Pac-12 Recap: Turned Into The Wild West For A Day

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It seemed to be all about comebacks and close ones Saturday...

First, for those of us who play fantasy college football Wazzu's Connor Halliday is usually a solid selection. Last week was no different as Halliday threw for 4 TD's ana orchestrated a fourth quarter comeback as the Cougs beat Utah 28-27.

Here's Ted Robinson and Glenn Parker to discuss


And Cal and Colorado didn't seem to be able to stop each other for an entire afternoon. The game 14 TD passes by the two teams and it took six quarters to decide a game that had 115 total points.

Kevin Calabro and Yogi Roth discuss

OSG NAIA: Edward Waters Comes From 34 Down To Win

((HT: Joshua Jackson))

J-Jacks is a voice in Jacksonville with the Sharks and Edward Waters College- whom the HQ has seen play at Raines High School against Shorter in their NAIA days.

He was around in Pikeville, Kentucky a week and a half ago when EWC was down 48-14 with seven minutes to go in regulation.

What happened was amazing and really cool as they came back to win 49-48

Here's the highlights from the last seven minutes that include a TD pass with no time left on the clock in regulation and a really tough point after touchdown that followed


Admittedly, UPike is in a big transition period this year. Allan Holland, Junior was named interim head football coach in mid-August. Dudley Hilton had to step down for personal and health reasons. The Bears, with the loss, are now 1-3 with another loss this weekend to Lindsey Wilson.

EWC is 2-2 before this weekend's game with Point.

OSG Prem: Okay, Manchester United Isn't All The Way Back...

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After the dismantling of QPR last weekend by Manchester United, the HQ had raised an eyebrow thinking that maybe Louis van Gaal had the team going in the right direction.

The HQ may have sold the return a little soon...

After leads of 2-0 and 3-1, Leicester City came storming back at King Power to score FOUR UNANSWERED to beat the Reds 5-3. A lot of people thought the final score was a misprint, but it's not.

In a weekend that was strange to say the very least (like West Brom's win over Spurs also on Sunday), this seemed to be the exclamation point in the whole table.

Here's goal five off a PK reinforcing Ulloa's importance for the Foxes


Louis van Gaal, as you saw at the end of the last highlight, was befuddled and beside himself...
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And Then John Brooks Went And Broke Twitter As USMNT Wins

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Ayew scored off a brilliant pass from Gyan to tie the game at ones, but in the 87th minute, John Brooks (the second of three Klinsmann subs) scored on the corner entry from Graham Zusi (the last Klinsmann sub)

And reacted thusly...


Lesson here: Do not question Jurgen Klinsmann and his substutions EVER AGAIN!!!

Team USA beat Ghana 2-1 in their opening rounder...

Next up a Portugal-less Pepe over the weekend...

OSG MiLB: Clinton Comes Back From 17-1 Down For Win

((HT: Clinton Herald))

A seven-run second and nine-run fifth helped the Midwest League's Burlington Bees to a 17-1 lead heading to the bottom of the inning. So, you're thinking, everything is locked up... coast from here... and it's all good...

Not so much... The Clinton LumberKings scored 19 unanswered runs for the 20-17, 12-inning win.

Clinton 2B Lonnie Kauppilla had never pitched professionally and hadn't pitched since high school. He retired the Bees in order in the 12th. Obviously, he picked up his first career save.

Josh Jackson over at milb.com caught up with him:

"Being up by one and knowing I was going to have to pitch when I haven't pitched in five years, I really wanted to get us some extra runs," the Stanford product said. "I was really glad that I was able to get that hit."

Zachary James of the Herald caught up with LumberKings manager Scott Steinemann very early in the morning in Iowa


Just so you know- thinking this is some kind of fluke- Clinton also overcame an eight-run deficit on Saturday, scoring five times with two outs in the ninth inning to beat Wisconsin, 16-13. So there's that history lesson for every other team in the Midwest League.

The official game time was just under 3-and-a-half hours and the recorded attendance of 558 will grow exponentially from this moment forward.

The HQ, actually, will admit to listening to the 12th inning from the Bees point-of-view...

Pretty wild stuff...

Bryce Molder's Long Way Up...

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The HQ covered Bryce Molder when he was a college kid over at Georgia Tech...

A lot of people thought that he was part of one of the best college programs ever with guys like David Duval and Molder ruling the ranks from North Avenue...

Duval has had his highs and unfortunate lows that are now more the norm than the former....

Molder's climb has been long with time in the road to Q-School, triple-A, and back...

But, what you may not have known is that, to be a premier golfer he has had to fight the odds just to start playing the game he loves...