After decades of waiting, Los Angeles or Houston baseball fans will celebrate a World Series victory within a week. While baseball winds down, college and professional football are midway through their campaigns, and basketball and hockey are just starting six-month regular seasons.
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Here are three things you need to know this week:
1) The Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros will meet in the World Series starting Tuesday
2) The New England Patriots easily defeated the Atlanta Falcons Sunday in a rematch of last year’s Super Bowl
3) Philadelphia Eagles fans are smiling between cheesesteak bites as their team won Monday night and has the NFL’s best record
Major League Baseball (MLB)
Baseball fans rejoice, the World Series is here, finally. The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros meet in a best-of-seven series starting Tuesday.
How did they get there? Home cooking was the name of the game for the Houston Astros. Houston looked good winning all four of its home games, while their opponent, the New York Yankees, dominated in their three wins in the Bronx.
Source: Sports Illustrated
The Los Angeles Dodgers had a much easier road to the World Series beating the defending champion Chicago Cubs four games to one.
Some fun water cooler facts:
1) The Dodgers last appeared in the World Series in 1988, a series they won over the Oakland A’s
2) The Dodgers started out as the Brooklyn Dodgers, and in 1958 moved to Cali. The franchise has six Works Series titles, one in Brooklyn and five in LA
3) The Houston Astros came into the league in 1961 and have only appeared in one World Series (2005) and lost
4) Break out the Gatorade …The high temperature in LA is expected to be 100 degrees for Game One
National Football League (NFL)
In a rematch of last year’s thrilling Super Bowl, the New England Patriots dominated the Atlanta Falcons and look to be getting their mojo back.
Know of a good nail salon? New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton needs one. Yes, really. After the Saints victory, Payton promised the squad…wait for it…pedicures. Payton rewarded his team for donning uncomfortable metal cleats in Sunday’s win on a difficult Green Bay turf.
Source: What Dat Dish
Pennsylvania power? The Pittsburgh Steelers dropped the Cincinnati Bengals raising their record to 5-2.
Across the state, NFL Week 7 ended with the Philadelphia Eagles dropping the Washington Redskins in the City of Brotherly Love. The Eagles now sport the league’s best record at 6-1 giving Pennsylvania football fans hope for an I-76 Super Bowl matchup.
College Football
The weekend’s two biggest matchups were in a word: duds.
Behind Heisman trophy front-runner Saquon Barkley (with three touchdowns) #2 Penn State obliterated #19 Michigan 42-13 under a “White Out” in Happy Valley.
Source: Sports Illustrated
Pregame meal at Wendy’s or White Castle? Penn State will face its toughest test Saturday when they travel to Columbus, home to equally competitive burger chains, to face #6 Ohio State.
Some 500 miles west, Notre Dame embarrassed #11 USC 49-14 and re-entered the top-10 at #9.
The new AP top-5 college football teams are
1) Alabama
2) Penn State
3) Georgia
4) TCU
5) Wisconsin
National Basketball Association (NBA)
You’re Fired! The Phoenix Suns did their best Donald J. Trump impression and dropped the hammer on head coach Earl Watson. OK but coaches get fired all the time. Yes, but Watson was fired just three games into the season. Watson was a dismal 33-85, and it didn’t help that two of this season’s three losses were epic, by 42 and 48 points.
Panic in the Bay Area? The Golden State Warriors, everyone’s favorite to win their third NBA title in four years, are off to a pedestrian 2-2 start. One word for Warriors fans: “Om.” There are 82 regular season NBA games and thus plenty of time for the team to strut its stuff.
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