Brad Pye’s National Sports Beat (4/13-4/19/17)

The Chicago Cubs are no longer lovable after their World Series Championship after 108-years of nothing but losers, The Cubs opened the 2017 season against the Dodgers, the team it beat in the L.A. Dodgers last year’s NL Championship series.

The L.A. Lakers will be going nowhere but home at the end of the season. Nevertheless, D’Angelo Russell hit on a three-point buzzer beater to give the Lakers their fifth straight victory vs. the Minnesota Timberwolves 110-109 a couple of days before the end of the regular season.

Just call the Houston Rockets 110-Nuggets 104, Rockets 111-Jazz 102, Rockets 109-Mavericks 87, Rockets 128-Magic 104. And the beat continues!

Just call the Houston Rockets 110-Nuggets 104, Rockets 111-Jazz 102, Rockets 109-Mavericks 87, Rockets 128-Magic 104. And the beat continues!

The OKC Thunder’s Russell Westbrook scored his 42nd triple in his team’s 106-105 victory over the Denver Nuggets a couple days before the end of the regular campaign. Westbrook scored 50 points in his 42nd triple double to break Oscar Robertson’s 56-year old record.

Penn State’s junior running back stated when he arrived on campus: “One of my goals when I got here was I wanted to break every single running back record before I left this place,” Larry Johnson set the Penn State rushing record with a mark of 2,037 in 2002. This is what Saquon Barkley hopes to wipe out in 2017!

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