The TEN: 12/7/2018

(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)

1. Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray is named AP college football Player of the Year.

2. Murray, Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and Ohio State QB Dwayne Haskins Jr. are finalists for the Heisman Trophy, which will be presented Saturday night in New York.

3. Wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin,  who was cut by the Buffalo Bills earlier this week, is set to sign with the Kansas City Chiefs.

4. Derrick Henry ran for 238 yards and four touchdowns, including one for 99 yards, to lead the Tennessee Titans to a 30-9 rout of the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday Night Football.

5. The Boston Red Sox bring back pitcher Nathan Eovoldi for four-years, $68 million.

6. The St. Louis Cardinals acquired first baseman Paul Goldschmidt from the Arizona Diamondbacks for three prospects including catcher Carson Kelly and right-handed pitcher Luke Weaver.

7. Kaiser running back Christian Hunter is now up to 3,635 yards rushing and 54 touchdowns for the year. The Cats have one more game left – the State Final on December 15th.

8. Danny Pina is averaging 18.8 points per game for Pasadena (3-2).

9. The LA Galaxy has hired Dennis te Klose as their new General Manager.

10. On this day in 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service executed a military strike against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack led to the United States entry into World War II.

7 Comments to "The TEN: 12/7/2018"

  1. Irrvelant's Gravatar Irrvelant
    December 10, 2018 - 6:47 am | Permalink

    Congrats to Garfield on making it to the Final (LATE) That QB is good, a lot better than the one they had previously. Who knew a QB change can do so much

  2. SGV's Gravatar SGV
    December 8, 2018 - 4:18 am | Permalink

    You might be on to something here Peterson. While we wait for football to roll around again turn MVS into MVP, Mid Valley Politics. We can argue about immigration, the wall, racism. Would’nt that be grand?

  3. August 6, 1945's Gravatar August 6, 1945
    December 7, 2018 - 7:23 pm | Permalink

    My message is not to convey endless love for China, but to hold Japan responsible for crimes many people aren’t aware of, crimes the Japanese still deny they committed. At least the Germans have owned responsibility for their atrocious behavior.

  4. RAMS FAN's Gravatar RAMS FAN
    December 7, 2018 - 5:11 pm | Permalink

    @Knightwatch
    That’s the first thing I looked at when I heard the story. Good riddance to Goldschmidt for the Dodger killer he always seemed to be. I’ll take 6 over 19. That alone should give us 10 more wins next year.

  5. Knightwatch's Gravatar Knightwatch
    December 7, 2018 - 3:28 pm | Permalink

    # 6
    Great trade for the Dodgers, they will only have to face Goldschmidt 6 times per year instead of 19.

  6. ?'s Gravatar ?
    December 7, 2018 - 3:17 pm | Permalink

    China seems to be doing pretty good. Expanding it’s holdings in business and in territory. Claiming waters not theirs as theirs and stealing tech secrets and reverse engineering everything they can. US owes them trillions of dollars. They are all over the SGV having anchor babies in private home-hotels and they probably are the mortgage holder on your house. Things change.

  7. August 6, 1945's Gravatar August 6, 1945
    December 7, 2018 - 12:22 pm | Permalink

    When the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, it was merely an exclamation mark on the destruction of a war machine which claimed more lives than the Nazi holocaust. Japan’s aggression began in 1931, as the Empire of the Sun invaded and butchered the people of Manchuria. Estimates vary, but the total of Chinese killed in WWII is put at somewhere between 20 and 50 million. The savagery of the killings was without precedent, often accompanied by torture and extended death marches.
    So let us absolutely remember Pearl Harbor, but also bear in mind that Japan was into the business of invasion and slaughter long before Nazi Germany.
    From T. Peterson: Correct. Japan’s crimes started way before Pearl Harbor. They invaded Manchuria in ’31 basically because they wanted to unite all of Asia under one emperor. They needed to acquire more natural resources to execute this ideology and saw neighboring China (Manchuria) as a perfect opportunity to do so. The United States finally decided to challenge Japan’s actions in 1939 by pulling out of trade agreements. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was significant in that it led the United States into World War II. Good points on Japan’s early aggression.

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