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Because it came up in conversation today

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Strikes me that some of you are probably too young to remember Craig MacTavish. Crash, as he was known, was the last helmetless player in the NHL by like a lot. I became conscious of hockey around 1991 or so, and I’m not sure I remember any other helmetless players ever. And MacTavish played without a helmet until 1997. It was the type of thing that seemed really awesome when I was 15 but strikes me as less awesome and more senselessly dangerous now.

Jets-Colts preview with Brian Bassett

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As for Mike Salfino’s article that I mention: It’s here, based on research from here.

Pretty interesting stuff. I’ll say, though, that I’d also like to see the Jets’ per-attempt yards yielded when blitzing, since sacks don’t factor in to QB rating. But I buy the data that suggests Manning is less susceptible to the blitz than others. Dude’s like a quarterbacking robot; there’s only so long you’re going to be able to confuse him.

Well that sucked

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Can’t say I’m thrilled with the outcome of the Georgetown-St. John’s game last night. Someone needs to remind my Hoyas that it’s much easier to win basketball games when you actually make baskets.

Anyway, it was at least an exciting one, and I suppose there’s something to be said for the Garden rocking with excitement over Red Storm hoops. Plus, the Johnnies were responsible for multiple completely awesome plays. Check out the one-handed alley oop at 0:18 and the absurd, damn-near Jordanesque reverse at 0:46.