The Sports Thread

I’m glad Ryan Newman is okay

XFL Week 3 Scores:
 
Houston Roughnecks 34, Tampa Bay Vipers 27
 
Dallas Renegades 24, Seattle Dragons 12
 
New York Guardians 9, St. Louis BattleHawks 29
 
DC Defenders 9, Los Angeles Wildcats 39

Hey, it’s ya boi, the college sports fan here to say it’s Duke @ Virginia and it’s halftime and the score is 25-25. This is gonna be an interesting second half.

XFL Week 4 Scores:
 
Los Angeles Wildcats 14, New York Guardians 17
 
Seattle Dragons 16, St. Louis BattleHawks 23
 
Houston Roughnecks 27, Dallas Renegades 20
 
DC Defenders 0, Tampa Bay Vipers 25

XFL Week 5 Scores:
 
Seattle Dragons 23, Houston Roughnecks 32
 
New York Guardians 30, Dallas Renegades 12
 
St. Louis BattleHawks 9, DC Defenders 15
 
Tampa Bay Vipers 34, Los Angeles Wildcats 41

The NBA has postponed the remainder of the season until further notice due to the global health pandemic.

NCAA basketball tournaments have been cancelled. Technically, I should be happy since this means UVA retains their national title, but that’s bullshit and missing the tournament is a damn shame.

@GenericArchangel  
NHL gone too.
 
Everything is suspended except for ESports.

@igotnopicks  
And NASCAR. Boogity boogity boogity.

Looks like Tom Brady will be playing in pewter in 2020, though the ink hasn’t touched paper yet.
 
(Also, marble racing is trending in the sports world with CoViD-19 grinding mainstream sports to a halt.)

Bill ’O Brien is a bad coach. Trading Hopkins for peanuts and then Hopkins comes around to bite him in the butt.
 
Great, now the Cardinals have two good recievers.

Every sport is closed.
 
 
NFL Draft is comin up.  
I hope the 49ers draft a DB to learn from Sherman.  
And Bill O’ Brien is hoping that this second round pick will be as great as Hopkins.

Green Bay drafting a QB in the first round. Here’s a fan’s reaction
 
Green Bay is still ten times better than the Texans are in this years draft.

@igotnopicks  
Hope buffalo gets some good offensive picks.

@Mikey  
To go along with the first round pick that they traded for a decent WR.

For all baseball fans, you can now watch the KBO (Korea Baseball Organization) League on ESPN, though you have to get up pretty early to watch the Game of the Day live.
 
The 10 teams that make the KBO league are:  
Gocheok (Seoul) “Kiwoom” Heroes  
Songpa (Seoul) “Doosan” Bears (current champion)  
Songpa (Seoul) “LG” Twins  
Daejeon “Hanwha” Eagles  
Gwangju “Kia” Tigers  
Suwon “KT” Wiz  
Busan “Lotte” Giants  
Changwon “NC” Dinos  
Daegu “Samsung” Lions  
Incheon “SK” Wyverns
 
Rules:  
Extra innings are capped at three; if game remains even after 12, a tie is declared.  
A maximum of three international players per team; they can be on the field at the same time, but no two international players can play the same position.  
All teams have a designated pinch-hitter.
 
Playoff rules:  
Top five teams go to the postseason.  
Maximum number of extra innings is six.  
Format is a step-ladder system; seeding is determined by regular season record.  
Wild Card Round: Fifth-place team vs. Fourth-place team in a weighted two-game series (Fourth-place team advances with one win or a tie in the first game; Fifth-place team advances with two wins.)  
Semi-playoff Round: Wild Card Round winner vs. Third-place team in a best-of-five series.  
Playoff Round: Semi-playoff Round winner vs. Second-place team in a best-of-five series.  
Korea Series: Playoff Round winner vs. First-place team in a best-of-seven series.  
Any ties that occur from the second game of the Wild Card Round onward are replayed.

@LordDusk2014  
WTF is a baseball again?

@igotnopicks  
The favorite ball of real Americans. Every American has balls, and those balls are baseballs.
 
…damn shame it’s kinda boring to watch, I’d love to get into baseball. It is my favorite to actually go to a stadium to see, though.

@GenericArchangel  
Test cricket is more boring than baseball; a single match can go on for up to FIVE DAYS.

@GenericArchangel  
Watching at a Stadium is the best for Baseball  
Watching it on TV, though is boring.

@GenericArchangel
 
@LordDusk2014  
I give you golf.
 
A million more times boring than Cricket and Baseball.

SPORTS ARE BACK, BABY!
 
ESPN is showing live cornhole from South Carolina. Social distancing protocols are in effect. Players are staying six feet apart, everyone’s wearing face masks, and there are no fans in the stands, which is somehow a little bit sadder than the usual dozen or so family members who show up.

@Background Human  
What the hell is Cornhole?  
looks it up  
Ah it’s bags. kay.

BILLS ARE GONNA GO TO THE SUPER BOWL BABY LET’S DO IT