Sports Shorts

  • The recent Rays series against the Red Sox was important enough for ESPN to show up for the first game–won by the Rays–and carry it nationally. Most fans, however, stayed away in droves. The attendance for the 6-1 Rays win was 6,753—the smallest crowd ever for a Rays-BoSox game at the Trop. Playing indoors during a pandemic hardly helped.
  • MLB Network has made it mandatory for all its employees to be vaccinated. As a result, two of its biggest names, Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz and former All-Star Al Leiter, will no longer appear in-studio.
  • As the college football conference-maneuvering continues, we’ll be seeing speculation gin up. Including the depleted Big 12. UCF, now nationally prominent, will be in the conversation, but USF is playing its way out of Power Five possibility. If the current losing trend–including that embarrassing, season-opening 45-0 hammering by North Carolina State–doesn’t turn around, the Bulls could be left with Jim Leavitt nostalgia.

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