How long is a long time to wait? Next time you complain about waiting for a table at The French Laundry or for Beyonce’s album to drop, remember it could always be worse. Take baseball’s Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs fans for example. They have waited a combined 176 years for their beloved teams to win the World Series.
Without further ado we bring you this week’s newsletter.
Major League Baseball (MLB)
The World Series is finally set as the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians square off in a best-of-seven matchup starting Tuesday.
Party in Wrigleyville. A huge cheer was heard across Lake Michigan and throughout the country as the long-suffering Chicago Cubs finally have a chance to win the World Series, something they haven’t done since 1908. (In fact, the Cubs haven’t even appeared in the Series since 1945). The drought is the longest in all four major North American sports leagues.
Surely someone remembers the last Cubs championship. Well…assuming memories are formed around five years old, there are only four people 113-years-old in the US that were alive the last time the Cubbies won it all. Nationwide Cubs fans are coming out of the woodwork to display their team pride. #GoCubs #FlyTheW
Believeland? The Cleveland Indians are trying to capitalize on the momentum begun by the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers who brought home the first professional championship to Cleveland since 1964. The Indians last played in the World Series in 1997 but haven’t won it since 1948.
National Football League (NFL)
Going into Week 7, the Minnesota Vikings were the NFL’s lone undefeated team. That came to an end when the Philadelphia Eagles dropped the Vikes 21-10.
Taking over as the NFL’s best team is the New England Patriots, who beat the Pittsburgh Steelers (playing without their injured star QB Ben Roethlisberger), 27-16 Sunday. Pats coach Bill Belichick went old school and threw out his Surface tablet, trading it in for the traditional pen and paper. Sorry Microsoft.
Bad News Browns…Thankfully Cleveland’s NBA and MLB teams are really good because their NFL team is awful. The Cleveland Browns (0-7) are the league’s only team without a victory, and the pain continued in a loss to their in-state rivals, the Cincinnati Bengals, 31-17. To add injury to insult the Browns are on to their sixth quarterback of the season.
Sunday night’s national game was a defensive slugfest between two good teams and heated rivals that ended strangely. The Arizona Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks both missed makeable field goals in overtime and backed into a 6-6 tie, only the sixth tie in the last 15 seasons.
Having trouble naming all 32 NFL teams? This two-year-old can lend a hand.
College Football
In the biggest upset of the season, previously unbeaten #2 Ohio State traveled to Happy Valley and lost to Penn State, 24-21. The game was played in a “white out” (100,000 fans decked out in white). The loss put a dent in OSU’s National Championship hopes but they can still make the four-team playoff if they win their remaining games.
Another huge surprise was #21 Auburn destroying #17 Arkansas 56-3.
Waiting to bring another championship home to Tuscaloosa, defending champions #1 Alabama kept rolling with a 33-14 victory over #6 Texas A&M.
Smiling about A&M’s loss are undefeated Michigan, Clemson and Washington who are now the #2-4 ranked teams in college football behind Alabama.
Craving a Double Double, Animal-Style? In-N-Out Burger fans know what we are talking about, and so do the Colorado football players. In a pre-game pep talk Saturday the CU coach promised to make a burger run if his team beat Stanford. They did and he delivered, literally. More napkins, please.
National Basketball Association (NBA)
The wait is over for basketball fans as the NBA season kicks off Tuesday night.
The biggest offseason move was former league MVP Kevin Durant leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder to join the loaded Golden State Warriors, the team that won a record 73 regular season games last year but lost in the NBA Finals. Durant joins Stephen Curry, a two-time MVP, to create the most talented starting-five in the league.
Can’t wait for June? The NBA champion won’t be crowned until Summer officially begins but most experts and casual fans alike are predicting a third straight Finals matchup between LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers and the star-studded Golden State Warriors. The matchup is tied 1-1.
Remember at TINK Sports we watch the games so you don’t have to.
See you next time…
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