Sports this 'n' that

The Yankees made news again Tuesday, shipping infielder Chase Headley back to San Diego in exchange for some prospects. Headley became expendable when the Bombers acquired Todd Frazier from the Chicago White Sox at the trade deadline, and they also have a couple of infield prospects of their own they want to look at to share time with Frazier at third in 2018. The Yankees acquired Headley from the Padres at the deadline in 2014.
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In the space of the last five nights, LaSalle Institute completed a sweep of in-city rivals Catholic Central & Lansingburgh to go to 5-0 in the Colonial Council in basketball. The teams will meet again next month to complete each home-&-home series. While the Cadets have made a smooth transition into the league, Catholic Central has struggled ever since prodigal son Chuck Mack and son Anthony departed.

Just the same, I still believe that at some point down the road, the athletic directors at LaSalle, Catholic Central, and Lansingburgh should meet with Troy High AD Paul Reinisch about reviving the long-dormant Uncle Sam basketball tournament, which was discontinued in the early 80's, the operative thing being to keep it as a pre-season tournament. Problem is, from Troy's POV, that would be nigh impossible given the length of the football team's season of late.

Of course, we wouldn't mind a women's tournament, subbing Emma Willard for LaSalle, too......
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Meanwhile, LaSalle's hockey team is finding out how hard it is to duplicate the success of last season. The skating Cadets are 1-2 headed into their home opener tonight vs. Shenendehowa, assuming the game gets played, as it is snowing as I write these words. Shen had to cancel some activities yesterday due to inclement weather, and they were in the minority in that regard.
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Add Troy. Coach Greg Davis' boys team is 2-1 after dispatching Christian Brothers Academy on Tuesday, as the transition from the Richard Hurley-Daniel Buie era has been smoother than expected. Hurley, as it turned out, chose to step down altogether as head coach six months ago, and that may very well have prompted Buie's decision to transfer to Gould Academy in Maine. So far, though, it's been No Buie, No Problem for Troy, which now will head off to Mohonasen on Friday before coming home for a non-league game vs. Kingston on Saturday night.

For what it's worth, James Allen's account of the Troy-Shaker game in the 12/9 Albany Times-Union revealed that Hurley stepped down altogether as head coach in June for the same reasons stated when he decided three months earlier to take a year off. That, in effect, would explain Buie's subsequent decision to transfer.
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Lavar Ball just doesn't get it, and doesn't want to get it.

Ball decided to jumpstart LaMelo & LiAngelo's pro careers by having them sign with brother Lonzo's agent, Harrison Gaines, who promptly managed to place the two teens in a pro league----in Lithuania. We all know La Loudmouth is all about making as much money as possible as soon as possible, to make up for what he didn't achieve in his own career.

On Tuesday's Skip & Shannon-Undisputed, Shannon Sharpe expressed his doubts about La Loudmouth's plans, and correctly diagnosed exactly what the problem has been all along.....



Translated: La Loudmouth can't cut the apron strings, and feels he has to "control the situation", as Sharpe put it. If things don't work out in Lithuania, the kids'll be home by the NBA All-Star break at the earliest, because Gaines & the elder Ball are just chasing the money a wee bit too soon. Let these kids grow up, for cryin' out loud.