ICYMI: MLS Playoffs Underway

Soccer

EPL (Week 11)

• Manchester City trounced Southampton 6-1, Liverpool and Arsenal tied 1-1.
• Clean sheets by Newcastle United and Leicester City.

MLS (knockout round & conference semifinals)

• Real Salt Lake beat LAFC; Portland Timbers beat FC Dallas, New York FC beat Philadelphia Union and Columbus Crew beat DC United
• Sporting KC and Real Salt Lake tied in Conference Semifinals, Portland Timbers lead by 1 game; 1 goal; Columbus Crew 1 game; 1 goal and Atlanta United by 1 game; 1 goal.

NFL (Week 9)

• Passing – Jared Goff led week 9 with 391 yards and 3 TDs, Matt Ryan and Drew Brees each threw for 4 TDs.
• Rushing – Melvin Gordon led the league with 113 yards, James Conner also rushed for over 100 yards, Kareem Hunt, Alvin Kamara and Christian McCaffrey each had 2 TDs.
• Receiving – Michael Thomas and Josh Gordon each had over 100 receiving yards.
• Atlanta won big over Washington (38-14), The 49ers won big over the Raiders (34-3), The Bears won big over the Bills (41-9) behind two defensive touchdowns, The Saints delivered the Rams their first loss,

NHL (Week 5)

• Elias Lindholm, Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby each with 9+ points over the last two weeks. .
• Four wins by Andrei Vasilevskiy, Ben Bishop and Jacob Markstrom over the last two weeks.
• Pekka Rinne with a $10MM 2 year extension.

NBA (Week 3)

• Stephen Curry still leads the league with 32.5 PPG; Andre Drummond with 15.4 RPG, Kyle Lowry with 11.6 APG and JaVale McGee with 3.4 BPG.
• 4 players had 50+ points games over the last 10 days (Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Derrick Rose, and Blake Griffin) a feat not done since Kobe Bryant did it four times in 2007

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• Raptors, Bucks, Warriors and Nuggets all have one loss a piece while the Cavs remain the sole team with less than 2 wins.

NASCAR (AAA Texas 500)

• It went into overtime where Kevin Harvick held the lead over Ryan Blaney.
• Ryan Blaney, Joey Logano, Kyle Larson and Erik Jones rounded out the top 5.

College

• College Hockey – Holy Cross swept St. Cloud State (#2), Arizona State took one from Penn State (#6), Northern Michigan took one from Bowling Green (#9) and Superior State took one from Michigan (#12)
• College Football – Pittsburgh beat #25 Virginia, #1 Alabama crushed #3 LSU, #5 Michigan beat #14 Penn State, #6 Georgia beat #9 Kentucky, Missouri beat #11 Florida, #13 West Virginia went for two at the end of the game to beat #17 Texas, Arizona State beat #15 Utah, Purdue beat #16 Iowa and Auburn beat #20 Texas A&M.
• Women’s Volleyball – South Carolina beat Missouri (#20),
• Women’s Soccer – Florida State (#7) beat North Carolina (#3), Memphis (#19) beat South Florida (#16), West Virginia (#14) beat Baylor (#9), Utah beat Colorado #21).
• Men’s Soccer – Maryland beat MSU (#17), Pacific beat Portland (#11) and Tulsa beat Connecticut (#20).