Monday November 6

Happy Monday - A wild weekend of football, but there’s definitely other sports news to cover. Minimally of course.

NFL

If you remember Friday’s newsletter, Josh Dobbs was recently traded from Arizona to the Minnesota Vikings to replace, or help replace, injured Kirk Cousins. He took over after the starting QB was injured and led the Vikings to a thrilling win on the Falcons. He did this without knowing the playbook, and didn’t know many of the offensive players names yet

The most entertaining game of the weekend belongs to the Houston Texans. Not only did their rookie QB, CJ Stroud, break an NFL rookie record - but they were forced to have their running back Dare Ogunbawale step in as their kicker with an injury to the starter, Kai Fairbairn. Ogunbawale nailed a go-ahead 29 yarder in the fourth quarter

Monday Night Football

LA Chargers at NY Jets (LA -3.5) | Tonight @ 8:15pm ET on ABC/ESPN

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AP Top 25 Rankings

Upsets

Clemson over 15 Notre Dame (31-23)

Army over 25 Air Force (23-3)

Oklahoma St over Oklahoma (27-24)

Arizona over 19 UCLA (27-10)

NHL

The San Jose Sharks already made unwanted NHL history, letting up 10+ goals in back to back games. Now they are 6 games away from breaking a record for most consecutive games without a win. They are 0-9-1 with games against the Flyers, Oilers, Ducks, Panthers and Blues coming up

NHL Power Rankings: Believe it or not we’re halfway through the football season, so let’s start getting your hockey knowledge up with the power rankings so far

NBA

The NBA In-season Tournament is underway. The first edition of the tournament is taking some getting used to, but ultimately the NBA is trying to provide more incentives for players to play throughout the season instead of resting up for the playoffs. Players can even get a payout the farther their team goes.

• Players on a team that loses in the quarterfinals: $50,000

• Players on a team that loses in the semifinals: $100,000

• Players on a team that loses in the championship: $200,000

• Players on a team that wins the championship: $500,000

The most talked about part of the tournament so far, the courts. The bold, colorful courts make it tough to watch on TV

All the courts can be seen here

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College basketball starts tonight, so here’s a list of the nation’s top teams to get you going and some games to watch this week

Duke lands the nation’s top recruit

Games to Watch

21 USC at Kansas St | Tonight @ 10pm ET on TNT

Auburn at 20 Baylor | Tuesday @ 9pm ET on ESPN

Other Sports News

University of North Carolina’s Erin Mason was named head coach of the field hockey team this year. At 23 years old, she is the youngest coach all of the NCAA. She just led UNC to an ACC championship and is eyeing the national championship

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Sean Fitzgerald
Founder of MNML Sports Newsletter