Saturday’s Den: Random stuff on a winter day…….

— Miami Heat President Pat Riley owns at least six trademarks for the term “three-peat”, so if the Chiefs win their third consecutive Super Bowl next week, Riley figures to bank as much as $1M, since anyone who uses the phrase on team merchandise — hats, shirts, jackets, mugs, backpacks, and more, has to pay Riley first.

He filed for the trademark in 1989, after his Lakers won consecutive NBA titles.

— Purdue 81, Indiana 76
Purdue was 21-28 on full line, Hoosiers 9-16.
Indiana led 41-37 at halftime.
Braden Smith scored 24 points, had 7 assists, 6 steals.
Boilers won nine of their last ten games.

— Yale 77, Princeton 70
Yale shot 9-16 on arc, scored 1.18 points/possession.
Bulldogs have won six in a row, are 5-0 in Ivy League.
Princeton was 14-42 on the arc, 10-27 inside arc.

— Georgetown 73, Butler 70
Hoyas shot 63% inside arc, 2-17 on the arc.
Just second win in last eight games for Georgetown.
Butler lost 12 of its last 14 games.

— Dayton 71, Saint Louis 63
Dayton was +7 in turnovers (19-12)
Fourth win in last five games for the Flyers.
Saint Louis drops to third in the A-15, two games behind George Mason.

— Akron 85, Kent State 71
Zips ran out to a 48-31 lead at halftime.
Zips were 11-27 on arc, scored 1.16 points/possession.
Akron went 9-0 in January, after a 7-5 pre-conference record.

— I still think that assists on 3-point shots should count as 1.5 assists.

Famous birthdays, February 1st:
Bill Mumy, 71
TR Dunn, 70
Tim Mazzetti, 69
Linus Roache, 61

Sherilyn Fenn, 60
Brett Anderson, 37
Sean Manaea, 33
Jazz Chisholm, 27

— Detroit Lions have lost seven assistant coaches since their season ended, including both of their coordinators.

New Jersey Jets hired former Lions assistant Tanner Engstrand as their new OC; he spent five years with Detroit, and also spent a year in the XFL, serving as the offensive coordinator for the DC Defenders. 

Earlier this week, Jets hired former Charlotte coach Steve Wilks as their new DC. 

— Tampa Bay Bucs promoted Josh Grizzard to offensive coordinator,, replacing Liam Coen, who is the new head coach in Jacksonville. 

This past season, Bucs were 3rd in the NFL in passing yards, 4th in rushing yards. Grizzard was Tampa Bay’s pass game coordinator this year. 

Grizzard will be the 8th OC Baker Mayfield has had in his eight years as an NFL QB.

— Dallas Cowboys hired Arizona’s offensive line coach Klayton Adams as their new OC. New head coach Brian Schottenheimer will call plays for Dallas; Adams will make sure Dak Prescott is protected, and the run game goes well.

— At least ten Super Bowl commercials for next week’s game have sold for $8M; all the ad spots for the game have been sold. Roughly 124 million people watched last year’s Super Bowl, 115 million the year before.

— Since 1994, Baltimore Ravens have gotten 54 compensatory draft picks, which they got for their players bolting to other teams. That is the most in the NFL during that time. Ravens are getting four comp picks in this year’s draft.

— Four teams that the NFL can force to be shown on HBO’s Hard Knocks next summer, and also the draft-related shows this spring:

Falcons, Panthers, Seahawks, Titans. Tennessee has the first pick in the draft, so they probably make more sense for the draft Hard Knocks.

— Only four NBA players ever with 25,000+ points, 8,000+ assists:
James Harden
Lebron James
Oscar Robertson
Russell Westbrook

Author: Armadillo Sports

I've been involved in sports my whole life, now just write about them. I like to travel, mostly to Las Vegas- they have gambling there.

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