Jon Joseph

46 Years Ago, since Al Michaels - Do you believe in miracles? Yes! USA breaks 46-year drought on Miracle on Ice anniversary

Terrific win for the Ducks over USC. Tough loss for Michigan vs Duke. The B1G and B12 are looking tourney good. https://www.yardbarker.com/college_basketball/articles/big_ten_big_12_rule_the_ncaa_tournament_top_16_reveal/s1_13132_43499515?utm_source=mb&utm_medium=email&mb_edition=20260222&mb_loc=right_h

WOW! Thanks for the blast from the past. Back then, the World Series was played in the daylight. We snuck transistor radios into Middle School to listen to the games played during the week. The entire school erupted when Mazeroski hit the famous, Series-clinching walk-off home run.

Oh, (oh) Canada. Women's and Men's teams take down Canada 2-1 in overtime. A sweep of the Canucks for the USA and the first Olympiad in which both the Women's and Men's teams won Gold Medals. In 1960, I recall watching the USA upsetting Russia 3-2 in the semifinals, the 'Forgotten Miracle' game, before defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4, to win the USA Men's hockey team's first Olympic Gold Medal. The games were played on an outdoor rink in Squaw Valley, California, with no helmets required to be worn, and the games were broadcast only in black and white. Two players from Harvard, Billy and Bobby Cleary, played for the USA. I attended the same prep school as did the Cleary brothers, Belmont Hill School, where a photo of the 1960 team was a prominent feature in our locker room. For many years, Bobby was Harvard's all-time leading scorer. Billy went on to coach the hockey team at Harvard before serving as Harvard's AD from 1990 through 2001. United States pulled off 'bigger miracle' at 1960 Olympic...Upset hockey powers en route to winning hockey gold for 1st time In the Women's Gold Medal game against Canada, with just over a minute left in regulation, the tying goal was scored by the team captain and Wisconsin Badger, Hilary Knight. Another Badger and the first Black woman to play for the USA team, Laila Edwards, was given an Assist on Hilary's goal. The player who scored the Golden Goal for the USA Men's team, Jack Hughes, comes from a hockey family. Jack went directly from high school to the NFL. Brothers Quinn and Luke played for Michigan before moving up to the NHL. The two Gold Medal games won by the USA Men's and Women's teams helped lead the USA to its greatest medal haul in the history of the Winter Olympics. 1st - Norway - 38 Medals - 18 Gold 2nd - United States of America - 33 Medals - 12 Gold 3rd - Italy - 30 Medals - 10 Gold for the host nation. Heavy SportsQuinn & Jack Hughes' Parents: 5 Fast Facts You Need to KnowMeet Jim and Ellen Hughes, the hockey parents behind Team USA stars Quinn and Jack Hughes at the 2026 Winter Olympics.USA, USA, USA!

Luke and Mike, looks like you boys picked a B1G bad season to stop sniffing glue. 🤪 And Dabo? You just made the list, buddy. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/10-college-football-coaches-pressure-2026-mike-norvell-luke-fickell/

8 AM Eastern/5 AM Pacific. NBC 😴 Hey, you Hosers, forget about putting the IPAs, Moulsons, and Budweisers on ice; line up the Bloody Mary essentials, and don't forget the Tabasco sauce, eh? SITeam USA, Canada Fulfill Their Olympic Destiny As Gold Me...From the first drop of the puck, the U.S. dominated Slovakia in Friday’s semifinal to set up a final for the ages in Milan on Sunday.

5.3 million viewers on USA and Peacock, the most ever for a Women's Ice Hockey game.

Instead of the Chargers firing anyone, ESPN fired the wanker who made the prediction, Todd "McShade." Er, Todd McShay. 😁 The payback for Hubris is a witch! 👺

AMEN! And how about Babe Parilli, who played for coach Bear Bryant and won an SEC title at Kentucky! You can't have nice football stuff at basketball schools, right? What's that? I thought I heard you say something about the Hoosiers and a Cig? 😁

Thanks for the post, Steven A., and for all of your other great posts. I cop to losing interest when I saw Bo's name next to Auburn and Fernando's name next to Indiana, and not Cal. Yes, Mendoza won the Heisman playing at Indiana. Indiana is appropriate for Fernando. But wasn't Bo a Heisman finalist when he played at Oregon, not Auburn? No Justin Herbert? Where are the Dutchman, Dan Fouts, Akili Smith, Joey Harrington, and other impact QBs who played for OBD? No Joe Namath? For that matter, where's Bart Starr? Oh well, consider the source, and also consider that in today's wired world, everything that happened before 2000 is ancient history. Watch out for the waving cane! 🤬 Who knew? - I hope the guy who authored the article did not major in English at Oregon. Football teams are not 'Whos.' The QBs who played on the teams are 'Who's.'

Fairness? A good goal. But there is no accounting for a Cig lead Indiana or a Penn State bust. I think B1G HQ in 2023 put together schedules from 2024 through 2028 that, considering 'permanent' opponents, were as equitable over five seasons as could be. Looking back to 2023, OBD had a cakewalk conference schedule in 2025, including a home game vs. the pathetic Indiana Hoosiers. In theory, I love your scheduling matrix idea. It kind of works in the NFL, which is dedicated to parity, but the NFL has nowhere near the yearly roster turnover of today's CFB. And the NFL also has restraints on the number of terrific players a team can buy every year. I think forecasting schedules for five seasons, as we have in the B1G, or three seasons like the SEC, is as close to equitable as today's CFB format can allow. My biggest beef with Oregon's schedule this season is not with the opponents but with eight P4 games without a break and traveling to the Eastern time zone twice in November. Thanks again for the great article.

This season, it is Ohio State's turn to have the most difficult B1G football schedule. OBD's and Indiana's schedules are also more difficult than last season. Wisconsin goes from the most difficult conference schedule last season to one of, if not the easiest, conference schedules this season. So it goes. This is what the B1G HQ aimed for when it came up with the football schedules through 2028. Balance as much as possible over five seasons. With the vagaries in roster talent and the money invested in football, what we have in the B1G today is the best we can hope for. Am I happy Oregon's schedule in 2026 is more difficult than in 2025? No. When the schedules through 2028 came out, I think Dan Lanning and Ryan Day highlighted games against one another, but not games against Indiana. Just like the SEC teams three years back were not worried about Vanderbilt. When putting the schedule together, no one knew that Indiana would be a playoff team in 2024 and win a title in 2025, or that Ohio State would lose two games in 2024 and win a title, that Wisconsin's QBs would be injured in the first game of the last three seasons, or that Michigan's head coach would be fired. Try as you might, there are too many variables in CFB, as is the case in life, to come up with 'equitable' conference schedules every season. Would two more B1G teams and divisions make things more equal? I don't think so. Adding two more teams that are not bottom-line accretive will not help the bottom line, and will not bring in more media dollars or make a material difference in the teams that win titles. Thanks again for a terrific ponder point article.

Hats off to a judge with gumption. When 'Anything Goes in CFB' morphs into Peyton Manning possibly returning to play QB for Tennessee ... On3Judge denies Joey Aguilar preliminary injunction against...A judge has denied Tennessee quarterback Joey Aguilar a preliminary injunction in his lawsuit against the NCAA.

Is smoking cigs still against the rules in Bloomington? If so, are you allowed to put them out? You could be spot on, my friend. I relied (lied?) on On3. But I'll still wager that next to Julius Caesar, and we know how that ended, Cig placed the all-time bet on himself. And even at the Quacking losing end, it was great to witness.

Grandpa, I enjoyed this and your other articles, and I admire your quest for 'Fairness in Scheduling.' The NFL does everything it can to ensure that one team does not have more Jimmy's and Joe's than another NFL team. But there is no accounting for Joe Montana and Tom Brady. If CFB were a collective of 138 teams, or, more likely, 68 Power 4 teams, would conference schedules be 'in synch' if there was a high school draft with draft choices based on the reverse order of the prior season's results, restrictions on transfers, a salary cap on direct payment, but not on a player's unrestricted NIL deals, penalties for improper contact with players and coaches, and a conference schedule that gave the prior season successful teams the most difficult schedules and the worst teams the easiest schedules? Doing all it can, the NFL cannot come up with 'equitable scheduling?' Oregon State's rules of the CFB road are no different than Oregon's rules of the road. The rules were the same for Bear Bryant's and Nick Saban's Alabama teams as for the other members of the SEC. Oregon men John McKay and John Robinson had success at USC. Clay Helton had the same resources and ... Perhaps, in a perfectly balanced CFB world, 34 of 68 teams could finish 6-6. But you and I know that this isn't happening on this plane of existence. When the Big Ten had 14 teams with two divisions, the East Division dominated. Regardless of travel and traditional issues, swap Ohio State and Penn State with Minnesota and Iowa, and there would have been a material difference? Most likely, Ohio State and, on occasion, Penn State, would have played East champ Michigan for the conference title season after season. Again, I very much enjoyed the article and the discussion it engendered, but at least from my experience, you can legislate, in part, moves toward societal equality, but equality in sports? The wheel turns. Not so long ago, Drew Brees and Bob Griese led Purdue to B1G titles. We just witnessed Purdue's rival, Indiana, make the greatest Phoenix-like flight in the history of the sport. IMO, there is no way you can make any conference in football or any sport at whatever level, grade school through the NFL, equal. Because humans in every respect are not equal. And this is why Indiana's champ game meant, sorry SEC, so much more. Add ASU and Arizona, CU and Utah, or Notre Dame and ? to the B1G, and have 10 teams in a West and East conference? Such a great article and fun to discuss. However, the cream, or more in synch with today's game, the dough, will rise.