for a TD by Jaylin Lane. Oh, those special teams.
—Pittsburgh is 2-1, Aaron Rodgers with a late TD pass to defeat the Patriots (1-2) in Foxborough, 21-14.
–The Vikings were without J.J. McCarthy (high-ankle sprain), but no problem. Carson Wentz filled in ably and the Vikings (2-1) blew away the Bengals (2-1), who are without Joe Burrow for three months, 48-10. Cincinnati committed five turnovers, four in the first half as they fell behind 34-3 at the intermission.
–The Browns (1-2) handed the Packers (2-1) a bad defeat, 13-10, on an Andre Szmyt 55-yard field goal as time expired in Cleveland.
–The Giants are playing the Chiefs at MetLife Stadium tonight.
—The D.C. Council approved a $3.7 billion deal Wednesday that would return the Washington Commanders to D.C., giving them the final green light to build their new football stadium alongside a sprawling mixed-use development on the banks of the Anacostia River where the RFK Stadium is being demolished.
The new project will return the now-Maryland-based NFL team to the site where it had played until 1996 – against the backdrop of the Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol.
World Athletics Championships
–Local girl Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone became the first woman in nearly 40 years to crack 48 seconds in the 400 meters Thursday, running 47.78 in an historically fast race in Tokyo.
Pushed by second-place finisher Marileidy Paulino, who clocked a 47.98 of her own on the rain-slickened track, McLaughlin-Lebrone captured her first global title in the 400 after dominating the hurdles for the last four years.
The second and third-fastest times in history in this race trail only the 47.60 by East Germany’s Marita Koch, set Oct. 6, 1985 – one of the last remaining vestiges in track from an Eastern Bloc doping system that was exposed years after it ended.
The record came on the same track where McLaughlin-Levrone set her second 400 hurdles world record at the 2021 Olympics. But this time there were fans in the stands, screaming as she rounded the oval, then headed into the home stretch in a tight battle with Paulino that wasn’t in the bag until the last 30 meters.
It was McLaughlin-Levrone’s 19th straight victory in a one-lap race – hurdles and flat – dating to June 2023.
—American Noah Lyles won the 200 meters, pulling ahead of his rival Kenny Bednarek heading into the straighaway to cross in 19.52 and equal Usain Bolt’s worlds title haul.
Instead of exchanging glares and shoves with Bednarek – the way it happened last month at the U.S. Championships – Lyle looked relatively calm.
“This,” Lyles said, “is a very big win.”
Minutes after, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden completed the first women’s 100-200 double at worlds since Shelly-Ann Faser-Pryce in 2013, winning it in 21.68 seconds. It was a huge margin over surprise silver medalist Amy Hunt of Britain. It also made Jefferson-Wooden the first American to complete the double at worlds.
—Armand “Mondo” Duplantis broke the pole vault world record for the 14th time at the world championships, clearing 20 feet, 8 inches on his third and final try.
Golf Balls
–All about the upcoming Ryder Cup next Friday-Sunday at Long Island’s Bethpage Black. Fan behavior is going to be a huge issue, but word is, PGA of America officials have significant security measures designed to crack down on abusive galleries. Several of the European players, including Rory McIlroy, will have dedicated security details.
President Trump’s expected presence during the first competition day on Friday further complicates matters, especially as the assassination of Charlie Kirk has heightened security concerns.
But the weather forecast is deteriorating, calling for showers Friday and Saturday as I go to post (after rain in the area midweek as well).
—The PGA Tour announced it won’t play the 2026 Sentry Tournament of Champions due to issues at the host venue, Kapalua Resort.
The Plantation Course, home to the tournament since 1999, has faced significant irrigation water restrictions, and the course’s ownership group has sued Maui Land & Pineapple Company over the water being cut off.
The Sentry has served as the PGA Tour’s calendar-year opening event since 1986.
The Tour has not announced any contingency plans as of this point.
The event has not only kicked off the PGA Tour’s yearly calendar, but it also leads into the Sony Open, which is also played in Hawaii. Since many of the world’s top players are already on the islands, the Sony Field has typically remained strong, even though it’s early on the schedule.
The Sentry is also a signature event. Not a lot of time to change things.
Premier League
In key weekend matchups….
Liverpool beat Everton 2-1; Tottenham drew with Brighton on the road 2-2; and Manchester United picked up a huge win for their fan base, 2-1 over Chelsea.
And then today, Arsenal took on Manchester City and the Gunners salvaged a 1-1 draw as Martinelli scored on a beautiful dink shot in the 93rd minute.
Stuff
–After I posted my Add-on early last Tuesday morning, we learned soon after that two-time Oscar winner and Hollywood legend, Robert Redford, died at the age of 89 at his home in Utah.
Known for his strawberry-blond hair and boyishly handsome looks, Redford’s Hollywood career spanned over six decades, garnering him five Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
His most memorable acting work includes roles in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969), “The Sting” (1973), “All the President’s Men” (1976), “The Natural” (1984), and “Out of Africa” (1985).
“The idea of being an actor was to have a sense of freedom. You were free to be, to act as someone else, if you were paying attention to the people around you,” Redford told Collider in 2019.
“You had a chance to be an artist, because acting is an art form. You had a chance to say, ‘I know this person, I’ve seen this person before and I want to bring that forward.’”
Born Charles Robert Redford, Jr., on Aug. 18, 1936, he grew up in Santa Monica, Calif., playing a lot of sports, but young Robert struggled to find his own path.
“I was a failure at everything I tried. I worked as a box boy at a supermarket and got fired. Then my dad got me a job at Standard Oil – fired again,” he told Success magazine in 1980 about his teenage work ethic.
He graduated high school in 1954 and briefly attended the University of Colorado in Boulder on a baseball scholarship.
Tragedy struck in 1955 when his mom died of septicemia – a bacteria infection in the bloodstream associated with the birth of twin girls, who had lived only a short while, leaving Redford an only child. He was 18 years old.
Redford then went to Europe to work on becoming an actor, returning to study in NYC at the Pratt Institute and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In 1959, he made his Broadway debut in “Tall Story,” and then his first starring role came in Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” in 1963, which he would reprise in the 1967 film adaptation opposite Jane Fonda, his frequent co-star.
Redford was prolific in the 1960s and ‘70s. He won the Golden Globe for Best New Star for “Inside Daisy Clover” (1965) alongside Natalie Wood and cemented his status as a leading man in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” with Paul Newman.
Redford and Newman starred together again, as conniving grifters in the crime drama “The Sting,” which is considered the greatest hit of Redford’s career. He was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, his first and only nomination in that category. [He would win an honorary Academy Award in 2002.]
He found success in the ‘70s playing a political nepo baby in “The Candidate” (1972); Jay Gatsby in “The Great Gatsby” (1974); and Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in the Watergate scandal retelling “All the President’s Men.”
He won the Golden Globe for Favorite World Film Star in 1975, 1977 and 1978.
Redford then dipped his toes in the directing world by helming “Ordinary People” in 1980. The emotional family drama won four Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture.
Four years later, Redford starred as Roy Hobbs in “The Natural,” which has been called “arguably the best baseball movie ever made.”
He also played Meryl Streep’s character’s lover in “Out of Africa,” which won seven Oscars.
Redford also directed Brad Pitt in “A River Runs Through It” (1992); “Quiz Show” (1994), which scored four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director; “The Horse Whisperer” (1998), which featured himself as the lead; and “The Legend of Bagger Vance” (2000), starring Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron.
Perhaps my favorite all-time Redford film, aside from “Butch Cassidy…,” is “Jeremiah Johnson.” And “Downhill Racer” was a unique movie.
Off screen, Redford founded the Sundance Institute and became the face of the Sundance Film Festival, which celebrates the indie genre.
And he was a long-time environmental activist.
When Rolling Stone asked what advice he wished he could pass on to his younger self, Redford said: “I’d probably say always look for the truth, even though truths can be elusive. I’m always inspired by the words of T.S. Eliot: ‘For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.’ So maybe, ‘Just follow your instincts and keep searching for the truth.’”
–I forgot last time to note the passing of former New York Ranger great goaltender Eddie Giacomin, who died at the age of 86.
I became a total sports fan in 1966, when I was 8 years old, in terms of really beginning to follow all the New York teams and watching every Mets, Rangers, Knicks and Jets games whenever they were on the little black and white TV we had upstairs, before upgrading to color.
The Rangers were a ton of fun in Giacomin’s day with the team, 1965-76, when he had a 2.74 goals-against average (2.82 for his full 13-year career, including his final seasons in Detroit). He was a huge fan favorite.
Giacomin joined the Rangers in 1965 as a prematurely graying 26-year-old and blossomed as a star the next season, when he was chosen for the first of his six All-Star Games and posted what became his career-high nine shutouts.
He went on to lead the NHL in shutouts and single-season victories three times and shared the 1971 Vezina Trophy – awarded by the league for best goaltender – with the Rangers’ Gilles Villemure for lowest goals-against average.
The Rangers made the playoffs every spring from 1967 to 1974 with Giacomin in the nets, reaching the Stanley Cup finals in 1972 (only to lose to the Bruins), bolstered by Giacomin along with center Jean Ratelle, Rod Gilbert and Vic Hadfield on the wings, and Brad Park on defense.
But on Halloween night in 1975, Emile Francis, the Rangers general manager and coach, seeking to overhaul his roster, summoned Giacomin to his office at the team’s practice rink in Long Beach, N.J., to tell him he was being sent to the Red Wings on waivers. As Giacomin recalled, his wife was waiting in their car while the men spoke.
“It was like I had fallen through a trap door and was tumbling in space,” Giacomin told the New York Times in 1989. “I walked toward the car, but didn’t know whether I should stop or just keep walking, keep walking out into the water. Why couldn’t it have at least been a trade? Maybe I would have felt better then.”
Two nights after the Rangers discarded him, Giacomin returned to the Garden as the starting goalie for the Red Wings. As he stood alongside his new teammates at Detroit’s red line, the fans drowned out the playing of the national anthem, shouting “Eddie! Eddie!”
Giacomin raised his stick twice in an unsuccessful plea for silence as tears streamed down his cheeks. The fans resumed their chant when he turned away Ranger shots in a 6-4 Detroit victory.
I remember this game vividly. A special New York sports moment.
“The last 10 minutes of the game, they start: ‘Kill the Cat! Kill the Cat!’” Francis told NHL.com in 2016, recalling how the enraged fans invoked his own nickname during his years as a goalie.
A week later, Francis traded Park and Ratelle to the Bruins for defenseman Carol Vadnais and the future Hall of Fame center Phil Esposito.
Giacomin was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987 and became the second Ranger, after Rod Gilbert, to have his number retired, when his No. 1 jersey was hoisted at the Garden in March 1989.
–And then we just learned today, as announced by the Philadelphia Flyers, that their Hall of Fame goaltender, Bernie Parent, had died at the age of 80.
Parent won back-to-back Stanley Cup titles with the Flyers in 1974 (beating the Bruins) and 1975 (Sabres), while winning the Vezina trophies each of those two seasons as well.
Parent’s No. 1 was retired by the Flyers, and in 1984, he became the first Flyers player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He is still the Flyers’ career leader in shutouts with 50.
Top 3 songs for the week 9/23/78: #1 “Boogie Oogie Oogie” (A Taste Of Honey) #2 “Kiss You All Over” (Exile) #3 “Hopelessly Devoted To You” (Olivia Newton-John)…and…#4 “Three Times A Lady” (Commodores) #5 “An Everlasting Love” (Andy Gibb) #6 “Summer Nights” (John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John) #7 “Don’t Look Back” (Boston) #8 “Hot Blooded” (Foreigner) #9 “Hot Child In The City” (Nick Gilder) #10 “Reminiscing” (Little River Band…great tune…B week…)
College Football Quiz Answer: Thirteen to rush for 4,000 yards in their Pac-12 career….
- Royce Freeman 5,621 (Oregon, 2014-2017)
2. Charles White 5,598 (USC, 1976-1979)
3. Myles Gaskin 5,323 (Washington, 2015-2018)
4. LaMichael James 5,082 (Oregon, 2009-2011)
5. Ken Simonton 4,802 (Oregon State, 1998-2001)
6. Marcus Allen 4,682 (USC, 1978-1981)
7. Johnathan Franklin 4,403 (UCLA, 2009-2012)
8. Stepfan Taylor 4,300 (Stanford, 2009-2012)
9. Ka’Deem Carey 4,239 (Arizona, 2011-2013)
10. Zack Moss 4,067 (Utah, 2016-2019)
11. Chris Polk 4,049 (Washington, 2008-2011)
12. Napoleon Kaufman 4,041 (Washington, 1991-1994)
13. Darrin Nelson 4,033 (Stanford, 1977-1981)
Others….
Ricky Bell 3,553 (USC)
Anthony Davis 3,426 (USC)
Mike Garrett 3,221 (USC)
Freeman McNeil 3,183 (UCLA)
O.J. Simpson 3,124 (USC)
Bell, Davis and Garrett played just three seasons, Simpson just two. And bowl game stats for all five, including McNeil, weren’t included back then.
Brief Add-on up top by noon, Tuesday.
