What’s the buzz from the world of sports? Here are some items that will have people talking:
1
We were nine minutes from history on Sunday.
Had Olindo Mare not made that fourth-quarter field goal, the Seattle Seahawks would have joined the Washington Huskies and Washington State Cougars as a scoreless trio.
That has never happened — all three going scoreless in the same weekend — but a 33-3 loss is not a whole lot better than 41-0 or 42-0.
As Huskies and Cougars fans have likely forgotten, you do not have to go that far back to find the last shutout weekend for that duo.
Nov. 1, 2008: UCLA 31, UW 0; and Stanford 58, WSU 0.
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This past football weekend did a number on the TV ratings for the World Series. No surprise there.
These are not the good ol’ days baseball once knew.
Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports makes a good point:
“For all the gaudy attendance numbers put up in the regular season, MLB’s inability to retain casual fans during the postseason is harrowing. Baseball has turned into an April-to-September pastime, one with such strong regional ties that it backfires when the sport goes national. As inconsequential as television ratings are to anybody beyond Fox, they provide an unbiased barometer of interest, and their verdict is clear: This series needs a jolt of excitement, pronto.”
For the players’ perspective, we have Rangers outfielder Jeff Francoeur: “I want to win the World Series, and if they don’t want to watch it, I don’t really care.”
