Weekend Recap -- Monday January 22

Happy Monday and name a better way to start your week than reading this amazing newsletter. We can think of a few, but not many.

This week in additional to the NFL Playoffs: college basketball continues to ramp up, the Australian Open rolls on and the PGA TOUR is in full swing

Enjoy

NFL

The Philadelphia Eagles fire their Defensive Coordinator, Sean Desai.

The Las Vegas Raiders hire their interim head coach, Antonio Pierce as their Head Coach

Divisional Round Results

Baltimore Ravens roll over the Houston Texans (34-10)

San Francisco 49ers survive and beat the Green Bay Packers (24-21)

Detroit Lions outlast the Tampa Bay Bucs (31-23) for their first NFC Championship game since 1991

The Buffalo Bills miss a game tying field goal and the Kansas City Chiefs pull through to win 27-24

Up Next

NHL

The Edmonton Oilers winning streak in the longest by a Canadian team ever.

Games to Watch This Week

Carolina Hurricanes at Boston Bruins | Wednesday 7:30pm ET on TNT

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

A huge weekend of college basketball with 100+ games on Saturday. Several unranked teams with massive upsets over the top teams which should provide some movement in the Top 25 rankings this afternoon. Tune into the MNML Instagram to find out the new rankings.

Stanfords Women’s Basketball coach, Tara Vanderveer, has the most wins of any college basketball coach ever.

Upset Alert + Good Games

1 UConn escapes with 66-65 over unranked Villanova

Unranked Texas upsets 9 Baylor 75-73

17 Marquette survives against unranked St. Johns 73-72

13 Creighton survives triple OT against Seton Hall 97-94

24 Iowa State over 19 TCU 73-72

Unranked West Virginia over 3 Kansas 91-85

Unranked Pitt over 7 Duke 80-76

Games to Watch This Week

Wake Forest at 4 North Carolina | Monday 7pm ET on ESPN

Cincinatti at 3 Kansas | Monday 9pm ET on ESPN

Texas at 15 Oklahoma | Tuesday 7pm ET on ESPN

Xavier at 15 Creighton | Tuesday 8:30pm ET on FS1

13 Auburn at Alabama | Wednesday 7:30pm ET on ESPN

Kansas St at 24 Iowa State | Wednesday 9pm ET on ESPN2

GOLF

The college sophomore, Nick Dunlap, wins The American Express and makes history. He is the only other amateur to win a PGA TOUR event since Phil Mickelson in 1991.

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Up Next

Farmer’s Insurance Open — Torrey Pines South, San Diego California

TENNIS

Australian Open Update

On the Women’s side, the world No. 1 Iga Swiatek is eliminated. Her earliest exit from the AO in the last 5 years. The world No. 2 A. Sabalenka and No. 4 C. Gauff won their matches and will move on.

For the Men’s, 1 N. Djokovic, 3 D. Medvedev, 2 C. Alcaraz and USA’s 12 Taylor Fritz are among the winners and into the next round.

Up Next

Some great matches coming up on Tuesday. The times are yet to be determined but tune into the MNML Instagram to catch the times as they are updated.

12 T. Fritz (USA) vs. 1 N. Djokovic (SRB) | Tuesday time TBD on ESPN+

4 C. Gauff (USA) vs. M. Kostyuk (UKR) | Tuesday time TBD on ESPN+

2 A Sabalenka (BLR) vs. 9 B. Krejcikova (CZE) | Tuesday time TBD on ESPN+

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Sean Fitzgerald
Founder of MNML Sports Newsletter