Sunday, January 31, 2010

Northern Boys Game Tonight On TV

It has been the history of the "Stretchlon Sports Show" to pre-empt regularly schedule games when ever something of major importance occurs. Normally there is a live show like after Tarboro High won the state football title this past season.

Games recorded two or three weeks ago will be shelved for another week as the SPS will show Tashawn Mabry record breaking night this past Tuesday night when he passed Phil Ford on the all time Rocky Mount High scoring list. It will air at 8.00pm tonight on WHIG-TV.

The game with Hertford County was cancelled Saturday due to the weather. Right now if I was a betting man Tuesday night's home games against Hunt are in Jeopardy since I doubt whether the roads will be clear to go to school by Tuesday.

Hold the phone on giving up on the Carolina Hurricanes for this season just yet. Saturday night they won their fourth straight game to move them within eleven points of eighth place in the east which would put them in the playoffs. In simple terms they are 5.5 games behind eighth with 27 games to go. It is not impossible to do.

The Charlotte Bobcats are in Sacramento as I write this on early Sunday morning are trying to win their eighth game in the last eleven games. This will moved them up to sixth in the eastern division and two games over 500. I sure wished one of the Raleigh stations carry some of their games like we get the Hurricanes.

Georgetown shot 71% for the game today but only beat Duke by twelve. That's the good news for Duke. Every game they have lost this year they have been dominated inside. Another sore spot for Duke is their team speed is not very good.

When was the last time Duke and Carolina played each other in basketball that at least one wasn't in the top ten. Duke was eighth but lost Saturday and they will probably be just out of the top ten. If Carolina beats Virginia tonight they will probably return to the top twenty five.