National Football League
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 25 New York Giants 23
Tom Brady threw touchdowns passes to Rob Gronkowski and Mike Evans,
Brady is the NFL’s career leader in TD passes bypassing Drew Brees of New Orleans
The Buccaneers scored 10 points in the 4th quarter to avoid an upset.
Daniel Jones led New York down the field late in the 4th quarter for a touchdown, but the Giants failed to convert the 2-point conversion
Antoine Winfirld Jr stopped the 2 point pass attempt
Tampa Bay 6 & 2
New York Giants 1 & 7
Thursday
Green Bay Packers at San Francisco 49’ers
Green Bay 5 & 2
San Francisco 4 & 4
The 49ers are expected to be missing Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and tight end George Kittle for an extended periods with ankle and foot injuries,
NFL Playoffs
The National Football League competition committee expects to present a resolution to owners that includes a 16-team playoff scenario in the event games are lost due to COVID-19 issues.
The plan would feature 8 playoff teams from each conference.
The contingency, if necessary, would take four division champions and four wild-card teams from both the AFC and NFC. The playoff seeds would be 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6 and 4 vs. 5.
NFL team owners already had approved a plan in March to expand the postseason to 14 teams beginning with the 2020 season.
ATP Paris
Marin Cilic defeated Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-0, 3-6 & 6-3
Today
Milos Raonic vs Aljaz Bedene
Raonic won the opening set 6-3.
Merry Christmas NBA ?
NBA commissioner Adam Silver told the top team basketball executives uesyerday on a conference call that “time is running out” on the possibility of starting the 2020-21 season prior to Christmas Day and potentially salvaging hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
Discussions with the Players Association continued through yesterday, but the union’s reluctance to agree to a December 22 start and a reduced 72-game regular season has left the league fearful it has only several days left before opening training camps for a pre-Christmas start.
NBA players have expressed a preference for a mid-January start to the season.
The NBA believes there is somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion in revenue losses next season and beyond by failing to start the season in December, sources said.
Jays Nominated For Awards
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu is one of the finalists for the 2020 American League Cy Young Award.
Ryu went 5 & 2 with a 2.69 ERA in 12 starts
Meanwhile, Toronto Manager Charlie Montoyo has been named as a finalist for manager of the year
Under Montoyo the Blue Jays had a 32 win season & a spot in the expanded Major League playoffs
MLB Odds
The Toronto Blue Jays are well back of the favourites on the early 2021 World Series odds.
OddsShark.com has Toronto as a +4,000 wager at sportsbooks they monitor
The LA Dodgers are the pre-season favorites at + 500
Sharks Sign Gabriel
Former Owen Sound Attack forward Kurtis Gabriel has signed a 1 year contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League.
Last year, Gabriel scored 5 goals in 53 games last season for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the American Hockey League.
Gabriel who was a rookie on the 2011 Robertson Cup Championship squad played 4 seasons for the Attack scoring 34 times during his OHL career.
After graduating from the Attack of the OHL, Gabriel has played 38 games with the Minnesota Wild and New Jersey Devils, scoring twice.
Shelburne OJSL Hub
The 9 team Ontario Junior Super League announced that it has partnered with the Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex in Shelburne to serve as the hub for all league games for the 2020-21 season.
The OJSL will commence with a Media Availability Day and League Family meetings along with the opening games of their hockey season during the weekend of November 13th-15th.
from OJSL
“WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO BE THE HUB FACILITY FOR THE OJSL. IT IS CLEAR THAT WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO DO FOR YOUNG PLAYERS AND STUDENT ATHLETES IS A PASSIONATE CAUSE AND ONE THAT WE ARE THRILLED TO APART OF” SAID KIM FRASER, CDRC FACILITY ADMINISTRATION MANAGER. “THEIR OPERATION PLANS ARE WELL THOUGHT OUT AND DEMONSTRATED TO US WHAT A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION WE WERE WORKING WITH”
FRASER MENTIONED. PRESIDENT & CEO OF THE OJSL, DWAYNE MCKILLOP COMMENTED “WE WANTED TO PARTNER WITH A FACILITY THAT UNDERSTOOD OUR VISION AND HAD THE POTENTIAL TO PROVIDE THE EXPERIENCES WE WANT EACH PLAYER TO HAVE IN OUR LEAGUE.” “IT WAS SO IMPORTANT TO HUB THIS SEASON AS IT ALLOWS US TO OFFER A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR PLAY WITH STRICT COVID PROTOCOLS IN PLACE IN A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT THAT ALLOWS FOR PLAYERS AND FAMILIES TO ALWAYS FEEL SAFE AT THE RINK”, SAID MCKILLOP.
THE LEAGUE WILL KICK OFF WITH A MEDIA AVAILABILITY DAY AND LEAGUE FAMILY MEETINGS WITH PUCK DROP SCHEDULED FOR THE WEEKEND OF NOV 13-15TH WHERE ALL TEAMS WILL PLAY
THE LEAGUE WEBSITE IS WWW.OJSL.HOCKEY.
THE ONTARIO JUNIOR SUPER LEAGUE HAS A CLEAR FOCUS ON GETTING TO A FREE TO PLAY MODEL BY YEAR 3 FOR PLAYERS AT THIS LEVEL AS WELL AS DEVELOPING PLAYERS FOR THE NEXT STEP TO PLAY U SPORTS IN CANADA OR TIER 1 JR A & OHL POSSIBILITIES.
Knights Open Camp
The Knights of Meaford of the Greater metro Junior Hockey league have started a 7 Week Training Camp.
The Knights are conducting both dry land & on ice sessions over the course of the next month & a half
According to the GMHL web site, the Knights season opener against South Muskoka is scheduled for November 19th.
However, it’s possible that date may be backed up by 2 weeks come Thursday.