SubscribeJice update, Feb. 8
Same deal, re: hockey.
Michael Cammelleri was scoreless in the Flames’ 3-2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Feb. 6. For the season, he has 11 goals and 13 assist in 46 games.
Jeff Halpern was scoreless in last night’s 4-0 win by the Washington Capitals over the Florida Panthers. Halpern is 3/10 in 52 game. The Caps lead the Southeast Division and are in the top eight of the Eastern Conference for a playoff spot.
Mike Brown was scoreless as the Toronto Maple Leafs saw their three-game winning streak come to an and last night thanks to a 2-1 loss to the Winnipeg Jets. Brown is 2/1 in an injury-plagued season that’s limited him to just 32 games.
Eric Nystrom was scoreless in a 4-1 Dallas Stars loss to the Phoenix Coyotes. Nystrom is 15/3 in 47 games.
Dylan Reese was scoreless in the NY Islanders’ 1-0 shootout victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Reese is 1/2 in 16 games, shuttling up back and forth between the minors and the NHL.
Trevor Smith, the newest Jice, hasn’t appeared in a game since Jan. 24. In four contests, Smith, a center for the Tampa Bay Lightning, has two assists.
Jewps update, Feb. 8
Busy day yesterday, so I was unable to post, so here’s catching up.
Jordan Farmar scored 11 points off the bench in the Nets’ 108-87 loss to the Chicago Bulls on Feb. 6. He also had five assists which tied for team tops. The Nets have lost three in a row and are now 8-18, tied for last in the Atlantic Division.
Omri Casspi scored six points as a starter in last night’s 107-91 loss to the Miami Heat. Cleveland is 9-14, fifth in the Central Division.
Lawrence Frank‘s Detroit Pistons are 6-20, last in the Central.
Other Jewps “concerns:
- The Dallas Mavericks (owner, Mark Cuban) last played on Feb. 4, losing to the Cavs, 91-88.They are 14-11, second in the Southwest Division.
- At 21-6, the Chicago Bills (owner, Jerry Reinsdorf) have the best record in the Eastern Conference and second best in the NBA.
- The Cavs, by the way, are owned by landsman Dan Gilbert.
Landsman birthday greetings (belated edition): Norm Miller
Former JML Norm Miller turned 66 yesterday.
Miller published a memoir, To All my Fans from Norm Who? in 2009.
USA Today asks if Braun decision will come down this week
Because, you know, fantasy team general managers have to pick their rosters.
Come on, powers that be, do you really need more time to make a decision?
Jewps update, Feb. 6
Jordan Farmer scored double figures in each of the most recent Nets’ games, but, unfortunately, both were in losing efforts.
Farmar scored 14 in a 108-105 home loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Feb. 3. He played about 30 minutes off the bench and also contributed seven assists and three rebounds. The next night, Farmar dropped 19 in 25 minutes in a 99-92 loss to the NY Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
The Nets are currently 8-17, tied for last in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference with the Toronto Raptors.
Omri Casspi continues to start for the Cleveland Cavaliers, although his numbers are not especially impressive. He scored nine points in the team’s 102-94 loss to the Magic in Orland, and repeated the feat in a 91-88 win over the Dallas Mavericks (or Cavs vs. Mavs). Cleveland is 9-13, in fourth place in the East’s central division, ahead of Lawrence Frank‘s woeful (6-20) Detroit Pistons.
By the way, Mark Cuban was fined $75,000 for his comments last week about poor officiating. He matched that amount and donated it to the 1 Million 4 Anna Foundation.
Wonder how much Cuban got for this Super Bowl spot? I’m guessing that went to charity, too.
Mazal tov to the Giants
Winners of an exciting Super Bowl. Congrats to the Tisch Family and the rest of the team. And a “hip-hip-hooray” for Robert Kraft for being such a class act.
I’m one of those fans who isn’t happen unless his team wins in a route. Of course, I appreciate the excitement of a down-to-the-wire outcome, and know that non-fans of either team wanted a good, tight game. But if Rob Gronkowski had somehow caught that ball…
I watched the game with my wife, who is not a great football fan and asked all sorts of questions. We had seen a version of the latest Internet meme, Sh*t ___ say about ___, which in this case was about women and sports. I’m not going to link it here because there are a few sexual references and I don’t want to be (directly) responsible for corrupting anyone’s sensibilities. Suffice it to say you can find it on YouTube. The more questions my wife asked, the more I thought of the video and started cracking up.
So now we enter that time of year where there are no real outdoor sports in the U.S. Pro basketball and hockey don’t carry the same sense of drama as football, with it’s handful of regular-season games. And meaningful baseball (and no, that’s not an oxymoron), is more than six weeks away, so we’ll have to find other ways of entertaining ourselves. Start with this and this.
And by the way, New York Daily News, the last time I looked, the Giants placed in East Rutherford. So back off, Jack, with that but about the “greatest city” business. (Not to say that that East Rutherford isn’t great…)
Never on a Sunday. Oh, all right, just this once.
Came across a couple of items via Tablet Magazine that would have ben useless to post on post-Super Bowl Sunday, so I hope you appreciate me giving up some of my precious time off.
- Tablet picks the NE Patriots to win. Communists.
- And a nice nod to the Jets, whose coach should probably stop “guaranteeing” a championship.
The Roman Numeral has changed, but the opponents remain the same.
Should have started our daughter on this earlier…
She’s a pretty ping pong player, but she came to it so late in life — about seven years old. This guy has the right idea. Props to the baby for remaining upright.
Of course, if the man had been hit in the crotch, this would have wound up on America’s Funniest Home Videos.
Ian Kinsler, good Samaritan?
If Jewish fans are disappointed in Ryan Braun ‘s current situation, what about Christians and Josh Hamilton?
The Texas Ranger slugger and former MVP has suffered an “addiction relapse” this past Monday, drinking in a pub in Dallas. According to the Dallas Morning News, Ian Kinsler, “also showed up at the bar for what appeared to be an attempt to convince Hamilton to return to his home in Westlake.” Early in his career, Hamilton abused drugs and alcohol, but offered a feel-good story when he turned to God and became an Evangelical, which he chronicled in a best-selling memoir, Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back.
I feel sorry for Hamilton, who was involved in a tragic accident earlier this season when a fan tried to catch a ball the ballplayer had tossed into the stands and fell to his death (warning: news story containing video). Who knows if this played any role in the drinking “incident.”
So are Christian fans similarly disappointed that their community’s “role model” might have let them down? Or are they forgiving of human frailties?
And what about the rush to report? Do we really need to know about players’ indiscretions? An apocryphal store: Players and writers used to travel together by train, “back in the day.” On one trip, a naked Babe Ruth, pursued by a woman with a knife, ran past a group of journalists playing cards and having a few belts. Their reaction in a period where a player’s on- and off-field activities were strictly separated, with the latter generally untold? “Another story I won’t be able to write.”
Whither Ryan Braun?
Not hearing much about the status of the NL MVP, and spring training is just a couple of weeks away (although if he is suspended it would be from Opening Day, so he would still attend ST).
Rob Neyer, one of my favorite baseball writers, posted this piece about the movement to strip Braun of his award and give it to Kemp, who would have easily won over the rest of the field. Neyer’s suggestion: create a “Ryan Braun Rule” that would have that effect in the future. That is, don’t punish Braun now, but make this the precedent for subsequent instances where player found to be using PEDs are stripped of such honors. To do otherwise creates a situation of its own, as Neyer writes, “the problem with making such a rule retroactive is that it looks like you’re targeting a single player. Which leaves you open to all sorts of reasonable charges.”
