Monday Morning Sports Roundup: Boston Sports Reign Is Over, Mookie Has a Ring & Brady’s Going to SB
Monday, January 25, 2021
Let’s take a look at some key takeaways from this weekend in sports:
It Is Over
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThe twenty years of Boston sports dominance is over.
The New England Patriots don’t have a functional quarterback.
The Mookie-less Red Sox are a team with little talent and even less excitement.
The Celtics neither have enough dependable scorers nor enough low post talent. In the NBA — you simply cannot win with only two stars. Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown are emerging superstars and then there is a major drop-off. If one of them has a tough night or is out, the Celts have real troubles against bad teams.
Boston Bruins are 3-1-1 early in the season. The B’s jettisoned Zedano Chara and the team seems to have gone for youth and speed, but early in the season lack an identity.
And, two of our favorite sons -- Boston sports Mount Rushmorites Tom Brady and Mookie Betts -- and now excelling in other cities.
NBC Sports Network Will Close
The New York Times reports: NBCUniversal will shut down its NBC Sports Network cable channel by the end of the year, according to an internal memo obtained by The New York Times, and move some of its sports programming to USA Network and the Peacock streaming service.
The move will shutter a reliable stream of revenue for the company — NBCSN brings in hundreds of millions of dollars annually — in order to help build Peacock into a bona fide competitor to other streaming services, like Netflix and Disney+, and to shore up the USA Network.
The changes signal that the traditional cable bundle, which has lost tens of millions of subscribers over the past decade to cord cutting but has been kept afloat largely by live sports programming, may soon lose some of that ballast, too.
Big Dance Watch
- Friars are now 6th in the Big East (3-4) and 8-7 overall.
- The Rams are now 7th in the Atlantic-10 (5-4) and 8-8 overall.
- Bryant Bulldogs are 1st in the Northeast (6-2) and 10-3 overall.
Rex Ryan Cheap Shots Belichick — The former Jets head coach Rex Ryan, now an analyst for ESPN took to the microphone and said this weekend basically that no one went to New England for Bill Belichick. Ryan was 3-9 against Belichick.
- GoLocal’s John Crowe asks, “Is Tampa the new title town? Lightning win Cup. Bucs in Super Bowl. Rays were in World Series. Raptors play in Tampa.”
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