(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)
- Dustin Johnson finished at 20 under par to win the Masters Sunday at Augusta, Georgia.
- Vavae Malapei scored on an 8-yard touchdown run with 25 seconds left to give USC a 34-30 win over Arizona Saturday. The Trojans improved to 2-0.
- UCLA beat California 34-10 Sunday at the Rose Bowl to improve to 1-1.
- Former Green Bay Packer star/ 1956 Notre Dame Heisman Trophy winner Paul Hornung passed away Friday at the age of 84.
- The Rams beat the Seattle Seahawks 23-16 Sunday to improve to 6-3.
- The Chargers fell to the Miami Dolphins 29-21 Sunday to drop to 2-7.
- Former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda was hospitalized and is in the intensive care unit in Orange County the team announced Sunday.
- The Miami Marlins have named Kim Ng their new General Manager. Ng, who has served as MLB’s senior vice president of baseball operations for the last nine years, has also been an assistant general manager for the Dodgers and the New York Yankees. Ng is the first woman ever to become the GM of an American professional sports team.
- Arizona State head coach Herman Edwards has tested positive for COVID-19.
- The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Cincinnati Bengals 36-10 Sunday to improve to 9-0.
I wish Tommy Lasorda the best.
Congratulations to Kim Ng; I hope she can build on the success the Marlins experienced in making a surprise playoff appearance in 2020.
To expand on Question Mark’s comment, Paul Hornung was banned by the NFL for nearly a year in 1963-64 for betting on league games and hanging out with shady characters. He missed the entire 1963 season as a result.
According to Hornung’s bio on Wikipedia, Green Bay coach Vince Lombardi intensely lobbied NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle to lift what had originally been an indefinite suspension. In return, Hornung promised to clean up his act.
#4-The “golden boy” was the NFL version of Pete Rose.
Kim Ng is the most influential and capable person in baseball executive offices you never heard of. Her claim to original fame was the valuation of baseball players for purposes of contract negotiations.
Her hiring was long overdue. And is a condemnation of the thinking of other teams who needed a GM but passed her by. Miami is clearly on the rise for multiple reasons. I bet they got a good deal too.