Friday?s 6-pack
NFL teams with most room under the salary cap:
$34.74M? Cleveland
$32.24M? New England
$31.31M? NJ Jets
$30.95M? Jacksonville
$26.03M? Washington
$25.43M? Denver
Americans who have died from COVID-19: 190,589
Please wear a mask when you go out.
Tweet of the Day
?With the NFL starting, I find myself pulling for the offense so maybe someone will need a defensive coach!?
Wade Phillips, currently unemployed
Friday?s quiz
In the 1976 movie All the President?s Men, which famous actor played Bob Woodward?
Thursday?s quiz
William Henry Harrison was President for only 31 days, before he died of pneumonia.
Wednesday?s quiz
Kevin Durant began his NBA career with the Seattle SuperSonics, before they moved to Oklahoma and became the Thunder
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Friday?s Den: Random stuff with the weekend here??..
13) Chiefs 34, Texans 20:
? Chiefs ran ball 34 times for 166 yards; they threw 32 passes.
? KC scored four of the first times they had the football.
? 15,895 fans attended this game on a drizzly night at Arrowhead Stadium.
? In first three series for both teams, KC ran 35 plays, Houston 16
12) With no teams having an off-season program, I?m thinking its going to take a few weeks for offenses to catch up to where they normally are. 34-20 sounds high-scoring, but Houston got couple of scores in garbage time. Pass patterns mostly seemed a lot shorter than normal.
11) Tigers 6, Cardinals 3? Detroit scored five runs in the top of the 7th to earn the split of this twinbill, after losing their previous two games by a combined score of 31-2.
10) Red Sox 3, Rays 2? Rookie Bobby Dalbec homered in his 5th consecutive game.
9) A?s 3, Houston 1? Sean Manaea got thru seven innings on 61 pitches; you just never see that anymore, less than 9 pitches per inning.
8) Miami 31, UAB 14:
? Total yardage was 495-285, Miami
? Hurricanes ran ball for 337 yards.
7) Royals 11, Indians 1? Rookie Brady Singer had a no-hitter into the 8th inning.
6) White Sox are 13-0 vs lefty pitchers; Arizona is 2-10.
5) Atlanta 7, Washington 6? Freddie Freeman knocked in 10 runs the last two games; he is the first Brave to knock in 4+ runs in consecutive games since Mark Teixeira, in 2007.
4) Arizona 5, Dodgers 2? If you have Mookie Betts on your fantasy team, last night was your lucky night; Betts played 2B, so now he?s eligible at 2B in a lot of fantasy leagues, which would be a large advantage over most teams. It was his 16th career game at second base, first one in two years.
LA put Walker Buehler (blister) on the IL before this game, then Dustin May left one inning after he was hit in the foot by a line drive.
3) Longest NFL playoff droughts:
17 years- Cleveland
12- Tampa Bay
9- NJ Jets
2) Lakers 110, Houston 100 (LA leads 3-1)
? Davis had 29 points, 12 rebounds five assists for LA.
? Harden was 2-11 from the floor, 16-20 on foul line. Harden was only Rocket starter with a =/- better than minus-10; he was even.
1) If the baseball playoffs started today (they do not):
AL East- Tampa Bay, Toronto
AL Central- Chicago, Minnesota
AL West- Oakland, Houston
AL Wild Cards- Cleveland, New York
NL East- Atlanta, Philadelphia
NL Central- Chicago, St Louis
NL West- Los Angeles, San Diego
NL Wild Cards- Miami, San Francisco