#-1: Gopher baseball (Last Week: 0). Quite an impressive run for the Maroon and Gold nine on the top of the WMNSS. They clinched the Big Ten regular season title and the top spot in the conference tournament in Saturday's rain-suspended first game of a doubleheader over Ohio St. (They lost the second half of the doubleheader; otherwise, I considered putting them back up at 0.) And last night, they began the tourney by holding off Indiana (a team I saw lock down the Gophers in the regular season) 10-8 in their first game. I still think they need to win this to feel safe about getting in to the NCAA Tournament, but I will say this: Scott Matyas, despite being shaky against the Hoosiers, can throw.
They continue in the tourney by playing Michigan Friday night (tonight). Barring delays, there will be a victor by Saturday night.
#-2: Twins (Last Week: -3). A 3-3 week, haunted by the Yankees coming in and scaring the shit out of the Twinkies again. The 8-2 getaway win was only the Yanks giving the Twins a win for being so hospitable after winning a pair of 1-run games. The Minnesota Nine at least won't get swept in the season series, but they finish the regular season going 2-4 against them.
By the way, Tuesday's suspended rainout is the reason we needed a retractable roof. Weather is allowing the team to cheat fans out of seeing the resolution of a game they paid to see. Anyway, this week they host Texas for Memorial Weekend, then they visit Seattle for their first four-game series in a long time.
#-3: Lynx (Last Week: -2). My God, is this team that bad??? I thought the Tulsa Shock was supposed to be the worst team in the WNBA because of turnover, yet they came into Target Center and thoroughly manhandled the Jynx by 12. They then go to Connecticut and play Lindsey Whalen's team, the Sun. Supposedly they were retooling their squad, yet they got their asses blown off by 26. What the fuck is going on here? I just hope that Cheryl Reeve is in the middle of torching the entire gameplan and starting over early so she can get the kinks out of the way now and opposed to the end of the regular season. Will they win either or both of their home games this week against Chicago and Phoenix?
The Lynx may be losing games and losing money, but I don't think they lost so much money so fast as did ...
#-4: Gopher men's basketball (Re-Entry!). On Wednesday, a jury in Hennepin County gave prospective Gopher assistant coach Jimmy Williams a victory in his lawsuit against Head Coach Tubby Smith and the program and awarded him $1.25 million. The jury said that Smith misled Williams by saying he would get a job with the Gophers, a position he has had two times before, and that Williams was so sure he had the job he quit his same position with Oklahoma St. Apparently Athletic Director Joel Maturi caught wind of the hire too late and ordered Smith to withdraw the offer. And now it's too late because the jury believed Minnesota officially offered Williams a job. He doesn't, but now they'll have to pay him like he does have one. Of course the Gophs will appeal.
On the court, PG Justin Cobbs is leaving for Cal. That means that three of the four recruits of the 2008-9 season are gone; Royce White and Trevor Mbakwe are about to take off, leaving only F Rodney Williams. In summary: Tubby Smith is not keeping his shit together either on or off the court. The clock is ticking on him and, once again, the men's college basketball program.
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