Once the Green Bay Packers were eliminated from the NFL playoff picture via Atlanta's win over Tampa Bay on Monday, the team decided to place QB/State Farm agent Aaron Rodgers on season-ending injured reserve. After Rodgers had been activated last week, and played well enough to win in a loss to Carolina, Packer management felt it was better to put him back on IR rather than run the risk of reinjuring his collarbone in the final two games.
While I get the motive, I question the wisdom of taking a chance on Rodgers in the first place. One of Rodgers' most recent State Farm ads, in which Clay Matthews, Jr. steals the show, is in heavy rotation on the usual channels (Fox, FS1, ESPN, etc.). If Green Bay had beaten Carolina, would Rodgers be playing this week?
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Monty Python's Flying Circus had a skit celebrating the "Upper Class Twit of the Year" back in the day. The modern-day American equivalent of said Twit has to be the runaway winner of Worst Stage Parent of the Year, LaVar Ball.
Ball just doesn't get it. He knows there aren't as many suckers as he thinks there are wasting money on his overpriced Big Baller Brand sneakers, even though he just opened a store in New York the other day. Now comes word he wants to start up a developmental-style league for kids who don't want to go to college or are dropping out of high school. The Junior Basketball League, as Ball has christened it, will be, as the kids say, an epic fail. The NBA already has a developmental league, plus the G League, which is what Ball is hoping to compete against. The G League will be streaming on something called Twitch soon. Ball's league is streaming out of the splinters in the windmill of his mind.
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"Primrose" Lane Kiffin had no apologies for running it up as Florida Atlantic blew away Akron, 50-3, on Tuesday night in the Boca Raton Bowl. He claims it's because an Akron coach was talking trash. I say, Kiffin was out of line, and looking for style points he didn't get in the regular season, since Florida Atlantic finishes undefeated but far out of the playoff picture because they play in a mid-major conference. Akron's hardly the kind of tomato can Kiffin's former boss, Nick Saban, would schedule to play Alabama, but what Kiffin did was more out of the Bill Belichick playbook.
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High school news: After winning their first game last Friday at home vs. Mohonasen, Troy High's women's basketball team fell right back down to earth Tuesday as another chapter was written in what has become a one-sided rivalry with Averill Park. The undefeated Lady Warriors blew out Troy, 66-35. For the 2nd time this season, no Troy player reached double figures in points. The Lady Horses are back home tonight vs. Schenectady, then visit Siena College to play Shaker tomorrow before the Christmas break.
Glens Falls High's 3rd generation star, Joseph Girard III, is just a junior, but he shattered the school points record set by Jimmer Fredette on Tuesday. Fredette, now playing professionally in China after his NBA career fizzled, was heard from via video in a pre-recorded message. Unfortunately, Scotia spoiled the party and beat Glens Falls, 47-46.
Troy's boys basketball team got back on the winning track as they completed a 2 game homestand Tuesday, beating Averill Park. Anthony Germinerio, cousin of former Troy & LaSalle star John Germinerio, led the Warriors with 28 points in a losing effort. Alonzo Alexander had 20 to pace Troy, which visits Schenectady tonight in their last game before the break.
Speaking of LaSalle, their basketball team is off to a hot start, now 6-0 after blowing out Ichabod Crane on Tuesday. At the same time, the skating Cadets dismissed Adirondack, 7-3. Ryan Murray and Thomas Ryan had two goals apiece for the Cadets, who host Queensbury on Friday.
The Colonial Council's website made a boo-boo when it came to this game. For some reason, the LaSalle page on the Colonial Council site had the LaSalle-Adirondack (listed as South Glens Falls) game scheduled for Wednesday instead of Tuesday. Exacerbating the situation is the fact that the box score for the game didn't appear in Wednesday's Albany Times-Union and, as of press time, hadn't been reported to The Record, either.
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The Record and its sister publication, The Saratogian, are saying good-bye to horse racing columnist Michael Veitch, who writes mostly for the latter, after 38 years to spend more time with his family. Veitch's weekly column began appearing in The Record not long ago when they needed to share content with The Saratogian aside from the Pink Sheets that appear during the Saratoga summer racing season. Sports editor David Johnson is also leaving, but he's moving to the Times-Union. Whomever takes his place will have the task of trying to resolve the ongoing issues with Troy High in terms of interviews with coaches, not so much players. Those issues of distrust between the school and the hometown paper need to be resolved yesterday. The school's sports teams, aside from football, were already lacking in coverage before the embargo began in March.
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