Friday November 3

Happy Friyay ~ A sneaky big week of sports news to catch you up on. We’ll give you the bare minimum and let you get on with your weekend.

MLB WORLD SERIES

The Texas Rangers are World Series champs after taking Game 5 to win their first World Series 4-1. MLB viewership has been decreasing year over year anyway, but this was the least watched World Series in history

Is Will Smith the most sought-after MLB player now?

NFL

The NFL is zero fun. They ordered The University of Houston to cease and desist for these Houston Oilers inspired jerseys. These jerseys are too cool to care about the legality

The NFL trade deadline has come and went. Big Movers - the Washington Commanders went full fire sale, dishing two of the leagues best defenders. The Minnesota Vikings got a replacement for their hurt QB, Kirk Cousins

The Las Vegas Raiders are a mess right now. After Monday’s loss to the Detroit Lions, ownership fired the head coach and GM. Then, the new interim head coach, former linebacker coach Antonio Pierce, benches their starting quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo, for back-up Aiden O’Connell.

Then, as if it’s a sick joke, the Raiders’ social media accounts wish Jimmy Garoppolo a Happy Birthday

Thursday Night Football

Tennessee Titans at Pittsburgh Steelers: Rookie Quarterback, Will Levis, lead the Titans into the ‘Burgh last night but despite the Steelers’ offensive woes in weeks past, the Steel City was rewarded with a win 20-16

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Interesting turn of events last night during the TCU - Texas Tech game. Texas Tech ended up harnessing the power of the possum to win 35-28

Nothing says Kent State versus Akron like a Turnover Tire

College Football Rankings

In past weeks, we’ve been providing your the AP Top 25 Poll, which is the rankings voted on by a select group of sports reporters and broadcasters. This week marks the first College Football Playoff ranking, in which a secret committee of football experts at Division 1 schools. This committee is ultimately who decides what teams will be in each New Year’s bowl game and playoff

Games to Watch

22 Kansas St at 7 Texas | Saturday @ Noon ET on FOX

15 Notre Dame at Clemson | Saturday @ Noon ET on ABC

12 Mizzou at 2 Georgia | Saturday @ 3:30pm ET on CBS

9 Oklahoma at 22 Oklahoma St | Saturday @ 3:30pm ET on ABC

5 Washington at 20 USC | Saturday @ 7:30pm ET on ABC

14 LSU at 8 Alabama | Saturday @ 7:45pm ET on CBS

16 Oregon St at Colorado | Saturday @ 10pm ET on ESPN

19 UCLA at Arizona | Saturday @ 10:30pm ET on FS1

NHL

The NHL and other professional hockey leagues are discussing making neck guards mandatory after the death of Adam Johnson last week

Other Sports News

Something about mid-western Women’s college volleyball. First, they draw the largest live crowd in volleyball history (90k) and now they're breaking volleyball viewership records again

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Peace,

Sean Fitzgerald
Founder of MNML Sports Newsletter