Brad Pye’s National Sports Beat (3/8-3/14/18)

Believe it or not, but it is true Dorsey High’s Portejoie Tshiaba has high jumped 7-feet without any formal training. That’s really a feat.

Did you see where the Golden State Warriors took a group of school kids to a museum rather than visit President Trump at the White House, Good! Good! Good! And the beat continues!

Check This! The Houston Rockets made its 900th 3-point bucket of the season in its 58th game. Only six other team has made 900th pointers in a season. Now Hear This!

Will Cleveland Browns Coach Hue Jackson make a mistakes by selecting UCLA’s QB Josh Rosen as his No, 1 pick? I don’t think so! The Browns coach has several good choices in USC’s Sam Darnold, Louisville’s Lamar Jackson, Wyoming’s Gordon Allen, Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield et al. And the beat continues!

The Lakers’ rookie Lonzo Ball scored six three point buckets, 18 points and 11 assists as the Lakers prevailed 116-112.

Singer Mary J. Blige was an Academy award nominee. Ditto Denzel Washington and a bunch of others of color.

UCF’s linebacker Shaquem Griffin the twin brother of running back Saunn Griffin is a NFL star too. And he has only one hand. His twin brother has two.

You would think Lakers great Kobe Bryant was the monster of sexual rape, if you just saw his picture on the front page with actress Allison Janney. The fact that Bryant was accused in 2003. This was given as if an afterthought that he was being nominated for Academy Sunday night at the Doby Theatre in Hollywood. . Bryant was never charged with rape and reportedly paid a fee to settle the case. Kobe’s Animated short is called: “Dear Basketball.”

The L.A. Angels’ pitcher-catcher Shohei Ohtani struck out 8 of 12 Milwaukee Brewers. Ohtani had a bunch of Babe Ruth highlights in his second spring outing game.

Tiger Woods has added two more tournaments to his schedule reroute to the Masters—the Valspar Championship and the Arnold Palmer Invitation at Bay Hill the following week.

The 35-years of All-USA Boys Basketball first team: Kobe, Kidd, James, Garnett and Mourning according to USA Today Sports.

Don’t be surprised if the L.A. Chargers end up with Louisville’s QB Lamar Jackson? Jackson is a versatile choice and he’ll be a great pick. Lamar Jackson had 69 TDs passing and 50 TDs rushing yards and was the Heisman Trophy winner as a soph.

Penn State, who ran wild against USC in the Rose Bowl Classic and Trojan Ronald Jones said he’s ready to match the Dallas Cowboys’ Ezekel Elliot’s brutal Force or whatever it takes to make it. And the beat continues!

Now Hear This! LSU’s freshman Chris Jackson (now known as Mahmond) scored 965 points this season, the most points in Division 1 men’s basketball history.

Check the $2.6 million-dollar salary of the University of Missouri’s new basketball coach Cuonzo Martin? Martin owns one losing season in his nine-year coaching career. Not too tacky! Right now Martin may be highest paid college basketball in the nation.

over in USC’s men division point guard Jordan McLaughlin is scotching the nets too. He’s averaging 12 points and 7.6 assists. USC and UCLA met in their second cat and dog fight last Saturday night. Saturday night at Galen Center the UCL A owned the Trojans, 83-72.

Yes it’s true the Cavs’ LeBron James became the first NBA player to score 30,000 points, 8.000 assists and 8,000 rebounds. He passed Michael Jordan in his 927th 20 point game to rank fourth on the all-time list. And the beat continues!

O.J. Simpson will be back on the tube on March 11. It will be called “The Lost O.J. Confession.” The film will run for two hours.” O.J. gives his thoughts as to what happen and some disturbing details.

The Lakers’ Isaiah Thomas and Lonzo Ball made the locals play like winners, vs Dwayne Wade and his Miami Heat can be beaten in a 131-113 victory in that Florida city for the first time in 10-years. The Lakers went 4-0 after the All-Star break and Lonzo Ball had his best game as a Laker.

Pac-12 all-time assist leader is Gary Payton.

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