My life and that of Maurice J. O’Connell overlapped only four and a half years, so I don’t really have too many stories about the man. But I heard a few, and I pieced together a few more, and I’m sharing them on today’s episode of Math and Musings.
Among NHL and NBA series it’s sweep city out there, with three of four conference finals completely one sided affairs. Thank goodness for the Boston Celtics, who staved off elimination last night with a win over the Miami Heat. (NBA execs and advertising folks did a little happy dance knowing there’s be at least one more game in this one.)
Stars and Hurricanes got chances the next two evenings to get that moneymaker hockey on TV this weekend, otherwise it’s baseball and golf to get us through.
Wait, this could work out.
In recent weeks and months and years we have been subject to proclamations, ceremonial and otherwise, that the coronavirus pandemic is “over.”
(Pause for effect.)
Here’s your hot take for today.
The coronavirus pandemic is not officially over until every person who was in school during so-called “distance learning” in 2020 and 2021 has graduated.
Or dropped out.
Someone in Kindergarten in the fall of 2020 will finish 12th grade in June of 2033.
Yeah, we’ve got a ways to go.
It’s hardly the first tribute I’ve done to Michael O’Connell Sr., but today’s episode of Math and Musings once again celebrates the man I call my greatest idol. We had the good fortune to live in the same house, and every day I just try to bring the same benefit to the grandson he never met.
That grandson hears about him often, and you should too.
Well, at least 15 minutes on his birthday every year.
Florida, Las Vegas, Dallas, Carolina.
Places to retire?
No, that’s the Final Four of this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Hockey.
Ice hockey.
Man triumphs over nature yet again.
I was dreaming of a Knicks-Lakers final and a first New York championship since 1973, but hey, the Celtics are kind of due too.
Maybe a Boston-LA final?
They ever have one of those?
It was one of the most pivotal days in Amercian history: May 14, 1998.
Can you name the three monumental events that occurred?
Tune in to Math and Musings to reminisce.
Neither the Heat nor the Lakers followed the script Monday night, but damned if they didn’t put up some entertaining games in victory.
I think it’s probably too early to call another Lakers-Dodgers double for 2023, but if it happens you heard it here first.
Nuggets and Celtics apparently got the message: lie down and let these series even up so we can put a few more games on TV.
Nice.
Your move, Miami. Your move, LA.
Today on the 101st episode of Math and Musings it’s two of my favorite subjects: sports and politics.
Don’t worry, it’s mostly sports.