.
@GlobeSchools
has me working with
@nweitzer7
this spring on their boys lacrosse coverage this spring.
Feel free to shoot me a DM here (new email coming soon) if you have a player of the week nomination (Wed.-Tue. and runs on Thursday) or feature idea.
@Super70sSports
95% chance the Cowboys or 49ers are being played.
60 Minutes will be seen in its entirety following the game except on the West Coast
Followed by Murder, She Wrote
@ChantelJennings
Page 4 from the
@AlabamaFTBL
media guide. "The Alabama locker room is closed. Requested players will be brought to the media room following Coach Saban’s postgame news conference."
So having an army of reporters in the locker room was a departure from the norm for the players.
MIAA Boys Basketball
From a late start, a bazillion postponements, couple snowstorms, a fried computer and a few other hoops.
More than 3,400 games and then hit calculate.
If you think I screwed up, feel free to yell, but show your work.
@AP
From the same chief earlier in the week, “and it would be foolish of any law enforcement agency or professional to not take the word of their police officer until they can be proven otherwise.”
So what other things has he blindly trusted his staff on?
After spending the last 2.5 months trying to win by at least 10, beginning tonight, it is simply about having more points than the opponent at the end of 32 minutes.
#Tournament
@Louisville100
@PalmerReport
One person going off the rails is understandable, it's the people who nod their head feverishly in agreement with everything he says is what I don't get.
Here's the way I see the MIAA basketball bracket seeding meeting playing out (includes tiebreakers).
MIAA basketball scores & schedules with sectional & league standings.
Boys:
Girls:
DMs are open if you think I f'd up or have a ?.
And I am supposed to believe that every school is going to enter every score into maxpreps for this new tournament seeding system. When pigs fly. Seeding meeting is in a little more than 48 hours and there are teams in the tournament with incomplete schedules and empty scores.
If you’re not a golf fan, you may think 8 mins on a golf tournament isn’t for you. But this video unpacks why a Saudi-funded series of tournaments is getting attention far outside the golf world.
If I were a Division 2 coach, I'd be livid about seeing a new bracket. You just spent the weekend preparing for one opponent, and then get this thrown at you.
The handbook is pretty clear that entering tournament via court injunction results in being seeded last.
Worth pointing out to coaches/AD. Go to these seeding meetings. Ask questions, get explanations. You see how poorly the site is updated throughout the year, what you end up with is a rush job in the final 48 hours before these meetings where oversights are more common than not.
Congrats to the Central and Putnam boys and Central, Minnechaug and Chicopee girls for all reaching the sectional semifinals without having to play a game.
You should have to play more than 72 minutes for a spot in the state semifinals.
I'd like to thank the
@mbcaorg
for awarding me their Presidential Award. I apologize for not being able to make the ceremony tonight.
Congrats to all of the coaches being recognized, especially Dave Brady, Joe Killilea and Jim Reynolds for their induction into the Hall of Fame.
Basketball starts next week. Send your schedules to maboyshoopschedules
@gmail
.com or magirlshoopschedules
@gmail
.com.
The more help I can get on getting scores to me, the better of a chance this has to be successful.
The days of 4 a.m. scouring for scores are gone though.
Maybe an AD can explain to me why they don't enter their scores into the MIAA database. You know you have to with the tournament coming up, and its importance is only going to be magnified if there is a strength of schedule element to future tournaments (whether 0-20 or 20-0).
Final week of the regular season is upon us. You are down there, I am getting my Quebecois on and it all works itself out by Friday morning.
The sooner I have scores & tournament schedules, the faster I can update them.
Boys:
Girls:
Not too shabby that the D3 College World Series has two teams from Mass. with UMass-Boston and Babson heading to Cedar Rapids. Double-elimination tournament begins Friday.
While I've gone back to hibernating in a snow cave for a bit, I just wanted to say how much fun it was to be back on the hardwood (and ice) for the first time in a long time.
It was good to put some faces to some of these Twitter handles.
Happy work out the kinks day to those who celebrate.
How I think the MIAA Boys and Girls Basketball state tournament draw should look tomorrow.
mahoopschedules
@gmail
.com if something looks off or you have a question.
Boys:
Girls:
And that's a - 30 - on 16 years of doing a little bit of everything (schools, two golf majors, figure skating worlds, boxing, MMA, Patriots, Sox, skiing, editing, design and of course
#AgateLife
) at the Boston Herald as the company is moving its designing hub to Philadelphia.
@maggieNYT
Giving up six runs in two innings or striking out five times in a game is a bad outing, suggesting people inject disinfectant into themselves is the a bit beyond that.
2017-18 MIAA Basketball Schedules
Boys:
Girls:
EMass: Report scores to the Herald Phone: 617-619-6340 Email: hssports
@bostonherald
.com
Spreadsheet ?s, scores or schedule changes to me, keith.pearson
@bostonherald
.com or @ me here
Want to make this easier, from the start of the season until the cutoff date, the game counts.
Stop with exemptions, exclusions, the quarters count but the semis don't, championship games not counting against limits.
One rule, plaster it for all to see, and move along.
In my mind it is inexcusable for a tournament director to not know who is/is not Sullivan eligible. They should know that list before the season even starts.
Interesting to hear that Cathedral was given a waiver to exclude Everett considering the exclusion sheet in bright red letters says it is no longer an exclusion games. How many other teams wish they had tried to get an exclusion waiver. Why bother with rules in the first place?
It's vacation week!
MIAA basketball scores & schedules with sectional & league standings.
Boys:
Girls:
Missing games, makeup dates or questions can be sent to me here. DMs are open.
Any help on those missing games appreciated!
Anything you've seen me do with a spreadsheet came from this guy.
Saying how big of a loss this is to the sports journalism community - particularly HS Sports - would be an understatement.
A classic Friday afternoon holiday weekend "news dump" ...
I wrote some words about my 21-year run in the sports department of the Boston Herald, which comes to an end Saturday. No regrets. Thank you to everyone for the support over the years.
MIAA Boys Basketball for 2019-2020
Tag/DM me on any scores, schedule changes and we'll keep this going for another year.
maboyshoopschedules
@gmail
.com also an option
There's 300+ schools (and other 300+ for girls), the less hunting I do the faster it goes.
Down the stretch we come.
Added seeds for what it would look like if the meeting was today - remember in EMass and CMass there are tiebreakers. Anyone in WMass want to do those Walker numbers, have at it.
Boys:
Girls:
MIAA Basketball
Road maps to Springfield get drawn starting today with South, North and Central. West still has some number crunching to finish up before they meet on Saturday.
Boys:
Girls:
MIAA basketball scores and schedules with sectional seedings if the season ended today.
Boys:
Girls:
Schedule changes & scores can be sent to me here (DMs are open) or maboyshoopschedules
@gmail
.com or magirlshoopschedules
@gmail
.com.
Randolph carts home the school’s first Div. 4 state boys basketball title fresh in the heels of a Super Bowl championship in December.
@Randolph_Fball
@TonyPriceAD
Basketball starts today. Send your schedules to maboyshoopschedules
@gmail
.com or magirlshoopschedules
@gmail
.com.
The more help I can get on getting scores to me, the better of a chance this has to be successful.
The days of 4 a.m. scouring for scores are gone though.
Big thank you to coaches/ADs/fellow reporters/hoop junkies for sending scores (and pointing out mistakes) my way or being consistent social media users that I knew I could rely on throughout the year (especially on those Tuesday/Friday nights with some 250-275 games).
Final week is here. On vacation so @ me in as many scores as possible for faster nightly updates.
Future times/opponents always appreciated. Shoot me a score postgame you're scouting.
2017-18 MIAA Basketball Schedules
Boys:
Girls:
The MIAA basketball season starts next week!
Boys:
Girls:
Send schedules/changes/looking for a game to fill out a schedule to maboyshoopschedules
@gmail
.com or magirlshoopschedules
@gmail
.com. DMing links also works.